Five Observations May Be Enough to Build Usable Category Ratings
A simulation study and two human experiments found that category ratings formed from as few as five or ten observations ...
Tag: cognitive psychology
Finding One Target Makes Searchers Quit Early and Miss the Next
A camouflage-based search task shows that both novices and radiologists terminate image inspection early after finding one target, causing them ...
Knowing Where You Struggle Helps People Spot Face Imposters
A study of 74 participants found people can identify their most error-prone face matching decisions and that extra review time ...
Reward speeds target detection but not the decision to quit searching
A new study finds that reward speeds target-present responses in visual search by reducing decision caution, while leaving target-absent performance ...
Repetition, not photos, drives belief in true and false claims
Across three experiments, repetition increased belief in trivia and political headlines while accompanying photos had no measurable effect and did ...
Hemispheric preferences associated with thinking styles in Kerala undergraduates
A survey of 400 undergraduates in Kerala found that hemispheric preference was associated with different thinking-style components but not significantly ...
ChatGPT Label Makes People More Likely to Accept Answers, Study Finds
A within-subjects experiment found that answers labeled as coming from ChatGPT were accepted more often than identical types of answers ...
How You’re Tested Shapes What You Remember About Objects
A Rutgers study shows that paired simultaneous recognition tests and traditional sequential tests produce different patterns of object-feature memory responses, ...
When Losing Is the Stakes: How Loss Framing Rewires Rewards for Creative Problem Solving
New research shows that framing rewards as potential losses selectively reshapes their effects on creative problem solving, with novel representational ...
Daydreaming Farther From Home Makes Strangers Seem Famous, Study Finds
New research shows that the farther participants mentally traveled during a daydreaming task, the more likely they were to misjudge ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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