Evaluating the complexity and falsifiability of psychological models.

M Villarreal, A Etz, MD Lee - Psychological review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Understanding model complexity is important for develo** useful psychological models.
One way to think about model complexity is in terms of the predictions a model makes and …

Assessing the fitting propensity of factor models.

M Bader, M Moshagen - Psychological Methods, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Model selection is an omnipresent issue in structural equation modeling (SEM).
When deciding among competing theories instantiated as formal statistical models, a trade …

[HTML][HTML] Smartphone distraction: italian validation of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS)

ML Mascia, M Agus, Ł Tomczyk, NS Bonfiglio… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This work aimed to validate the use of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS) in Italy. The
SDS was devised to assess distraction related to smartphone use in adult populations. A …

Variance, skewness and multiple outcomes in described and experienced prospects: Can one descriptive model capture it all?

L Spiliopoulos, R Hertwig - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
We determined the scope of five decision models of choices across four environmental
niches defined by whether outcome probabilities are described (risk) or experienced by …

Strong theory testing using the prior predictive and the data prior.

W Vanpaemel - Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
In their seminal article, Roberts and Pashler (2000) highlighted that providing a good fit to
empirical data does not necessarily provide strong support for a theory. For a good fit to be …

A unified framework for interpreting a range of motivation-performance phenomena

R Sun, S Bugrov, D Dai - Cognitive Systems Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Effects of motivation on cognition and performance have been found empirically in
different fields. However, the relationship between motivation and performance seems …

Model comparison in psychology

JI Myung, MA Pitt - Stevens' handbook of experimental …, 2018 - books.google.com
Models in cognitive science are formal descriptions of a cognitive process (eg, memory,
decision making, learning). They are an attractive and powerful tool for studying cognition …

A dual-trace model for visual sensory memory.

M Cappiello, W Zhang - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual sensory memory refers to a transient memory lingering briefly after the stimulus offset.
Although previous literature suggests that visual sensory memory is supported by a fine …

The experiment is just as important as the likelihood in understanding the prior: a cautionary note on robust cognitive modeling

L Kennedy, D Simpson, A Gelman - Computational Brain & Behavior, 2019 - Springer
Cognitive modeling shares many features with statistical modeling, making it seem trivial to
borrow from the practices of robust Bayesian statistics to protect the practice of robust …