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104This study examines social media usage, attention control, and psychological well-being in young adults. Social media engagement correlates with decreased attentional regulation, heightened anxiety, and cognitive difficulties, particularly with short-form content like TikTok. Young adults from The City College of New York completed visual attention tasks and surveys measuring demographics, platform engagement, stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD symptoms. Results suggest prolonged social media use may ameliorate attention-related symptoms, especially in individuals with high ADHD symptomatology.POSTER 61THE BIZARRENESS EFFECT IS INCONSISTENT IN FREE RECALLMARYELLEN HAMILTON (SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY), MARIA MEDRANO (SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY) We extended our previous inconsistent findings of a bizarreness effect in free recall. Participants saw objects in either their typical color (pink-pig) or a bizarre color (blue-tomato). During encoding participants rated how bizarre they thought the itemswere. Even with this encoding manipulation we failed to find a bizarreness effect but instead found a significant typicality effect (greater memory for typical versus bizarre colored objects) in free recall. Implications of these findings will be discussed.POSTER 62THE CURIOUS MIND: HOW IT IMPACTS MEMORY IN YOUNGER AND OLDER ADULTSERIKA MARASCIA (UNIVERSIT%u00c0 DEGLI STUDI), ADOLFO DI CROSTA (UNIVERSIT%u00c0 DEGLI STUDI \D'ANNUNZIO\PASQUALE LA MALVA (UNIVERSIT%u00c0 DEGLI STUDI \D'ANNUNZIO\IRENE CECCATO (UNIVERSIT%u00c0 DEGLI STUDI \D'ANNUNZIO\NICOLA MAMMARELLA (UNIVERSIT%u00c0 DEGLI STUDI \D'ANNUNZIO\ROCCO PALUMBO (UNIVERSIT%u00c0 DEGLI STUDI \D'ANNUNZIO\ALBERTO DI DOMENICO (UNIVERSIT%u00c0 DEGLI STUDI \. D'ANNUNZIO\This study investigates the effects of curiosity, an intrinsic motivation to acquire knowledge, on incidental memory in younger and older adults. Participants were presented with magic trick videos designed to elicit curiosity, followed by neutral words, which were tested in a subsequent recognition task. We hypothesize that high-curiosity states will enhance word recognition across age groups. Results could highlight curiosity's role in cognitive preservation and support memoryenhancing interventions for aging population.POSTER 63THE EFFECT OF SHOWUPS, LINEUPS, AND ENCODING TIME ON THE CROSS-RACE EFFECTMADISON BROUSSEAU (HOLLINS UNIVERSITY), ALEX WOOTEN (HOLLINS UNIVERSITY), BHUMIKA RAI (HOLLINS UNIVERSITY) This study examines how encoding time, perpetrator race, and presentation method impacts the cross-race effect in eyewitness identification. Some researchers have found that while encoding time decreases, the CRE increases (Marcon et al., 2010), while others have not (Nguyen et Pezdek, 2017). Showups could magnify the CRE, adding to the growing recommendations for abandoning their use in the criminal justice system. We expect that accuracy will be highest for long encoding, lineups, and same-race perpetrators.POSTER 64THE EFFECT OF VISUAL WORKING MEMORY LOAD ON JOKE COMPREHENSIONMY KIM DANG (UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON), ERICA CZERWINSKI (UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON), JILL WARKER (UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON) This study investigates whether visual working memory load affects comprehension for humorous and nonhumorous sentences differently. In a dual-task paradigm, participants complete a task with varying visual working memory load while completing a sentence comprehension task. Results indicate that participants had decreased comprehension for humorous sentences compared to nonhumorous sentences. Though the amount of information held in visual working memory did affect performance on the working memory task, it did not affect sentence comprehension.POSTER 65THE EFFECTS OF TIKTOK USAGE ON FRONTAL ALPHA ASYMMETRY TO DISTRACTIONABDULLAH MADY (THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK CUNY), NAHILA NZINA (THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK), ROBERT MELARA (THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK), LOREYNE LEMBERT (THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK), CHEN LI (THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK), ISTIAQ AHMED (THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK), KALLIE SANCHEZ (THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK) This study examines frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) during selective attention tasks in college students with varying social media usage. Previous research indicates that lower social media users show greater withdrawal motivation to distractions. Young adults 104