Andrew D. Green, Andrew Clark, Joanne Rechdan, Andy Guppy
{"title":"Virtual Reality Provides an Eyewitness Experience That Is Similar to Real Life","authors":"Andrew D. Green, Andrew Clark, Joanne Rechdan, Andy Guppy","doi":"10.1002/acp.70099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Traditional methods used for presenting to-be-remembered events in eyewitness memory research are often criticized for lacking scientific rigor. Videos lack ecological validity, and though staged live events are realistic, they lack experimental control. Virtual reality (VR) has been proposed as a promising alternative, offering immersive realism in a controlled environment. In this study, 141 participants viewed an event either live, on video, or in VR. Presence, emotional experience, heart rate, and recall were compared across groups, and it was seen that the VR experience was highly similar to the live-event group. The video group reported significantly lower presence, ecological validity, and heart rate changes compared to the VR group. These findings suggest that VR can offer a highly realistic witness experience while maintaining experimental control, making it a valuable tool for eyewitness memory research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144663767","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":"Drunken Speech: The Impact of Dialect and Alcohol Intoxication on Mock Juror Perceptions of Sexual Assault Victims","authors":"Julie Gawrylowicz, Neil W. Kirk","doi":"10.1002/acp.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explored how alcohol intoxication and dialect influence mock jurors' perceptions of a sexual assault victim's credibility, blameworthiness, consent, verdicts and sentence length. A 2 × 2 between-subjects design involved 198 participants (recruited from the community and university campus) who read a fictional trial vignette, with the victim portrayed as either intoxicated or sober. Thereafter, they listened to an emergency call recorded by a bidialectal speaker, with the victim speaking either Scottish Standard English or the non-standard Dundonian dialect. Although victims speaking Dundonian were perceived as less credible, dialect did not influence verdicts or sentencing decisions. Contrary to previous research, the victim's intoxication status did not affect mock jurors' decision-making. These findings highlight the importance of addressing linguistic biases to ensure fair trial outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615316","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":"Individual Differences in Object Imagery, Spatial Imagery, Verbal Skills, and Personality in Relation to Centrality of Positive and Negative Events","authors":"Ilayda E. Algin, Aylin Ayalp, Olesya Blazhenkova","doi":"10.1002/acp.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Event centrality refers to the extent to which an individual integrates a meaningful life event into their identity. This study examined how different types of imagery, verbal skills, personality traits, and sex predict the centrality of autobiographical events. Object imagery and verbal skills predicted the centrality of positive autobiographical events, indicating that both vivid representations and narrative construction of memories are crucial for their integration into one's self-concept. However, neither imagery nor verbal skills predicted the centrality of negative events. Sex predicted negative event centrality, with females reporting higher centrality than males. Neuroticism appeared to play a critical role in the integration of negative experiences into one's self-concept, overshadowing the direct effects of sex. Conscientiousness positively predicted the centrality of positive memories and negatively predicted the centrality of negative memories. Our findings contribute to understanding how different facets of individual differences collectively shape the centrality of positive and negative events.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624571","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}
Charlie D. Frowd, Emma Portch, Alejandro J. Estudillo, Claire J. Ford, Amy Purcell, Melanie Pitchford, Charity Brown
{"title":"The Value of Whole-Face Procedures for the Construction and Naming of Identifiable Likenesses for Recall-Based Methods of Facial-Composite Construction","authors":"Charlie D. Frowd, Emma Portch, Alejandro J. Estudillo, Claire J. Ford, Amy Purcell, Melanie Pitchford, Charity Brown","doi":"10.1002/acp.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Traditional methods of facial-composite construction rely on an eyewitness recalling features of an offender's face. We assess the value of the addition of a trait–recall mnemonic to a cognitive-type interview, and perceptually stretching presented composites, to aid image recognition. Participant-constructors intentionally or incidentally encoded a target face, were interviewed about its facial features 3–4 h or 2 days later, made a series of trait attributions (or not) about the face and constructed a feature-based composite. Regardless of encoding manipulation, faces constructed after 3–4 h were twice as likely to be correctly named (cf. after 2 days) both when the trait–recall mnemonic was applied and composites were viewed stretched. Thus, the research indicates that benefit should be afforded when trait–recall mnemonics are employed for feature composites constructed on the same day as the crime and when composites are presented to potential recognisers with instruction to view the face as a perceptual stretch.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624515","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}
Liangkai Kang, Yi Kuang, Shu Li, Xinyi Zheng, Feng Du
{"title":"The Time–Space Frame in Road Signs Affects Pathfinding Driving Performance: Results From Bayesian Networks","authors":"Liangkai Kang, Yi Kuang, Shu Li, Xinyi Zheng, Feng Du","doi":"10.1002/acp.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The time–space frame affects individuals' travel preference by modifying the way information is presented, but its impact on driving behavior during travel remains unknown. The present study examined whether road sign under either time or space frames affects driving performance, using a simulated driving pathfinding experiment. A total of 53 participants took part in the experiment, each completing seven pathfinding tasks. The study found that road signs under the space frame created a longer psychological distance compared to those under the time frame, demonstrating the presence of the time–space framing effect. Bayesian Networks showed that the probability of risky driving under the space frame was higher than under the time frame. Male drivers showed a higher probability of risky driving under the space frame. These results suggest that longer psychological distances can lead to more dangerous driving behaviors. Driving safety can be enhanced by presenting drivers with information framed in different ways.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144550860","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":"Development and Effectiveness Verification of the Contextual Hazard Perception Test for Skiing","authors":"Yuanguo Liu, Zeyou Guo, Shenmao Gao, Guangqing Jiang","doi":"10.1002/acp.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A Contextual Hazard Perception Test for Skiing (CHPT-S) was developed to assess the hazard recognition ability of recreational skiers during skiing. A total of 92 video clips, filmed across 11 ski resorts, were presented to 100 young adult skiers with varying skill levels. This process led to the selection of 30 scenarios. Advanced skiers demonstrated significantly quicker response times in recognizing hazards compared to novice skiers, and there was also a significant difference in response accuracy between the two groups. The final multinomial logistic regression model demonstrated that the CHPT-S could differentiate skiers with different skill levels. The findings emphasize the significance of hazard perception skills in skiing, indicating that these tests can assist skiers in improving safety awareness and decreasing accidents.</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144536966","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}
Mitchell Kirwan, Weiqi Chen, Julia F. Hammett, Kelly Cue Davis
{"title":"Alcohol and Emotion Regulation Interventions: Effects on Men's Sexual Arousal, Impulsivity, Cognitions Regarding Sexual Consequences, and Sexually Coercive Tactics","authors":"Mitchell Kirwan, Weiqi Chen, Julia F. Hammett, Kelly Cue Davis","doi":"10.1002/acp.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Alcohol's cognitive effects exacerbate sexual assault perpetration by men against women. Emotion regulation interventions may reduce perpetration by modifying men's responses during sexual situations. The present study's goal was to examine how alcohol intoxication and emotion regulation interventions interacted to predict men's cognitive and behavioral reactions regarding sexual assault perpetration. Young men with self-reported sexual assault perpetration histories (<i>N</i> = 206) were randomly assigned to receive either a cognitive restructuring, mindfulness, or control intervention and to consume alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages before projecting themselves into a hypothetical, sexual scenario and completing in-the-moment assessments of their sexual arousal, impulsivity, cognitions, and sexual coercion. Results revealed that intoxicated men in the control intervention experienced more sexual arousal. Sexual arousal was subsequently associated with impulsivity, cognitions regarding sexual consequences, and sexual coercion. Findings support emotion regulation interventions as tools to prevent alcohol-involved perpetration and suggest a mechanism through which perpetration may be prevented.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520103","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 “False Memory” Implantation Paradigm: Commentary on Andrews and Brewin","authors":"Gail S. Goodman, Yan Wang, Claire Mitchell","doi":"10.1002/acp.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70091","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>False memories can occur, but does the false memory implantation paradigm create “false <i>memories</i>” or does it create false <i>beliefs</i>? As Andrews and Brewin (2024) state, a variety of coding issues arise in false memory research, especially concerning “partial” false memories and the confounding of memories of false and true events. There is also a question regarding the dissimilarity between events recalled in laboratory studies and events under investigation and questioning in criminal court. We argue that researchers should explore the subset of participants who are willing to rely on their parents' alleged memories of events that supposedly occurred before the participants' memory capacities were fully developed. We suggest that if Andrews and Brewin's estimate of only 4% false memories is accurate, even then, a few real-life cases of false implanted memories are important for the legal system.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520104","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}
Cándida Castro, Daniel Salazar-Frías, Ana Clara Szot, Lucia Laffarga, Ismael Muela, María Rodríguez-Bailón, Pedro García-Fernández, Eduardo Eisman, Ana B. Chica
{"title":"Using the Orienting Hazard Prediction Test to Assess Fitness-to-Drive: Data From Stroke Survivors","authors":"Cándida Castro, Daniel Salazar-Frías, Ana Clara Szot, Lucia Laffarga, Ismael Muela, María Rodríguez-Bailón, Pedro García-Fernández, Eduardo Eisman, Ana B. Chica","doi":"10.1002/acp.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study pioneers the exploration of the attentional orienting effect in experienced drivers: stroke survivors and healthy drivers. The Orienting Hazard Prediction Test (OHPT) consisted of 39 short videos shot in a naturalistic setting, including a target hazard situation just before the end of the video. Three conditions were manipulated: simple, valid, and invalid trials. A total of 69 experienced drivers took part in this experiment: a healthy control group (<i>N</i> = 37) and a stroke group (<i>N</i> = 32). The results replicated the expected main effect of orientation, now in complex driving situations. A significant group effect was also found: healthy drivers performed better than stroke survivors. Moreover, the drop in performance in the invalid trials was enhanced in the stroke group. By observing the performance of stroke survivors on this test, we can find its concurrent validity with other neuropsychological assessments: TMT (Trail Making Test) and UFOV (Useful Field of View).</p>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/acp.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520105","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":"Between Tradition and Transition: Generational Differences in Emirati Life Stories and Life Scripts","authors":"Christin Camia","doi":"10.1002/acp.70090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70090","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cultural life scripts influence the recall of important personal events. Testing this well-established finding in an understudied culture that underwent rapid cultural change, this study compared life story memories of a younger and an older Emirati generation to Newborn and Elderly life scripts provided by both age groups. Results replicated that most memories were scripted in content, formed a reminiscence bump, and were predominantly positive. Yet, due to the historical change, the younger participants composed an Elderly life script that did not match the lives of their contemporary seniors. Moreover, neither age group evaluated the Emirati life scripts more positively than their life stories. Instead, the valences of life script events and life story memories indicate increasing realism with age and experience. Overall, results imply that cultural life scripts do not easily adjust to societal change and do not always represent an idealized life.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48281,"journal":{"name":"Applied Cognitive Psychology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503131","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}