Search
Now showing items 11-20 of 28
Behavioral Economics and Microfinance: A Study of Risk Preferences in Rural South Africa
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)
When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
Cladogram Curriculum: A First Look Into A Teaching Prototype For The Fundamentals Of Phylogenetics
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
Past research has examined students’ comprehension of and reasoning with evolutionary relationships depicted by cladograms (i.e., tree thinking). Cladograms serve as a fundamental resource when studying macroevolution and ...
Comparing Thompson's Thatcher effect with faces and non-face objects
(2007-05-08)
The classical Thatcher effect (TE) is experienced when global inversion of a face makes it difficult to notice the local inversion of its parts (Thompson, 1980). The TE can be quantified by comparing the ease with which ...
Diagrams Benefit Symbolic Problem Solving
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)
How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
Testing category-specific spatial frequency adaptation
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
This study examined representational overlap between faces and scenes by means of spatial frequency adaptation. The results show that adaptation to faces and scenes in either low or high spatial frequencies affect the ...
Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) on temporal lobe selectively affects the encoding of visual long-term memory
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-06)
Classical views of human visual long-term memory propose that people first encode the
visual stimuli into a long-term store, and then retrieve the visual information during task
period. In examining the temporal dynamics ...
Memory Encoding: The Costs and Benefits of Cueing
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
This project investigated the benefits and costs of cueing on memory. Participants were shown images, some of which were cued as especially important to remember, in encoding blocks. The percentage of images cued changed ...
What’s That on My Plate? Individual Differences in Visual Recognition of Prepared Food
(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)
We explored evidence for a domain-general contribution, domain-specific ability, and the influence of experience and personality on the visual recognition of prepared food – a previously unexplored domain. Four questions ...
Rapid Decision-making Processes in Anesthesiologists
(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)
The purpose of this study is to understand differences in rapid decision-making processes between anesthesiologists with excellent, medium, and poor critical event management skills. A panel of expert clinicians and educators ...
The Effects of Social Context on the Therapeutic Benefits of Emotion Sharing
(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-18)
The purpose of the study was to analyze the different contexts in which the social sharing of emotion occurs and the comparative benefits associated with two different contexts of emotion sharing. Previous research has ...