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dc.contributor.authorEllis, David A
dc.contributor.authorWiseman, Richard
dc.contributor.authorJenkins, Rob
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-23T17:09:25Z
dc.date.available2018-05-23T17:09:25Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-19
dc.identifier.citationEllis , D A , Wiseman , R & Jenkins , R 2015 , ' Mental Representations of Weekdays ' , PLoS ONE , vol. 10 , no. 8 , pp. e0134555 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134555
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.otherPubMedCentral: PMC4544878
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/20060
dc.descriptionThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.description.abstractKeeping social appointments involves keeping track of what day it is. In practice, mismatches between apparent day and actual day are common. For example, a person might think the current day is Wednesday when in fact it is Thursday. Here we show that such mismatches are highly systematic, and can be traced to specific properties of their mental representations. In Study 1, mismatches between apparent day and actual day occurred more frequently on midweek days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) than on other days, and were mainly due to intrusions from immediately neighboring days. In Study 2, reaction times to report the current day were fastest on Monday and Friday, and slowest midweek. In Study 3, participants generated fewer semantic associations for "Tuesday", "Wednesday" and "Thursday" than for other weekday names. Similarly, Google searches found fewer occurrences of midweek days in webpages and books. Analysis of affective norms revealed that participants' associations were strongly negative for Monday, strongly positive for Friday, and graded over the intervening days. Midweek days are confusable because their mental representations are sparse and similar. Mondays and Fridays are less confusable because their mental representations are rich and distinctive, forming two extremes along a continuum of change.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS ONE
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectBrain
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectMemory
dc.subjectSocial Behavior
dc.subjectTime Factors
dc.subjectYoung Adult
dc.subjectJournal Article
dc.subjectResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
dc.titleMental Representations of Weekdaysen
dc.contributor.institutionCentre for Research in Psychology and Sport Sciences
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Psychology and Sports Sciences
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Life and Medical Sciences
dc.contributor.institutionBehaviour Change in Health and Business
dc.contributor.institutionPsychology
dc.contributor.institutionLearning, Memory and Thinking
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1371/journal.pone.0134555
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
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