Psychology

Twenty-first century doodling0

Twenty-first century doodling

Jillian Jordan, Emily Rutter, and Emma Templeton, Harvard College How does Facebook use impact memory of lecture content? As Facebook becomes increasingly popular, this question is important for students and educators alike. Participants in the present study were assigned to listen to a podcast while freely browsing Facebook, viewing an album of Facebook pictures, or doing nothing. Then, participants completed [...]

Young people play bingo, too: Reducing priming effects through mindfulness0

Young people play bingo, too: Reducing priming effects through mindfulness

This study examined whether mindfulness, or active awareness, could reduce priming effects, the subconscious effects of stimuli on one’s behavior. With a sample of 39 undergraduates, we replicated an earlier study demonstrating the effect of priming the elderly stereotype through a word task on participants’ walk speed, and extended it by introducing a mindfulness manipulation through the task instructions given.