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Free Will in Social Psychology

... a different response is thus an important and highly adaptive form of freedom. Without that capability, human animals would always ... to irrational biases. In these studies, the depleting tasks were often rather short and simple, such as watching a CNN-style news ... / more

Seeing mountains in molehills: Embodied visual perception of the environment

... resources influence their ability to take on difficult tasks. Consider the New York City Marathon. On the morning of the race, tens of ... perception is likely to be, for the most part, an adaptive and important step in the regulation of behavior as people look ... / more

How stress influences our morality

... (TSST), involving public speaking and difficult arithmetic tasks (Kirschbaum et al., 1993). Compared to the non-stressed control group, ... ourselves which reaction would have been evolutionarily adaptive in a specific situation. What follows is that, while stress usually ... / more

How to win (and lose) friendships across cultures: Why relational mobility matters

... idea that what kind of behavior is optimal – or, adaptive – in any particular situation depends on the nature of the ... at what socio-ecological researchers refer to as ‘adaptive tasks (or goals)’ required for human flourishing in differing levels of ... / more

Why do we so often ignore the influence of situations on behavior?

... others will do next. Because these predictions are so adaptive , necessary, and automatic it might simply be second nature to have a ... have revealed a role for the medial prefrontal cortex in tasks that involve mentalizing or other related social-cognitive phenomena such ... / more

The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts

... less on relationships and complexities between stimuli or tasks. This shift is often adaptive in that it is less cognitively demanding than flexible thinking, and ... / more

The role of others' presence in sport performance under pressure

... the presence of an audience tends to reduce performance on tasks where accuracy and coordination are dominant [2, 3] . For example, ... and clumsy step-by-step procedures, preventing fluid and adaptive on-line control. In other words, the effect of this shift in ... / more

Virtual reality training in Olympic sports: Promises and pitfalls

... made with baseball players [7]. Those who took part in an adaptive VR batting training (i.e., pitch speed, type, and location ... batting, and archery would count to such highly repeatable tasks. No training tool is needed besides the VR hard- and software itself. ... / more

Bug or feature? Boredom feels aversive, and this is why it matters

... research that has investigated boredom as a driver for adaptive choices is scarce because most studies focus on negative ... ways to boredom. Interestingly, recent work shows that adaptive and maladaptive responses to boredom seem to reflect rather stable ... research, such designs miss a crucial feature of how these tasks differ: The low-control task typically is very monotonous and ... / more