The last ten years of attention research have witnessed a revolution, replacing a theoretical
dichotomy (top-down vs. bottom-up control) with a trichotomy (biased by current goals …

Research on surprise relevant to the cognitive‐evolutionary model of surprise proposed by
Meyer, Reisenzein, and Schützwohl (1997) is reviewed. The majority of the assumptions of …

Previous research showing that swearing alleviates pain is extended by addressing emotion
arousal and distraction as possible mechanisms. We assessed the effects of a conventional …

Recent work has demonstrated there is a power within images to impact our later memories—
an intrinsic stimulus memorability that influences memory behavior consistently across …

Language is critical to the effectiveness of marketing messages. Achieving a desired
outcome requires arranging words to formulate a message (ie, syntax), but this task is not …

A highly debated question in attention research is to what extent attention is biased by
bottom-up factors such as saliency versus top-down factors as governed by the task. Visual …

The control of attention was long held to reflect the influence of two competing mechanisms
of assigning priority, one goal-directed and the other stimulus-driven. Learning-dependent …

Despite its prominent use among bilinguals, psycholinguistic studies reported code-switch
processing costs (eg, Meuter & Allport, 1999). This paradox may partly be due to the focus …

Chronotype refers to the time of day preferred by individuals to perform daily activities
according to their circadian rhythm. We asked whether synchrony effects, that is, the …

Recent studies have demonstrated that exposure to thin-ideal social media content is
associated with decreased body satisfaction, and disclaimer comments have been a …