...Peter Szecsi; Barnabas Szaszi, Ph.D. Prior research suggested that financial-scarcity-related cues disproportionately impede the cognitive performance of the poor, but later studies questioned the extent and even the existence of this effect. In the present paper, we conducted a systematic review...

... this gender gap. Gender differences in personality have also been suggested as an explanation. We investigated whether empirically constructed “male-typicality” in personal values, personality traits, and cognitive performance profiles is related to poorer school performance. In a sample of Finnish 15-year...

... the assumption that processing the word red impairs intellectual performance. red color cognitive performance intelligence general knowledge Biologically inherited and socially learned color associations can affect psychological functioning and observed behaviors (cf. Elliot & Maier, 2014...

... for reward learning in the training phase, results from the test phase showed no evidence that reward-related distractors harm cognitive performance. This null effect was invariant across different versions of our task. We examined the results further with Bayesian analyses, which showed positive evidence...