Yunfei Guo, Rongqian Li, Tongxuan Dang, Jiaqun Gan, Yongxin Li
{"title":"The effect of impulsivity trait on prospective memory.","authors":"Yunfei Guo, Rongqian Li, Tongxuan Dang, Jiaqun Gan, Yongxin Li","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02148-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02148-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prospective memory (PM) is future-oriented memory that requires planning ahead, maintaining intention, recognizing cues, and responding correctly in time. PM tasks are susceptible to personality traits such as impulsivity. Barratt holds that impulsivity can be divided into three dimensions: non-planning impulsiveness, attentional impulsiveness, and motor impulsiveness. The characteristics of impulsive individuals in these three areas may contribute to their PM disadvantage. This study explored the impact of impulsivity on PM. Experiment 1 investigated the influence of impulsivity on PM under different attention load conditions. The results showed that the impulsive group was inferior only under the condition of high attention load; this effect was mainly related to the characteristics of attentional impulsiveness and motor impulsiveness. Experiment 2 explored the effect of impulsivity on PM under different response types, which were divided into delayed response condition and non-delayed response condition. The results showed that delayed response eliminated the impulsive individuals' deficiency in PM performance. This study focused on the influencing factors and processing mechanism by which impulsivity affects PM. It also found an effective method to improve the PM performance of impulsive individuals. These results have both theoretical and practical significance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"118"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chiara Lucifora, Aldo Gangemi, Carmelo M Vicario, Claudia Scorolli
{"title":"A virtual reality study on the relationship between explicit and implicit indices of creativity and explicit personality traits.","authors":"Chiara Lucifora, Aldo Gangemi, Carmelo M Vicario, Claudia Scorolli","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02149-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02149-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The connection between personality and creativity has long intrigued the scientific community, producing mixed findings on which specific personality traits influence creativity. To investigate this relationship more thoroughly, our study employs both explicit and implicit measures. Explicit measures include self-report questionnaires on personality, creativity and emotions, while implicit measures involve a virtual reality environment where users create artworks. This allows the creation of a realistic environment (Lucifora et al., Frontiers in Psychology, 15(1432141), 2024; Nucera, Preliminary Reports and Negative Results in Life Science and Humanities, 1(1), 2024; Vicario and Martino, AIMS Neurosci, 9(4), 454-459, 2022) enabling also an ontological analysis of their creation. Our study has two main. OBJECTIVES: First, examine the correlation between scores on personality traits and creativity traits; and second, to explore how personality traits may influence user's creative skills during a VR-based creative task. Our findings support previous studies on the relationship between extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness and creativity while also providing new insights into how personality shapes artistic skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144545525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"I did it before, so I can do it again(?)\": Recalling success, expectations of future success and the impact of ease-of-retrieval and attributions.","authors":"Adam Abdulla, Ruth Woods","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02136-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02136-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is widely assumed that recalling past success raises expectations of future success (\"expectancy\"). However, experimental research investigating that assumption has generated mixed results. The present study examined two (meta)cognitive factors that may play a role during \"recall success\" interventions: ease-of-retrieval (i.e. the ease/difficulty with which success is recalled) and causal attributions (i.e. the factors to which the success is attributed). Three experiments were conducted with English-speaking adults across the world. After being asked to recall either attraction \"success(es)\" or attraction \"failure(s),\" participants reported the extent to which they expected to attract someone in the future (\"expectancy\"). Results suggest that difficulty in retrieving examples of success and failure to attribute recalled success to stable/general factors have a negative impact on expectancy. Moreover, individuals with low self-perceived mate value are apparently more likely to experience difficulty-in-retrieval and less likely to attribute (attraction) success to stable/general factors. Unless ease-of-retrieval and attributions are addressed, those most in need of an expectancy boost may not benefit from \"recall success\" interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"117"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12222241/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144545524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalina Duta, Natacha Deroost, Mahyar Firouzi, Frank Van Overwalle, Chris Baeken, Kris Baetens
{"title":"Understanding abstract knowledge structures in implicit perceptual sequence learning.","authors":"Catalina Duta, Natacha Deroost, Mahyar Firouzi, Frank Van Overwalle, Chris Baeken, Kris Baetens","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02152-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02152-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traditional approaches to studying perceptual sequence learning (SL) often employ adaptations of the classical serial reaction time task, albeit these tasks suffer from confounding factors such as (oculo)motor learning effects. Unlike motor SL, the extent to which pure perceptual SL can occur implicitly without (oculo)motor learning remains uncertain. We adapted a previously formulated task (Garvert et al., eLife, 6, 1-20, 2017) to isolate perceptual sequence learning, without the interference of (oculo)motor confounds, and to determine whether perceptual sequence learning can occur implicitly. Fifty participants judged whether each object appeared in its original or mirrored form, gradually improving performance based on feedback. Unbeknownst to participants, the succession of these objects followed a probabilistic sequence. A training phase consisting of 8 regular blocks was followed by a testing phase, where 5 random and 5 regular blocks were presented alternatingly. A force-choice recognition test probing knowledge about specific transitions in the task was also used to assess explicit knowledge. Our findings indicate robust perceptual SL effects, as indicated by slower reaction times (RTs) in random blocks than regular blocks. Notably, transitions between objects with higher communicability (i.e., a metric of objects' connectedness within the underlying grid) showed lower RTs in regular, but not random blocks. This indicates that perceptual SL in our task may rely on strategic cognitive processes in response to violations of expectation. Importantly, our results also demonstrate that explicit knowledge of the underlying structure did not influence perceptual SL in any way, suggesting that learning was driven by implicit knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"115"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144545526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The baker's advice matters! Multiple anchoring in legal decision-making.","authors":"Aglaé Navarre, André Didierjean, Cyril Thomas","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02134-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02134-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the seminal work of Tversky & Kahneman (Science, 185:1124-1131, 1974), the anchoring effect has generated considerable interest and its effects have been extensively documented in numerous everyday situations. However, few studies have paid attention to the influence of multiple successive anchors. To analyze how the presentation of a second anchor influences legal decision-making depending on its relevance, we conducted two studies. In both experiments, participants were asked to read a text describing a trial in which two anchors (one relevant given by a prosecutor in Experiment 1 (N = 538) or a magistrate in Experiment 2 (N = 284), the other less relevant given by a baker) appeared in succession. The results show an anchoring effect when there is one anchor (relevant and less relevant). However, the effect of a relevant anchor disappears in the presence of a contradictory less relevant anchor. We discuss the psychological processes underlying this phenomenon.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"114"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hairong Lu, Dimitri Van der Linden, Arnold B Bakker
{"title":"Disentangling the effects of task difficulty and effort on flow experience.","authors":"Hairong Lu, Dimitri Van der Linden, Arnold B Bakker","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02128-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02128-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Flow, which is a rewarding state of full focus, typically arises when engaging in tasks with an optimal level of difficulty that is matched with a person's skill level. Meanwhile, optimal task difficulty usually comes with the greatest effort exertion. We propose that not only the difficulty level, but also the level of effort invested plays a role in the subjective feelings of flow. Using a visual discrimination task, we manipulated stimulus complexity and the expected probability of detecting a difference to induce and disentangle perceived task difficulty and effort exertion, respectively. Notably, perceived task difficulty increased proportionally with increasing stimulus complexity. Reaction time as an index of effort exertion, increased in challenging tasks with higher expectancy. Patterns of flow experience mirrored the observed shifts in effort exertion, suggesting a possible link between flow and effort. However, no parallel trend emerged in the physiological flow indicator, specifically the P300 amplitude. These findings highlight the intricate interplay between subjective experiences of task difficulty, exerted effort, and the subjective sense of being in 'flow'.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12202627/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144498442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lorena Hell, Christoph Felix Geissler, Philip Schmalbrock, Christian Frings
{"title":"Signaling as a context-dependent strategy in action control.","authors":"Lorena Hell, Christoph Felix Geissler, Philip Schmalbrock, Christian Frings","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02145-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02145-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In sequential two-choice tasks, performance is typically improved when both the stimulus features and the response are repeated but worsens when only one of them repeats and the other changes (partial repetition costs). The signaling account assumes a bias of response selection towards a repetition or change by applying a heuristic that uses the relation between previous and current stimulus features as a response signal. We investigated whether the signaling heuristic is modulated by contextual information, specifically the comparability of different display set sizes that signal a response with either few or many stimuli. Participants worked through a sequential task while display set sizes were varied within (Exp. 1, N = 45; enabling comparison between displays), or between participants (Exp. 2; N = 130, enabling no comparison between displays). Contrary to findings in typical two-choice tasks, partial repetition costs were not observed with small set sizes and only emerged at larger set sizes in Experiment 1 but were similar in Experiment 2. These results suggest that signaling incorporates context information to adapt the usage of stimulus information for response strategies in accordance with the environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12185666/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From observation to cognition: The impact of watching actions on child thought processes.","authors":"Yaqi Yue, Lijuan Wang","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02129-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02129-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has demonstrated that children's execution of actions consistent with their thinking can enhance cognitive processes. However, it remains unclear whether observing others performing actions consistent with thinking has a similar facilitative effect. In Experiment 1, we compared children's accuracy and reaction times in an observation group and an execution group under conditions involving actions that were either consistent or less consistent with thinking. The results showed that both groups performed better on tasks involving actions consistent with thinking, with the observation group slightly outperforming the execution group. Building on these findings, Experiment 2 investigated the impact of different observation modes (direct or indirect observation) and the presence of objects while observing others' actions on individual cognitive performance. The findings revealed that differences in task performance due to changes in observation mode were mainly reflected in the fluency of thinking, with direct observation being superior to indirect observation. The presence or absence of objects did not affect task performance. These results suggest that the sensorimotor system plays a causal and constitutive role in the development of higher cognitive processes, and this role can also be fulfilled by observing the actions of others.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"111"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming: Priming from thoughts and imagined activities.","authors":"John H Mace, Hope E Aaron","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02143-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02143-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has shown that the activation of semantic memories leads to the activation of autobiographical memories. Known as semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming, this form of priming has been demonstrated to prime involuntary autobiographical memories with a wide variety of different stimuli (e.g., words, pictures, sentences, sounds, tactile stimuli, etc.). Our goal in the current study was to extend semantic-to-autobiographical priming to two unexplored processes, activities and thoughts. In Experiment 1, we explored priming from activities and thoughts by having participants imagine activities (e.g., imagine yourself exercising) and think about topics (e.g., think about holidays). These priming sessions occurred in between vigilance task trials. The vigilance task measures involuntary autobiographical memories by presenting participants with slides that contain lines and word phrases. Participants are instructed to note when slides contain vertical lines, as well as note if they experience spontaneous thoughts or memories. The slides used in our study contained phrases that were both related and unrelated to the primes. In Experiment 2, the priming phase and the vigilance task phase were separated by several minutes. The results of both experiments showed that primed participants produced more involuntary memories related to the content of the imagined activity and thought primes than control participants, who received imagined activity and thought primes that were unrelated to the vigilance task cues. The results support the idea that activities and thoughts can influence the production of involuntary autobiographical memories in everyday life. The results also support the idea that semantic-to-autobiographical priming is diverse.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"110"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144259141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flashbulb memories for the declaration of the COVID-19 alarm state: Age-related differences.","authors":"Alaitz Aizpurua Sanz, Malen Migueles Seco, Iratxe Unibaso-Markaida","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02140-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02140-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is little research on flashbulb memories (FBM) concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, and previous findings on age-related differences in FBM are mixed. This study aims to analyse whether the recall of the declaration of the alarm state triggered by COVID-19 has the characteristics of FBM, and to examine age-related differences considering three age groups: young, middle-aged, and older adults. Typically used canonical categories were examined (e.g., where were you when you heard the news, what were you doing?) considering the specificity (amount of detail in the responses) and confidence in each response. Additionally, thoughts and emotions generated by the event were analysed. The results show that the alarm state statement meets the main characteristics of FBM; that is, participants recalled the required categories with detail, high perception of reliving, and confidence. Moreover, young people recalled the reported categories in more detail than middle-aged or older adults did. Interestingly, middle-aged people behaved similarly to older people, showing the need to consider this age group in future memory research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"109"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12141116/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144227285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}