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Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Lanfranco, R. C., Kausel, L., Yu, Z., Boncompte, G., …Derrfuss, J. (2023). Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication. Perception, 52(11-12), 812-843. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231204180

The aim of the current research was to explore whether we can improve the recognition of cross-cultural freely-expressed emotional faces in British participants. We tested several methods for improving the recognition of freely-expressed emotional fa... Read More about Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.

“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Karlis, A. K., Tong, E. M. W., Milbank, A., …Madan, C. (2023). “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04518-z

Sadness has typically been associated with failure, defeat and loss, but it has also been suggested that sadness facilitates positive and restructuring emotional changes. This suggests that sadness is a multi-faceted emotion. This supports the idea t... Read More about “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Yu, Z., Kausel, L., Boncompte, G., Lanfranco, R. C., Oxner, M., …Chapman, P. (2021). “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures. Perception, 50(12), 1027-1055. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211055983

The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

Unbiased post-error slowing in interference tasks: A confound and a simple solution (2021)
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Derrfuss, J., Danielmeier, C., Klein, T. A., Fischer, A. G., & Ullsperger, M. (2022). Unbiased post-error slowing in interference tasks: A confound and a simple solution. Behavior Research Methods, 54(3), 1416-1427. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01673-8

We typically slow down after committing an error, an effect termed post-error slowing (PES). Traditionally, PES has been calculated by subtracting post-correct from post-error RTs. Dutilh et al. (Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 56(3), 208-216, 20... Read More about Unbiased post-error slowing in interference tasks: A confound and a simple solution.

Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Madan, C., Derrfuss, J., Chapman, P., & Groeger, J. (2021). Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications. Consciousness and Cognition, 94, Article 103172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103172

In this manuscript we review a seminal debate related to subliminality and concerning the relationship of consciousness, unconsciousness, and perception. We present the methodological implementations that contemporary psychology introduced to explore... Read More about Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications.

“Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Qing Leong, M., Yu, Z., Paterakis, G., Bali, P., Derrfuss, J., …Mitchell, P. (2021). “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01461-7

Psychological theory and research suggest that religious individuals could have differences in sensitivity to immoral behaviors and cognition compared to non-religious individual. This effect could occur due to perceptual and physiological difference... Read More about “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality.

Neural and behavioral traces of error awareness (2020)
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Kirschner, H., Humann, J., Derrfuss, J., Danielmeier, C., & Ullsperger, M. (2021). Neural and behavioral traces of error awareness. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 21, 573-591. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00838-w

Monitoring for errors and behavioral adjustments after errors are essential for daily life. A question that has not been addressed systematically yet, is whether consciously perceived errors lead to different behavioral adjustments compared to unperc... Read More about Neural and behavioral traces of error awareness.

The unconscious mind: From classical theoretical controversy to controversial contemporary research and a practical illustration of the “error of our ways” (2019)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Persefoni, B., Derrfuss, J., & Chapman, P. (2019). The unconscious mind: From classical theoretical controversy to controversial contemporary research and a practical illustration of the “error of our ways”. Consciousness and Cognition, 74, 1-13

In this manuscript, the authors present an overview of the history, an account of the theoretical and methodological controversy, and an illustration of contemporary and revised methods for the exploration of unconscious processing. Initially we disc... Read More about The unconscious mind: From classical theoretical controversy to controversial contemporary research and a practical illustration of the “error of our ways”.

Distractor-resistant short-term memory is supported by transient changes in neural stimulus representations (2017)
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Derrfuss, J., Ekman, M., Hanke, M., Tittgemeyer, M., & Fiebach, C. J. (2017). Distractor-resistant short-term memory is supported by transient changes in neural stimulus representations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(9), https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01141

Goal-directed behavior in a complex world requires the maintenance of goal-relevant information despite multiple sources of distraction. However, the brain mechanisms underlying distractor-resistant working or short-term memory (STM) are not fully un... Read More about Distractor-resistant short-term memory is supported by transient changes in neural stimulus representations.