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Thomas R. Zentall, Jacob P. Case
Publikováno v:
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 27:103-109
The ephemeral-reward task involves providing subjects a choice between two distinctive stimuli, A and B, each containing an identical reward. If A is chosen, the food associated with A is obtained ...
Autor:
Jennifer R. Laude, Thomas R. Zentall
Publikováno v:
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 22:271-277
Human gambling generally involves suboptimal choice because the expected return is usually less than the investment. We have found that animals, too, choose suboptimally under similar choice conditions. Pigeons, like human gamblers, show an impaired
Autor:
Thomas R. Zentall
Publikováno v:
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 19:296-300
Justification of effort by humans is a form of reducing cognitive dissonance by enhancing the value of rewards when they are more difficult to obtain. Presumably, assigning greater value to rewards provides justification for the greater effort needed
Autor:
Thomas R. Zentall
Publikováno v:
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 12:91-95
Imitation is of psychological interest in part because it has cognitive implications for how organisms view the behavior of others, relative to their own behavior. It implies the ability to take the perspective of another. For this reason, researcher
Autor:
Thomas R. Zentall, Randall W. Engle
Publikováno v:
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 25:299-299
Autor:
Thomas R. Zentall
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Current Directions in Psychological Science. 9:118-123
The capacity for symbolic representation is a prerequisite for the development of human language because words, the basic units of language, are symbols that represent things. But symbolic representation may also serve a nonlinguistic role of organiz
Autor:
Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Lisa R. Fournier, Robert Rosenthal, Kyle Sauerberger, Thomas R. Zentall, Dawn M. McBride, Edward A. Wasserman, David A. Rosenbaum, Rachel L. VonderHaar
Publikováno v:
Current Directions in Psychological Science
Putting things off as long as possible (procrastination) is a well-known tendency. Less well known is the tendency to attempt to get things done as soon as possible, even if that involves extra effort ( precrastination). Since its discovery in 2014,