Justin N Wahlers- Master of Arts
- Doctoral Candidate at University of Alabama
Justin N Wahlers
- Master of Arts
- Doctoral Candidate at University of Alabama
Ph.D. Student, Department of Psychology, The University of Alabama
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In addition to sources (e.g. scripture) that directly disseminate religious agents' minds (e.g. attitudes), an egocentric model suggests one's own mind may serve as a basis for estimating religious agents' minds. However, the egocentric model is rarely directly tested for inferences of religious agents' minds, and such tests have largely been limit...
Subjective mental effort is often conceptualized as an inherently costly and aversive phenomenon, but there is ongoing consideration about whether it can also be enjoyable. We explored whether subjective mental effort can be both a pleasant or aversive state depending on how it is conceptualized and measured. Through separate measures, we conceptua...
Liberals tend to indicate being less happy than conservatives; although one perspective suggests this happiness gap reflects liberals’ enhanced concern over the systemic maltreatment of others, the “maladjustment perspective” suggests it reflects, in part, liberals’ tendencies to reject aspects of conservatism that support agency and produce some l...
The sense of autonomy (i.e., having the choice to pursue one’s interests and values) tends to facilitate intrinsic motivation and hedonically pleasant states, though its impact on subjective experiences of mental effort is less clear. In two studies, we examined how autonomy influences subjective mental effort and related mental states during a rea...
Working memory capacity (WMC) refers to the ability to maintain information in short-term memory while attending to the immediate environment, and has been associated with emotional states. Yet, research on the link between WMC and emotion in naturalistic settings is growing and inconsistencies have been observed. In the current study (N = 109), we...
How do performance incentives impact subjective experiences of mental effort? Incentives may offset the costs of effort expenditure, resulting in reduced feelings of effort. Or they could lead to an increase in effort expenditure and a corresponding increase in feelings of effort. We tested the influence of incentives on experiences of effort, fati...
Introduction: Individuals who are more depressed show a reduced preference
for happy over sad stimuli. Researchers have proffered various features of depres-
sion that might produce a genuine reduced preference for happy vs. sad stim-
uli. Here, in line with an identity maintenance perspective on depression, we
posited that this reduced relative pr...
Introduction: Individuals who are more depressed show a reduced preference for happy over sad stimuli. Researchers have proffered various features of depression that might produce a genuine reduced preference for happy vs. sad stimuli. Here, in line with an identity maintenance perspective on depression, we posited that this reduced relative prefer...
The Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) and the Behavioral Activation System (BAS) are cornerstones of neurobehavioral research. Personality scales have been developed to capture the behavioral and motivational tendencies associated with these systems, and many studies have attempted to link these scales with basic neurocognitive processes. The resu...
The relationship between political ideology and brain activity has captured the fascination of scientists and the public alike. Using approaches from cognitive neuroscience to provide insights into deeply held and personal beliefs requires careful navigation, with the application of robust methods that generate replicable results. A hallmark study...
