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A Pandemic of Busywork: Increased Online Coursework Following the Transition to Remote Instruction is Associated with Reduced Academic Achievement by Motz, Benjamin A, Quick, Joshua D, Wernert, Julie A, Miles, Tonya A

“…Under normal circumstances, when students invest more effort in their schoolwork, they generally show evidence of improved academic achievement.  But when…”
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An In Vivo Study of Self-Regulated Study Sequencing in Introductory Psychology Courses by Carvalho, Paulo F, Braithwaite, David W, de Leeuw, Joshua R, Motz, Benjamin A, Goldstone, Robert L

“…Study sequence can have a profound influence on learning. In this study we investigated how students decide to sequence their study in a naturalistic context…”
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A dissociation between engagement and learning: Enthusiastic instructions fail to reliably improve performance on a memory task by Motz, Benjamin A, de Leeuw, Joshua R, Carvalho, Paulo F, Liang, Kaley L, Goldstone, Robert L

“…Despite widespread assertions that enthusiasm is an important quality of effective teaching, empirical research on the effect of enthusiasm on learning and…”
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The Cognitive Costs of Context: The Effects of Concreteness and Immersiveness in Instructional Examples by Day, Samuel B, Motz, Benjamin A, Goldstone, Robert L

“…Prior research has established that while the use of concrete, familiar examples can provide many important benefits for learning, it is also associated with…”
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Visual Search Asymmetry Due to the Relative Magnitude Represented by Number Symbols by Motz, Benjamin A., Goldstone, Robert L., Busey, Thomas A., Prather, Richard W.

“…In visual search tasks, physically large target stimuli are more easily identified among small distractors than are small targets among large distractors. The…”
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Psychophysics in a Web browser? Comparing response times collected with JavaScript and Psychophysics Toolbox in a visual search task by de Leeuw, Joshua R., Motz, Benjamin A.

“…Behavioral researchers are increasingly using Web-based software such as JavaScript to conduct response time experiments. Although there has been some research…”
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Wild brooms and learning analytics by Motz, Benjamin A., Morrone, Anastasia S.

“…In this commentary we present an analogy between Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s classic poem, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice , and institutional learning analytics…”
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Self‐regulated studying behavior, and the social norms that influence it by Eyink, Julie R., Motz, Benjamin A., Heltzel, Gordon, Liddell, Torrin M.

“…Teachers commonly use injunctive norms when telling students what they should be doing. But researchers find that sometimes descriptive norms, information…”
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Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap by de Leeuw, Joshua R, Motz, Benjamin A, Fyfe, Emily R, Carvalho, Paulo F, Goldstone, Robert L

“…Emphasizing the predictive success and practical utility of psychological science is an admirable goal but it will require a substantive shift in how we design…”
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Automated Educative Nudges to Reduce Missed Assignments in College by Motz, Benjamin A., Mallon, Matthew G., Quick, Joshua D.

“…As institutions of higher education increasingly utilize online learning management systems, college students are asked to submit more assignments online…”
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Terracotta: A tool for conducting experimental research on student learning by Motz, Benjamin A., Üner, Öykü, Jankowski, Harmony E., Christie, Marcus A., Burgas, Kim, del Blanco Orobitg, Diego, McDaniel, Mark A.

“…For researchers seeking to improve education, a common goal is to identify teaching practices that have causal benefits in classroom settings. To test whether…”
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Learning to Call Bullsht via Induction: Categorization Training Improves Critical Thinking Performance by Motz, Benjamin A., Fyfe, Emily R., Guba, Taylor P.

“…Participants performed a categorization training task, where each trial presented a claim based on an observation, and participants marked which fallacy or…”
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Immediate text-based feedback timing on foreign language online assignments: How immediate should immediate feedback be? by Xiwen Lu, Wei Wang, Benjamin A. Motz, Weibing Ye, Neil T. Heffernan

“…Immediate feedback has been considered a cornerstone of online language learning platforms. However, a closer reading of relevant research reveals that the…”
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Time After Time: The Psychological Reality of the Ego- and Time-Reference-Point Distinction in Metaphorical Construals of Time by Nunez, Rafael E., Motz, Benjamin A., Teuscher, Ursina

“…Research in cognitive linguistics and in processing of temporal metaphors has traditionally distinguished between Moving-Ego and Moving-Time mappings: Either…”
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To the beat of your own drum: Cortical regularization of non-integer ratio rhythms toward metrical patterns by Motz, Benjamin A., Erickson, Molly A., Hetrick, William P.

“…► This study documents the phenomenon of metrical regularization with brainwaves. ► ERPs to omissions in non-metrical rhythms were shifted toward metrical…”
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The validity and utility of geotaxis in young rodents by Motz, Benjamin A., Alberts, Jeffrey R.

“…Negative geotaxis, an automatic, reliable, stimulus-bound, orientation and movement directionally against gravitational cues, is often used for behavioral…”
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Concentration toward the mode: Estimating changes in the shape of a distribution of student data by Motz, Benjamin A.

“…When making comparisons between groups of students, a common technique is to analyze whether there are statistically significant differences between the means…”
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The Lateralizer: A Tool for Students to Explore the Divided Brain by Motz, Benjamin A, James, Karin H, Busey, Thomas A

“…Despite a profusion of popular misinformation about the left brain and right brain, there are functional differences between the left and right cerebral…”
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Positive Geotaxis in Infant Rats (Rattus norvegicus ): A Natural Behavior and a Historical Correction by Alberts, Jeffrey R, Motz, Benjamin A, Schank, Jeffrey C

“…Infant rats ( Rattus norvegicus ) placed on a shallow incline (2°, 4°, or 8°) oriented and moved downhill within 1 min; that is, they displayed positive…”
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When online courses became the student union: Technologies for peer interaction and their association with improved outcomes during COVID-19 by Motz, Benjamin A., Quick, Joshua D., Morrone, Anastasia S.

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