Losing control without your smartphone: Anxiety affects the dynamic choice process of impulsive decision-making and purchase.

Different interacting contexts influence the decision-making process, as revealed by the computational modeling. Through four studies, we investigated how smartphone addiction and anxiety influenced impulsive behaviors, along with the underlying psychological mechanisms and dynamic decision-making processes. In the first and second studies, we found no significant correlation between smartphone addiction and impulsive behavior.

Author Correction: Dissociable functional activities of cortical theta and beta oscillations in the lateral prefrontal cortex during intertemporal choice.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

Good Slang or Bad Slang? Embedding Internet Slang in Persuasive Advertising.

Internet slang is a new language with innovative and novel characteristics, and its use can be considered a form of creative advertising. Embedding internet slang into advertisements can thus enhance their creative quality and increase the attention paid to them. In this study, we examined the effect of the characteristics of internet slang on attention to advertisements, brand awareness, product evaluation, and attitudes toward advertising by conducting two empirical studies, one utilizing eye-tracking experiments and the other utilizing questionnaires.

Dissociable functional activities of cortical theta and beta oscillations in the lateral prefrontal cortex during intertemporal choice.

The lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) plays an important role in the neural networks involved in intertemporal choice. However, little is known about how the neural oscillation of LPFC functions during intertemporal choice, owing to the technical limitations of functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related brain potential recordings. Electrocorticography (ECoG) is a novel neuroimaging technique that has high spatial and temporal resolution.

Temporal Dynamics of the Interaction between Reward and Time Delay during Intertemporal Choice.

Intertemporal choice involves the processes of valuation and choice. Choice is often the result of subjective valuation, in which reward is integrated with time delay. Here, using event-related potential (ERP) signals as temporal hallmarks, we aim to investigate temporal dynamics of how reward interacts with time delay during a delayed discounting task.

The procrastinators want it now: Behavioral and event-related potential evidence of the procrastination of intertemporal choices.

Much past research has focused on the correlation between procrastination and personality traits (e.g., impulsivity).

Temporal Dynamics of the Integration of Intention and Outcome in Harmful and Helpful Moral Judgment.

The ability to integrate the moral intention information with the outcome of an action plays a crucial role in mature moral judgment. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies implicated that both prefrontal and temporo-parietal cortices are involved in moral intention and outcome processing. Here, we used the event-related potentials (ERPs) technique to investigate the temporal dynamics of the processing of the integration between intention and outcome information in harmful and helpful moral judgment.

Neural evidence for moral intuition and the temporal dynamics of interactions between emotional processes and moral cognition.

Behavioral and neurological studies have revealed that emotions influence moral cognition. Although moral stimuli are emotionally charged, the time course of interactions between emotions and moral judgments remains unknown. In the present study, we investigated the temporal dynamics of the interaction between emotional processes and moral cognition.

Resting spontaneous activity in the default mode network predicts performance decline during prolonged attention workload.

After continuous and prolonged cognitive workload, people typically show reduced behavioral performance and increased feelings of fatigue, which are known as "time-on-task (TOT) effects". Although TOT effects are pervasive in modern life, their underlying neural mechanisms remain elusive. In this study, we induced TOT effects by administering a 20-min continuous psychomotor vigilance test (PVT) to a group of 16 healthy adults and used resting-state blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine spontaneous brain activity changes associated with fatigue and performance.

Victims' time discounting 2.5 years after the Wenchuan earthquake: an ERP study.

Background: Time discounting refers to the fact that the subjective value of a reward decreases as the delay until its occurrence increases. The present study investigated how time discounting has been affected in survivors of the magnitude-8.0 Wenchuan earthquake that occurred in China in 2008.