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Eating disorder symptomatology and body mass index are associated with readers’ expectations about character behavior: evidence from eye-tracking during reading (2018)
Journal Article

Objective: Many theories have been put forward suggesting key factors underlying the development and maintenance of eating disorders, such as: unhealthy food-related cognitive biases, negative body attitude, and perfectionism; however, underlying cog... Read More about Eating disorder symptomatology and body mass index are associated with readers’ expectations about character behavior: evidence from eye-tracking during reading.

Examining the emotional impact of sarcasm using a virtual environment (2018)
Journal Article

This study aimed to investigate the emotional impact of sarcasm. Previous research in this area has mainly required participants to answer questions based on written materials, and results have been mixed. With the aim of instead examining the emotio... Read More about Examining the emotional impact of sarcasm using a virtual environment.

The role of defaultness and personality factors in sarcasm interpretation: evidence from eye-tracking during reading (2018)
Journal Article

Theorists have debated whether our ability to understand sarcasm is principally determined by the context (Gibbs, 1994; Utsumi, 2000) or by properties of the comment itself (Giora, 1997; 2003; Grice, 1975). The current research investigated an alter... Read More about The role of defaultness and personality factors in sarcasm interpretation: evidence from eye-tracking during reading.

Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals (2018)
Journal Article

Silent word reading leads to the activation of orthographic (spelling), meaning, as well as phonological (sound) information. For bilinguals, native language information can also be activated automatically when they read words in their second languag... Read More about Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals.

New body scales reveal body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal, and muscularity-ideal in males (2018)
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The aim of the current study was to develop, test, and re-test two new male body dissatisfaction scales: The Male Body Scale (MBS; consisting of emaciated to obese figures) and the Male Fit Body Scale (MFBS; consisting of emaciated to muscular figure... Read More about New body scales reveal body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal, and muscularity-ideal in males.

Task-dependent evaluative processing of moral and emotional content during comprehension: an ERP study (2018)
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Recently, we showed that when participants passively read about moral transgressions (e.g., adultery) they implicitly engage in the evaluative (good–bad) categorization of incoming information, as indicated by a larger event-related brain potential (... Read More about Task-dependent evaluative processing of moral and emotional content during comprehension: an ERP study.