Basic/Experimental Psychology
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- Learning about personality by studying gibbons
from Journal of Comparative Psychology
August 6, 2026 - Looks can be deceiving: Investigating change blindness in an online setting
from Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
May 1, 2024 - Guns and racism: Who do White Americans really perceive gun rights to be for in the United States?
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
August 23, 2023 - Affective comorbidity or concussion: Can people tell the difference?
from Translational Issues in Psychological Science
August 10, 2023 - "I'd recognize that face anywhere": How seeing faces differ helps us tell when they are the same
from Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
July 26, 2023 - I can’t read your mind! Or maybe I can: How social and linguistic life experiences may help people understand the minds of others
from Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
November 14, 2022 - Explaining climate science to lay audiences
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
November 1, 2022 - How long does gamified psychological inoculation protect people against misinformation?
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
August 12, 2022 - What are you talking about? Predicting how people understand words differently
from Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
March 8, 2022 - Body positivity in music: Can listening to a single song help you feel better about your body?
from Psychology of Popular Media
November 5, 2020 - Dogs don’t expect dropped objects to fall straight down
from Journal of Comparative Psychology
May 27, 2020 - Fundamental Questions in Emotion Regulation
from Emotion
April 21, 2020 - Helping Consumers Understand the Real Costs of Credit Cards
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
February 3, 2020 - How Do People Perceive Health-Related Risk Ratios? A Risk of 1 in 10 Looms Larger Than 10 in 100
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
October 29, 2019 - Choose Quickly or Naught: Paralyzed by a Plethora of Options
from Decision
October 17, 2019 - Understanding the Hurricane Forecast Cone of Uncertainty: Putting Knowledge to the Test
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
September 23, 2019 - Saying Goodbye and Saying it Well
from Motivation Science
April 29, 2019 - Ants, Like Us, Overvalue Things They Had to Work Hard For
from Journal of Comparative Psychology
April 26, 2019 - Clinical Trials Grossly Overestimate Antidepressant Efficacy
from Psychology of Consciousness
November 16, 2018 - How Writers Create Engaging Characters: Exploring the Role of Personality, Empathy, and Experience
from Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
November 29, 2017 - Changing Stimulus Duration Influences the Appearance of Extinction
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
August 30, 2017 - Attentional Function Predicts More Effective Eye Movements During Driving
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
July 10, 2017 - Paw Preference and Temperament in Cats
from Journal of Comparative Psychology
June 29, 2017 - Executive Function and Emotion Processing in Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity and Bipolar Disorders
from Behavioral Neuroscience
June 1, 2017 - General Valence Asymmetry in Similarity
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
May 18, 2017 - Pigeons Use Vertical Orienting Cues if They are Salient
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
October 25, 2016 - Evolutionary Predisposition to Fear Snakes but Not Spiders
from Journal of Comparative Psychology
September 29, 2016 - Cortical Activity During REM Sleep Associated With Improved Decision-Making
from Behavioral Neuroscience
September 13, 2016 - Neural Evidence for Growth in Pure Altruism Across the Adult Life Span
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
September 1, 2016 - Culture and the Self: A New Global Perspective
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
July 26, 2016 - On the Difficulty of Dislodging Learners' Illusions About How Best to Learn
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
July 12, 2016 - Understanding Addiction by Dissociating "Wanting" and "Liking"
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
July 7, 2016 - Qualitative Changes in the Processes Supporting Math Performance Across Learning
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
June 21, 2016 - Processing Benefits for Consonance in Rats and Humans
from Journal of Comparative Psychology
May 31, 2016 - Writing Facilitates Symbol Learning Due To Output Variability
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
May 2, 2016 - The Ability to Detect Color Differences is Not Categorical
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
April 7, 2016 - Recognition Without Awareness
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
March 22, 2016 - Category Generalization in Nonhuman Primates
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
February 4, 2016 - Pursuing Happiness Leads to Well-Being in Cultures Where Happiness is Defined in Socially Engaged Ways
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
December 17, 2015 - Can a Bonobo Keep the Beat?
from Journal of Comparative Psychology
November 24, 2015 - Taste Perception is Influenced by Extreme Noise Conditions
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
November 10, 2015 - Early Damage to the Amygdala or Hippocampus Has Subtle Effects on Adult Social Behavior
from Behavioral Neuroscience
November 3, 2015 - Large-Scale Analyses of Non-Word Performance Provide Insight Into Lexical Processing
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
September 29, 2015 - Searching the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
August 12, 2015 - Interactions Between Multiple Independent Memory Systems in Pigeons
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
July 16, 2015 - Humans, But Not Pigeons, Use Global and Local Visual Information Flexibly and Adaptively
from Journal of Comparative Psychology
June 16, 2015 - What Is the Profile of Cognitive Aging?
from Neuropsychology
January 28, 2015 - The More You Know
from Neuropsychology
October 1, 2014 - Replication
from Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
March 24, 2014 - Remind Me Again?
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
October 22, 2013 - What Were You Thinking?
from Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
September 17, 2013
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