Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Elena Tenconi, Valentina Meregalli, Adriana Buffa, Enrico Collantoni, Roberto Cavallaro, Paolo Meneguzzo, Angela Favaro
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) to question their initial impressions and integrate new information. The study found that AN patients were more likely to disconfirm their previous judgments compared to healthy individuals, particularly those with a binge-eating/purging subtype. Abstract thinking skills and cognitive flexibility were positively correlated with cognitive bias in both patients and controls. This research is important for understanding the complexity of AN.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
K. Acar, O. Horntvedt, A. Cabrera, A. Olsson, M. Ingvar, A. Lebedev, P. Petrovic
Summary: The rapid spread of COVID-19 conspiracy ideas poses a threat to vaccination programs. This study reveals that delusion proneness is a key cognitive factor underlying pandemic-related conspiracy beliefs.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maria Manuela Moreno-Fernandez, Fernando Blanco, Helena Matute
Summary: Research indicates that the biases of jumping to conclusions and causal illusions are common in the general population and correlated with each other, but the proposed mechanism is not responsible for this association.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Esra Cesur, Steffen Moritz, Ryan P. Balzan, Jakob Scheunemann, Tana Gabbert, Adrianna Aleksandrowicz, Rabea Fischer
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the role of multiple biases in a community sample using more socially engaging stimuli, and found that the jumping to conclusions (JTC), bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE), and liberal acceptance (LA) biases may contribute to delusional ideation and extend to social situations.
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Max Coltheart, Martin Davies
Summary: New beliefs are acquired in response to unexpected events through abductive inference, according to the American pragmatist philosopher C. S. Peirce. Solutions to the problems in Peirce's account of abduction are proposed, along with a cognitive model explaining how people derive new beliefs from unexpected events. This model sheds light on both normal belief formation processes and the formation of delusional beliefs.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2021)
Article
Philosophy
Volodymyr Melnyk, Andrii Synytsia
Summary: The article demonstrates how Peirce built cosmological ideas based on human traits, emphasizing the possibility of anthropocentrism in his conception. It discusses how human nature reflects truth and the key role of individuals in understanding reality. Peirce's concepts of tychism, synechism, and agapism are analyzed in the context of anthropocentrism and anthropomorphism, showing how humans are central to his metaphysical cosmology.
PHILOSOPHY AND COSMOLOGY-FILOSOFIYA I KOSMOLOGIYA
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Veronica Romero-Ferreiro, Pablo Rodriguez-Gomez, Miguel Angel Pozo, Eva M. Moreno
Summary: This study examined individual differences in cognitive flexibility using Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). The results showed that higher cognitive flexibility scores were associated with smaller N400 effects and larger P600 effects, indicating that late ERP components can serve as a good implicit measure of cognitive flexibility.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Philosophy
Michal Sedik
Summary: The paper explores the comparison of philosophical conceptions of representation by Goodman and Peirce, highlighting the challenges caused by their different metaphysical positions. It suggests using the limits of representations as a basis for comparison without rejecting either conception, aiming to enhance the understanding of representations as a source of knowledge.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Justin Sulik, Robert M. Ross, Ryan Balzan, Ryan McKay
Summary: There is a general consensus that cognitive biases play a role in the development of delusions in clinical populations and delusion-like beliefs in the general population. However, research using tasks like the Beads Task and the Bias Against Disconfirmatory Evidence Task has been hindered by inconsistencies. In an online study, we found that the relationships between cognitive biases and delusion-like beliefs were significantly weakened or even eliminated after excluding careless participants.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND CLINICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Management
Musa Eren Celdir, Soo-Haeng Cho, Elina H. Hwang
Summary: This paper examines the popularity bias in online dating platform recommendations and its impact on users' likelihood of finding dating partners. The study finds that while there may be bias against unpopular users, recommendations that maximize platform revenue and successful matches are not necessarily contradictory. Popular users can help the platform generate more revenue and successful matches as long as they do not become inaccessible.
M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Deepankar Basu
Summary: The study investigates whether the unprecedented victory of the right-wing, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2014 national elections in India increased hate crimes against religious minorities. The results show that BJP's electoral victory in 2014 did cause an increase in hate crimes against religious minorities, especially Muslims.
Article
Mathematics
Gerda Ana Melnik-Leroy, Gintautas Dzemyda
Summary: Multi-criteria decision-making methods aim to address limitations in human information processing, but cognitive biases such as framing and loss aversion may still influence decision outcomes. Different decisions can be made based on equivalent but differently framed descriptions of criteria, leading to variations in criteria weights and alternative rankings. Debiasing techniques and the influence of Prospect Theory on decision outcomes are discussed.
Article
Political Science
Kostanca Dhima
Summary: This study conducts the first audit experiment outside the United States and finds evidence of gender bias in favor of female political aspirants in the early stages of the political recruitment process in Canada. The results suggest that political elites are more responsive and supportive of female political aspirants, particularly among female legislators and those associated with left-leaning parties.
Article
Materials Science, Ceramics
Maria Helena Ramirez Acosta, Lorena Raphael Rodrigues, Daniel Roberto Cassar, Maziar Montazerian, Oscar Peitl Filho, Edgar Dutra Zanotto
Summary: The study collected new data to test a hypothesis regarding the Classical Nucleation Theory (CNT) and found that the alleged failure of CNT was not observed, supporting recent studies and helping solve a longstanding problem in glass science.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Philosophy
Dany Mauricio Gonzalez Parra
Summary: The purpose of this paper is to clarify Charles Sanders Peirce's realism from his pragmaticism. It aims to place this realism in the context of the discussion around different epistemological and ontological realist proposals. The realist proposal that emerges from Peirce's doctrine of continuity or sinequism will be specified, and the general features of the evolutionary teleology it leads to will be presented.
REVISTA DE FILOSOFIA UIS
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Saskia Kohnen, Lyndsey Nickels, Leonie Geigis, Max Coltheart, Genevieve McArthur, Anne Castles
Editorial Material
Psychiatry
Max Coltheart, Robyn Langdon
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2019)
Letter
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Bjorn Watsjold, Max Coltheart
Article
Psychiatry
Max Coltheart, Martin Davies
Summary: Capgras delusion involves believing that familiar individuals have been replaced by strangers, which can happen in various scenarios such as encountering acquaintances, hearing the voice of familiar people, seeing pets, or personal possessions. This delusional belief is attributed to a weakness in sympathetic nervous system responses to familiar stimuli. In order for a delusional idea to develop into a belief, impaired hypothesis evaluation must also be present.
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Psychology
Max Coltheart
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Max Coltheart, Nicholas J. Wade
Summary: Ross Henry Day was a renowned Australian experimental psychologist known for his research on visual illusions and his significant role in establishing experimental psychology in Australia. He founded the first department of experimental psychology at Monash University in 1965 and played a leading role in the formation of the Australian Psychological Society in 1966. Additionally, he introduced the study of human factors in engineering and ergonomics to Australia.
HISTORICAL RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Martin Davies, Max Coltheart
Summary: Through literature review, it was found that many patients with Cotard delusion experience emotions such as anxiety, fear, guilt, distress, euphoria, and worry. Therefore, the complete absence of emotional responsivity cannot be the reason for the delusional belief “I am dead,” which may arise in response to symptoms of depersonalization or derealization.
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Anastasia Ulicheva, Max Coltheart, Oxana Grosseck, Kathleen Rastle
Summary: This study found significant variability in how the same adults read the same nonwords across different sessions, particularly for nonwords containing graphemes with multiple possible pronunciations in English. Over time, participants' pronunciations shifted, with some becoming more frequent and others being pruned. Understanding the mechanisms behind session-to-session variability is crucial for interpreting differences in how individuals read nonwords aloud on a single occasion.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Max Coltheart, Martin Davies
Summary: New beliefs are acquired in response to unexpected events through abductive inference, according to the American pragmatist philosopher C. S. Peirce. Solutions to the problems in Peirce's account of abduction are proposed, along with a cognitive model explaining how people derive new beliefs from unexpected events. This model sheds light on both normal belief formation processes and the formation of delusional beliefs.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Michael Proctor, Max Coltheart, Louise Ratko, Tunde Szalay, Kenneth Forster, Felicity Cox
Summary: Using electromagnetic articulography, researchers found that initiation of articulation in a masked-onset priming experiment preceded acoustic response onset by 199 ms, with acoustic lag varying depending on the phonological structure of the target. Onset priming affected articulatory response latency, but did not impact gestural duration, inter-gestural coordination, or articulatory velocity.
MEMORY & COGNITION
(2021)
Article
Philosophy
Martin Davies, Max Coltheart
TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY
(2020)
Article
Education, Special
Anne Castles, Vince Polito, Stephen Pritchard, Thushara Anandakumar, Max Coltheart
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
(2018)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Stephen C. Pritchard, Max Coltheart, Eva Marinus, Anne Castles
Review
Psychology, Mathematical
Ami Sambai, Max Coltheart, Akira Uno
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2018)