6 articles
All articlesMarije aan het Rot, Merle-Marie Pittelkow, D. Elisabeth Eckardt, Nils Simonsen & Brian D. Ostafin
Background and Objectives: Empathic accuracy, i.e., the degree to which one is able to accurately infer the emotions of others, may be acutely malleable. We examined this idea by testing the immediate effect of a brief mindfulness intervention or facial emotion recognition training. Methods:…
Håvard Toft, Alexey Sirotkin, Markus Landrø, Rune Verpe Engeset & Jordy Hendrikx
Outdoor recreation continues to increase in popularity. In Norway, several avalanche fatalities are recorded every year, but the accurate calculation of a fatal accident rate is impossible without knowing how many people are exposed. We attempted to employ signaling data from telecom network data to…
Floor van Meer, Stephen Murphy, Wilhelm Hofmann, Henk van Steenbergen & Lotte F. van Dillen
When individuals eat while distracted, they may compensate by consuming more afterwards. Here, we examined the effect of eating while driving, and explored potential underlying mechanisms. Participants (N = 116, 73.3% female) were randomly allocated to complete a driving simulation (distraction…
Trisha Harjani, Melisa-Sinem Basol, Jon Roozenbeek & Sander van der Linden
Although the spread of misinformation is a pervasive and disruptive global problem, extant research is skewed towards “WEIRD” countries leaving questions about how to tackle misinformation in the developing world with different media and consumption patterns unanswered. We report the results of a…
James Bartlett, Rebecca Jenks & Nigel Wilson
Both daily and non-daily smokers find it difficult to quit smoking long-term. One factor associated with addictive behavior is attentional bias, but previous research in daily and non-daily smokers found inconsistent results and did not report the reliability of their cognitive tasks. Using an…
Joeri van Hugten
This paper introduces the practice of complementary explanation; the practice of taking a published result and writing a focused paper that rigorously and systematically describes the implications for a theory that would be rejected by those results. Such spotlighting of a rejected theory…
