The experiments discussed here are aimed at determining whether risk perception and risk acceptance are two distinct psychological processes. This study is motivated by the idea of a double‐criterion model of choice. In particular, in line with risk‐value ...

Two experiments investigated the way that beforehand preparation influences general task execution in reaction-time matching tasks. Response times (RTs) and error rates were measured for switching and nonswitching conditions in a color- and shape-matching ...

Recently, using a conditional pronunciation task, reported evidence of affective priming effects only when pronunciation depended on the semantic category of targets. Although these findings support the notion that spreading ...

Two current models of arithmetic fact retrieval, the network interference theory (NIT; ) and the interacting neighbors (IN) model (), predict that errors in simple multiplication should be more probable, if they include ...

A major problem with Implicit Association Tests (IATs) is that they require bipolar attributes (e.g., good-bad). Thus, IAT effects for an attribute category can be interpreted only relative to an opposite category. Problems arise if there is no clear ...

showed how Figure-Ground (FG) asymmetries produce effects on the Implicit Association Task (IAT), independent of associations. Here, the FG account was tested for the robust finding that drinkers show a negative alcohol-...

In the most frequently used paradigm for studying event‐based prospective memory (PM, ), participants perform an ongoing task and are asked to perform an additional task when a particular stimulus (the PM cue) is presented. In ...

One key issue for any computational model of visual word recognition is the choice of an input coding scheme for assigning letter position. Recent research has shown that transposed-letter similarity effects occur even when the transposed letters are not ...

In a human causal learning experiment, we investigated cue selection effects to test the comparator theory (; ). The theory predicts that the occurrence of cue selection is independent of whether ...