A number of studies have explored the role of associative/event-based (thematic) and categorical (taxonomic) relations in the organization of object representations. Recent evidence suggests that thematic information may be particularly important in determining relationships between manipulable artifacts. However, although sensorimotor information is on many accounts an important component of m...

People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. ...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) often allows participants to redeem food benefits for various brands at different costs. To aid the program's food cost containment efforts, it is important to understand the individual and store characteristics associated with brand choices. This study used the WIC Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) data for 239,0...

Preferences are traditionally assumed to be stable. However, empirical evidence such as preference modulation following choices calls this assumption into question. The evolution of such postchoice preference over long time spans, even when choices have been explicitly forgotten, has so far not been studied. In two experiments, we investigated this question by using a variant of the free choice...

Three experiments tested the proposal that music–color associations are mediated by emotional connotations as suggested by Palmer and collaborators (2013, 2016). Experiment 1 asked participants to choose 1 of 8 saturated colors for excerpts of 24 Preludes from Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier. Half of these excerpts were presented again for color choices, together with excerpts from another 12 Prel...

Current mobile applications gather an increasing amount of data about the users and their environment. To protect their privacy, users can currently either opt out of using the applications or switch off their mobile phones. Such binary choices, however, void potential benefit for both users and applications. As an alternative, finer control over their privacy could be given to users by deployi...

The way we talk can influence how we are perceived by others. Whereas previous studies have started to explore the influence of social goals on syntactic alignment, in the current study, we additionally investigated whether syntactic alignment effectively influences conversation partners' perception of the speaker. To this end, we developed a novel paradigm in which we can measure the effect of...

We consider the concentration of measure for n iid, two-dimensional random variables, under the conditioning that they form a record. Under mild conditions, we show that all random variables tend to concentrate, as n ! 1, around limiting curves, which are the solutions of an appropriate variational problem. We also show that the same phenomenum occurs, without the records conditioning, for the ...

A longest increasing subsequence problem (LIS) is a well-known combinatorial problem with applications mainly in bioinformatics, where it is used in various projects on DNA sequences. Recently, a number of generalisations of this problem were proposed. One of them is to find an LIS among all fixed-size windows of the input sequence (LISW). We propose an algorithm for the LISW problem based on c...

ABSTRACT. We study the shape of the Young diagram λ associated via the Robinson–Schensted– Knuth algorithm to a random permutation in Sn such that the length of the longest decreasing subsequence is not bigger than a fixed number d; in other words we study the restriction of the Plancherel measure to Young diagrams with at most d rows. We prove that in the limit n → ∞ the rows of λ behave like ...