Sensitive caregiving behavior, which involves the ability to notice, interpret, and quickly
respond to a child's signals of need and/or interest, is a central determinant of secure child …

An important step when designing an empirical study is to justify the sample size that will be
collected. The key aim of a sample size justification for such studies is to explain how the …

Identifying brain biomarkers of disease risk is a growing priority in neuroscience. The ability
to identify meaningful biomarkers is limited by measurement reliability; unreliable measures …

Bringing precision to the understanding and treatment of mental disorders requires
instruments for studying clinically relevant individual differences. One promising approach is …

Cognitive tasks are capable of providing researchers with crucial insights into the
relationship between cognitive processing and psychiatric phenomena. However, many …

It has recently been demonstrated that metrics of structural validity are severely
underreported in social and personality psychology. We comprehensively assessed …

Working memory capacity is an important psychological construct, and many real-world
phenomena are strongly associated with individual differences in working memory …

Emotion researchers that use experience sampling methods (ESM) study how emotions
fluctuate in everyday life. To reach valid conclusions, confirming the reliability of momentary …

Emotional bias in explicit memory is theorized to play a prominent role in the etiology,
maintenance, and recurrence of depression. Even though this cognitive bias is regarded as …

The R package splithalf provides tools to estimate the internal consistency reliability of
cognitive measures. In particular, the tools were developed for application to tasks that use …