In recognition tests, items presented in unusual ways (e.g., degraded, revealed in stages, or presented as anagrams) are often judged to be old more than are intact items. This revelation effect has been observed only in episodic judgments about the occurrence or frequency of relatively recent events. The present work extends the boundary conditions of this effect. In three experiments, subject...

The Odyssey CAD Framework is a comprehensive framework intended to provide services for tool integration, data management, task management, and design process management. This report introduces dynamically defined flows: tool independent flows that are built up on demand, by designers. Dynamically defined flows support many framework services and several design approaches, without some of the d...

Tasks requiring interpersonal coordination permeate all spheres of life. Although social coordination is sometimes efficient and effortless (low maintenance), at other times it is inefficient and effortful (high maintenance). Across 5 studies, participants experienced either a high- or a low-maintenance interaction with a confederate before engaging in an individual-level task requiring self-re...

In a series of 4 experiments, we provide evidence that--in addition to having an affective component--envy may also have important consequences for cognitive processing. Our first experiment (N = 69) demonstrated that individuals primed with envy better attended to and more accurately recalled information about fictitious peers than did a control group. Studies 2 (N = 187) and 3 (N = 65) concep...

Prospective and retrospective metacognitive judgments have been studied extensively in the field of memory; however, their accuracy has not been systematically compared. Such a comparison is important for studying how metacognitive judgments are formed. Here, we present the results of an experiment aiming to investigate the relation between performance in an anagram task and the accuracy of pro...

This paper presents the construction of a data source that supports the automatic generation of cryptic crossword clues in a system called ENIGMA. Cryptic crossword clues have two layers of meaning: a surface reading that appears to be a fragment of English prose, and a puzzle reading that the solver must uncover to solve the clue. The content expressed by the clue, and the input to the generat...

Having read a word does more to benefit its later perceptual identification when many, rather than few, of the words in the test list have been previously read. Some have suggested that this proportion overlap effect is produced by an intentional use of recognition memory or recall in the perceptual identification task. Contrary to this account, we found that words that are easily recognized (w...

This essay takes a communication-oriented approach to selected early modern English poetry. It presents textual analysis of John Donne’s elegy The Anagram, related the earlier observations concerning his Comparison, and reveals its multi-generic patterns as well certain thematic structural relations between these poems. thus argues, on textually substantiated grounds, that elegies may be regard...