Psychology & Psychiatry : Experimental Psychology

Emotion research has become a mature branch of psychology, with its own standardized measures, induction procedures, data-analysis challenges, and sub-disciplines. During the last decade, a number of books addressing major questions in the study of emotion have been published in response to a rapidly increasing demand that has been fueled by an increasing number of psychologists whose research either focus on or involve the study of emotion. Very few of these books, however, have presented an explicit discussion of the tools for conducting research, despite the facts that the study of emotion frequently requires highly specialized procedures, instruments, and coding strategies, and that the field has reached a place where a large number of excellent elicitation procedures and assessment instruments have been developed and validated. Emotion Elicitation and Assessment corrects this oversight in the literature by organizing and detailing all the major approaches and instruments for the study of emotion. It is the most complete reference for methods and resources in the field, and will serve as a pragmatic resource for emotion researchers by providing easy access to a host of scales, stimuli, coding systems, assessment tools, and innovative methodologies. This handbook will help to advance research in emotion by encouraging researchers to take greater advantage of standard and well-researched approaches, which will increase both the productivity in the field and the speed and accuracy with which research can be communicated. more...

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This handbook presents a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of research methodologies used in experimental psychology. It illustrates the range of research methodologies used in experimental psychology and is a valuable resource for those who wish to expand their knowledge. more...

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What factors affect creativity and the generation of creative images? What factors affect the ability to re-interpret those images? Research described in this book indicates that expectations constrain both of these attributes of creativity. more...

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1. Information Foraging Theory: Framework and Method. 2. Elementary Foraging Models. 3. The Ecology of Information Foraging on the World Wide Web. 4. Rational Analyses of Information Scent and Web Foraging. 5. A Cognitive Model of Information Foraging on the Web. 6. A Rational Analysis and Computational Cognitive Model of the Scatter/Gather Document Cluster Browser. 7. Stochastic Models of Information Foraging by Information Scent. 8. Social Information Foraging. 9. Design Heuristics, Engineering Models, and Applications. 10. Future Directions: Upward, Downward, Inward, and Outward more...

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In this interdisciplinary discussion on mental models, researchers from various areas in cognitive science tackle the following questions: What is a mental model? What are the prospects and limitations in applying the mental model notion in cognitive science? How can the ideas on the nature of mental models and their mode of operation be empirically substantiated? The primary goal of the research group was to work out a definition of mental models that embraces the overall use of this construct in cognitive science as well as the more specific conceptions used in particular research domains such as cognitive linguistics. Theoretical claims about the properties of mental models were discussed and their tenability evaluated against the empirical evidence. The volume is divided into three parts. Fundamental aspects of mental models are presented in the first section, the following part contains contributions to the function of mental models in discourse processing, and finally problems of mental models in reasoning and problem solving are outlined. more...

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