{"title":"Stap2Go Test: Validity and Sensitivity/Specificity for Attention and Executive Function Assessment","authors":"Teresa Rossignoli-Palomeque, Cristina Romero-Casas","doi":"10.1002/acp.70199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70199","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Attention and executive function difficulties are common in many neurodevelopmental conditions and significantly impact psychological well-being. However, access to cognitive assessment remains limited due to high costs and resource constraints. To address this gap, the Stap2Go test was developed as a digital, cost-effective, and accessible screening tool for assessing attention and executive functions. This study examined the convergent validity of Stap2Go by comparing it with the CPT3. It also evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of Stap2Go in detecting altered scores by comparing children with ADHD (both medicated and unmedicated) to children without ADHD. Additionally, it explored whether medication may mask attentional difficulties, emphasizing the importance of conducting assessments off-medication. The sample included 52 children with ADHD and 49 typically developing children. Moderate correlations were found between Stap2Go and CPT3. Stap2Go demonstrated good sensitivity in detecting altered scores in children with ADHD and high specificity in the control group.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683599","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":"Stap2Go Test: Validity and Sensitivity/Specificity for Attention and Executive Function Assessment","authors":"Teresa Rossignoli-Palomeque, Cristina Romero-Casas","doi":"10.1002/acp.70199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70199","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Attention and executive function difficulties are common in many neurodevelopmental conditions and significantly impact psychological well-being. However, access to cognitive assessment remains limited due to high costs and resource constraints. To address this gap, the Stap2Go test was developed as a digital, cost-effective, and accessible screening tool for assessing attention and executive functions. This study examined the convergent validity of Stap2Go by comparing it with the CPT3. It also evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of Stap2Go in detecting altered scores by comparing children with ADHD (both medicated and unmedicated) to children without ADHD. Additionally, it explored whether medication may mask attentional difficulties, emphasizing the importance of conducting assessments off-medication. The sample included 52 children with ADHD and 49 typically developing children. Moderate correlations were found between Stap2Go and CPT3. Stap2Go demonstrated good sensitivity in detecting altered scores in children with ADHD and high specificity in the control group.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683600","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}
Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Brenna McManus, Ella White, Zach Alam, John Tucker, Emily Pappalardo
{"title":"The Relation of Sexual Activity and Attachment to the Fading Affect Bias Across Sexual and Non-Sexual Events","authors":"Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Brenna McManus, Ella White, Zach Alam, John Tucker, Emily Pappalardo","doi":"10.1002/acp.70193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) is the faster fading of unpleasant than pleasant emotions tied to autobiographical event memories. This phenomenon is negatively related to unhealthy/maladaptive variables (e.g., psychological distress) and positively related to healthy/adaptive variables (e.g., partner-esteem). These results suggest that the FAB is a healthy coping mechanism that helps individuals adapt to emotionally harmful experiences. Although past research compared romantic sexual experiences to romantic non-sexual experiences and juxtaposed romantic relationship events and non-romantic relationship events, it did not compare sexual events to non-sexual and non-romantic relationship events, which was done in the current study. We found a larger FAB for non-sexual, non-romantic events than sexual events, and the expected relations between healthy/adaptive and unhealthy/maladaptive non-sexual and sexual variables and the FAB. We also found complex three-way interactions in which sexual and relationship variables predicted the FAB that were mediated by rehearsal ratings. Implications were discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683406","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}
Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Brenna McManus, Ella White, Zach Alam, John Tucker, Emily Pappalardo
{"title":"The Relation of Sexual Activity and Attachment to the Fading Affect Bias Across Sexual and Non-Sexual Events","authors":"Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Brenna McManus, Ella White, Zach Alam, John Tucker, Emily Pappalardo","doi":"10.1002/acp.70193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) is the faster fading of unpleasant than pleasant emotions tied to autobiographical event memories. This phenomenon is negatively related to unhealthy/maladaptive variables (e.g., psychological distress) and positively related to healthy/adaptive variables (e.g., partner-esteem). These results suggest that the FAB is a healthy coping mechanism that helps individuals adapt to emotionally harmful experiences. Although past research compared romantic sexual experiences to romantic non-sexual experiences and juxtaposed romantic relationship events and non-romantic relationship events, it did not compare sexual events to non-sexual and non-romantic relationship events, which was done in the current study. We found a larger FAB for non-sexual, non-romantic events than sexual events, and the expected relations between healthy/adaptive and unhealthy/maladaptive non-sexual and sexual variables and the FAB. We also found complex three-way interactions in which sexual and relationship variables predicted the FAB that were mediated by rehearsal ratings. Implications were discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683590","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":"Emphasizing Miranda's Importance Promotes Procedurally Just Decisions","authors":"Patricia A. Ferreira, Christian A. Meissner","doi":"10.1002/acp.70196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70196","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Miranda waiver decisions must be voluntarily rendered. We conducted the first known analysis comparing the voluntariness of waiver decisions made in response to a novel noncoercive Miranda administration tactic relative to a customary coercive tactic. Specifically, we compared perceptions of procedural justice and willingness to cooperate that each tactic elicited. In an online paradigm, mock suspects were accused of a hit-and-run. Across three experiments, mediation models showed that the noncoercive tactic was more likely to produce voluntary waivers by heightening perceptions of procedural justice and willingness to cooperate. We also explored the moderating effects of guilt status and race/ethnicity on this mediated effect, but neither analysis reached significance. Findings suggest that customary coercive administration tactics may violate Miranda's voluntariness requirement. Limitations are discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683395","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":"Emphasizing Miranda's Importance Promotes Procedurally Just Decisions","authors":"Patricia A. Ferreira, Christian A. Meissner","doi":"10.1002/acp.70196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70196","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Miranda waiver decisions must be voluntarily rendered. We conducted the first known analysis comparing the voluntariness of waiver decisions made in response to a novel noncoercive Miranda administration tactic relative to a customary coercive tactic. Specifically, we compared perceptions of procedural justice and willingness to cooperate that each tactic elicited. In an online paradigm, mock suspects were accused of a hit-and-run. Across three experiments, mediation models showed that the noncoercive tactic was more likely to produce voluntary waivers by heightening perceptions of procedural justice and willingness to cooperate. We also explored the moderating effects of guilt status and race/ethnicity on this mediated effect, but neither analysis reached significance. Findings suggest that customary coercive administration tactics may violate Miranda's voluntariness requirement. Limitations are discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683413","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 Role of Attentional Control in Deception While Under Cognitive Load","authors":"Evan Brennan, Keith A. Hutchison","doi":"10.1002/acp.70197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examined the association between attentional control and the ability to lie. After being tested for individual differences in attentional control, pairs of participants answered autobiographical questions truthfully and dishonestly while under high and low cognitive load, with one participant answering questions and the other participant detecting their answers for veracity. Lying ability was assessed by participants' reaction times and their ability to evade detection. We hypothesized that RTs would be associated with detection accuracy, that low relative to high attentional control would be associated with longer lie RTs, and that high attentional control would be associated with a better ability to evade detection when lying under high cognitive load. Results demonstrated that RTs were indeed associated with detection accuracy and that attentional control is associated with RTs when lying, but not with deception detection. Cognitive load was not associated with any of the variables. We discuss many future research directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683345","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":"The Role of Attentional Control in Deception While Under Cognitive Load","authors":"Evan Brennan, Keith A. Hutchison","doi":"10.1002/acp.70197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examined the association between attentional control and the ability to lie. After being tested for individual differences in attentional control, pairs of participants answered autobiographical questions truthfully and dishonestly while under high and low cognitive load, with one participant answering questions and the other participant detecting their answers for veracity. Lying ability was assessed by participants' reaction times and their ability to evade detection. We hypothesized that RTs would be associated with detection accuracy, that low relative to high attentional control would be associated with longer lie RTs, and that high attentional control would be associated with a better ability to evade detection when lying under high cognitive load. Results demonstrated that RTs were indeed associated with detection accuracy and that attentional control is associated with RTs when lying, but not with deception detection. Cognitive load was not associated with any of the variables. We discuss many future research directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683357","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":"Exploring the Perceptual Span of Japanese Among Second Language Learners","authors":"Yuqi Hao, Hiromu Sakai, Xiuling Liu, Ming Yan","doi":"10.1002/acp.70194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How much information do readers process within a single fixation during sentence reading? This perceptual span underlies reading theories and eye-movement research. In the present study, we focused on Japanese, where sentences are written using a combination of three types of scripts, namely Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. We adopted the gaze-contingent moving-window paradigm to explore the spatial limit of visual processes among beginning second-language (L2) readers of Japanese. The readers reached asymptotic performance when four or five upcoming characters were made visible. Each left-window condition, providing one to three preceding characters, hampered reading. The results suggest that L2-Japanese readers' perceptual spans extend beyond three characters to the left. We hypothesized that the L2 readers' high regression rate may increase the need for leftward information and concluded that such a perceptual span consisted of at least four previous characters and four to five upcoming ones. Implications for language education are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684186","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":"Exploring the Perceptual Span of Japanese Among Second Language Learners","authors":"Yuqi Hao, Hiromu Sakai, Xiuling Liu, Ming Yan","doi":"10.1002/acp.70194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How much information do readers process within a single fixation during sentence reading? This perceptual span underlies reading theories and eye-movement research. In the present study, we focused on Japanese, where sentences are written using a combination of three types of scripts, namely Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. We adopted the gaze-contingent moving-window paradigm to explore the spatial limit of visual processes among beginning second-language (L2) readers of Japanese. The readers reached asymptotic performance when four or five upcoming characters were made visible. Each left-window condition, providing one to three preceding characters, hampered reading. The results suggest that L2-Japanese readers' perceptual spans extend beyond three characters to the left. We hypothesized that the L2 readers' high regression rate may increase the need for leftward information and concluded that such a perceptual span consisted of at least four previous characters and four to five upcoming ones. Implications for language education are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684202","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}