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Paranormality: why we see what isn't there
Wiseman, Richard (Macmillan, 2011)Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science of space travel transforms our everyday lives, so research into telepathy, fortune-telling and ... -
Paying Attention to Relevant Dimensions : A Localist Approach
Page, M.P.A. (Springer Nature, 2001)Localist models of, for example, the classification of multidimensional stimuli, can run into problems if generalization is attempted when many of the stimulus dimensions are irrelevant to the classification task in hand. ... -
Pedagogic prestidigitation: using magic tricks to enhance educational videos
Wiseman, Richard; Houstoun, William; Watt, Caroline (2020-07-21)Previous research suggests that magic tricks can be employed within an educational context to enhance attention, engagement, critical thinking and recall. This study builds on this work by examining the impact of incorporating ... -
Phonological recoding under articulatory suppression.
Norris, Dennis; Butterfield, Sally; Page, Michael; Hall, Jane (2018-02-01)We report data from an experiment in which participants performed immediate serial recall of visually presented words with or without articulatory suppression, while also performing homophone or rhyme detection. The ... -
Predicting Smartphone Operating System from Personality and Individual Differences
Shaw, Heather; Ellis, David A; Kendrick, Libby-Rae; Ziegler, Fenja; Wiseman, Richard (2016-12-01)Android and iPhone devices account for over 90 percent of all smartphones sold worldwide. Despite being very similar in functionality, current discourse and marketing campaigns suggest that key individual differences exist ... -
The predictors of thought suppression in young and old adults : effects of anxiety, rumination and other variables
Erskine, J.A.K.; Kvavilashvili, L.; Kornbrot, D. (2007)The tendency to use thought suppression in everyday life as assessed by the White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI) has been related to several psychopathological and personality factors. However, previous research has ... -
Preprint: Dissociable age effects across measures of autobiographical and episodic memory
Mair, Ali; Poirier, Marie; Conway, Martin A. (2018-12-24)The aim of this study was to investigate inconsistent findings in the ageing autobiographical memory literature. Twenty older and 20 younger adults were compared across a battery of tasks which measured memory for everyday ... -
The prevalence and impact of online trolling of UK members of parliament
Akhtar, Shazia; Morrison, Catriona (2019-10-01)Online trolling is a new phenomenon that is increasingly coming to public attention. Recent events in the United Kingdom (UK) have raised concerns about this behaviour. Trolling is particularly targeted at public figures, ... -
The primacy model: A new model of immediate serial recall
Page, M.P.A.; Norris, D. (1998-10)A new model of immediate serial recall is presented: the primacy model. The primacy model stores order information by means of the assumption that the strength of activation of successive list items decreases across list ... -
Priming Older Adults and People with Alzheimer’s Disease Analogical Problem-solving with True and False Memories
Akhtar, Shazia (2019-08-09)We investigated the extent to which activation of specific information in associative networks during a memory task could facilitate subsequent analogical problem solving in healthy older adults as well as those with early ... -
Priming Older Adults and People with Mild to Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease Problem-solving with False Memories
Howe, Mark L.; Akhtar, Shazia (2020-02-04)In two experiments we investigated whether older adult controls (OACs) and people with mild and moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) benefit from false memory priming effects in subsequent problem-solving tasks. In addition, ... -
Production benefits recall of novel words with frequent, but not infrequent sound patterns
Lopez Assef, Belen; Strahm, Stephanie; Boyce, Keara; Page, Michael; Zamuner, Tania S. (2023-01-06)The production effect is influenced by various factors, including cognitive and linguistic related variables. Previous studies found that the production effect varies when stimuli have native versus non-native speech sounds, ... -
Prospective memories in the wild: Predicting memory for intentions in natural environments
Rummel, Jan; Snijder, Jean-Paul; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2023-07-31)Prospective memory, the ability to remember an intention at the appropriate future moment, is often investigated in the laboratory to maximize experimental control. However, demands of laboratory prospective memory tasks ... -
Prospective memory and ageing paradox with event-based tasks : A study of young, young-old, and old-old participants
Kvavilashvili, Lia; Cockburn, J.; Kornbrot, Diana (2013)Research on ageing and prospective memory—remembering to do something in the future—has resulted in paradoxical findings, whereby older adults are often impaired in the laboratory but perform significantly better than ... -
Prospective memory in children with mild and severe autistic spectrum disorder
Sheppard, D.; Kvavilashvili, Lia; Ryder, Nuala (2014-05-26)There is a growing body of research into the development of prospective memory (PM) in typically developing children but research is scarce in children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and rarely includes children ... -
Quality science from quality measurement: The role of measurement type with respect to replication and effect size magnitude in psychological research
Kornbrot, Diana; Wiseman, Richard; Georgiou, George (2018-02-12)The quality of psychological studies is currently a major concern. The Many Labs Project (MLP) and the Open-Science-Collaboration (OSC) have collected key data on replicability and statistical effect sizes. We build on ... -
Reconsolidation or Interference? Aging Effects and the Reactivation of Novel and Familiar Episodic Memories
Howe, Mark L.; Akhtar, Shazia; Bland, Cassandra; Hellenthal, Maria V (2019-12-23)We examined aging effects in reconsolidation and interference in episodic memory by reactivating memories for well-learned items in young and healthy older adults while controlling memory strength and the degree semantic ... -
Redefining the pattern of age-prospective memory-paradox: new insights on age effects in lab-based, naturalistic, and self-assigned tasks
Schnitzspahn, Katharina; Kvavilashvili, Lia; Altgassen, Mareike (2020-07-01)Prospective memory (PM) involves remembering intended actions in the future, such as posting a letter when seeing a post box (event-based PM) or making a phone call at 2:00 pm (time-based PM). Studies on aging and PM have ... -
Reduced mind-wandering in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Testing the spontaneous retrieval deficit hypothesis
Niedzwienska, Agnieszka; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2018-09-01)Objective: Research on early cognitive markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is primarily focused on declarative episodic memory tests that involve deliberate and effortful/strategic processes at retrieval. The present study ... -
Registered reports: an early example and analysis
Wiseman, Richard; Watt, Caroline; Kornbrot, Diana (2019-01-16)The recent ‘replication crisis’ in psychology has focused attention on ways of increasing methodological rigor within the behavioral sciences. Part of this work has involved promoting ‘Registered Reports’, wherein journals ...