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Pause Button Therapy

... and anything else is futile whether it is a drug or a manipulation technique. However, the book claims that by using the Pause Button ... / more

It’s your choice! – Or is it really?

... have refrained from revealing that they noticed the manipulation . However, the fact that many participants noticed one of the ... only about one-third of the participants detected this manipulation . Based on these findings, Hall and colleagues (2010) proposed ... / more

Anger Management

... way. Our studies borrowed the “mood-freezing pill” manipulation developed by Robert Cialdini and his colleagues in the 1980s. ... / more

Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind

... their best or worse qualities (i.e., thought-direction manipulation ) using their dominant or non-dominant hands (i.e., overt ... of these fundamental processes have also been specified (e.g., behavior produces its effects by simple processes when people do not think, ... / more

The Surprising Effect of Facial Appearance on Political Decision-Making

... well-known candidates, were affected by the similarity manipulation . Overall, participants generally preferred familiar faces, but ... / more

Love at First Sight

... of the strangers’ faces were digitally altered by image manipulation software to more closely resemble their own ( DeBruine, 2002 ... / more

Grasping the grounded nature of mental simulation

... should lead to mental simulations . One simple manipulation of this concept is to have a mug with the handle pointed to the ... matched the participant’s dominant hand. Such a subtle manipulation as mirroring the visual contained within an advertisement leads ... / more

Manipulating the body, measuring the body, and tinkering in the name of Psychology

... side). Indeed, the simplicity of combining an embodied manipulation with a questionnaire is part of the charm of these experiments. ... Arduino microcontroller boards to measure response latencies. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 1332–1346. doi:10.3758/s13428-013-0336-z ... / more

Why gender neutral toy aisles might help children’s development stay on target

... experiences and then had them complete several spatial manipulation tasks (Doyle, Voyer, & Cherney, 2012). The researchers found ... / more

Can you nonbelieve it: What happens when you do not believe in your memories?

... their belief and recollection for the action. This manipulation undermined participants’ belief for 14% to 26% of the fake ... memory implantation method is known as an effective manipulation to create vivid mental representations for suggested false ... / more