2025 March - 17 articles
This study investigates the cognitive processes underlying chess expertise by examining planning, cognitive reflection, inter-temporal choice, and risky choice in chess players. The study involves 25 chess players and 25 non-chess players, comparing...
Critical thinking is a skill of great importance in our current and future society. Its value goes beyond all theoretical doubt although it requires more practical development, especially in terms of coordinated and evidence-based approaches. In addi...
Gender differences in understanding the meanings of affect cues, often labeled emotion recognition, have been studied for over a century. Past reviews of the literature have concluded that girls and women score higher than boys and men on tests of ac...
Various studies on the formation of critical thinking in teachers express difficulties in the training of teachers at different levels of education. Some of them recognize conceptual dispersion evidenced in their conceptions and explanations; others...
While there is broad consensus that non-insight problems are typically solved through conscious, stepwise processes, the mechanisms underlying insight problem solving remain under debate. According to the special process view, insight relies on an un...
This study was conducted to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI), breastfeeding self-efficacy, and maternal expectations of women who did and did not receive education and counseling during pregnancy. An observational cross-...
This study examines the relationships between critical thinking, metacognition, psychological well-being, and empathy using structural equation modeling. The study sample consists of 155 university students from a higher education institution in Spai...
Although cognitive ability tests are among the best predictors of job and training performance, their acceptance among applicants is limited. However, with the current talent shortage, applicant reactions to assessments have become increasingly impor...
What shapes (occupational) success in later life? This study examines the differential importance of intelligence in late childhood, socioeconomic background, and education across later occupations. The quantity and quality of educational success are...
Creative idea selection is an important part of the creative process, but the current research on creative idea selection has not attracted enough attention, and this lack is particularly evident in the research on creativity focusing on adolescents....
We proposed a novel approach to investigate how problem-solving strategies, identified using response time and eye-tracking data, can impact individuals’ performance on the Object Assembly (OA) task. To conduct an integrated assessment of spati...
This study aims to examine the predictive performance of process data and result data in complex problem-solving skills using the conditional gradient boosting algorithm. For this purpose, data from 915 participants of the 2012 cycle of the Programme...
In this era with an increasing overabundance of information, the ability to distill relevant information, i.e., “information reduction”, is becoming more crucial to daily functioning. However, the fact that information reduction is most p...
Metacognition is vital for creativity; however, the specific contributions of its components (i.e., metacognition knowledge, metacognition experience, and metacognition monitoring and control) have received varying levels of attention, particularly d...
Divergent thinking tests are popular instruments to measure a person’s creativity. They often involve scoring fluency, which refers to the count of ideas generated in response to a prompt. The two-parameter Poisson counts model (2PPCM), a gener...
This study aimed to validate the Chinese version of the self-beliefs in creativity and well-being (SBCWs) and probe its associations with life satisfaction, meaning in life, and psychological richness. Additionally, it explored the mediating role of...
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