Tilmann Habermas, Caroline Gruler, Nina Jaeschke, Larissa Rapp, Rebekka Weygandt, Lars Kuchinke, Fabian Fußer, Stefan Frisch
{"title":"Stability and Change in Life Narratives by Elderly Adults With Alzheimer's Dementia, Depression, and Healthy Controls","authors":"Tilmann Habermas, Caroline Gruler, Nina Jaeschke, Larissa Rapp, Rebekka Weygandt, Lars Kuchinke, Fabian Fußer, Stefan Frisch","doi":"10.1002/acp.70296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70296","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Autobiographical memory is affected by Alzheimer's dementia and depression in old age. We suggest that cognitive decline in Alzheimer's dementia affects both the life narrative construction of personal stability and change, whereas the decline of vitality in depression affects only the construction of change, but not stability of personal identity. Elderly adults with Alzheimer's dementia (<i>N</i> = 21), major depression (<i>N</i> = 20), and healthy controls (<i>N</i> = 20) did not differ in age (<i>m</i><sub>age</sub> = 76.9 years, range 65–94), gender (33 women), or education (mean years = 12.0) narrated their entire lives and provided turning point and self-defining memory narratives. Individuals with Alzheimer's dementia were indeed affected both in indicators of stability and change. Individuals with depression produced more negative life narratives but unexpectedly did not differ from healthy controls in narrative indicators of personal change. Possibly, the expected reduction of personal change in life stories is limited to very severe depression in younger adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70296","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149258787","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}
Bart G. Schutte, Tristan H. S. de Jonge, Emmy Müller, Margot van Wermeskerken
{"title":"When to Quiz in Instructional Videos? Effects on Learning and Self-Regulated Learning in Secondary Education","authors":"Bart G. Schutte, Tristan H. S. de Jonge, Emmy Müller, Margot van Wermeskerken","doi":"10.1002/acp.70299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70299","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quizzing before (pretesting) or after (posttesting) studying is effective for learning, but via different underlying mechanisms: Posttests require students to actively recall information; pretests highlight knowledge gaps about the material. Instructional videos allow for studying these strategies because, unlike text-based materials, they are generally delivered at a fixed pace. Hence, this study investigates when pretesting, posttesting, and corrective feedback are most effective when learning from instructional video. Employing a between-subjects design, 223 secondary school students watched a video and completed no quiz (control) or a quiz before (pretest) or after (posttest) viewing, with half of them receiving immediate feedback. Students' retention performance and self-regulated learning (monitoring and regulation) were assessed. Results showed that quizzing enhanced learning from instructional video only for quizzed items and primarily when incorrect responses were followed by feedback. Quizzing improved regulation but not monitoring. These findings underscore the importance of carefully implementing quizzes in video-based instruction.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149259097","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":"How Large Language Models Weight Narrative Cues When Detecting Deception in Oral Accounts: A Multi-Model Comparison","authors":"Meng-Chen He, Wei Ji, Jing-Xuan Ran, Jia-Xin Cui, Wen-Jing Yan, Jing Liang","doi":"10.1002/acp.70297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70297","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Lie detection research has increasingly turned to artificial intelligence, yet the application of large language models (LLMs) remains underexplored for transcribed oral narratives. We compared five LLMs (Gemini-3-flash, Gemini-3-pro, Deepseek-v4-flash, GPT-5.6-luna, and Grok-4) in classifying truthful and deceptive statements from interview transcripts of oral travel narratives collected from 95 Chinese-speaking participants. Guided by Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA), Reality Monitoring (RM), and the Verifiability Approach (VA), theory-driven prompts instructed models to score five narrative cues before making binary veracity judgments. Gemini-3-flash achieved the highest accuracy (74.74%, AUC = 0.76) with 81.63% sensitivity and 67.39% specificity, and stable repeated-run performance. For this optimal model, unusual/superfluous details served as the sole significant predictor of objective veracity even after controlling for text length. LLMs can detect deception above chance but show large performance heterogeneity. Independent human coding, cross-cultural replications, and adversarial robustness testing are needed before real-world deployment.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149235285","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":"Relations Between Attachment Security and Life Story Development","authors":"Theodore E. A. Waters, Yoojin Lee","doi":"10.1002/acp.70288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70288","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Narrative identity researchers have proposed that the formation of a life story involves both the recollection of specific events and an interpretive/meaning-making process. We argue that the meaning-making process is not an arbitrary one, but rather one that has its roots in prior developmental contexts, including one's attachment history. To test this hypothesis, we examined associations between attachment security and four life story themes: redemption, contamination, agency, and communion. Study 1 was conducted with 60 emerging adults, and Study 2 further investigated the hypothesis in 41 midlife adults whose attachment security was examined at three periods across their lives (infancy, emerging adulthood, and midlife). Results provided support for the hypothesis that attachment history contributes to individual differences in life story themes but also indicated that these associations may differ depending on developmental period.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048304","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":"Does Confidence Indicate Face-Identity Matching Accuracy for Same-Race and Other-Race Faces?","authors":"Géraldine Jeckeln, Alice J. O'Toole","doi":"10.1002/acp.70289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70289","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Confidence reliably indicates face-matching accuracy for same-race faces. However, it is unclear whether this holds for other-race faces. We examined the confidence–accuracy relationship for same- and other-race faces in Caucasian and African American participants. To eliminate response bias in observers' confidence-scale use, we measured confidence using a confidence forced-choice task, rather than with confidence ratings. Participants completed two consecutive face-matching trials and selected the trial on which they felt more confident. Results showed an other-race effect for face-matching accuracy, but not for the confidence–accuracy relationship. We also examined whether comparative-trial difficulty predicted confidence decisions. For African American participants, difficulty predicted confidence for same- and other-race decisions. For Caucasian participants, difficulty predicted confidence for same-, but not other-race, decisions. Confidence predicted accuracy for same- and other-race faces, with difficulty consistently guiding confidence for same-race faces. These findings enhance our understanding of how confidence decisions are formed and guide cross-race identification decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70289","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149047911","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}
Felipe Muller, Federico Bermejo, Lucas Bietti, William Hirst
{"title":"“Who Is Remembered? The Role of Actors in Argentine Collective Memories of the Malvinas/Falklands War”","authors":"Felipe Muller, Federico Bermejo, Lucas Bietti, William Hirst","doi":"10.1002/acp.70287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70287","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study contributes to the psychological understanding of collective memory by exploring how Argentines remember the Malvinas/Falklands War, focusing on the role different actors play in these recollections. The Malvinas Islands are considered a National Cause in Argentina. One hundred and forty Argentine participants from two generations and with different political ideologies performed a Free Recall task about the events of the war. The recollections were coded in terms of the Active and Passive Primary and Secondary Actors who figured in the recollections. Results revealed significant generational effects: the generation that lived through the events recalled significantly more actors and different types of actors than the young generation. Political ideology showed minimal if any significant effects. The results contribute to understanding of how generational and ideological differences shape collective memories and how treating a war as a National Cause can minimize ideological differences.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994651","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}
Xinying Wang, Shi Zhuang, Eva Cheung Cher Qi, Guohong Wu
{"title":"The Short-Term Presentation of Multiple Valid Cues Is Associated With Slower Attentional Responses in Autistic and Typically Developing Children","authors":"Xinying Wang, Shi Zhuang, Eva Cheung Cher Qi, Guohong Wu","doi":"10.1002/acp.70285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70285","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Social attention is often studied in isolation, but everyday environments require the integration of multiple cues. This study examined attentional performance in autistic (ASD) and typically developing (TD) children when spatial and social cues were presented in close temporal succession. Using a modified cueing paradigm, children responded to social cues (gaze, gesture, body) presented either alone or preceded by spatial cues. Results showed longer reaction times (RTs) in the social + spatial condition than in the social-only condition, particularly among autistic children. RTs were longer for gaze cues than for gesture and body cues, with modality-related differences being more pronounced in autistic children. These findings suggest that the short-term presentation of multiple valid and repeated cues may be associated with slower attentional responses, particularly among autistic children, and highlight the importance of considering multi-cue contexts when examining attention in autism.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994044","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}
David Baudet, Christine Bastin, Olivier Luminet, Aline Cordonnier
{"title":"Motives for Transmitting and Remembering: A Functional Analysis of Intergenerational Memory Transmission in the Family","authors":"David Baudet, Christine Bastin, Olivier Luminet, Aline Cordonnier","doi":"10.1002/acp.70284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70284","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Intergenerational memories help shape identity, transmit values, and sustain family relationships. Across three studies, we examined how parents, grandparents, and young adult children or grandchildren evaluate the functions of memories shared across generations. Older generations reported their reasons for transmitting important personal and public events, whereas young adults rated how they used vicarious memories received from parents or grandparents. Parents attributed greater functional relevance to the memories they shared than children did, particularly for teaching and problem-solving purposes. Grandparents and grandchildren showed fewer differences, though grandparents endorsed higher motives related to bitterness revival, boredom reduction, intimacy maintenance, and teaching than grandchildren reported using. Direct comparisons further revealed that vicarious memories from grandparents were perceived as more socially and identity relevant than those from parents. Across studies, personal events were consistently rated as more functional than public ones. Together, these findings highlight how family storytelling serves different functions across generations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943317","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":"Teaching Skepticism or Nihilism? Critical Thinking Education as a Signal Detection Problem","authors":"Anthony J. Bishara","doi":"10.1002/acp.70267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70267","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A central goal of critical thinking courses is to help students distinguish science from pseudoscience, and more generally, warranted from unwarranted claims. Prior studies show that such courses reduce belief in unwarranted claims, but whether this reflects improved discriminability, a response bias shift, or both remains unclear. Two quasi-experimental studies (<i>n</i> = 46 and <i>n</i> = 53) applied signal detection theory to compare a semester-long critical thinking course to a control course. Students in the critical thinking course showed significant increases in both discriminability and response bias; students in the comparison course did not. Belief in warranted claims remained stable regardless of course, whereas belief in unwarranted claims dropped only in the critical thinking course. These findings align with recent applications of signal detection theory to misinformation research and suggest that the same framework can be useful for the evaluation of critical thinking education.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70267","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943316","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":"Understanding Cognitive Processing in Real-World DIY Learning: Effects of Instructional Design and Task Complexity on Cognitive Elaboration and Task Replication Intention","authors":"Falaq Mubashir, Tahir Ahmad Wani","doi":"10.1002/acp.70282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70282","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although digital tutorials are a primary DIY learning tool, how instructional materials should address psychological barriers and promote replication behavior remains underexplored. This study examines the effects of instructional condition and task complexity on replication intention in sustainable DIY activities. It further investigates indirect associations involving cognitive elaboration, discomfort, and insecurity, alongside the moderating role of distance-learning anxiety. Drawing on the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, a between-subjects experiment (<i>N</i> = 406) employed a 2 (instruction condition: audio-visual only vs. audio-visual with instructional text scaffolding) × 2 (task complexity: basic vs. advanced) design. Process Macro analysis showed that audio-visual tutorials with instructional text scaffolding generated significantly higher cognitive elaboration than audio-visual-only tutorials, particularly for basic tasks. Insecurity, but not discomfort, showed a significant indirect association between cognitive elaboration and replication intention. The hypothesized weakening moderation by distance-learning anxiety was unsupported; interactions instead emerged in the opposite, strengthening direction.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"40 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942553","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}