Agency and reward across development and in autism: A free-choice paradigm. [PDF]
Our ability to perform voluntary actions and make choices is shaped by the motivation from control over the resulting effects (agency) and from positive outcomes (reward).
Irene Valori +2 more
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Choice-Induced Preference Change in the Free-Choice Paradigm: A Critical Methodological Review [PDF]
Choices not only reflect our preference, but they also affect our behavior. The phenomenon of choice-induced preference change has been of interest to cognitive dissonance researchers in social psychology, and more recently, it has attracted the ...
Keise eIzuma +2 more
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Assessing nicotine dependence using an oral nicotine free-choice paradigm in mice. [PDF]
Models to assess the addictive-like properties of nicotine in mice are limited. Therefore, we aimed to characterize and validate an addiction index by using an oral nicotine free-choice paradigm in mice. Adult C57BL/6J, DBA/2J, or genetically modified mice carrying deletions for nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunits, (n = 8-10/sex/group ...
Bagdas D +8 more
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Choice-induced preference change and the free-choice paradigm: A clarification [PDF]
Positive spreading of ratings or rankings in the classical free-choice paradigm is commonly taken to indicate choice-induced change in preferences and has motivated influential theories as cognitive dissonance theory and self-perception theory.
Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Fei Shi
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Choice-Induced Preference Change and Recollection of Choice in the Free-Choice Paradigm
The choice-induced preference change (CIPC) effect observed in the free-choice paradigm (FCP) is hypothesized to be the result of cognitive dissonance reduction at revaluation.
Patrycja Didyk, Marek Nieznański
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Aim. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of reversibility of choice on attitude change in the "free choice paradigm" of cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957). Methods.
روح الله منصوری سپهر +3 more
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Adult bonobos show no prosociality in both prosocial choice task and group service paradigm [PDF]
Previous studies reported contrasting conclusions concerning bonobo prosociality, which are likely due to differences in the experimental design, the social dynamics among subjects and characteristics of the subjects themselves.
Jonas Verspeek +4 more
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Enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practice
The masked priming paradigm has been extensively used to investigate the indirect impacts of unconscious stimuli on conscious behaviors, and the congruency effect of priming on free choices has gained increasing attention. Free choices allow participants
Qi Dai +9 more
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Sex Differences in Behavior and Learning Abilities in Adult Rats
Laboratory rats have excellent learning abilities and are often used in cognitive neuroscience research. The majority of rat studies are conducted on males, whereas females are usually overlooked. Here, we examined sex differences in behavior and tactile
Maria Pupikina, Evgenia Sitnikova
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Understanding the interplay of entanglement and nonlocality: motivating and developing a new branch of entanglement theory [PDF]
A standard approach to quantifying resources is to determine which operations on the resources are freely available, and to deduce the partial order over resources that is induced by the relation of convertibility under the free operations.
David Schmid +5 more
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