This basic idea – that you can focus on one part of an experience and ignore others – is a cognitive psychology concept known as selective attention. It’s also called the “cocktail party effect,” which is named after the idea that your brain can pay attention to a single conversation ...
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Last month, the journal Frontiers in Psychology retracted a paper, ‘Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation‘, by cognitive scientist Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues. It is a narrative analysis of blog posts published by climate den...
This is not just because of the Harry Potter phenomenon, as many other children's authors such as Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Pullman and Judy Blume have also produced megasellers which have proved attractive to children all over the world. In some ways children's books are innately more stable...
“attentional blink” illustrates the limits of our visual attention, showing that when two stimuli are presented in quick succession, the second is often not perceived if it follows too closely after the first[24]. This phenomenon underscores the selective nature of visual attention, emphasizing ...
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While research has provided clear evidence for the phenomenon of suggestion, there is still much more to learn about the underlying relationship between suggestion, cognition, and behavior. As the authors point out, researchers still don't know where the boundaries and limitations of these effects ...
Most of the inquiry has been associated wit fields other than communication, primarily anthropology, international relations, social psychology, and socio and psycholinguistics. Although the range of research topics has been wide, the knowledge gained has not sociological, racial, and ethnic concerns ...
Conway, A. R. A., & Engle, R. W. (1994). Working memory and retrieval: A resource-dependent inhibition model.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,123, 354–373. Google Scholar Conway, A. R. A., Cowan, N., & Bunting, M. F. (2001). The cocktail party phenomenon revisited:...