Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-12-23DOI: 10.1515/psych-2020-0001
M. Kiefer
{"title":"Editorial to Volume 2 of Open Psychology","authors":"M. Kiefer","doi":"10.1515/psych-2020-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2020-0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2020-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47860397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-02-01DOI: 10.1515/psych-2018-0008
K. Mitchell, E. Hill
{"title":"The Impact of Focusing on Different Features During Encoding on Young and Older Adults’ Source Memory","authors":"K. Mitchell, E. Hill","doi":"10.1515/psych-2018-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2018-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Age-related source memory deficits result, in part, because young and older adults attend to different information. We asked whether focusing young and older adults‘ attention on specific features at encoding would result in similar subjective experiences of the vividness of the features and how this might affect source memory. Ratings of the vividness of visual detail, emotion, and associations were similar for young and older adults both when they were perceiving pictures and when they were thinking about them after a brief delay. Although young adults had better source memory than older adults, source accuracy did not differ depending on feature attended, and correlations between ratings and source memory showed that focus on the different types of information was equally predictive of source memory accuracy for young and older adults. Although preliminary, the results suggest that when attention is focused on specific information at encoding, young and older adults later use the various categories of source-specifying information similarly in making source attributions. Nevertheless, older adults did worse on the source test, suggesting they had less discriminable source information overall, this information was not well bound, and/or they experienced difficulty in strategic retrieval and monitoring processes.","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"106 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2018-0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47884959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/psych-2018-0011
Angélique Roquet, P. Lemaire
{"title":"Strategy variability in numerosity comparison task: a study in young and older adults","authors":"Angélique Roquet, P. Lemaire","doi":"10.1515/psych-2018-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2018-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We investigated strategies used by young and older adults in dot comparison tasks to further our understanding of mechanisms underlying numerosity discrimination and age-related differences therein. The participants were shown a series of two dot collections and asked to select the largest collection. Analyses of verbal protocols collected on each trial, solution times, and percentages of errors documented the strategy repertoire and strategy distribution in young and older adults. Based on visual features of dot collections, both young and older adults used a set of 9 strategies and selected strategies on a trial-by-trial basis. The findings also documented age-related differences (i.e., strategy preferences) and similarities (e.g., number of strategies used by individuals) in strategies and performance. Strategy variability found here has important implications for understanding numerosity comparison and contrasts with previous findings suggesting that participants use a single strategy when they compare dot collections.","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"152 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2018-0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48649886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/psych-2018-0013
Ann Krispenz, O. Dickhäuser
{"title":"Reduction of Chronic Stress and Trait Anxiety by Inquiry of Cognitive Appraisals with the Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) Method","authors":"Ann Krispenz, O. Dickhäuser","doi":"10.1515/psych-2018-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2018-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background: Chronic stress and anxiety can impair individuals’ health. Appraisal theories assume that stress and anxiety are experienced if individuals appraise a situation as threatening for their well-being. Thus, the modification of cognitive appraisals can be expected to reduce stress and anxiety. A potentially effective method to modify individuals’ appraisals is inquiry-based stress reduction (IBSR; Mitchell & Mitchell, 2003). Aims: The present study assesses the effects of IBSR on chronic stress and trait anxiety in comparison to a matched control group. Method: We used a quasi-experimental repeated-measurement design and a non-clinical sample of N = 199. Participants’ chronic stress and anxiety levels were assessed before and three months after a nine-day IBSR training. To account for the consequences of missing randomization, propensity score matching was applied. Results: As expected, data analyses revealed that in the IBSR training group chronic stress and trait anxiety statistically significantly decreased over the course of three months whereas in the matched control group, the levels of chronic stress and trait anxiety did not statistically significantly change. Conclusions: IBSR seems to effectively reduce trait anxiety and chronic stress in a non-clinical sample.","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"185 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2018-0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41878665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/psych-2018-0020
Beatrice G. Kuhlmann
{"title":"Topical Issue on Strategy Contributions to Cognitive Aging","authors":"Beatrice G. Kuhlmann","doi":"10.1515/psych-2018-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2018-0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although some cognitive decline with healthy aging appears inevitable, previous research on strategy instruction and training has repeatedly demonstrated that older adults can substantially improve their cognitive performance through effective strategies. At the same time, age-related changes in strategy repertoire, distribution, execution, and selection have also been documented and, in part, been shown to contribute to the observed age-related deficits in cognitive performance. Authored by researchers from France, Germany, Italy, and the U.S., the nine articles of this Topical Issue on Strategy Contributions to Cognitive Aging provide novel insights on age-related differences (and similarities) in strategies across a variety of cognitive domains (episodic [item, source, event] memory, metamemory, decision making, and numeracy), ranging from new insights on traditional memory-encoding strategies such as self-generation to the discovery of novel strategies involved in event memory, metamemory, and numerosity comparison. Further, a review of event segmentation training and two novel training studies demonstrate much potential for the improvement of older adults’ cognitive performance, transferring beyond the trained task—but also identify for whom cognitive strategy training may be less beneficial, necessitating a more intensive or different training approach. All in all, this Topical Issue provides a comprehensive picture of age-related changes in cognitive strategies and means to improve older adults’ strategic approach to cognitive tasks.","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"317 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2018-0020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49656983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/psych-2018-0021
L. Hald, H. Cowles, Alan Garnham
{"title":"An ERP study of anaphor resolution with focused and non-focused antecedents","authors":"L. Hald, H. Cowles, Alan Garnham","doi":"10.1515/psych-2018-0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2018-0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The goal of this study is to better understand when (and why) the combination of semantic overlap between antecedent and anaphor and antecedent focus leads to difficulty in anaphor processing. To investigate these questions, three ERP experiments manipulating semantic overlap and focus compared the ERPs from the onset of the anaphor as well as from the onset of the last word in the sentence containing the anaphor. Our results suggest that although the focus status of an antecedent and the semantic overlap between the antecedent and anaphor are important, these factors are not the only significant contributors to online anaphor resolution. Factors such as readers’ expectations about thematic shifts also influence the processing. We consider our results in relation to two accounts of anaphor resolution, the Informational Load Hypothesis (Almor, 1999; Almor & Eimas, 2008) and JANUS (Garnham & Cowles, 2008).","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"323 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2018-0021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44543652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/psych-2018-0010
Natalie Martschuk, S. Sporer, Melanie Sauerland
{"title":"Confidence of Older Eyewitnesses: Is It Diagnostic of Identification Accuracy?","authors":"Natalie Martschuk, S. Sporer, Melanie Sauerland","doi":"10.1515/psych-2018-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2018-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the late 1980s evidence has been accumulating that confidence recorded at the time of identification is a reliable postdictor of eyewitness identification. Nonetheless, there may be noteworthy exceptions. In a re-analysis of a field study by Sauerland and Sporer (2009; N = 720; n = 436 choosers between 15 and 83 years old) we show that the postdictive value of confidence was reduced for participants aged 40 years or older. Different calibration indices and Bayesian analyses demonstrate a progressive dissociation between identification performance and confidence across age groups. While the confidence expressed following an identification remained unchanged across the lifespan, identification accuracy decreased. Young, highly confident witnesses were much more likely to be accurate than less confident witnesses. With increasing age, witnesses were more likely to be overconfident, particularly at the medium and high levels of confidence, and the postdictive value of confidence and decision times decreased. We conclude that witness age may be an important moderator to take into account when evaluating identification evidence.","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"132 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2018-0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46731602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/psych-2018-0018
Liam B. Cross, M. Turgeon, Gray Atherton
{"title":"How Moving Together Binds Us Together: The Social Consequences of Interpersonal Entrainment and Group Processes","authors":"Liam B. Cross, M. Turgeon, Gray Atherton","doi":"10.1515/psych-2018-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2018-0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Interpersonal entrainment has been shown to have a wide variety of social consequences which span far beyond those that could be considered purely pro-social. This work reviews all of the social effects of entrainment and the various explanations for them. The group formation framework emerges as a parsimonious account claiming that as we entrain our sense of self is temporarily diluted as an interdependent identity becomes more salient, thus leading to a range of social and psychological consequences which are pro-group. The sense of belonging arising from moving together is conducive towards pro-social behaviours; yet, it also makes the individual more susceptible to adopting the ideology of the group without critical thinking. We argue that the wide landscape of interpersonal entrainment’s effects reflects its primary effect, de-individuation, and the formation of a common group identity amongst co-actors.","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"273 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2018-0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49060229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/psych-2018-0009
S. Child, Alan Garnham, J. Oakhill
{"title":"Remember they were emotional - Effects of emotional qualifiers during sentence processing","authors":"S. Child, Alan Garnham, J. Oakhill","doi":"10.1515/psych-2018-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2018-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We investigated whether emotional information facilitates retrieval and whether it makes representations more salient during sentence processing. Participants were presented with sentences including entities (nouns) that were either bare, with no additional information or that were emotionally or neutrally qualified by means of adjectives. Reading times in different word regions, specifically at the region following the verb where retrieval processes are measurable, were analysed. Qualified representations needed longer time to be build up than bare representations. Also, it was found that the amount of information and the type of information affect sentences processing and more specifically retrieval. In particular, retrieval for emotionally specified representations was faster than that for bare representations.","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"119 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2018-0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49632618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open psychologyPub Date : 2019-01-01Epub Date: 2019-06-29DOI: 10.1515/psych-2018-0015
Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti, Grace C Lin, Masha R Jones, Erik Linstead, Susanne M Jaeggi
{"title":"Exploring Age-Related Metamemory Differences using Modified Brier Scores and Hierarchical Clustering.","authors":"Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti, Grace C Lin, Masha R Jones, Erik Linstead, Susanne M Jaeggi","doi":"10.1515/psych-2018-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2018-0015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Older adults (OAs) typically experience memory failures as they age. However, with some exceptions, studies of OAs' ability to assess their own memory functions-Metamemory (MM) - find little evidence that this function is susceptible to age-related decline. Our study examines OAs' and young adults' (YAs) MM performance and strategy use. Groups of YAs (N = 138) and OAs (N = 79) performed a MM task that required participants to place bets on how likely they were to remember words in a list. Our analytical approach includes hierarchical clustering, and we introduce a new measure of MM-the modified Brier-in order to adjust for differences in scale usage between participants. Our data indicate that OAs and YAs differ in the strategies they use to assess their memory and in how well their MM matches with memory performance. However, there was no evidence that the chosen strategies were associated with differences in MM match, indicating that there are multiple strategies that might be effective (i.e. lead to similar match) in this MM task.</p>","PeriodicalId":74357,"journal":{"name":"Open psychology","volume":" ","pages":"215-238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/psych-2018-0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25460454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}