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Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States by Hout, Michael

“…Education correlates strongly with most important social and economic outcomes such as economic success, health, family stability, and social connections…”
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The Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database: A collection of novel images for use in experimental research by Horst, Jessica S., Hout, Michael C.

“…Many experimental research designs require images of novel objects. Here we introduce the Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database. This database contains…”
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Just say 'I don't know': Understanding information stagnation during a highly ambiguous visual search task by Godwin, Hayward J, Hout, Michael C

“…Visual search experiments typically involve participants searching simple displays with two potential response options: 'present' or 'absent'. Here we examined…”
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Target templates: the precision of mental representations affects attentional guidance and decision-making in visual search by Hout, Michael C., Goldinger, Stephen D.

“…When people look for things in the environment, they use target templates —mental representations of the objects they are attempting to locate—to guide…”
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The perception of naturalness correlates with low-level visual features of environmental scenes by Berman, Marc G, Hout, Michael C, Kardan, Omid, Hunter, MaryCarol R, Yourganov, Grigori, Henderson, John M, Hanayik, Taylor, Karimi, Hossein, Jonides, John

“…Previous research has shown that interacting with natural environments vs. more urban or built environments can have salubrious psychological effects, such as…”
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The spatial arrangement method of measuring similarity can capture high-dimensional semantic structures by Richie, Russell, White, Bryan, Bhatia, Sudeep, Hout, Michael C.

“…Psychologists collect similarity data to study a variety of phenomena including categorization, generalization and discrimination, and representation itself…”
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Explaining Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Political Backlash and Generational Succession, 1987-2012 by Hout, Michael, Fischer, Claude

“…Twenty percent of American adults claimed no religious preference in 2012, compared to 7 percent twenty-five years earlier. Previous research identified a…”
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Multidimensional scaling by Hout, Michael C., Papesh, Megan H., Goldinger, Stephen D.

“…The concept of similarity, or a sense of ‘sameness’ among things, is pivotal to theories in the cognitive sciences and beyond. Similarity, however, is a…”
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Task-Irrelevant Threatening Information Is Harder to Ignore Than Other Valences by Zsidó, Andras N., Bali, Cintia, Kocsor, Ferenc, Hout, Michael C.

“…Emotionally salient objects activate the survival circuits of the brain and are given priority in cognitive processing, even at the cost of inhibiting ongoing…”
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Typicality guides attention during categorical search, but not universally so by Robbins, Arryn, Hout, Michael C

“…The degree to which an item is rated as being a typical member of its category influences an observer’s ability to find that item during word-cued search…”
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How does searching for faces among similar-looking distractors affect distractor memory? by McKinley, Geoffrey L., Peterson, Daniel J., Hout, Michael C.

“…Prior research has shown that searching for multiple targets in a visual search task enhances distractor memory in a subsequent recognition test. Three…”
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The poverty of embodied cognition by Goldinger, Stephen D., Papesh, Megan H., Barnhart, Anthony S., Hansen, Whitney A., Hout, Michael C.

“…In recent years, there has been rapidly growing interest in embodied cognition, a multifaceted theoretical proposition that (1) cognitive processes are…”
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MM-MDS: a multidimensional scaling database with similarity ratings for 240 object categories from the Massive Memory picture database by Hout, Michael C, Goldinger, Stephen D, Brady, Kyle J

“…Cognitive theories in visual attention and perception, categorization, and memory often critically rely on concepts of similarity among objects, and…”
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A nuanced view of the extent to which samples from narrow populations are scientifically problematic by Trafimow, David, Hout, Michael C, Conway, Andrew R A

“…Psychologists have a traditional concern with participant samples from narrow populations and deleterious effects on researchers' ability to generalize…”
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Two tales of one city: Unequal vulnerability and resilience to COVID-19 by socioeconomic status in Wuhan, China by Wu, Xiaogang, Li, Xiaoguang, Lu, Yao, Hout, Michael

“…•Higher SES is associated with a lower risk of infection of COVID-19.•Higher SES reduces mental distress during the pandemic, particularly for individuals or…”
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Failures of perception in the low-prevalence effect: Evidence from active and passive visual search by Hout, Michael C, Walenchok, Stephen C, Goldinger, Stephen D, Wolfe, Jeremy M

“…In visual search, rare targets are missed disproportionately often. This low-prevalence effect (LPE) is a robust problem with demonstrable societal…”
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Memory strength and specificity revealed by pupillometry by Papesh, Megan H., Goldinger, Stephen D., Hout, Michael C.

“…Voice-specificity effects in recognition memory were investigated using both behavioral data and pupillometry. Volunteers initially heard spoken words and…”
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Task demands determine whether shape or arousal of a stimulus modulates competition for visual working memory resources by Zsidó, Andras N., Stecina, Diana T., Hout, Michael C.

“…It has been posited (Öhman, 1986) that the processing of threatening stimuli became prioritized during the course of mammalian evolution and that such objects…”
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No evidence of attentional prioritization for threatening targets in visual search by Zsido, Andras N., Hout, Michael C., Hernandez, Marko, White, Bryan, Polák, Jakub, Kiss, Botond L., Godwin, Hayward J.

“…Throughout human evolutionary history, snakes have been associated with danger and threat. Research has shown that snakes are prioritized by our attentional…”
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Why Basic and Applied Social Psychology Declines Demographics Requirements by Trafimow, David, Hout, Michael C., Conway, Andrew R. A.

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