The fast-paced development of computational tools has enabled tremendous scientific
progress in recent years. However, this rapid surge of technological capability also comes at …

The ability to regulate behavior in service of long-term goals is a widely studied
psychological construct known as self-regulation. This wide interest is in part due to the …

It is common practice to research human behavior using experiments that participants can
complete online. Researchers use a variety of methodological approaches to conduct these …

Psychological sciences have identified a wealth of cognitive processes and behavioral
phenomena, yet struggle to produce cumulative knowledge. Progress is hamstrung by …

We present an analysis of the population dynamics and demographics of Amazon
Mechanical Turk workers based on the results of the survey that we conducted over a period …

Web-based data collection is increasingly popular in both experimental and survey-based
research because it is flexible, efficient, and location-independent. While dedicated software …

Response times (RTs) are often the main signal of interest in cognitive psychology but are
often ignored in functional MRI (fMRI) analyses. In fMRI analysis the intensity of the signal …

The importance of interest for memory performance has been established in previous
studies. One way to induce interest in experiments is to use trivia questions. However …

Because of the central role of working memory capacity in cognition, many studies have
used short measures of working memory capacity to examine its relationship to other …

The stop-signal paradigm, a primary experimental paradigm for understanding cognitive
control and response inhibition, rests upon the theoretical foundation of race models, which …