Glenberg et al. (1998) reported that episodic memory is impaired by visual distraction and argued that this effect is consistent with a trade-off between internal and external attentional focus. However, their demonstration that visual distraction impairs memory for lists used 15 consecutive word-lists, with analysis only of mid-list items, and has never been replicated. Experiment 1 (N = 37) r...

A number of experiments have shown that the magnitude of the associative priming effect increases substantially when there is a high proportion of associatively related pairs in the list when the stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA) between prime and target is long (more than 400 ms). In the present series of experiments we manipulated the proportion of associatively related pairs when the SOA was v...

We perform two experiments with the aim to investigate the effects of negation on the combination of natural concepts. In the first experiment, we test the membership weights of a list of exemplars with respect to two concepts, e.g., Fruits and Vegetables, and their conjunction Fruits And Vegetables. In the second experiment, we test the membership weights of the same list of exemplars with res...

Abstract List experiments encourage survey respondents to report sensitive opinions they may prefer not reveal. But, studies sometimes find that admit more readily when asked directly. Often this over-reporting is viewed as a design failure, attributable inattentiveness or other nonstrategic error. This paper conducts an exploratory analysis of such ‘failed’ list experiment measuring vote buyin...