{"title":"The Role of Vocal Expressivity and Facial Cues in Aiding Comprehension","authors":"Marilyn S. Petro, Rick Cypert","doi":"10.1002/acp.70125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70125","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, lecturers wore masks which covered facial cues. In two studies, we examined students' ability to comprehend both factually and inferentially presented information when the speaker's facial cues were or were not available and when delivered with or without expressive prosody. While comprehension was not affected by the availability of facial cues, participants expressed greater attentiveness and interest when facial cues were available compared to masked or audio-only presentations. Participants performed better on the quizzes when the lecture was delivered with expressiveness compared to nonexpressive delivery in both the between-subjects study (Study 1: Masked or Unmasked speaker) and in the within-subjects study (Study 2: Video or Audio-only presentation). Additionally, participants performed better on questions that interrogated their comprehension of factually delivered information as compared to those requiring them to infer from the passages. The importance of expressive prosody for listener comprehension is discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224357","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}
Johanna K. Kaakinen, Ali Moazami Goodarzi, Tuomo Häikiö, Pasi Kivioja, Karl O. Mäki, Daria Pritup
{"title":"Epistemically Suspect Beliefs About COVID-19: Results From a Population Survey in Finland","authors":"Johanna K. Kaakinen, Ali Moazami Goodarzi, Tuomo Häikiö, Pasi Kivioja, Karl O. Mäki, Daria Pritup","doi":"10.1002/acp.70117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70117","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examined the familiarity and popularity of epistemically suspect COVID-19 claims and their associations with cognitive, social, and demographic factors in a sample of people living in Finland (<i>N</i> = 1077) during the pandemic (September 2021–January 2022). Endorsement of these claims was associated with pseudoscientific beliefs, less actively open-minded thinking, and preference for anecdotal information. Among social factors, lower trust in governmental institutions, science, and scientists, and reliance on alternative media were linked to higher endorsement. Regarding demographic variables, higher education was associated with lower endorsement, though this effect was fully mediated by cognitive and social factors. Men endorsed epistemically suspect COVID-19 claims more than women, and endorsement decreased with age. These findings highlight the importance of education in fostering critical thinking skills and trust in institutions and science to effectively combat health-related misinformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223882","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":"Reorienting the Study of Conspiratorial Thinking in Psychology: From Contaminated Mindware to Belief in Hidden Causal Forces","authors":"Keith E. Stanovich, Maggie E. Toplak","doi":"10.1002/acp.70116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70116","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we combined the perspectives of psychology and political science to study partisan conspiracy beliefs and to examine the predictors of belief in both true and false nonpartisan conspiracies. From political science, we explored the recently investigated variable of antiestablishment attitudes as well as two political attitudes unexplored in research on conspiratorial thinking: utopianism and government credulity. From psychology, we examined variables that have been consistent predictors in previous research on conspiracy belief: actively open-minded thinking, paranormal beliefs, and the Dark Triad. Actively open-minded thinking was a potent predictor of adaptive epistemic outcomes. We also included a scale derived and adapted from previous work on conspiratorial mentality that was designed to measure the broad-based conspiratorial thinking trait that we posit underlies most specific conspiracy beliefs: the Hidden Causal Forces scale. We found that the path model that best explained the observed correlations depends strongly on whether the conspiracy is partisan or nonpartisan and, in the case of nonpartisan conspiracies, whether the model seeks to explain implausible false conspiracy beliefs, true conspiracy beliefs, or the ability to discriminate between true and false conspiracies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70116","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145146602","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":"Children Provide Reasonable, but Imprecise, Temporal Information About a Recently Experienced Event","authors":"Heather L. Price, Rachel Cantin, Angela D. Evans","doi":"10.1002/acp.70122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70122","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite considerable interest in children's ability to provide temporal information, there remain many unanswered questions about what children can provide and how to elicit this information. In Study 1, children (<i>N</i> = 147, aged 5 to 10 years) participated in an activity session. Either shortly after or 1 day later, children completed an interview focused on temporal concepts: duration, temporal distance, day of the week. Children generally provided imprecise temporal information, though there was evidence of a developmental improvement in accuracy. There was little evidence of a negative impact of delay to recall on children's accuracy. In Study 2, children (<i>N</i> = 139, aged 6 to 12 years) participated in an activity session and 3 days later completed an interview about duration and temporal distance. Overall, accuracy was low, but most estimates were reasonable. The present studies have implications for both what is considered an accurate response and for what degree of temporal precision is reasonable to request from children.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145146480","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":"Beyond the Boundary of Childhood Amnesia: Remembering Flashbulb Events From Early Ages","authors":"Daniel L. Greenberg","doi":"10.1002/acp.70119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70119","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studies of childhood amnesia have shown that most adults cannot remember events from before the age of about 3.5. A recent line of work, however, has shown that some individuals remember earlier events but misdate them to later ages (known as telescoping). This study takes a complementary approach by searching for memories that cannot be telescoped—in this case, memories of the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. Three hundred and two young adults were asked about their memory of 9/11 (mean age on 9/11 = 4.4; SD = 2.1; range 1.8–13.5). Over 50% of participants who were between 4 and 5 at the time had a flashbulb memory, and a substantial minority of participants had strong memories even though they were between 2 and 3 at the time. The results provide further evidence that people frequently remember events from very early childhood—at least when they are powerful events that typically elicit a flashbulb.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70119","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145146747","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}
Kris-Ann S. Anderson, Kristyn Jones, Deryn Strange
{"title":"Body-Worn Camera Versus Officer Reports: How Inconsistencies Influence Public Perceptions of Trust, Accuracy, and Punishment","authors":"Kris-Ann S. Anderson, Kristyn Jones, Deryn Strange","doi":"10.1002/acp.70113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Some officers advocate for watching their body-worn camera (BWC) footage before writing incident reports, fearing inconsistencies may damage their credibility. Across two experiments (<i>N</i> = 1580), we examined how inconsistencies influence public perceptions of trust, accuracy, and punishment decisions for an officer involved use-of-force incident. In Experiment 1, participants read a brief description and the officer's report but did not see BWC footage; in Experiment 2, participants read the officer's report and watched ambiguous BWC footage. We manipulated whether the report was described as consistent or inconsistent with the footage and whether the officer wrote the report before or after watching the footage. Overall, inconsistency reduced trust and accuracy ratings and, in Experiment 1, increased charging decisions and guilt judgments. Additionally, participants preferred officers watch BWC footage after writing their reports. These results suggest a need for public education about interpreting inconsistencies and that officers have reason to fear inconsistencies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145110689","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}
Gáspár Lukács, Bennett Kleinberg, Anna Fekete, Izumi Matsuda
{"title":"A Filtering Response Time Concealed Information Test for Searching for Relevant Concealed Items","authors":"Gáspár Lukács, Bennett Kleinberg, Anna Fekete, Izumi Matsuda","doi":"10.1002/acp.70114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70114","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The response time concealed information test can reveal whether a person recognizes a relevant concealed item among others based on slower responses. This method also has a hitherto scarcely researched potential for searching for an unknown probe. We introduce a design for efficiently searching through any number of items. In Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 260), we tested a conventional test design with 10 items. Using these data, we developed a new design with a filtering mechanism that dynamically removes items live during the task as soon as proven unlikely to be the relevant item. The filtering design, assessed in Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 260), took substantially less time (∼17 vs. ∼7 min), while being at least similarly efficient in correctly identifying the probe (30.0% vs. 43.1%). Our filtering design offers a time-efficient, scalable, adaptive tool for identifying unknown concealed information among multiple suspected probes, with broad real-world application.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145102122","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":"Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Prospective Memory Under Different Attentional Load Conditions","authors":"Tongyang Nie, Tongxuan Dang, Yunfei Guo","doi":"10.1002/acp.70111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70111","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Prospective memory is the ability to execute delayed intentions at the appropriate moment. Mindfulness meditation serves as a training modality to enhance attentional control and foster a flexible, self-regulated attentional state, which can significantly enhance prospective memory performance through refined attentional control. The study aimed to investigate the effects of mindfulness meditation on prospective memory and its underlying processing mechanisms under different attentional loads. In the present study, a total of 109 participants were enrolled in a 2 (groups: mindfulness meditation group, control group) × 2 (attentional load: low load, high load) between-subjects design. The results indicated that mindfulness meditation enhances prospective memory performance primarily by improving the prospective component. This positive effect manifests significantly under the low attentional load condition. The findings suggest that mindfulness meditation primarily enhances prospective memory in scenarios with lower attentional demands.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998809","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}
Archana Prabhakar, Elise Grison, Simone Morgagni, Martin Nöllenburg, Valérie Gyselinck
{"title":"Passenger Decision-Making in Mass Transit Systems: Insights From Dual-Process Theories","authors":"Archana Prabhakar, Elise Grison, Simone Morgagni, Martin Nöllenburg, Valérie Gyselinck","doi":"10.1002/acp.70112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This experimental study explores how dual-process theories of decision-making may enrich our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms supporting Mass Transit (MT) users' route choices. We examined whether Type 1 (i.e., autonomous and heuristic-based) and Type 2 (i.e., deliberative and criteria-based) processing may explain how on-board crowding information in smartphone route planning apps influences willingness to wait for less crowded routes. The data of 377 participants who completed an online experiment simulating route planning for 35 trips in central Paris were analysed. The willingness to wait phenomenon was found to be driven by two distinct information-processing mechanisms: (1) deliberative evaluation of explicit crowding, waiting, and in-vehicle time information, and (2) autonomous heuristics activated by implicit colour cues associated with green-orange-red crowding levels. The findings of this study highlight passenger crowding as a key route selection criterion and illustrate the relevance of dual-process theories in passengers' decision-making in MT.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144935346","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":"Uses of Technology to Facilitate Education in Skill Training: Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"Sonja P. Brubacher, Martine B. Powell","doi":"10.1002/acp.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Technology plays a prominent role in contemporary education. In this special issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology, we compiled a collection of articles that employed technological advancements in the training of knowledge and skills. Some articles use simulations, such as virtual environments and 2D and 3D avatars. Other articles compare various presentation modalities and pedagogical agents. Many of the research articles leverage the advantages of technology, such as learning management systems that offer the ability to deliver training bursts and collect user data, automatic immediate feedback, and interactive experiences. In our introduction, we review the important elements of training—with or without technology—through the identification of seven key topics that represent the papers in this special issue: <i>feedback, practice, motivation, levels of learning, cognitive load, simulations,</i> and <i>pedagogical agents.</i> We consider the advantages, disadvantages, and critical principles of technology in education, with an emphasis on skills training.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923733","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}