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Children Notice Information That Adults Miss
Adults are good at remembering information they are told to focus on, while young children tend to pay attention to all the information presented, even when they were told to focus on one particular item.
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The Relationship Between Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Accuracy: A New Synthesis
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 18, Number 1) Read the Full Text (PDF & HTML) There has been a growing belief within the legal system that there is little to no relationship between the confidence with which an eyewitness identifies a person from a lineup and the accuracy of that identification. This view is not entirely surprising, given that traditionally used eyewitness-identification procedures often employ techniques that were not created or validated by the scientific community, and thus led to high-confidence -- but low-accuracy -- identifications.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring thinking fast and risk-related framing effects, the relationship between pronounceability and risk, and numerical cognition in wild baboons.
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R Time Has Come
A collection of articles shows how use of the programming language R for statistical computing and graphics is improving research reproducibility.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: Developmental Trajectories and Origins of a Core Cognitive Vulnerability to Internalizing Symptoms in Middle Childhood Ryan Y. Hong, Stephanie S. M. Lee, Fen-Fang Tsai, and Seok Hui Tan In this study, the authors examined whether six cognitive vulnerabilities (negative cognitive style, dysfunctional attitudes, ruminative style, anxiety sensitivity, intolerance of uncertainty, and fear of negative evaluation) have a shared structure and, if they do, the developmental trajectory of their commonalities across development.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: Interpersonal Problems and Negative Affect in Borderline Personality and Depressive Disorders in Daily Life Johanna Hepp, Sean P. Lane, Ryan W. Carpenter, Inga Niedtfeld, Whitney C. Brown, and Timothy J. Trull Affective instability is one of the key markers of borderline personality disorder (BPD), in which high levels of negative affect may be a possible trigger for problem behaviors. Researchers examined the relationship between interpersonal problems and negative affect in people with BPD.
