... characteristics individual differences Within the general population, there is a great variation in the ability to alter conscious experience and behaviour to meet goals and expectations. People are, to various degrees, capable of generating experiences in response to imaginative suggestions (e.g...

... of the serial order. circadian arousal attentional control executive functions working memory individual differences Environmental conditions at day and night are so different that it is hard to imagine that they do not influence human behaviour and experience. Indeed, previous research has shown...

... the performance gap between themselves and younger adults. aging cognitive training individual differences “Practice makes perfect” is an old adage which applies to people of all ages. Whether someone is learning something for the first time, or rehearsing a skill once learned but unused for some...

... (4.0) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. evaluative conditioning awareness memory valence individual differences Attitudes – summary evaluations of objects of thought (Vogel & Wänke...

... report greater belief-consistent preferences in the absence of evidence than presence of conflicting evidence. However, participants preferred to conduct the belief-consistent study in both the absence and presence of conflicting evidence. Importantly, individual differences emerged in participants...

... meaningful individual differences in mentalizing tendencies and explore how these tendencies relate to broader variability in cognitive and social functioning. To this end, we administered a battery of behavioral and self-report measures of mentalizing, fluid intelligence, personality dimensions, sense...

... the original author and source are credited. political identity individual differences cats and dogs pet preference In recent years, the differences between liberals and conservatives have become increasingly highlighted (Agiesta, 2017; Blankenhorn, 2018; Doherty, 2017; Pew Research Center...

..., orienting present-moment attention to the future to increase the salience of a distal goal, and contrasting the anticipated enjoyment of an achieved goal with the progress required to complete it. However, it is unknown whether there are stable individual differences in the tendency to deploy particular...

..., and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . language production sustained attention object naming event rate individual differences In the fast event rate, a trial was initiated by a blank screen shown...

... foregrounded passages as compared to passages that are not foregrounded. A closer look, however, reveals significant individual differences in sensitivity to foregrounding. Some readers in fact do not slow down at all when reading foregrounded passages. The slowing down effect for literariness was related...

... the relationship between individual differences in statistical learning and language outcomes. These studies have produced mixed results, with some studies finding a significant relationship between statistical learning and language outcomes, and others finding weak or null results. Furthermore, the few studies...

... sound-symbolic words, using behavioural, electrophysiological and individual difference measures. Dutch participants learned Japanese ideophones —lexical sound-symbolic words— with a translation of either the real meaning (in which form and meaning show cross-modal correspondences) or the opposite...

... individual differences Awe is a complex emotion that is characterized by feelings of intense pleasure, surprise, connectedness and vastness but also by feelings of fear and uncertainty. It is an emotion one may feel at the verge of a massive cliff, enjoying the dangerous yet beautiful, breathtaking...