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Demanding and Supportive Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Follower Sleep Outcomes: A Multilevel Moderated Serial Mediation Model
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-23)Transformational leadership behaviors in the workplace are commonly studied as a form of support and are associated with positive follower health outcomes. However, when parsed apart into its facets, transformational ... -
Daily Influences on Everyday Memory, Well-Being, and Affect Among Dyadic Caregivers and Care Recipients With Mild Cognitive Impairment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-08)Multifaceted approaches to understanding daily fluctuations that affect memory and well-being among spousal dyads, where one member has diagnosed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and the other serves as a care partner, is ... -
The nature and measurement of sustaining attention over time: The influence of cognitive ability, internal distraction, arousal, and motivation on sustained attention
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-07)It is evident that it takes a great deal of effort to sustain our attention on any one thing over a period of minutes or even seconds. This ability to sustain attention is critical for many everyday tasks and is often seen ... -
Examinee Variance in Strategy Shifts During Testing: An Explanatory IRT Approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-06)Considerable work (both within the psychometric and cognitive literature) has explored the tendency for response strategies to shift within the course of a single assessment. The current project proposes a novel, flexible ... -
Model Blindness: Investigating a model-based route-recommender system’s impact on decision making
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-14)Model-Based Decision Support Systems (MDSS) are prominent in many professional domains of high consequence, such as aeronautics, emergency management, military command and control, healthcare, nuclear operations, intelligence ... -
Dysphoria, Depressive Rumination, and Working Memory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-09-16)Current research on depression and rumination has produced mixed and sometimes incongruent results. Some researchers have found evidence of general cognitive deficits, while others have found evidence of only mood-congruent ... -
EXPLAINING FEATURES OF SIMPLE HUMAN DECISIONS USING BAYESIAN NEURAL NETWORKS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-20)Feedforward neural networks exhibit excellent object recognition performance and currently provide the best models of biological vision. However, despite their remarkable performance in recognizing unseen images, their ... -
Communication Pattern Analysis in Human-Autonomy Teaming
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-20)Communication is critical to team coordination and interaction because it provides information flows allowing a team to build team cognition, which contributes to overall team performance. In recent years, autonomous (AI) ... -
Developing Objective Communication-based Measures of Trust for Human-Autonomy Teams
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-19)As artificial intelligence capabilities have improved, humans have begun teaming with autonomous agents that have the capability to communicate and make intelligent decisions that are adaptable to task situations. Trust ... -
Ecological Momentary Assement During a Remote Mindfulness Intervention Assessing Changes in Lifestyle Factors and Psychological Outcomes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-26)Stress and related issues of anxiety disorder and depression pose huge mental and public health risks in the population in general, and on college campuses in particular. Prior research shows that mindfulness interventions ... -
How do humans give confidence? Comparing popular process models of confidence generation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-20)Humans have the metacognitive ability to assess the likelihood of their decisions being correct via estimates of confidence. Several theories have attempted to model the computational mechanisms that generate confidence. ... -
Examining Social Influence's Effect on Decision-Making and Bayesian Truth Serum
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-28)Decision-making—whether individual or in groups—can be subject to revision based on social influence, often pulling one’s opinions towards the apparent consensus (Mason, Conrey, & Smith, 2007). Social influence has been ... -
CHARACTERISTIC LAG & THE INTERMANUAL SPEED ADVANTAGE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-24)Previous research has found evidence for the intermanual speed advantage, wherein novice actors perform a visually-guided, two-handed task faster with one hand from each member of a dyad (i.e., intermanually) compared to ... -
Individual Differences in Deepfake Detection: Mindblindness and Political Orientation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-14)The proliferation of the capability for producing and distributing deepfake videos threatens the integrity of systems of justice, democratic processes, and the general ability to critically assess evidence. This study ... -
Vertical Equating with Longitudinal Data: Unidimensional and Multidimensional Item Response Theory Models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-20)Vertical equating is one context in which item response theory (IRT) model fit is important to evaluate and the measurement of change in students’ performance between test occasions is a central topic in educational research ... -
Impacts on performance effectiveness, processing efficiency, and subjective experience by music listening in extraverts and introverts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)The present study evaluates the utility of a new model based on attentional control theory (ACT) in a music psychology study. This new model seeks to provide a mechanism to explain impacts of concurrent-task music listening ... -
Subgoal Level Feedback Benefits Novel Problem Solving
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)The present study combined subgoal learning and feedback frameworks to further improve problem solving performance and demonstrated that subgoal level feedback resulted in better learning outcomes over step level feedback, ... -
The Effects of Output Interference on Metamemory and Cued Recall Accuracy in Young and Older Adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-13)Output interference (OI) is a gradual decline in memory accuracy as a function of an item’s position in a testing sequence (Anderson & Neely, 1996). Despite having been researched for over 50 years (e.g., Tulving & Arbuckle, ... -
The Influence of Testing on Memory for Context
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-11-03)Employing different types of testing is a useful tool for studying changes in item memory, but this tool has sparsely been leveraged to study changes in memory for contextual information. Memory for contextual information ... -
Change Detection as a Framework for Understanding Individual Differences in Attention Control and Allocation of Attention Across the Visual Field
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-10-22)Attention control is a domain-general ability that guides the control of thoughts and intentional behavior in a goal-driven manner and is a central concept to many models of human cognition. Our lab recently showed that ...
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