Time Order as Psychological Bias

Time Order as Psychological Bias.

Incorrectly perceiving the chronology of events can fundamentally alter people's understanding of the causal structure of the world. For example, when astronomers used the "eye and ear" method to locate stars, they showed systematic interindividual errors. In the current study, we showed that temporal-order perception may be considered a psychological bias that attention can modulate but not fu...

First-Order Bias Correction for Fractionally Integrated Time Series

Avoiding heterosexist bias in psychological research.

The authors describe various ways that heterosexist bias can occur in scientific research and suggest ways that social and behavioral scientists can avoid it. Heterosexist bias is defined as conceptualizing human experience in strictly heterosexual terms and consequently ignoring, invalidating, or derogating homosexual behaviors and sexual orientation, and lesbian, gay male, and bisexual relati...

Reaction time as a function of perceptual bias, response bias, and stimulus discriminability.

The effects of stimulus discriminability, stimulus frequency, and response frequency were examined in a choice reaction time (RT) task. Two levels of response frequency ratio (i.e., one of two responses occurred two or five times as often as the other) were combined with three levels of stimulus configuration. Configuration was defined by the spatial distance between three stimulus lights. Perc...

Psychological time as information: the case of boredom†

The flow of time is experienced by humans although the exact nature of time is not well understood. The importance of time in humans' life is not in dispute and is reflected by several dimensions like duration, which is best representing the naïve meaning of time. Psychological time serves several important functions which are essential for being able to act and survive in a dynamic environment...