Dongyuan D. Wang

University of North Florida | UNF · Department of Psychology

This project examined conspiracy theory use across three types of groups: radical violent extremists (RVE), nonviolent extremists, and moderates. Using the theory of significance quest, or the desire for one’s life to have meaning, the current project determined whether RVE groups were more likely to use conspiracy theories and promote loss of sign...

Is it better to drive with one foot or with two feet? Although two-foot driving has fostered interminable debate in the media, no scientific and systematic research has assessed this issue and federal and local state governments have provided no answers. The current study compared traditional unipedal (one-foot driving, using the right foot to cont...

The stimulus-response correspondence (SRC) effect refers to advantages in performance when stimulus and response correspond in dimensions or features, even if the common features are irrelevant to the task. Previous research indicated that the SRC effect depends on the temporal course of stimulus information processing. The current study investigat...

Studying entrepreneurial intention has long been an important topic in the field of entrepreneurship. In this paper, we investigate entrepreneurial intention by applying the theory of planned behavior by Ajzen (1991. “The Theory of Planned Behavior.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 50(2):179–211), which describes that intention...

Recent research has suggested that action-video-game playing can enhance attentional capacity and other cognitive capabilities (e.g., Green, C. S, & Bavelier, D., 2003. [1]). However, some published studies failed to replicate those results (e.g., Boot, W.. 2008. [2]). This current research sought to replicate some of the results as well as extend...

Recent research has suggested that action-video-game playing can enhance attentional capacity and other cognitive capabilities (e.g., Green, C. S, & Bavelier, D., 2003. [1]). However, some published studies failed to replicate those results (e.g., Boot, W.. 2008. [2]). This current research sought to replicate some of the results as well as extend...

SYNWORK1 software allows the examination of how payoffs affect the allocation of effort by people when they perform four different tasks (memory search, arithmetic, visual monitoring, and auditory monitoring). In a previous study (Wang, Proctor, & Pick, 2007), we showed that participants adopted multitasking strategies allocating relative effort ap...

Payoff effects on strategy development and change were assessed in a synthetic work environment, SYNWORK1. Many work settings require several tasks to be performed concurrently. It is important to know how the strategies used in performing the respective tasks vary with payoffs. Sixty students performed four tasks in SYNWORK1, for which points are...

Four experiments investigated influences of irrelevant action effects on response selection in Simon tasks for which tone pitch was relevant and location irrelevant, and responses were clockwise- counterclockwise wheel rotations. When the wheel controlled left-right movement of a cursor in a direction opposite an instructed left-right hand-movement...

Three experiments were conducted in which subjects responded to left-right tones with clockwise-counterclockwise rotations of a steering wheel using one of two stimulus-response assignments. When the hands were at the bottom of the wheel, where hand movement is opposite to wheel movement, subjects coded responses according to the frame that yielded...

The authors examined clockwise and counterclockwise wheel-rotation responses to high- or low-pitched tones presented in participants' (N = 96, Experiment 1; N = 48, Experiment 2; N = 48, Experiment 3) left and right ears. In Experiment 1, a Simon effect (fastest responding when tone location and direction of wheel turn corresponded) was obtained wh...

SYNWORK1 is a multiple-task work environment that allows up to four tasks (memory search, arithmetic, visual monitoring, and auditory monitoring) to be performed concurrently. Experiments were conducted to evaluate performance and subjective workload for each individual task and all combinations of tasks at two presentation rates. At the slower def...

Effects of a side collision-avoidance system (SCAS) signal on driving behavior were examined in an environment in which a nagivation signal was also used. Sixteen undergraduate students participated in this study, and a computer-based STISIM driving simulator was used in the project. Subjects were asked to respond to two signals, a visually display...