While smartphones have brought many benefits and conveniences to users, there is continuing
debate regarding their potential negative consequences on everyday cognition such as …

… This research was supported by grants awarded to Andree Hartanto by Singapore Management
University through research grants from the Ministry of Education Academy Research …

Drawing on the adaptive control hypothesis (Green & Abutalebi, 2013), we investigated
whether bilinguals’ disparate interactional contexts modulate task-switching performance. Fifty-…

Despite a growing number of studies on bilingual advantages in executive functions (EF), their
findings have been inconsistent. To shed light on this issue, we aimed to address both the …

Norm enforcement may be important for resolving conflicts and promoting cooperation.
However, little is known about how preferred responses to norm violations vary across cultures …

Despite a huge spike in smartphone overuse, the cognitive and emotional consequences of
smartphone overuse have rarely been examined empirically. In two studies, we investigated …

Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998) reported that participants primed with a category
associated with intelligence (“professor”) subsequently performed 13% better on a trivia test …

Socioeconomic status (SES) and bilingualism have been shown to influence executive
functioning during early childhood. Less is known, however, about how the two factors interact …

According to the World Health Organization (1), 264 million individuals worldwide suffer from
depression—a condition characterized by feelings of low self-worth, impaired concentration…

Video gaming has been a source of serious concern for parents and educators, based on
the belief that video games disrupt adolescents' academic activities. However, previous …