Physical activity level is an important contributor to overall human health and obesity. Research has shown that humans possess a number of traits that influence their physical activity level including social cognition. We examined whether the trait of "need for cognition" was associated with daily physical activity levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper we report the outcomes of two attempts to correlate the Zenhausern Preference Questionnaire (PT) with the Polarity Questionnaire (PQ). Across two laboratories we consistently found no correlation between these two scales. Our findings are consistent with a previous attempt to validate the PQ (Genovese, 2005).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper we set out to explore how the processing differences associated with the respective hemispheres would influence susceptibility to anchoring effects. To do so we provided participants with both a positive and negatively valenced anchoring task. Based on prior research, we predicted stronger anchoring effects under conditions of right hemisphere activation and relatively attenuated anchoring effects under left hemisphere activation.
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