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Humans Use Summary Statistics to Perceive Auditory Sequences 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
In vision, humans use summary statistics (e.g., the average facial expression of a crowd) to efficiently perceive the gist of groups of features. Here, we present direct evidence that ensemble coding ...
Different Patterns, but Equivalent Predictors, of Growth in Reading in Consistent and Inconsistent Orthographies 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
All alphabetic orthographies use letters in printed words to represent the phonemes in spoken words, but they differ in the consistency of the relationship between letters and phonemes. English appear...
A Longitudinal Cluster-Randomized Controlled Study on the Accumulating Effects of Individualized Literacy Instruction on Students' Reading From First ... 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
Using a longitudinal cluster-randomized controlled design, we examined whether students’ reading outcomes differed when they received 1, 2, or 3 years of individualized reading instruction from first ...
Perceiving Social Inequity: When Subordinate-Group Positioning on One Dimension of Social Hierarchy Enhances Privilege Recognition on Another 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
Researchers have suggested that viewing social inequity as dominant-group privilege (rather than subordinate-group disadvantage) enhances dominant-group members’ support for social policies aimed at l...
Lay Theories of Obesity Predict Actual Body Mass 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
Obesity is a major public health problem, but despite much research into its causes, scientists have largely neglected to examine laypeople’s personal beliefs about it. Such naive beliefs are importan...
The Harm-Made Mind: Observing Victimization Augments Attribution of Minds to Vegetative Patients, Robots, and the Dead 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
People often think that something must have a mind to be part of a moral interaction. However, the present research suggests that minds do not create morality but that morality creates minds. In four ...
Predictive and Reactive Mechanisms in Smile Reciprocity 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
During face-to-face interactions, people reciprocate their conversation partners’ genuine and polite smiles with matching smiles. In the research reported here, we demonstrated that predictive mechani...
Connecting the Dots: Object Connectedness Deceives Perception but Not Movement Planning 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
The perceptual system parses complex scenes into discrete objects. Parsing is also required for planning visually guided movements when more than one potential target is present. To examine whether vi...
One for All: Social Power Increases Self-Anchoring of Traits, Attitudes, and Emotions 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
We argue that powerful people tend to engage in social projection. Specifically, they self-anchor: They use the self as a reference point when judging others’ internal states. In Study 1, which used a...
Time in Perspective 9 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
Perceptions of time and space are subject to strong contextual effects. Like their physical counterparts, they appear to be bound together. The perceived spatial extent of a constant retinal extent in...
