Background Pupil activity has been widely considered as a “summed index” of physiological activities during cognitive processing. Methodology We investigated pupil dilation during retrieval of autobiographical memory and compared pupil diameter with a control condition in which participants had to c...

Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries

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Marta Kowal et al.

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People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypot...

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Nicole Legate et al. (31 mai 2022)

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Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment ( n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative out...

The eyes of the past: larger pupil size for autobiographical memories retrieved from field perspective

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Mohamad El Haj et al. (7 mai 2021)

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Background: Visual perspective during memory retrieval has mainly been evaluated withmethodologies based on introspection and subjective reports. The current study investigateswhether visual perspective can be evaluated with a physiological measurement: pupil dilation.Methods: While their pupil diam...