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The Policy Context of Torture: A Social-Psychological Analysis
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Acts of torture are conceptualized as crimes of obedience, which are inevitably linked to crimes at higher levels of the hierarchy, where orders are issued, policy is formulated, and the atmosphere conducive to acts of ...
Explaining human multiple object tracking as resource-constrained approximate inference in a dynamic probabilistic model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)
Multiple object tracking is a task commonly used to investigate the architecture of human visual attention. Human participants show a distinctive pattern of suc- cesses and failures in tracking experiments that is often ...
Effect Sizes Why, When, and How to Use Them
(Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2009)
The effect size (ES) is the magnitude of a study outcome or research finding, such as the strength of the relationship obtained between an independent variable and a dependent variable. Two types of ES indicators are sampled ...
Essentials of Behavioral Research: Methods and Data Analysis
(McGraw Hill, 2008)
Encoding-Specific Effects of Social Cognition on the Neural Correlates of Subsequent Memory
(Society for Neuroscience, 2004)
To examine whether social cognition recruits distinct mental operations, we measured brain activity during social (“form an impression of this person”) and relatively nonsocial (“remember the order in which person information ...
Gender Picture Priming: It Works with Denotative and Connotative Primes
(Guilford Publications, 2005)
When physical objects or words are encountered, to what extent is their primary semantic meaning also accompanied by secondary social category associates of semantic meaning? Does such an effect occur without conscious ...
Fair Measures: A Behavioral Realist Revision of "Affirmative Action"
(California Law Review Inc., 2006)
New facts recently discovered in the mind and behavioral sciences have the potential to transform both lay and expert conceptions of affirmative action. Drawing on recent findings in implicit social cognition (ISC) and ...
Social categories guide young children’s preferences for novel objects
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
To whom do children look when deciding on their own preferences? To address this question, 3-year-old children were asked to choose between objects or activities that were endorsed by unfamiliar people who differed in ...
Separable Neural Components in the Processing of Black and White Faces
(Sage Publications, 2004)
In a study of the neural components of automatic and controlled social evaluation, White participants viewed Black and White faces during event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging. When the faces were presented ...
Judgements of the Lucky Across Development and Culture
(American Psychological Association, 2008)
For millennia human beings have believed that it is morally wrong to judge others by the fortuitous or unfortunate events that befall them or by the actions of another person. Rather, an individual’s own intended, deliberate ...