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Inducing perceived group variability triggers the incorporation of counter-ster...

Perceived variability is the extent to which individuals perceive group members as being similar to one another. Previous research has focused on how: group variability is perceived (and measured); information indicative of group heterogeneity can lead to reductions in stereotypicality; or how stereotype-inconsistent information can result into increased perceived variability. The present combines the three lin...

Avoiding anchoring effects in credit card payment options : exploring alternati...

Anchoring in a Social Context: How the Possibility of Being Misinformed by Othe...

Building on research about naïve theories of biases, we propose that people are more likely to engage in critical thinking when assessing others’ reasoning. Hence, anchoring effects should be reduced when anchor values are presented as others’ estimates and people perceive others as less knowledgeable (i.e., more prone to biases) than themselves. Three experiments tested this hypothesis by presenting the same a...

Can we learn from errors? Retrieval facilitates the correction of false memorie...

Errorful learning suggests that, when perfect learning has not yet been attained, errors can enhance future learning if followed by corrective feedback. Research on memory updating has shown that after retrieval, memory becomes more malleable and prone to change. Thus, retrieval of a wrong answer might provide a good context for the incorporation of feedback. Here, we tested this hypothesis using sentences incl...

Break the Ice: a Survey on Socially Aware Engagement for Human Robot First Enco...

Society is starting to come up with exciting applications for social robots like butlers, coaches, and waiters. However, these robots face a challenging task: to meet people during a first encounter. This survey explores the literature that contributes to this task. We define a taxonomy based on psychology and sociology models: Kendon’s greeting model and Greenspan’s model of social competence. We use Kendon’s ...

Uma análise do progresso científico da Cognição Social à luz da perspetiva do "...

A Cognição Social é uma abordagem conceptual e empírica que tenta explicar os fenómenos psicossociais através das estruturas e dos processos cognitivos que lhe são subjacentes. Esta abordagem com a sua génese nos anos oitenta, tem contribuído para a compreensão da mente do ser humano, tomando-o como um ser eminentemente social. Neste artigo procuramos debater a sua contribuição para o progresso científico na co...

Incidental exposure to hedonic and healthy food features affects food preferenc...

Memories acquired incidentally from exposure to food information in the environment may often become active to later afect food preferences. Because conscious use of these memories is not requested or required, these inciden‑ tal learning efects constitute a form of indirect memory. In an experiment using a novel food preference paradigm (n=617), we found that brief incidental exposure to hedonic versus healthy...

Imagination Reduces False Memories for Everyday Action Sentences: Evidence From...

Human memory can be unreliable, and when reading a sentence with a pragmatic implication, such as “the karate champion hit the cinder block,” people often falsely remember that the karate champion “broke” the cinder block. Yet, research has shown that encoding instructions affect the false memories we form. On the one hand, instructing participants to imagine themselves manipulating the to-be-recalled items inc...

Generation and testing of emergent traits in composite professional stereotypes

Abstract: In daily interactions, we frequently meet people that belong to multiple categories, sometimes with conflicting stereotypical implications. Studies show that, when generating attributes for composite stereotypes, novel emergent attributes are created, derived from the constituent categories, but also from real world knowledge (e.g., Hastie, Schroeder, & Weber, 1990; Kunda, Miller, & Claire, 1990). In ...

Generation and testing of emergent traits in composite professional stereotypes

In daily interactions, we frequently meet people that belong to multiple categories, sometimes with conflicting stereotypical implications. Studies show that, when generating attributes for composite stereotypes, novel emergent attributes are created, derived from the constituent categories, but also from real world knowledge (e.g., Hastie, Schroeder, & Weber, 1990; Kunda, Miller, & Claire, 1990). In this work,...