This study was designed to assess the impact of social support on poststressor cognitive impairment, with the goal of providing a laboratory test of the buffering hypothesis of social support. High or low support was operationahzed as the warm or the neutral behavior of an interviewer, which preceded the experimental stressor, high or low task load Subjects were 32 nonpsychotic female psychiatr...

Anagrams are frequently used by experimental psychologists interested in how the mental lexicon is organized. Until very recently, research has overlooked the importance of syllable structure in solving anagrams and assumed that solution difficulty was mainly due to frequency factors (e.g., bigram statistics). The present study uses Rasch analysis to demonstrate that the number of syllables is ...

Four verbal implicit memory tests, word identification, word stem completion, word fragment completion, and anagram solution, were directly compared in one experiment and were contrasted with free recall. On all implicit tests, priming was greatest from prior visual presentation of words, less (but significant) from auditory presentation, and least from pictorial presentations. Typefont did not...

The field of intrusion detection is divided into signature detection and anomaly detection. The former involves identifying patterns associated with known attacks and the latter involves attempting to learn a ‘normal’ pattern of activity and then producing security alerts when behaviors outside of those norms is detected. The ngrams methodology has arguably been the most successful technique fo...

The Einstellung effect is the counterintuitive finding that prior experience or domain-specific knowledge can under some circumstances interfere with problem solving performance. This effect has been demonstrated in several domains of expertise including medicine and chess. In the present study we explored this effect in the context of a simplified anagram problem solving task. Participants sol...

Recent research suggests that mindfulness meditation may impair motivation towards traditional laboratory tasks. The present explored the effects of on personal goals and an anagram task. In Study 1 (n = 200), participants in condition reported greater goal than those a comparison podcast (due to decrease condition); this difference remained 10 min later. Exploratory analyses revealed no differ...