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Articulated thoughts in a simulated situation (ATSS) is a qualitative experimental paradigm used for exploring cognition during complex situations.
Introduction
The ATSS paradigm was originally proposed by Davison et al. (1983). Davison et al. (1983) developed the ATSS method after identifying the need for an experimental paradigm that:
[Would] permit open-ended verbal responding that reflects, as much as possible, ongoing thought processes rather than retrospective reporting; subjects should be constrained as little as possible in what they report, and they should be enabled to make their reports with ease and a minimum of delay. The experimenter should also be able to specify and manipulate the situations to which subjects are responding, while at the same time being able to present events that are sufficiently realistic and complex. Next, situations unlikely to be bothersome to subjects should be...
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Fisher, P., Robie, C. (2017). Articulated Thoughts in Simulated Situations. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1279-1
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