Publications by authors named "Joshua March"
Put you in the problem: Effects of self-pronouns on mathematical problem-solving.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)
February 2024
Self-cues such as personal pronouns are known to elicit processing biases, such as attention capture and prioritisation in working memory. This may impact the performance of tasks that have a high attentional load like mathematical problem-solving. Here, we compared the speed and accuracy with which children solved numerical problems that included either the self-cue "you," or a different character name.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChildren, as well as adults, often imitate causally unnecessary actions. Three experiments investigated whether such "over-imitation" occurs because these actions are interpreted as performed for the movement's sake (i.e.
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- Invertebrates like termites, ants, and beetles are super important in tropical rainforests because they help keep the ecosystem healthy and strong.
- Logging (cutting down trees) has harmed more than one-third of these forests, reducing the number of invertebrates by up to half, which affects how the forest works.
- Even though some other animals like small mammals and certain birds may increase after logging, the decline of important invertebrates shows that humans are changing how these rainforests operate.