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The Temporal Patterning of Spontaneous High-Rate Behavior: An Evaluation of Bout Partitioning Methods for Behavior Under Neurotoxicant Challenge
(2015-01-07)
Across species, much free-operant behavior exhibits a temporal pattern characterized by bouts of activity and periods of disengagement. Analysis of interevent time distributions has been widely used to characterize bout ...
Executive Functioning in Children with Positive Illusory Bias: Examining the Relationship between Cognitive Characteristics and Self-Perception
(2015-08-06)
Optimistic self-perception has been demonstrated to be a common phenomenon in the general population (Bouffard, et al., 1998; Harter, 1988; Mezulis, et al., 2004; Sedikides, et al., 2005). The phenomena of biased perceptions ...
Serial-Probe Recognition for Gustatory Objects
(2015-05-06)
Historically, what we know about human memory was discovered in experiments that used visual or verbal information. As a result, prevailing models of working memory (e.g., Baddeley and Hitch, 1974) rely heavily on visual ...
Neural Correlates of Abstract Rule use within the Rostro-Caudal Axis of the Frontal Lobes
(2015-05-05)
This paper presents 2 experiments aimed to address key limitations in the understanding
of how abstract rules (i.e., matching, non-matching) are subserved by regions of the prefrontal
cortex (PFC) and frontal lobes of ...
A lab study comparing several faking measures under a simulated selection context
(2015-07-24)
Industrial and organizational psychologists have long been aware that faking is a concern in the personnel selection practices. In high-stakes selection context, applicants can be highly motivated to fake good on personality ...
Time pressure, personality, and information availability in escalation of commitment: An application of the Funder Personality Triad
(2015-07-28)
The current work focused on the exploration of specific individual differences and task aspects on escalation of commitment. Further, it sought to expand the literature in decision-making by utilizing a specific personality ...
Relapse Phenomena from Appetitive-to-Aversive and Aversive-to-Appetitive Counterconditioning within a Human Predictive Learning Task
(2015-07-24)
Counterconditioning (CC, Sherrington, 1947) involves training of a single cue with two different outcomes (i.e., cue-O1 then cue-O2) of opposite valence (e.g., appetitive and aversive). Thus, CC can be conducted in either ...
The Effects of Pressure on Strategy Selection for Decisions Made Under Uncertainty
(2015-07-30)
Decisions are often made in high-stakes or pressure filled situations. Some evidence suggests that in the presence of social and performance pressures, some people become less able to maintain the use of complex strategies ...
Sudden Unexpected Death as a Traumatic Stressor: The Impact of the DSM-5 Revision of Criterion A for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(2015-07-29)
The definition of a traumatic event in Criterion A for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was narrowed in DSM-5 for events involving indirect exposure to the death of a loved one. Whereas the DSM-IV definition encompassed ...
How do genotype, stimulus conditions, and acute dopaminergic administration interact to influence the temporal allocation of credit?
(2015-07-02)
The importance of delay discounting to many socially important behavioral problems has led to investigations of the genetic, biochemical, and environmental mechanisms responsible for variations in the form of the discount ...