This study experimentally tested the immediate effect of thin ideal media exposure on food intake of overt and covert narcissistic (pre-)adolescent girls (8-15 years old). A between subject design was used in which the girls (N = 400) participated in a taste test after watching a slideshow of thin, average or plus size models. No differences on food intake between the exposure conditions were f...

See related article, pages 2116–2120 Work from the Leukoaraiosis and Disability (LADIS) Study Group1 and from others characterizing brain structure and function in the elderly continue to challenge myopic views of how vascular disease affects the brain. What most often demands attention and consumes resources—patients with symptoms and signs of stroke and transient ischemic attack—represents th...

Recent evidence indicates that reflexive shifts in spatial attention with eye movements (overt orienting) and without eye movements (covert orienting) can be dissociated [J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform., in press]. Here, we show that a similar dissociation exists for voluntary shifts in overt and covert attention. Our study is consistent with general theories of attention that assume bo...

Even though retrieval practice typically has a robust, positive influence on memory, response format (overt vs. covert retrieval) may moderate its effect when students learn complex material. Overt retrieval is likely to promote exhaustive retrieval, whereas covert retrieval may not be exhaustive for familiar key terms. In two experiments, students were instructed to study key-term definitions ...

The present study examines the predictive power of socialization variables for thinking styles among adults in the workplace. One hundred and seventeen managerial personnel (aged between 18 and 55 years) in England responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory—Revised based on Sternberg's theory of mental self-government and to questions concerning two groups of socialization variables: overt and ...

This paper presents a pair of studies designed to empirically explore the severity of potential artifacts associated with overt verbal responding during fMRI scanning and to examine several different solutions to these artifacts. In Study One, we compared susceptibility artifacts, signal-to-noise ratios, and activation patterns when overt versus covert verbal responses were elicited during fMRI...