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Justify your alpha
In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to P ≤ 0.005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study,…
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The ABC of Ambivalence: Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Consequences of Attitudinal Conflict
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Middle Ground Approach to Paradox: Within- and Between-Culture Examination of the Creative Benefits of Paradoxical Frames
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It is suggested that people endorsing a middle ground approach are less likely to scrutinize conflict and reconcile with integrative solutions, thus receiving less creative benefits of paradoxical frames.
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In doubt and disorderly: Ambivalence promotes compensatory perceptions of order.
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It is shown that ambivalence leads to an increase in (visual) perceptions of order and also increases belief in conspiracy theories, a cognitive form of order perception, and that increased need for order is driving these effects.
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Mixed feelings: the case of ambivalence
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Let's not be indifferent about neutrality: Neutral ratings in the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) mask mixed affective responses.
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It is shown that pictures that seem neutral according to the valence ratings in the IAPS indeed vary in levels of ambivalence they elicit, and this is predictive of the arousal that people report feeling when viewing these pictures.
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Telling Things Apart
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The results support the idea that the spatial structuring of response options facilitates categorizations that require cognitive effort, and that people can incorporate environmental structures such as spatial distance in their thought processes.
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The Influence of Motor Imagery on Postural Sway: Differential Effects of Type of Body Movement and Person Perspective
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The results suggest that during kinesthetic motor imagery participants partially simulated (re-activated) the imagined movements, leading to unintentional postural adjustments, consistent with an embodied cognition perspective on motor imagery.
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Embodied mood regulation: the impact of body posture on mood recovery, negative thoughts, and mood-congruent recall
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Stooped posture (compared to straight or control postures) led to less mood recovery in the negative mood condition, and more negative mood in the neutral mood condition.
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Weighty Matters
Previous work showed that concrete experiences of weight influence people’s judgments of how important certain issues are. In line with an embodied simulation account but contrary to a…
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