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Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships

... would interpret their social relations through bodily  simulations : Does a change in your social relations change your physiological ... our protagonist: The effect is not unidirectional and the simulations described in this paper could similarly work to imbue him with ... / more

Free Will in Social Psychology

... logical reasoning and rational analysis, complex mental simulations of possible future events, physically invisible influences such ... / more

Grasping the grounded nature of mental simulation

... our environment, and our actions, as well as from mental simulations (Barsalou, 2008). In this article, we focus exclusively on ... unconscious process, asking participants about their simulations makes little sense. Researchers therefore have to develop clever ... / more

Word of mouth: How our tongue shapes our preferences, and why you should eat popcorn in the cinema

... actual mouth movements. We call this pronunciation simulations , or subvocal articulation , like an inner speech. ... H., Bär, S., & Topolinski, S. (2013). Covert painting simulations influence aesthetic appreciation of artworks. Psychological ... / more

To affinity and beyond! How our preference to be among similar people interacts with our social ecology

... large is very important. Like the agents in Schelling’s simulations , we are all embedded in a complex system where the tides flow in ... / more

Asking Children to Talk About Abuse: Can Research Help Improve Police Interviewer Skills?

... Pompedda, F., Zappalà, A., & Santtila, P. (2015). Simulations of child sexual abuse interviews using avatars paired with ... / more

Welcome to the Matrix! Opportunities and Risks of the Virtual World

... actually being in another world  [2] . In some modern simulations , as is the case in The Matrix, the presence in a virtual ... of flying can be treated just as effectively with flight simulations as with therapy in the real world  [4] . Currently, ... / more

Thinking gold: the link between cognition and performance in olympic athletes

... zones to react to, or virtual- and augmented-reality simulations . We favor this, because we expect that through sport-specific ... / more

Psychological Aspects of Elite Performance in New Olympic Disciplines: The Case of Climbing

... to anticipate climbing movements, produce embodied motor simulations , and to identify familiar climbing movement patterns based on the ... / more

Virtual reality training in Olympic sports: Promises and pitfalls

... set of initial experiments, and it remains unclear if VR simulations tailored to specific skills (e.g., gaze behavior in soccer) help ... demands. For instance, coaches could use stationary sport simulations , reaction time/decision making drills, or VR-guided mindfulness ... / more