A5019016245- Mental Health Research Topics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Flow Experience in Various Fields
University of Dundee
2017-2024
University of Toronto
2014-2023
Canadian Rheumatology Association
2022
Munich Business School
2017
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2017
University of St Andrews
1974-2013
Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings populations. Crowdsourced research, a type large-scale collaboration which one more projects conducted across multiple lab sites, offers pragmatic solution these other current methodological challenges. The Psychological Science Accelerator...
Self-control is assessed using a remarkable array of measures. In series five data-sets (overall N = 2,641) and mini meta-analysis, we explored the association between canonical operationalisations self-control: The Self-Control Scale two measures inhibition-related executive functioning (the Stroop Flanker paradigms). Overall, Bayesian correlational analyses suggested little-to-no relationship self-reported self-control performance on tasks. meta-analytical summary all further favoured null...
People feel tired or depleted after exerting mental effort. But even preregistered studies often fail to find effects of effort on behavioral performance in the laboratory elucidate underlying psychology. We tested a new paradigm four within-subjects (N = 686). An initial high-demand task reliably elicited very strong phenomenology compared with low-demand task. Afterward, participants completed Stroop used drift-diffusion modeling obtain boundary (response caution) and drift-rate...
Concerns have been growing about the veracity of psychological research. Many findings in science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings populations. Crowdsourced research, a type large-scale collaboration which one more research projects conducted across multiple lab sites, offers pragmatic solution these other current methodological challenges. The Psychological Science...
Abstract Objective We tested the hypothesis that complex behaviors are commonly supported by self‐regulation strategies, even when those strong instigation habits. Background Goal‐directed and habit‐mediated processes arise from separable systems have been suggested to seldomly interact. Results Self‐regulation strategy use was lower for habitually instigated simple compared nonhabitually behaviors. However, participants' of strategies increased with increasing complexity behaviors, were...
What strategies do people use to resist desires in their day-to-day life? How effective are these strategies? Do different for desires? This study addresses questions using experience sampling examine strategy daily life.Participants (N = 197, Mage 20.4, 63% female) reported on of six specific (situation modification, distraction, reminding self goals, promise give later, reminder why it is bad, willpower) (4,462 over a week).Participants at least one 89% the time, and more than 25% time....
The current research investigated differences in reactive and proactive cognitive control as a function of depressive symptomatology. Three participant groups with varying symptom levels (Beck Depression Inventory-II, BDI-II score) completed both the classic an emotional-face Stroop task separately under speed accuracy instructions. All made equivalent speed-accuracy trade-offs independent task, suggesting that adjustments are unaffected by symptoms. Additionally, (Stroop effects, congruency...
Abstract Cognitive control is accompanied by observable negative affect. But how this affect experienced subjectively, and are these feelings related to variation in cognitive control? To address questions, 42 participants performed a punished inhibitory task while periodically reporting their subjective experience. We found that within‐subject experience predicted implementation, but not neural monitoring (i.e., the error‐related negativity, ERN). Specifically, anxiety frustration increased...
Traditional models of cognitive control have explained performance monitoring as a "cold" process, devoid emotion. In contrast to this dominant view, growing body clinical and experimental research indicates that its neural substrates, in particular the error-related negativity (ERN), are moderated by affective motivational factors, reflecting aversive experience response conflict errors. To add line research, here we use classic emotion regulation paradigm-a manipulation promotes...
Abstract Emerging research in social and affective neuroscience has implicated a role for affect motivation performance monitoring cognitive control. No study, however, investigated whether facial electromyography (EMG) over the corrugator supercilii—a measure associated with negative exertion of effort—is related to neural monitoring. Here, we explored these potential relationships by simultaneously measuring error‐related negativity, error positivity (Pe), EMG supercilii muscle during...
Abstract Self-regulation has been studied across levels of analysis; however, little attention paid to the extent which self-report, neural, and behavioral indices predict goal pursuit in real-life. We use a mixed-method approach ( N = 201) triangulate evidence among established measures different aspects self-regulation both process using experience sampling, as well longer-term progress at 1, 3, 6-month follow-ups. While self-reported trait self-control predicts attainment months later, we...
Self-control is assessed using a remarkable array of measures. In series five data-sets (overall N = 2,641) and mini meta-analysis, we explored the association between canonical operationalisations self-control: The Self-Control Scale two measures inhibition-related executive functioning (the Stroop Flanker paradigms). Overall, Bayesian correlational analyses suggested little-to-no relationship self-reported self-control performance on tasks. meta-analytical summary all further favoured null...
Abstract Previous theorizing suggests there are multiple means by which people regulate their emotions and impulses, but that these strategies vary in the degree to they support goal attainment. Some have proposed proactive (e.g. situation selection, distraction) may be particularly effective, while interventive suppression) less effective. Despite diverging predictions, researchers yet examine spontaneous use of respective combined efficacy when applied momentary food desires experienced...
Touch is central to mammalian communication, socialisation, and wellbeing.Despite this prominence, interpersonal touch relatively understudied.In preregistered investigation, we assessed the influence of on subjective, neural, behavioural correlates cognitive control.Forty-five romantic couples were recruited (N=90; dating>6 months), one partner performed an inhibitory control task while electroencephalography was recorded assess neural performance monitoring.Interpersonal provided by second...
What strategies do people use to resist desires in their day-to-day life? How effective are these strategies? Do different for desires? This study addresses questions using experience sampling examine strategy daily life. Participants (N=197, Mage = 20.4, 63% female) reported on of six specific (situation modification, distraction, reminding self goals, promise give later, reminder why it is bad, willpower) (4462 over a week) . at least one 89% the time, and more than 25% time. Goal...