Browsing Psychology by Author "Vangsness, Lisa"

Identifying motivational factors in robot-based assist-as-needed rehabilitation

Mosqueda, Gissele; Sutton, Rachel; Miranda, Virgil; Tri, Anna (Wichita State University, 2021-04-02)

INTRODUCTION: Globally, 2.41 billion people can benefit from rehabilitation due to various injuries or diseases (WHO, 2019). Traditional rehabilitation relies on techniques that are physiological in nature (e.g., assisted ...

Identifying motivational factors in robot-based assist-as-needed rehabilitation

Mosqueda, Gissele; Sutton, Rachel; Miranda, Virgil; Tri, Anna; Vangsness, Lisa; Yihun, Yimesker S. (Wichita State University, 2022-04-29)

INTRODUCTION: Globally, 2.41 billion people can benefit from rehabilitation due to various injuries or diseases (WHO, 2019). Traditional rehabilitation relies on techniques that are physiological in nature (e.g., assisted ...

Increased volumes of lobule VI in a valproic acid model of autism are associated with worse set-shifting performance in male Long-Evan rats

Payne, Macy; Mali, Ivina; McKinnell, Zach E.; Vangsness, Lisa; Shrestha, Tej B.; Boßmann, Stefan H.; Plakke, Bethany (Elsevier, 2021-08-15)

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a skewed sex-based diagnostic ratio. While males are at a higher risk for ASD, it is critical to understand the neurobiology of the disorder to develop ...

Is procrastination related to low-quality data?

Voss, Nathaniel M.; Vangsness, Lisa (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2020-07-03)

While it is easy to assume that university students who wait until the last minute to complete surveys for their class research requirements provide low-quality data, this issue has not been empirically examined. The goal ...

Level-up! Identifying ways to make video games more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals

Granados, Jasmine A. (Wichita State University, 2021-07)

This study examines the impact of using tactile, directional cues in a 3D, third-person shooter video game. Depending on the condition, the game used audio, visual, and haptic cues to provide information about when and ...

More isn’t always better: when metacognitive prompts are misleading

Vangsness, Lisa; Young, Michael E. (Springer, 2020-09-29)

Accurate metacognitive monitoring improves performance in a variety of naturalistic contexts. However, the laboratory contexts used to study metacognition differ from naturalistic environments in important ways. Specifically, ...

Perceptual–cognitive expertise in law enforcement: An object-identification task

Scott, Dakota; Vangsness, Lisa; Suss, Joel M. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2022-05-22)

The few perceptual–cognitive expertise and deception studies in the domain of law enforcement have yet to examine perceptual–cognitive expertise differences of police trainees and police officers. The current study uses ...

Self-report measures of procrastination exhibit inconsistent concurrent validity, predictive validity, and psychometric properties

Vangsness, Lisa; Voss, Nathaniel M.; Maddox, Noelle; Devereaux, Victoria; Martin, Emma (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-02-24)

Procrastination is a chronic and widespread problem; however, emerging work raises questions regarding the strength of the relationship between self-reported procrastination and behavioral measures of task engagement. This ...