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This study measures attention and physiological response to sounds irrelevant to the task at hand, asking whether what differs in misophonia is what gets attended or how the body responds to it." }, { "doi": "10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1856582", "title": "Choosing informative priors in Bayesian regression models: a simulation study and tutorial using Stan and R.", "year": 2026, "journal": "Frontiers in Psychology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Lüdecke, D., Makowski, A. C., Klein, J., Ben-Shachar, M. 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A simulation study maps how prior location and scale move the posterior at different sample sizes, and a case-control example (N=526) shows a frequentist odds ratio of 8.87 with an interval running to 165 becoming a stable 4.01 under a literature-based prior." }, { "doi": "10.31234/osf.io/gzv78_v1", "title": "Interoception and Substance use: A systematic review and meta-analysis", "year": 2026, "journal": "", "type": "Preprint", "authors": "Scharte, R. E., Greenwood, K., Romero Sanchiz, P., Neves, A., Makowski, D., & Nogueira-Arjona, R.", "is_preprint": true, "pdf": "https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gzv78", "keywords": [ "Interoception", "Mental Health" ], "citations": 0, "featured": "publications/2026_InteroceptionAndSubstanceUse/featured.png", "folder": "2026_InteroceptionAndSubstanceUse", "summary": "A systematic review and meta-analysis of 27 studies. Acute intoxication showed no effect on interoception at all; people meeting criteria for a substance use disorder showed clearly lower interoceptive accuracy than controls (g = −0.7), with no difference in interoceptive sensibility or magnitude." }, { "doi": "10.31234/osf.io/2mpqd_v5", "title": "Mega-analysis of the Interoceptive Accuracy Scale (IAS) Structure and its Dispositional Correlates", "year": 2026, "journal": "", "type": "Preprint", "authors": "Neves, A., Pfaff, M., Scharte, R. E., Nogueira-Arjona, R., Poerio, G., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": true, "pdf": "https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2mpqd_v1", "keywords": [ "Interoception", "Psychometrics" ], "citations": 0, "featured": "publications/2026_MegaanalysisIAS/featured.webp", "folder": "2026_MegaanalysisIAS", "summary": "A mega-analysis of the Interoceptive Accuracy Scale across 17 datasets and more than 33,000 participants. A stable 14-item core emerged, organised into seven sensation pairs and performing as well as the original 21 items; adaptive traits related positively and maladaptive traits negatively to the scores.", "github": "https://github.com/RealityBending/InteroceptionIAS" }, { "doi": "10.31234/osf.io/5h62c_v1", "title": "The cogmod R Package: Easy-to-Use Bayesian Cognitive Models for Reaction Times, Choices and Subjective Ratings, with Applications to Computational Neuropsychology", "year": 2026, "journal": "", "type": "Preprint", "authors": "Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": true, "keywords": [ "Computational Models", "Software Development", "Bayesian Statistics", "Reaction Times" ], "summary": "Cognitive tasks produce whole distributions of reaction times, choices and ratings, and analysis usually throws that away by taking a mean per condition. cogmod puts Bayesian cognitive models — descriptive distributions, evidence accumulation, bounded-rating models — inside the brms formula workflow, so parameters can be predicted by covariates and random effects, and the differences a mean hides become visible.", "pdf": null, "citations": 0, "featured": "publications/2026_cogmod/featured.png", "folder": "2026_cogmod" }, { "doi": "10.31234/osf.io/kdcxa_v2", "title": "This Is Not the ex-Gaussian Model You Are Looking For: On the Default Parameterization of Bayesian ex-Gaussian Models in brms", "year": 2026, "journal": "", "type": "Preprint", "authors": "Geller, J., Angele, B., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": true, "keywords": [ "Bayesian Statistics", "Computational Models", "Reaction Times" ], "summary": "The ex-Gaussian model separates the bulk of a response time distribution from its tail, and brms fits it by default with a μ that means the mean of the whole distribution rather than the location of the Gaussian component. Because a shift in the bulk and a change in the tail can cancel out in the overall mean, inferences drawn from the default μ may be wrong. The paper shows how, and how to fit the classical parameterisation instead.", "pdf": "https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/kdcxa", "citations": 0, "featured": "publications/2026_ExGauss/featured.png", "folder": "2026_ExGauss" }, { "doi": "10.31234/osf.io/9pequ_v2", "title": "Towards an Active Inference Personality Framework: The Deep-Self Predictive Cascade Model", "year": 2026, "journal": "", "type": "Preprint", "authors": "Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": true, "pdf": "https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9pequ_v2", "keywords": [ "Computational Models", "Personality", "Self-Reference" ], "citations": 0, "featured": "publications/2026_ActiveInferencePersonality/featured.jpg", "folder": "2026_ActiveInferencePersonality", "summary": "Trait taxonomies such as the Big Five describe how people differ but not why the differences take the shape they do. The Deep-Self Predictive Cascade Model recasts personality in the language of active inference — as the topography of an agent's expected free energy landscape — and a proof-of-concept simulation reproduces the empirical covariance structure of the Big Five out of that four-level cascade.", "github": "https://github.com/RealityBending/DeepSelfModel" }, { "doi": "10.5334/joc.469", "title": "A Distributional Response Time Analysis of the Perceptual Disfluency Effect", "year": 2025, "journal": "Journal of Cognition", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Geller, J., Gomez, P., Buchanan, E., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2025_PerceptualDisfluency/geller2025.pdf", "folder": "2025_PerceptualDisfluency", "featured": "publications/2025_PerceptualDisfluency/featured.png", "github": "https://github.com/jgeller112/Disfluency_Ms", "keywords": [ "Reaction Times", "Computational Models", "Attention" ], "citations": 0, "summary": "Perceptual disfluency — degrading a stimulus so that it is harder to take in — is normally summarised as a change in mean response time. This paper analyses the whole response time distribution instead, where a shift in the bulk and a change in the tail are separable and can offset one another in the mean." }, { "doi": "10.31234/osf.io/7xgbt_v1", "title": "Bad News: Testing Gamified Inoculation Against Misinformation", "year": 2025, "journal": "", "type": "Preprint", "authors": "Dickinson, R., Makowski, D., Van Marwijk, H., & Ford, E.", "is_preprint": true, "pdf": "https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/7xgbt", "keywords": [ "Misinformation", "Reality Beliefs" ], "citations": 1, "featured": "publications/2025_BadNews/featured.png", "folder": "2025_BadNews", "github": "https://github.com/RealityBending/FakeNewsIntervention", "summary": "266 participants either played Bad News, a fifteen-minute game that teaches the tactics of misinformation from the inside, or played Tetris. The game group improved significantly more at spotting misinformation afterwards, and political ideology was linked to how vulnerable people were to begin with." }, { "doi": "10.1371/journal.pone.0321818", "title": "Interventions for combating COVID-19 misinformation: a systematic realist review", "year": 2025, "journal": "PLoS ONE", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Dickinson, R., Makowski, D., van Marwijk, H., & Ford, E.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2025_InterventionsForCombatingCovid19/2025_InterventionsForCombatingCovid19.pdf", "folder": "2025_InterventionsForCombatingCovid19", "featured": "publications/2025_InterventionsForCombatingCovid19/featured.jpg", "keywords": [ "Misinformation" ], "citations": 5, "summary": "A realist systematic review of 35 studies covering eight kinds of intervention against COVID-19 misinformation. Game-type interventions come out best on the combination of impact and scalability, and nothing works well enough on its own — so the recommendation is packages of interventions tailored to context rather than a single fix." }, { "doi": "10.31234/osf.io/z68v3_v1", "title": "Introducing the Choice-Confidence (CHOCO) Model for Bimodal Data from Subjective Ratings: Application to the Effect of Attractiveness on Reality Beliefs about AI-Generated Faces", "year": 2025, "journal": "", "type": "Preprint", "authors": "Makowski, D., Neves, A., & Field, A. P.", "is_preprint": true, "pdf": "https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z68v3_v1", "keywords": [ "Computational Models", "Reality Beliefs", "Aesthetics", "Bayesian Statistics" ], "citations": 0, "featured": "publications/2025_Choco/featured.jpg", "folder": "2025_Choco", "summary": "Rating scales whose two ends mean opposite choices produce bimodal data that ordinary models fit badly. CHOCO models them as a mixture of two Beta distributions, estimating the choice and the confidence behind it separately. Applied to judgments of whether faces were real or AI-generated, attractive faces were more likely to be called real, particularly by male participants.", "github": "https://github.com/RealityBending/FictionChoco" }, { "doi": "10.1525/collabra.143431", "title": "Measuring Depression and Anxiety With 4 Items? Adaptation of the PHQ-4 to Increase Its Sensitivity to Subclinical Variability", "year": 2025, "journal": "Collabra: Psychology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Te, A. S., Neves, A., & Chen, S. 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A.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2025_TooBeautifulToBeFake/2025_TooBeautifulToBeFake.pdf", "keywords": [ "Aesthetics", "Reality Beliefs" ], "citations": 8, "featured": "publications/2025_TooBeautifulToBeFake/featured.jpg", "folder": "2025_TooBeautifulToBeFake", "summary": "As AI-generated faces become indistinguishable from photographs, what people fall back on to judge reality starts to matter. Attractive faces were less likely to be judged as artificially generated: beauty reads as authenticity.", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/0xSlDxONenS3zwZvA53Gpp" }, { "doi": "10.1111/psyp.70164", "title": "Which Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Indices Should I Use for Psychophysiological Research? A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying Clusters of HRV Indices", "year": 2025, "journal": "Psychophysiology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Pham, T., Johnco, C. J., Lau, Z. J., Makowski, D., & Forbes, M. K.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2025_WhichHeartRateVariability/2025_WhichHeartRateVariability.pdf", "keywords": [ "Heart Rate Variability", "Psychophysiology", "Signal Processing", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 9, "featured": "publications/2025_WhichHeartRateVariability/featured.jpg", "folder": "2025_WhichHeartRateVariability", "summary": "There are dozens of HRV indices and many of them measure much the same thing. Consensus clustering of 89 indices across 635 resting ECG recordings from two samples produced 21 robust clusters, and from those a recommended set of 13 indices for short resting-state recordings — enough to cover the space without reporting the same quantity six times." }, { "doi": "10.1016/J.JECP.2023.105810", "title": "Beyond empathy: Cognitive capabilities increase or curb altruism in middle childhood", "year": 2024, "journal": "Journal of Experimental Child Psychology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Rose, L., Kovarski, K., Caetta, F., Makowski, D., & Chokron, S.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2024_BeyondEmpathy/2024_BeyondEmpathy.pdf", "keywords": [ "Social Cognition" ], "citations": 2, "featured": null, "folder": "2024_BeyondEmpathy", "summary": "Altruism in children is usually explained by empathy. This study asks what cognitive capacities add on top of it in middle childhood, and finds them cutting both ways — increasing generosity in some conditions and curbing it in others." }, { "doi": "10.3758/s13428-024-02356-w", "title": "Check your outliers! An introduction to identifying statistical outliers in R with easystats", "year": 2024, "journal": "Behavior Research Methods", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Thériault, R., Ben-Shachar, M. S., Patil, I., Lüdecke, D., Wiernik, B. M., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2024_CheckYourOutliers/2024_CheckYourOutliers.pdf", "keywords": [ "Statistical Methods", "Software Development", "Open Science" ], "citations": 42, "featured": null, "folder": "2024_CheckYourOutliers", "summary": "Outliers are usually removed on a rule of thumb and rarely reported. This tutorial sets out what an outlier actually is, which detection method suits which design, and how to run and document the whole procedure in R with easystats." }, { "doi": "10.3390/covid4120132", "title": "Exploring the Role of News Outlets in the Rise of a Conspiracy Theory: Hydroxychloroquine in the Early Days of COVID-19", "year": 2024, "journal": "COVID", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Dickinson, R., Makowski, D., van Marwijk, H., & Ford, E.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2024_NewsOutletsConspiracyTheory/2024_NewsOutletsConspiracyTheory.pdf", "keywords": [ "Misinformation", "Reality Beliefs" ], "citations": 1, "featured": null, "folder": "2024_NewsOutletsConspiracyTheory", "summary": "Improper use of hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19 has been linked to some 17,000 preventable deaths. A thematic analysis of 128 news pieces from a fortnight in March 2020 shows the coverage amplifying right-wing political elites, leaning on optimistic framing and anecdote, and hardening a split between Trump supporters and the public health apparatus." }, { "doi": "10.1038/s41598-024-68331-9", "title": "Self-reference and emotional reaction drive aesthetic judgment", "year": 2024, "journal": "Scientific Reports", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Salgues, S., Jacquot, A., Makowski, D., Tahar, C., Baekeland, J., Arcangeli, M., Dokic, J., Piolino, P., & Sperduti, M.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2024_SelfreferenceAndEmotionalReaction/2024_SelfreferenceAndEmotionalReaction.pdf", "keywords": [ "Aesthetics", "Self-Reference" ], "citations": 6, "featured": null, "folder": "2024_SelfreferenceAndEmotionalReaction", "summary": "What makes something beautiful to a particular person. This study separates two candidate drivers of aesthetic judgment — how self-relevant the work feels, and how strong an emotional reaction it produces — and reports both of them contributing." }, { "doi": "10.1037/CNS0000345", "title": "The Beauty and the Self: A Common Mnemonic Advantage Between Aesthetic Judgment and Self-Reference", "year": 2024, "journal": "Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Lee, H., Jacquot, A., Makowski, D., Arcangeli, M., Dokic, J., Piolino, P., & Sperduti, M.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2024_TheBeautyAndTheSelf/2024_TheBeautyAndTheSelf.pdf", "keywords": [ "Aesthetics", "Self-Reference", "Episodic Memory" ], "citations": 4, "featured": "publications/2024_TheBeautyAndTheSelf/featured.jpg", "folder": "2024_TheBeautyAndTheSelf", "summary": "Is beauty in the object or in the beholder? Using the memory advantage for self-related material as a probe, paintings encoded under a judgment of beauty were remembered as well as those encoded in a self-reference condition — but only when the beauty judgment was extreme. Intense aesthetic experience appears to engage the self." }, { "doi": "10.1007/s12144-024-06890-w", "title": "The heart can lie: a preliminary investigation of the role of interoception and theory of mind in deception", "year": 2024, "journal": "Current Psychology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Lau, Z. J., Pham, T., Te, A. S., Kirk, S., Liauw, C., & Chen, S. H. A.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2024_TheHeartCanLie/2024_TheHeartCanLie.pdf", "keywords": [ "Deception", "Interoception", "Social Cognition" ], "citations": 1, "featured": "publications/2024_TheHeartCanLie/featured.png", "folder": "2024_TheHeartCanLie", "summary": "Most deception research is about catching liars. This study asks instead what makes someone good at lying, and finds interoception — how well a person reads their own bodily signals — related to how confident they are in their own lies, especially when they believe their body is being monitored.", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/21sflaDBDiSITxXbyZdqvy" }, { "doi": "10.1038/S41598-023-33148-5", "title": "A novel visual illusion paradigm provides evidence for a general factor of illusion sensitivity and personality correlates", "year": 2023, "journal": "Scientific Reports", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Te, A. S., Kirk, S., Liang, N. Z., & Chen, S. H. A.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2023_NovelVisualIllusionParadigm/2023_NovelVisualIllusionParadigm.pdf", "keywords": [ "Visual Illusions", "Personality", "Psychometrics" ], "citations": 12, "featured": "publications/2023_NovelVisualIllusionParadigm/featured.jpg", "folder": "2023_NovelVisualIllusionParadigm", "summary": "Ten classic illusions, generated parametrically and embedded in a perceptual discrimination task, given to 250 people. Sensitivity to one illusion predicts sensitivity to the others — evidence for a general factor, labelled Factor i — which relates positively to Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility and negatively to Psychoticism, Antagonism, Disinhibition and Negative Affect.", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/5MxwkDxgcMjE0WlL6EMdl2" }, { "doi": "10.31234/osf.io/ezybm", "title": "Attenuating subjective crowding through beauty: an online study on the interaction between environment aesthetics, typology and crowdedness", "year": 2023, "journal": "", "type": "Preprint", "authors": "Mavros, P., Ngoi, Z. L., Kirk, S., Te, A., Grübel, J., Melgar, L. A., Guizzo, A. O., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": true, "pdf": null, "keywords": [ "Aesthetics", "Urban Environment" ], "citations": 2, "featured": null, "folder": "2023_AttenuatingSubjectiveCrowding", "summary": "How crowded a place feels is not simply how many people are in it. This online study crosses environment type with crowd density to ask whether a more beautiful environment makes the same crowd feel less crowded." }, { "doi": "10.4135/9781529789522.n4", "title": "Clinical Neuropsychology in the Era of Neuroimaging", "year": 2023, "journal": "The SAGE Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology", "type": "Book Chapter", "authors": "Makowski, D., Chen, S. A., Larsen, R. R., Boyle, G. J., & Lilienfeld, S. 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This paper traces how statistical computing got there — the open movement, data science, collaborative problem-solving, machine learning and newly accessible Bayesian estimation — and what follows for the field." }, { "doi": "10.1111/EJN.15800", "title": "Brain entropy, fractal dimensions and predictability: A review of complexity measures for EEG in healthy and neuropsychiatric populations", "year": 2022, "journal": "European Journal of Neuroscience", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Lau, Z. J., Pham, T., Chen, S. H. 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This review explains them in plain terms, sorts them into measures of predictability and of regularity, and synthesises what they have shown across consciousness research, mood and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions, and the lifespan." }, { "doi": "10.21105/joss.04684", "title": "datawizard: An R Package for Easy Data Preparation and Statistical Transformations", "year": 2022, "journal": "Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Patil, I., Makowski, D., Ben-Shachar, M. S., Wiernik, B. M., Bacher, E., & Lüdecke, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2022_Datawizard/2022_Datawizard.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 51, "featured": "publications/2022_Datawizard/featured.jpg", "folder": "2022_Datawizard", "summary": "datawizard is the data-preparation layer under easystats: selecting, reshaping, recoding, standardising, centring, winsorising and describing, under one grammar and with essentially no dependencies." }, { "doi": "10.1038/S41598-022-23992-2", "title": "Movie editing influences spectators' time perception", "year": 2022, "journal": "Scientific Reports", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Kovarski, K., Dos Reis, J., Chevais, C., Hamel, A., Makowski, D., & Sperduti, M.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2022_MovieEditingInfluencesSpectators/2022_MovieEditingInfluencesSpectators.pdf", "keywords": [ "Time Perception", "Fiction" ], "citations": 10, "featured": "publications/2022_MovieEditingInfluencesSpectators/featured.jpg", "folder": "2022_MovieEditingInfluencesSpectators", "summary": "Editing is how a film handles time, and it turns out to change how long a scene feels. Across an online study and a pre-registered replication, scenes with continuous editing were judged longer than scenes with action-discontinuity editing, which were in turn judged longer than scenes with no editing at all." }, { "doi": "10.3390/e24081036", "title": "The Structure of Chaos: An Empirical Comparison of Fractal Physiology Complexity Indices Using NeuroKit2", "year": 2022, "journal": "Entropy", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Te, A. S., Pham, T., Lau, Z. J., & Chen, S. H. A.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2022_TheStructureOfChaos/2022_TheStructureOfChaos.pdf", "keywords": [ "Complexity Science", "Signal Processing", "Psychophysiology" ], "citations": 5, "featured": "publications/2022_TheStructureOfChaos/featured.jpg", "folder": "2022_TheStructureOfChaos", "summary": "There are well over a hundred complexity indices in circulation and almost no empirical comparison between them. This paper computes 112 of them on signals varying in noise, length and frequency content, maps how they relate, and recommends 12 that between them carry 86% of the variance of the whole set." }, { "doi": "10.1177/03010066211057347", "title": "A Parametric Framework to Generate Visual Illusions Using Python", "year": 2021, "journal": "Perception", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Lau, Z. J., Pham, T., Paul Boyce, W., & Annabel Chen, S.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2021_Pyllusion/2021_Pyllusion.pdf", "keywords": [ "Visual Illusions", "Software Development" ], "citations": 5, "featured": "publications/2021_Pyllusion/featured.png", "folder": "2021_Pyllusion", "summary": "Visual illusions have been central to perception research for a century and were still being made by hand, one image at a time. Pyllusion generates them parametrically instead — illusion strength becomes a number you set — so an illusion can serve as a proper experimental manipulation and the stimuli can be reproduced exactly." }, { "doi": "10.1177/17470218211026301", "title": "Bored, distracted, and forgetful: The impact of mind wandering and boredom on memory encoding", "year": 2021, "journal": "Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Blondé, P., Sperduti, M., Makowski, D., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2021_BoredDistractedAndForgetful/2021_BoredDistractedAndForgetful.pdf", "keywords": [ "Mind Wandering", "Episodic Memory" ], "citations": 37, "featured": null, "folder": "2021_BoredDistractedAndForgetful", "summary": "Mind wandering and boredom are closely tied, and both look as though they should hurt memory. Measured in the same task and set against each other, mind wandering is the reliable predictor of what gets remembered — boredom adds almost nothing once it is accounted for." }, { "doi": "10.3390/s21123998", "title": "Heart Rate Variability in Psychology: A Review of HRV Indices and an Analysis Tutorial", "year": 2021, "journal": "Sensors", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Pham, T., Lau, Z. J., Chen, S. H. A., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2021_HeartRateVariabilityPsychology/2021_HeartRateVariabilityPsychology.pdf", "keywords": [ "Heart Rate Variability", "Psychophysiology", "Signal Processing" ], "citations": 385, "featured": "publications/2021_HeartRateVariabilityPsychology/featured.jpg", "folder": "2021_HeartRateVariabilityPsychology", "summary": "Heart rate variability is easy to record and hard to analyse well: the indices are many, the pipelines inconsistent, and the choices that matter rarely visible in a paper. This review explains the commonly used HRV indices and what each is good for, then walks through a full analysis step by step in NeuroKit2." }, { "doi": "10.1007/s00426-020-01358-5", "title": "In Medio Stat Virtus: intermediate levels of mind wandering improve episodic memory encoding in a virtual environment", "year": 2021, "journal": "Psychological Research", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Blondé, P., Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2021_InMedioStatVirtus/2021_InMedioStatVirtus.pdf", "keywords": [ "Mind Wandering", "Episodic Memory", "Virtual Reality" ], "citations": 7, "featured": "publications/2021_InMedioStatVirtus/featured.jpg", "folder": "2021_InMedioStatVirtus", "summary": "Mind wandering usually costs memory, but not in a straight line. In a virtual environment, memory for what happened was best at intermediate levels of mind wandering rather than at the lowest." }, { "doi": "10.3758/s13428-020-01516-y", "title": "NeuroKit2: A Python toolbox for neurophysiological signal processing", "year": 2021, "journal": "Behavior Research Methods", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Pham, T., Lau, Z. J., Brammer, J. C., Lespinasse, F., Pham, H., Schölzel, C., & Chen, S. H. A.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2021_Neurokit2/2021_Neurokit2.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Psychophysiology", "Signal Processing" ], "citations": 1274, "featured": "publications/2021_Neurokit2/featured.jpg", "folder": "2021_Neurokit2", "summary": "NeuroKit2 is the lab's Python toolbox for neurophysiological signals — ECG, PPG, EDA, EMG, RSP and EEG — taking each from a raw recording to cleaned features through the same interface. It is the most widely used piece of software the lab has produced." }, { "doi": "10.21105/joss.03139", "title": "performance: An R Package for Assessment, Comparison and Testing of Statistical Models", "year": 2021, "journal": "Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Lüdecke, D., Ben-Shachar, M., Patil, I., Waggoner, P., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2021_Performance/2021_Performance.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 5462, "featured": "publications/2021_Performance/featured.jpg", "folder": "2021_Performance", "summary": "performance is the easystats package for asking whether a model is any good: R², ICC, overdispersion, collinearity, outliers and residual normality, plus model comparison. **check_model()** runs the diagnostics that apply and draws them, rather than leaving the analyst to remember which ones those are." }, { "doi": "10.21105/joss.03393", "title": "see: An R Package for Visualizing Statistical Models", "year": 2021, "journal": "Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Lüdecke, D., Patil, I., Ben-Shachar, M., Wiernik, B., Waggoner, P., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2021_See/2021_See.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 118, "featured": "publications/2021_See/featured.jpg", "folder": "2021_See", "summary": "see is the plotting half of easystats: it takes what the other packages return — model checks, effect sizes, posteriors, correlation matrices, cluster solutions — and draws it, so that a diagnostic is looked at rather than read off a table." }, { "doi": "10.1007/s12144-021-01760-1", "title": "The structure of deception: Validation of the lying profile questionnaire", "year": 2021, "journal": "Current Psychology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Pham, T., Lau, Z. J., Raine, A., & Chen, S. H. A.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2021_TheStructureOfDeception/2021_TheStructureOfDeception.pdf", "keywords": [ "Deception", "Psychometrics", "Personality" ], "citations": 15, "featured": "publications/2021_TheStructureOfDeception/featured.jpg", "folder": "2021_TheStructureOfDeception", "summary": "Lying is usually studied as something to be detected. This paper turns it around and measures it as a disposition, validating the Lying Profile Questionnaire — how much, how well and why a person lies — as a way of describing the structure of everyday deception." }, { "doi": "10.1007/S41811-019-00060-8", "title": "Adaptation and Validation of a Short French Version of the Affective Style Questionnaire", "year": 2020, "journal": "International Journal of Cognitive Therapy", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Lavallée, S., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2020_AffectiveStyleQuestionnaire/2020_AffectiveStyleQuestionnaire.pdf", "keywords": [ "Psychometrics", "Emotion Regulation" ], "citations": 2, "featured": "publications/2020_AffectiveStyleQuestionnaire/featured.jpg", "folder": "2020_AffectiveStyleQuestionnaire", "summary": "A short French adaptation of the Affective Style Questionnaire, which measures the habitual ways people handle their own emotions — concealing them, adjusting them, or tolerating them — validated on a French-speaking sample." }, { "doi": "10.21105/joss.02815", "title": "effectsize: Estimation of Effect Size Indices and Standardized Parameters", "year": 2020, "journal": "Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Ben-Shachar, M., Lüdecke, D., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2020_Effectsize/2020_Effectsize.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 1988, "featured": "publications/2020_Effectsize/featured.jpg", "folder": "2020_Effectsize", "summary": "effectsize computes and converts effect size indices — Cohen's d, Hedges' g, eta-squared, odds ratios and the rest — and standardises model parameters, with interpretation rules attached so that a number does not have to be looked up in a textbook before it can be read." }, { "doi": "10.21105/joss.02445", "title": "Extracting, Computing and Exploring the Parameters of Statistical Models using R", "year": 2020, "journal": "Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Lüdecke, D., Ben-Shachar, M., Patil, I., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2020_Parameters/2020_Parameters.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 467, "featured": "publications/2020_Parameters/featured.jpg", "folder": "2020_Parameters", "summary": "The parameters R package extracts what a model actually estimated — coefficients, standard errors, intervals, p-values — out of any of the dozens of model classes in R and into one tidy frame, along with the bootstrapping, standardisation and dimensionality-reduction usually needed next." }, { "doi": "10.21105/joss.02306", "title": "Methods and Algorithms for Correlation Analysis in R", "year": 2020, "journal": "Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Ben-Shachar, M., Patil, I., & Lüdecke, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2020_Correlation/2020_Correlation.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 411, "featured": "publications/2020_Correlation/featured.jpg", "folder": "2020_Correlation", "summary": "The correlation R package covers the whole family through one function — Pearson, Spearman, Kendall, biserial, polychoric, tetrachoric, partial and Bayesian — choosing the method that suits the variables it is given, and returning matrices that are ready to plot or report." }, { "doi": "10.1111/PSYP.13490", "title": "The heart of cognitive control: Cardiac phase modulates processing speed and inhibition", "year": 2020, "journal": "Psychophysiology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Blondé, P., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2020_TheHeartOfCognitiveControl/2020_TheHeartOfCognitiveControl.pdf", "keywords": [ "Interoception", "Psychophysiology", "Attention", "Reaction Times" ], "citations": 29, "featured": "publications/2020_TheHeartOfCognitiveControl/featured.jpg", "folder": "2020_TheHeartOfCognitiveControl", "summary": "Baroreceptors fire in time with the heartbeat, and that rhythm is known to shape cognition in emotional settings. Using a task with no emotional content, this study shows the effect is not specific to emotion: responses were faster during systole, and inhibition was most likely to fail towards the middle of it." }, { "doi": "10.1016/j.concog.2020.102920", "title": "The impact of state and dispositional mindfulness on prospective memory: A virtual reality study", "year": 2020, "journal": "Consciousness and Cognition", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Girardeau, J., Blondé, P., Makowski, D., Abram, M., Piolino, P., & Sperduti, M.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2020_MindfulnessProspectiveMemory/2020_MindfulnessProspectiveMemory.pdf", "keywords": [ "Mindfulness", "Episodic Memory", "Virtual Reality" ], "citations": 16, "featured": "publications/2020_MindfulnessProspectiveMemory/featured.jpg", "folder": "2020_MindfulnessProspectiveMemory", "summary": "Prospective memory is remembering to do something later, and it is what mind wandering is most likely to cost. This virtual-reality study separates state from dispositional mindfulness and asks which of the two predicts remembering an intention in a realistic environment." }, { "doi": "10.21105/JOSS.01541", "title": "bayestestR: Describing Effects and their Uncertainty, Existence and Significance within the Bayesian Framework", "year": 2019, "journal": "The Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Ben-Shachar, M., & Lüdecke, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2019_Bayestestr/2019_Bayestestr.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Bayesian Statistics", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 1345, "featured": "publications/2019_Bayestestr/featured.jpg", "folder": "2019_Bayestestr", "summary": "bayestestR describes what a Bayesian posterior actually implies about an effect: credible intervals, the probability of direction, ROPE-based decisions and Bayes factors, under one vocabulary. It is the easystats package for saying whether an effect exists, how large it is, and whether the size matters." }, { "doi": "10.1016/J.CONCOG.2018.11.004", "title": "Dispositional mindfulness attenuates the emotional attentional blink", "year": 2019, "journal": "Consciousness and Cognition", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Lavallée, S., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2019_DispositionalMindfulness/2019_DispositionalMindfulness.pdf", "keywords": [ "Mindfulness", "Attention" ], "citations": 24, "featured": "publications/2019_DispositionalMindfulness/featured.jpg", "folder": "2019_DispositionalMindfulness", "summary": "In the emotional attentional blink, an emotionally charged distractor makes the next target hard to see at all. People higher in dispositional mindfulness showed a smaller blink, suggesting trait mindfulness buffers the attentional cost of emotional distraction." }, { "doi": "10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02767", "title": "Indices of Effect Existence and Significance in the Bayesian Framework", "year": 2019, "journal": "Frontiers in Psychology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Ben-Shachar, M. S., Chen, S. H. A., & Lüdecke, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2019_IndicesOfEffectExistence/2019_IndicesOfEffectExistence.pdf", "keywords": [ "Bayesian Statistics", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 841, "featured": "publications/2019_IndicesOfEffectExistence/featured.jpg", "folder": "2019_IndicesOfEffectExistence", "summary": "There are several ways to say a Bayesian effect \"exists\" — the probability of direction, ROPE coverage, Bayes factors, MAP-based p-values — and they do not always agree. This paper compares them on simulated data, sets out which to report, and maps each onto the frequentist p-value researchers are arriving from." }, { "doi": "10.21105/JOSS.01412", "title": "insight: A Unified Interface to Access Information from Model Objects in R", "year": 2019, "journal": "The Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Lüdecke, D., Waggoner, P., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2019_Insight/2019_Insight.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Statistical Methods" ], "citations": 125, "featured": "publications/2019_Insight/featured.jpg", "folder": "2019_Insight", "summary": "insight is the package the rest of easystats stands on: one interface for getting information out of a fitted model — its predictors, random effects, priors, formula — whatever package produced it. It exists because every model class in R exposes its internals differently." }, { "doi": "10.3758/S13415-018-00681-0", "title": "Phenomenal, bodily and brain correlates of fictional reappraisal as an implicit emotion regulation strategy", "year": 2019, "journal": "Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Pelletier, J., Blondé, P., La Corte, V., Arcangeli, M., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2019_FictionalReappraisal/2019_FictionalReappraisal.pdf", "keywords": [ "Emotion Regulation", "Fiction", "Reality Beliefs", "Psychophysiology" ], "citations": 14, "featured": "publications/2019_FictionalReappraisal/featured.jpg", "folder": "2019_FictionalReappraisal", "summary": "The same images, presented as real photographs or as staged fiction, measured at three levels at once: what people reported feeling, what their bodies did, and what their brains did. The paper reports the correlates of fictional reappraisal at each level, and treats it as an emotion-regulation strategy nobody has to choose to use." }, { "doi": "10.70675/b893631fzf9dfz4924za932z080163f62da9", "title": "Cognitive neuropsychology of implicit emotion regulation through fictional reappraisal", "year": 2018, "journal": "", "type": "Dissertation Thesis", "authors": "Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": null, "keywords": [ "Emotion Regulation", "Fiction", "Reality Beliefs", "Psychophysiology" ], "citations": 0, "featured": null, "folder": "2018_ImplicitEmotionRegulation", "summary": "The doctoral thesis behind the lab's fictional-reappraisal work. Four studies present the same affective material as either real or fictional and follow the consequences through subjective experience, physiology and brain response. Believing something to be fiction reliably dampens the emotion; the effect does not interact with self-reference, but does depend on executive and interoceptive capacity." }, { "doi": "10.21105/JOSS.00470", "title": "The psycho Package: an Efficient and Publishing-Oriented Workflow for Psychological Science", "year": 2018, "journal": "The Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2018_Psycho/2018_Psycho.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Statistical Methods", "Open Science" ], "citations": 351, "featured": "publications/2018_Psycho/featured.jpg", "folder": "2018_Psycho", "summary": "The psycho R package turns the output of common statistical models into sentences that can go straight into a manuscript, with the APA-formatted numbers already in place. It is the direct ancestor of the easystats suite that replaced it." }, { "doi": "10.1016/J.CONCOG.2017.06.015", "title": "\"Being there\" and remembering it: Presence improves memory encoding", "year": 2017, "journal": "Consciousness and Cognition", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2017_BeingThereAndRemembering/2017_BeingThereAndRemembering.pdf", "keywords": [ "Virtual Reality", "Episodic Memory" ], "citations": 112, "featured": "publications/2017_BeingThereAndRemembering/featured.jpg", "folder": "2017_BeingThereAndRemembering", "summary": "The sense of \"being there\" in a virtual environment — presence — is usually treated as a measure of how convincing the simulation is. Here it predicts memory: the stronger the presence during an episode, the better it was later remembered." }, { "doi": "10.3917/bupsy.549.0163", "title": "Centenaire Ribot (première partie). La réception de l’œuvre de Théodule Ribot publiée chez l’éditeur Ladrange (1870-1873)", "year": 2017, "journal": "Bulletin de psychologie", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Nicolas, S., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2017_CentenaireRibotPremierePartie/2017_CentenaireRibotPremierePartie.pdf", "keywords": [ "History of Psychology" ], "citations": 1, "featured": "publications/2017_CentenaireRibotPremierePartie/featured.jpg", "folder": "2017_CentenaireRibotPremierePartie", "summary": "The first of two papers marking the centenary of Théodule Ribot's death, following how the founder of modern French psychology first reached print with the Parisian publisher Ladrange. It covers the 1870 book on English psychology whose introduction reads as the founding manifesto of the new French psychology, and the 1873 doctoral thesis on psychological heredity that already holds much of what came later." }, { "doi": null, "title": "How virtual embodiment affects episodic memory functioning: A proof-of-concept study", "year": 2017, "journal": "Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Tuena, C., Serino, S., Gaston-Bellegarde, A., Orriols, E., Makowski, D., Riva, G., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2017_VirtualEmbodimentMemory/2017_VirtualEmbodimentMemory.pdf", "keywords": [ "Virtual Reality", "Episodic Memory", "Self-Reference" ], "citations": null, "featured": "publications/2017_VirtualEmbodimentMemory/featured.jpg", "folder": "2017_VirtualEmbodimentMemory", "summary": "A proof-of-concept study giving participants ownership of a virtual body, and asking what being embodied somewhere does to episodic memory for what happens around it." }, { "doi": "10.1007/S00221-017-5081-6", "title": "Interaction between attentional systems and episodic memory encoding: the impact of conflict on binding of information", "year": 2017, "journal": "Experimental Brain Research", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Sperduti, M., Armougum, A., Makowski, D., Blondé, P., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2017_InteractionBetweenAttentionalSystems/2017_InteractionBetweenAttentionalSystems.pdf", "keywords": [ "Attention", "Episodic Memory" ], "citations": 8, "featured": "publications/2017_InteractionBetweenAttentionalSystems/featured.jpg", "folder": "2017_InteractionBetweenAttentionalSystems", "summary": "What becomes of a memory formed while attention is busy resolving a conflict. The study measures the cost of attentional conflict at encoding on how information is bound together into a single episode." }, { "doi": "10.1684/PNV.2017.0672", "title": "Meditation and successful aging: can meditative practices counteract age-related cognitive decline?", "year": 2017, "journal": "Geriatrie et Psychologie Neuropsychiatrie du Vieillissement", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Sperduti, M., Makowski, D., Blondé, P., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2017_MeditationAndSuccessfulAging/2017_MeditationAndSuccessfulAging.pdf", "keywords": [ "Mindfulness", "Aging" ], "citations": 14, "featured": "publications/2017_MeditationAndSuccessfulAging/featured.jpg", "folder": "2017_MeditationAndSuccessfulAging", "summary": "A review of whether meditative practice can counteract age-related cognitive decline, and of what the evidence does and does not support once \"successful aging\" is treated as something that can be trained." }, { "doi": "10.21105/JOSS.00259", "title": "Neuropsydia.py: A Python Module for Creating Experiments, Tasks and Questionnaires", "year": 2017, "journal": "The Journal of Open Source Software", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., & Dutriaux, L.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2017_Neuropsydia/2017_Neuropsydia.pdf", "keywords": [ "Software Development", "Open Science" ], "citations": 20, "featured": "publications/2017_Neuropsydia/featured.jpg", "folder": "2017_Neuropsydia", "summary": "Neuropsydia.py is a Python module for building experiments, cognitive tasks and questionnaires. It is written for researchers rather than programmers: the recurring pieces of a psychology task — instructions, scales, response collection, timing — are single calls rather than a graphics stack to configure." }, { "doi": "10.1016/J.ACTPSY.2016.12.001", "title": "The distinctive role of executive functions in implicit emotion regulation", "year": 2017, "journal": "Acta Psychologica", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Sperduti, M., Makowski, D., Arcangeli, M., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2017_ExecutiveFunctionsEmotionRegulation/2017_ExecutiveFunctionsEmotionRegulation.pdf", "keywords": [ "Emotion Regulation", "Attention", "Fiction" ], "citations": 60, "featured": "publications/2017_ExecutiveFunctionsEmotionRegulation/featured.png", "folder": "2017_ExecutiveFunctionsEmotionRegulation", "summary": "Deliberate emotion regulation is known to draw on executive function. This study asks whether implicit regulation — reappraisal a person never decides to perform — does the same, and which executive components it recruits." }, { "doi": "10.1484/J.EYHP.5.112940", "title": "Can mental fatigue be measured by weber's compass? Alfred Binet's answer on the value of aesthesiometry (tactile sensitivity) as an objective measure of mental fatigue", "year": 2016, "journal": "European Yearbook of the History of Psychology", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Nicolas, S., & Makowski, D.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2016_MentalFatigueWeberCompass/2016_MentalFatigueWeberCompass.pdf", "keywords": [ "History of Psychology", "Psychometrics", "Attention" ], "citations": 10, "featured": "publications/2016_MentalFatigueWeberCompass/featured.jpg", "folder": "2016_MentalFatigueWeberCompass", "summary": "Before intelligence testing, Alfred Binet spent years looking for a physical measure of mental fatigue, and tactile sensitivity — the two-point threshold read off Weber's compass — was the leading candidate. This paper reconstructs those experiments and the conclusion Binet drew about what aesthesiometry could and could not measure." }, { "doi": "10.1016/J.ACTPSY.2016.02.003", "title": "The paradox of fiction: Emotional response toward fiction and the modulatory role of self-relevance", "year": 2016, "journal": "Acta Psychologica", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Sperduti, M., Arcangeli, M., Makowski, D., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2016_TheParadoxOfFiction/2016_TheParadoxOfFiction.pdf", "keywords": [ "Fiction", "Emotion Regulation", "Reality Beliefs", "Self-Reference" ], "citations": 29, "featured": "publications/2016_TheParadoxOfFiction/featured.jpg", "folder": "2016_TheParadoxOfFiction", "summary": "People are moved by events they know never happened. This study varies whether the same material is taken to be real or fictional, and finds the emotional response modulated by how self-relevant the scenario is rather than by its reality status alone." }, { "doi": "10.1080/13825585.2016.1159652", "title": "The protective role of long-term meditation on the decline of the executive component of attention in aging: a preliminary cross-sectional study", "year": 2016, "journal": "Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Sperduti, M., Makowski, D., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2016_LongTermMeditationExecutive/2016_LongTermMeditationExecutive.pdf", "keywords": [ "Mindfulness", "Aging", "Attention" ], "citations": 30, "featured": "publications/2016_LongTermMeditationExecutive/featured.jpg", "folder": "2016_LongTermMeditationExecutive", "summary": "A cross-sectional comparison of long-term meditators and non-meditators across the adult lifespan, testing whether sustained practice buffers the age-related decline of attention. The protective association was specific to the executive component rather than to attention in general." }, { "doi": "10.1684/PNV.2015.0561", "title": "Emotion regulation and the cognitive decline in aging: beyond the paradox", "year": 2015, "journal": "Geriatrie et Psychologie Neuropsychiatrie du Vieillissement", "type": "Journal Article", "authors": "Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Blanchet, S., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P.", "is_preprint": false, "pdf": "publications/2015_EmotionRegulationAging/2015_EmotionRegulationAging.pdf", "keywords": [ "Emotion Regulation", "Aging" ], "citations": 5, "featured": "publications/2015_EmotionRegulationAging/featured.jpg", "folder": "2015_EmotionRegulationAging", "summary": "Emotional wellbeing tends to hold up in later life even as the cognitive resources that emotion regulation is thought to depend on decline. This review works through that apparent paradox and what it implies for models treating regulation as a single, effortful capacity." } ] }