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Does the experimenter presence affect working memory?

Recent studies suggest that social presence undermines performance in difficult tasks because the presence of others would automatically capture the attention needed to achieve these tasks. Here, we t…

Belletier, C., & Camos, V. (2018). Does the experimenter presence affect working memory?. Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1424(1), 212-220. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13627

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Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook.

BACKGROUND: Vaccine hesitancy has been recognized as a major global health threat. Having access to any type of information in social media has been suggested as a potential influence on the growth of…

Schmidt, A. L., Zollo, F., Scala, A., Betsch, C., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2018). Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook.. Vaccine, 36(25), 3606-3612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.05.040

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The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties.

Research on growing American political polarization and antipathy primarily studies public institutions and political processes, ignoring private effects, including strained family ties. Using anonymi…

Chen, M. K., & Rohla, R. (2018). The effect of partisanship and political advertising on close family ties.. Science, 360(6392), 1020-1024. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq1433

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How attention gates social interactions.

Social interactions are at the core of social life. However, humans selectively choose their exchange partners and do not engage in all available opportunities for social encounters. In this review, w…

Capozzi, F., & Ristic, J. (2018). How attention gates social interactions.. Ann N Y Acad Sci. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13854

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Selective attention to the mouth is associated with expressive language skills in monolingual and bilingual infants.

Infants increasingly attend to the mouths of others during the latter half of the first postnatal year, and individual differences in selective attention to talking mouths during infancy predict verba…

Tsang, T., Atagi, N., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). Selective attention to the mouth is associated with expressive language skills in monolingual and bilingual infants.. J Exp Child Psychol, 169, 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.01.002

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Eyes that bind us: Gaze leading induces an implicit sense of agency.

Humans feel a sense of agency over the effects their motor system causes. This is the case for manual actions such as pushing buttons, kicking footballs, and all acts that affect the physical environm…

Stephenson, L. J., Edwards, S. G., Howard, E. E., & Bayliss, A. P. (2018). Eyes that bind us: Gaze leading induces an implicit sense of agency.. Cognition, 172, 124-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.12.011

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Is There Any Hope? How Climate Change News Imagery and Text Influence Audience Emotions and Support for Climate Mitigation Policies.

Using a national sample, this study experimentally tests the effects of news visuals and texts that emphasize either the causes and impacts of climate change or actions that can be taken to address cl…

Feldman, L., & Hart, P. S. (2018). Is There Any Hope? How Climate Change News Imagery and Text Influence Audience Emotions and Support for Climate Mitigation Policies.. Risk Anal, 38(3), 585-602. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12868

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Synchrony and social connection in immersive Virtual Reality.

Synchronising movements in time with others can have significant positive effects on affiliative attitudes and behaviors. To explore the generalizability of synchrony effects, and to eliminate confoun…

Tarr, B., Slater, M., & Cohen, E. (2018). Synchrony and social connection in immersive Virtual Reality.. Sci Rep, 8(1), 3693. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21765-4

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief ✓

Democracies assume accurate knowledge by the populace, but the human attraction to fake and untrustworthy news poses a serious problem for healthy democratic functioning. We articulate why and how ide…

Cognition politique et traitement des médias

Jay, J. .. . V. a. n. . B. a. v. e. l., & Andrea, P. e. r. e. i. r. a. (2018). Trends in Cognitive Sciences The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.01.004

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Gaze perception induces early attention orienting effects in occipito-parietal regions.

Other's eye gaze is a powerful attention orienting cue that can change our perception of objects in the environment. Here, we seek to characterize the influence of attention orienting by eye gaze on t…

Ulloa, J. L., Dubal, S., Yahia-Cherif, L., & George, N. (2018). Gaze perception induces early attention orienting effects in occipito-parietal regions.. Neuropsychologia, 109, 173-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.029

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Fake facts and alternative truths in medical research.

BACKGROUND: Fake news and alternative facts have become commonplace in these so-called "post-factual times." What about medical research - are scientific facts fake as well? Many recent disclosures ha…

Hofmann, B. (2018). Fake facts and alternative truths in medical research.. BMC Med Ethics, 19(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-018-0243-z

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Adaptation of social and non-social cues to direction in adults with autism spectrum disorder and neurotypical adults with autistic traits.

Perceptual constancy strongly relies on adaptive gain control mechanisms, which shift perception as a function of recent sensory history. Here we examined the extent to which individual differences in…

Lawson, R. P., Aylward, J., Roiser, J. P., & Rees, G. (2018). Adaptation of social and non-social cues to direction in adults with autism spectrum disorder and neurotypical adults with autistic traits.. Dev Cogn Neurosci, 29, 108-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.05.001

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