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Should I stay or should I go? How local-global implicit temporal expectancy shapes proactive motor control: An hdEEG study

open access: yesNeuroImage, 2020
In this study, we investigated the effect of global temporal prediction on the brain capability to implicitly adjust proactive motor control. We used the Dynamic Temporal Prediction (DTP), in which local and global predictions of an imperative stimulus ...
G.M. Duma, U. Granziol, G. Mento
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“I am Young, Why Should I Vaccinate?” How empathetic and aggressive communication on social media impact young adults’ attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionTo combat the current COVID-19 pandemic, high vaccination rates are of crucial value. However, young people in particular tend to be hesitant toward vaccination.
Jaroslava Kaňková   +5 more
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Listening to limericks: a pupillometry investigation of perceivers’ expectancy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
What features of a poem make it captivating, and which cognitive mechanisms are sensitive to these features? We addressed these questions experimentally by measuring pupillary responses of 40 participants who listened to a series of Limericks.
Andrew M. Roberts   +12 more
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The role of stimulus-driven versus goal-directed processes in fight and flight tendencies measured with motor evoked potentials induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This study examines two contrasting explanations for early tendencies to fight and flee. According to a stimulus-driven explanation, goal-incompatible stimuli that are easy/difficult to control lead to the tendency to fight/flee.
Bardi, Lara   +6 more
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Cognitive load does not affect the behavioral and cognitive foundations of social cooperation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
The present study serves to test whether the cognitive mechanisms underlying social cooperation are affected by cognitive load. Participants interacted with trustworthy-looking and untrustworthy-looking partners in a sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma Game ...
Laura Mieth, Raoul Bell, Axel Buchner
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Neural correlates of valence-dependent belief and value updating during uncertainty reduction: An fNIRS study

open access: yesNeuroImage, 2023
Selective use of new information is crucial for adaptive decision-making. Combining a gamble bidding task with assessing cortical responses using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), we investigated potential effects of information valence on ...
Xue-Rui Peng   +3 more
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Examining direct sales as a violation of friendship expectations on WeChat

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2023
WeChat has emerged as the leading app in China, providing a platform for direct sellers. However, selling behaviors can be perceived as violations to friends, as WeChat was originally designed for private sharing.
Xiaoti Fan
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Justice Expectations and Applicant Perceptions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Expectations, which are beliefs about a future state of affairs, constitute a basic psychological mechanism that underlies virtually all human behavior. Although expectations serve as a central component in many theories of organizational behavior, they ...
Bell, Bradford S.   +2 more
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When the outcome is different than expected : subjective expectancy shapes reward prediction error at the FRN level [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Converging evidence in human electrophysiology suggests that evaluative feedback provided during performance monitoring (PM) elicits two distinctive and successive ERP components: the feedback-related negativity (FRN) and the P3b.
Moors, Agnes   +3 more
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Pleasant and unpleasant violations of expectancies [PDF]

open access: yesPsychonomic Science, 1970
Two experiments varied importance, confirmation, and solution to test whether or not disconfirmation of expectancies is unpleasant. In Experiment 1, two pleasant solutions were tasted. For one solution, disconfirmation was unpleasant in the importance condition, pleasant in the unimportance condition.
Patricia L. Shapiro, Jerome E. Singer
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