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Assessing Automatic Approach-Avoidance Behavior in an Immersive Virtual Environment

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021
The use of virtual reality (VR) promises enormous potential for studying human behavior. While approach and avoidance tendencies have been explored in various areas of basic and applied psychology, such as attitude and emotion research, basic learning ...
Juliane Degner   +3 more
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Reliability of web-based affective auditory stimulus presentation

open access: yesBehavior Research Methods, 2021
Web-based experimental testing has seen exponential growth in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. However, paradigms involving affective auditory stimuli have yet to adapt to the online approach due to concerns about the lack of experimental control ...
T. Seow, T. Hauser
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Virtual Reality Expands the Toolkit for Conducting Health Psychology Research.

open access: yesSocial & Personality Psychology Compass, 2021
Virtual reality (VR) has become a readily available consumer technology, strengthening its promise as a research tool for health psychology. We identify five key strengths of VR-based research: data collection, realism, experimental control, adaptability,
Alison Jane Martingano, S. Persky
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Objectifying the Phenomenal in Experimental Psychology: Titchener and Beyond

open access: yesPhilosophia Scientiæ, 2015
This paper examines Titchener’s notion of stimulus error in the experimental study of mental experience. It places Titchener’s introspective methods into the intellectual world of early experimental psychology.
Gary Hatfield
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Effect of Fragrant Primula Flowers on Physiology and Psychology in Female College Students: An Empirical Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Indoor plants can positively impact physical and mental health in daily life. However, the benefits of viewing indoor plants may be enhanced if the plants emit a fragrant aroma.
Songlin Jiang   +9 more
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Pupillometry: Psychology, Physiology, and Function

open access: yesJournal of Cognition, 2018
Pupils respond to three distinct kinds of stimuli: they constrict in response to brightness (the pupil light response), constrict in response to near fixation (the pupil near response), and dilate in response to increases in arousal and mental effort ...
S. Mathôt
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Cognitive manipulation of emotional and non-emotional information in working memory of patients with depression: a rigid processing style

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionCognitive psychology is one of the important perspectives to understand depression. Compared with previous studies, recent researchers increasingly focused on the exploration of the comprehensive cognitive process of patients with depression.
Jiacheng Cui, Jianglin Wen, Dong Wang
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Moral and Affective Film Set (MAAFS): A normed moral video database. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Moral psychology has relied nearly exclusively on text stimuli in the development and testing of theories. However, text stimuli lack the rich variety of morally-relevant social and contextual cues available in everyday interactions.
Caitlin H McCurrie   +3 more
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“Invariants” in Koffka’s Theory of Constancies in Vision: Highlighting Their Logical Structure and Lasting Value

open access: yesGestalt Theory, 2017
By introducing the concept of “invariants”, Koffka (1935) endowed perceptual psychology with a flexible theoretical tool, which is suitable for representing vision situations in which a definite part of the stimulus pattern is relevant but not sufficient
Burigana Luigi, Vicovaro Michele
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Collective phenomena in crowds—Where pedestrian dynamics need social psychology [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
This article is on collective phenomena in pedestrian dynamics during the assembling and dispersal of gatherings. To date pedestrian dynamics have been primarily studied in the natural and engineering sciences.
A. Sieben, Jette Schumann, A. Seyfried
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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