Article
Psychology, Social
Robert J. Klein, Michael D. Robinson
Summary: Perceptual achievements involve multiple skills related to collecting, organizing, comparing, and decision-making, with individual differences being particularly apparent under degraded input conditions. Studies found that individuals who were better able to differentiate perceptions related to color and line length exhibited greater emotional clarity, linking these skills to individual differences in how emotions are understood and experienced.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Katharina Dobs, Joanne Yuan, Julio Martinez, Nancy Kanwisher
Summary: Using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), this study reveals that the behavioral signatures of human face perception can be explained as the result of optimization for the task of face recognition, suggesting that the nature of the computations underlying this task may not be so special after all.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Raymond J. Hawkins, Joseph L. D'Anna
Summary: We demonstrate the derivation of a behavioral form of capital theory using canonical quantization. By applying Dirac's canonical quantization approach to Weitzman's Hamiltonian formulation of capital theory, we incorporate quantum cognition into the theory to address the incompatibility of questions encountered in the investment decision-making process. We illustrate the usefulness of this approach by deriving the capital-investment commutator for a canonical dynamic investment problem.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Dongheng Zhang, Jia Meng, Jian Zhang, Xinzhe Deng, Shouhong Ding, Man Zhou, Qian Wang, Qi Li, Yan Chen
Summary: Liveness detection is widely used in face authentication systems to prevent malicious attacks. However, current methods relying solely on visual frames are vulnerable when visual perception is unreliable. To address this challenge, SonarGuard combines ultrasonic and visual information to achieve robust liveness detection on mobile devices, extracting micro-doppler signatures and motion trajectories from ultrasound reflections and video frames, respectively. Experimental results show that SonarGuard can significantly improve the security of face authentication systems in real-world usage without hardware modification.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Michael Kursawe, Dominik Stunder, Thomas Krampert, Andrea Kaifie, Sarah Driessen, Thomas Kraus, Kathrin Jankowiak
Summary: The study aimed to determine human detection thresholds for direct current (DC), alternating current (AC), and hybrid electric fields. It found that detection thresholds of hybrid electric fields were lower compared to single DC or AC fields. Exposure to ion currents enhanced electric field perception, with high humidity facilitating DC perception and low humidity reinforcing AC perception.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Seungdae Baek, Min Song, Jaeson Jang, Gwangsu Kim, Se-Bum Paik
Summary: Researchers propose that face selectivity can arise in the absence of training using a deep neural network model, enabling untrained networks to perform face detection tasks. They also observed that innate selectivity towards non-face objects can emerge in untrained networks.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Yaoqi Li, Yaya Song, Shujie Fang
Summary: This study examines the impacts of time perception on tourist behavioral decisions using a socioemotional selectivity lens. The findings suggest that tourists tend to make problem-focused decisions at the start of the tour and emotion-focused decisions at the end of the tour.
CURRENT ISSUES IN TOURISM
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Nadine Dijkstra, Matan Mazor, Peter Kok, Stephen Fleming
Summary: The study found that imagery influences perception, leading to a more liberal criterion for reporting stimulus presence. Participants with more vivid imagery were generally more likely to report the presence of external stimuli. This suggests that internally generated sensory signals during imagery can sometimes be confused for perception, impacting conscious perception.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Rana Qarooni, Jonathan Prunty, Markus Bindemann, Rob Jenkins
Summary: Face detection is a prerequisite for further face processing, and the bottleneck of capacity limits in face perception occurs after the detection step. The ability to detect additional faces without cost to efficiency is contingent on visual context.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Daniel J. Norton, Ryan K. McBain, Grace E. Murray, Juna Khang, Ziqing Zong, Hannah R. Bollacke, Stephen Maher, Deborah L. Levy, Dost Ongur, Yue Chen
Summary: The study found that while overall face detection ability is not altered in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), alterations in basic visual processing may affect face detection ability in some individuals with ASD. Performance on contrast and face detection was significantly correlated in ASD but not in neurotypical controls (NC).
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Menghua Yang, Hong Chen, Ruyin Long, Yujie Wang, Congmei Hou, Bei Liu
Summary: The study found that the public's willingness to pay a price premium for green products is generally low, with influencing factors including conditional value, green value, functional value, value expression form, and price importance. Economic factors remain the main hindrance to the public's willingness to pay a price premium for green products.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Balbir Singh, Ashleigh Gambrell, Joshua Correll
Summary: This paper presents a set of landmark templates for the Chicago Face Database, which contains images of faces from different races and genders. These hand-placed templates can assist researchers in manipulating faces more accurately.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Edward A. Smith, Stephen D. Benning
Summary: Risk taking is a complex construct that is difficult to assess, especially using behavioral tasks. The Assessment of Physical Risk Taking (APRT) is a new measure designed to assess the probability of success and failure, and magnitude of reward and punishment of physically risky behaviors. Preliminary findings suggest that Injury Magnitude and Injury Probability have stronger effects on outcomes compared to other variables.
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
L. W. Bell, A. D. Moore, D. T. Thomas
Summary: The study demonstrates that operating a mixture of even segregated crop and livestock enterprises in Australia's mixed farming systems can help farmers optimize their risk-return trade-off. Similar risk mitigation benefits may be achieved through crop-livestock systems in other agricultural regions exposed to high climate and price variability.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
R. Pellegrino, C. McNelly, C. R. Luckett
Summary: The study found that subjective touch sensitivity can influence behaviors not only in touch but also in other sensory modalities. Differences in oral touch sensitivity and food texture awareness were observed between groups with different subjective sensitivities, affecting their strategies and performance in touch tasks and food discrimination.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Review
Biology
Jordan E. Theriault, Liane Young, Lisa Feldman Barrett
Summary: Social pressure is the influence of others' expectations, and conformist behavior to social pressure is determined by various factors, including the individual's desire for social recognition and feelings of obligation. Research suggests that the development of a sense of should has biological basis, as conforming to others' expectations can reduce metabolic costs, providing a foundation for social behaviors.
PHYSICS OF LIFE REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Katie Hoemann, Ludger Hartley, Akira Watanabe, Estefania Solana Leon, Yuta Katsumi, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Karen S. Quigley
Summary: The study investigated the electrophysiological correlates of acquiring new emotion concepts through conceptual combination, finding reduced N400 amplitudes for correct emotion combinations regardless of how the preceding components were presented, indicating deeper semantic learning.
Review
Neurosciences
Karen S. Quigley, Scott Kanoski, Warren M. Grill, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Manos Tsakiris
Summary: Interoceptive processing refers to how the nervous system anticipates, senses, and integrates signals originating from the body. Key functions of interoception include energy regulation, memory, affective experience, and the psychological sense of self. Multimodal integration occurs between interoceptive and exteroceptive modalities, and further empirical work is needed to understand where and how this integration happens.
TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
(2021)
Correction
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Katie Hoemann, Zulqarnain Khan, Mallory J. Feldman, Catie Nielson, Madeleine Devlin, Jennifer Dy, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Jolie B. Wormwood, Karen S. Quigley
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Katie Hoemann, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Karen S. Quigley
Summary: There are individual differences in emotional granularity, which is associated with positive mental health outcomes. Recent research suggests that experience sampling may facilitate increases in emotional granularity, even in healthy adults, by examining real-world events over time.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jolie Baumann Wormwood, Karen S. Quigley, Lisa Feldman Barrett
Summary: Research has shown that participants in an emergent-anger state exhibit significant differences in threat detection bias, involving both conceptual knowledge and emotional features of anger. This pattern also applies to other threat-relevant emotional states, such as fear.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Eli Sennesh, Jordan Theriault, Dana Brooks, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Karen S. Quigley
Summary: In this paper, we examine how interoception may provide performance feedback for allostasis and propose studying allostasis in terms of control theory. We also suggest a novel formalism for how the brain might perform allostatic control of the viscera by analogy to skeletomotor control.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Lior Zeevi, Merav Irani, Ciprian Catana, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Shir Atzil
Summary: This study found that maternal responsiveness to infant affective signals is related to dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens. This discovery has significant implications for social neuroscience, development, and psychopathology.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Clare Shaffer, Christiana Westlin, Karen S. Quigley, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, Lisa Feldman Barrett
Summary: The theory of constructed emotion is a systems neuroscience approach that aims to understand the nature of emotion. It proposes that allostatic dysregulation is a vulnerability for mental and physical illnesses. The review suggests that symptoms in major depressive disorder (MDD) may be associated with problems in energy regulation. This approach challenges the current understanding of MDD and offers novel hypotheses for its development, progression, treatment, and prevention.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
May Gao, Alexandra Roy, Alana Deluty, Katherine M. Sharkey, Elizabeth A. Hoge, Tao Liu, Judson A. Brewer
Summary: Nearly 20% of Americans experience sleep disturbances, which are highly associated with anxiety. This study investigated the efficacy of app-based mindfulness training (MT) for anxiety in reducing worry and improving sleep. The results showed that MT led to decreased worry-related sleep disturbances, mediated by improved emotional nonreactivity. This highlights the potential of app-based MT as a viable option for individuals experiencing worry-related sleep problems.
PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Elizabeth A. Hoge, Eric Bui, Mihriye Mete, Mary Ann Dutton, Amanda W. Baker, Naomi M. Simon
Summary: Anxiety disorders are common and distressing, but many patients do not respond to available treatments. This study found that mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is noninferior to the commonly used medication escitalopram in the treatment of anxiety disorders.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Summary: This article examines the role of context in psychological science by studying emotional expressions. It challenges the traditional understanding of context as a moderator of signals with inherent psychological meanings and proposes a fundamental shift towards viewing psychological events as emerging in ecosystems of signal ensembles. This shift has radical implications for emotional science and psychological science as a whole, offering opportunities to enhance validity and trustworthiness beyond methodological rigor alone.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Eli Sennesh, Jordan Theriault, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Karen Quigley
Summary: Active inference explains behavior by minimizing the average surprise of sensations. Previous applications of active inference in control problems have mainly focused on finite or discounted surprise, rather than the infinite-horizon and average-surprise requirement of the free-energy principle. In this paper, we derive an infinite-horizon and average-surprise formulation of active inference from optimal control principles. Our formulation reestablishes the connection between active inference and neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and optimal feedback control, and provides a unified objective functional for sensorimotor control that allows for time-varying reference states.
ACTIVE INFERENCE, IWAI 2022
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
June Gruber, Jane Mendle, Kristen A. Lindquist, Toni Schmader, Lee Anna Clark, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Modupe Akinola, Lauren Atlas, Deanna M. Barch, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Jessica L. Borelli, Tiffany N. Brannon, Silvia A. Bunge, Belinda Campos, Jessica Cantlon, Rona Carter, Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell, Serena Chen, Michelle G. Craske, Amy J. C. Cuddy, Alia Crum, Lila Davachi, Angela L. Duckworth, Sunny J. Dutra, Naomi I. Eisenberger, Melissa Ferguson, Brett Q. Ford, Barbara L. Fredrickson, Sherryl H. Goodman, Alison Gopnik, Valerie Purdie Greenaway, Kate L. Harkness, Mikki Hebl, Wendy Heller, Jill Hooley, Lily Jampol, Sheri L. Johnson, Jutta Joormann, Katherine D. Kinzler, Hedy Kober, Ann M. Kring, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Tania Lombrozo, Stella F. Lourenco, Kateri McRae, Joan K. Monin, Judith T. Moskowitz, Misaki N. Natsuaki, Gabriele Oettingen, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, Nicole Prause, Darby Saxbe, Pamela K. Smith, Barbara A. Spellman, Virginia Sturm, Bethany A. Teachman, Renee J. Thompson, Lauren M. Weinstock, Lisa A. Williams
Summary: This article examines 10 topics relevant to women's career advancement in psychological science and emphasizes the importance of in-depth research on these issues in reducing gender differences.
PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Mark C. Eldaief, David L. Perez, Megan Quimby, Daisy Hochberg, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Bradford C. Dickerson
Summary: The study identified specific socioaffective deficits in svPPA patients, with atrophy in the affiliation network correlating with socioemotional detachment and atrophy in the aversion network correlating with inappropriate trusting. However, atrophy in the perception network did not show a predicted association with lack of attention to social cues.
DEMENTIA AND GERIATRIC COGNITIVE DISORDERS
(2021)