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Acting fast on feelings!: Naïve theories of futsal players about the use of fee...
Fonseca, Cristina; Lapa, Ana; Garcia-Marques, TeresaAbstract: Athletes often report relying on their gut feelings to guide their decisions. This paper examines this reliance through a social-cognitive approach, focusing on players’ beliefs about how they use feelings, thoughts, or a simple assessment of the situation when making decisions. In Study 1, we first asked athletes about how they define “actions” and “changes of action” in a sports context and then inq...
Valence word processing in preference vs. lexical decision tasks: Insights from...
Oliveira, Gonçalo Aires; Domingos, Ana; Garcia-Marques, TeresaProcessing is oriented by goals that determine the details of the stimuli to be attended. Previous studies claim that the determination of word valence (neutral, positive, or negative) is prioritized at early processing stages. This effect of immediate processing of affective information is supported by behavioral and psychophysiological evidence. Here we address this primacy of affect hypothesis in word proces...
Depression and the susceptibility to anchoring bias
da Silva, Diogo Carvalho; Garcia-Marques, TeresaAbstract: Are depressive individuals more susceptible to anchoring effects? Does this susceptibility depend upon the affective nature of the event? Does individuals’ tendency to ruminative thinking have a role in these effects? We approach these questions by having participants (N=146) in a study perform an anchoring task (see Mussweiler & Strack, 2001) with neutral, negative, and depressive events, and subsequ...
Valence word processing in preference vs. lexical decision tasks : insights fro...
Oliveira, Gonçalo Aires; Domingos, Ana; Garcia-Marques, TeresaAbstract: Processing is oriented by goals that determine the details of the stimuli to be attended. Previous studies claim that the determination of word valence (neutral, positive, or negative) is prioritized at early processing stages. This effect of immediate processing of affective information is supported by behavioral and psychophysiological evidence. Here we address this primacy of affect hypothesis in w...
More than meets the gut: A prototype analysis of the lay conceptions of intuiti...
Loureiro, Filipe; Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Wegener, Duane T.Using a prototype approach, we assessed people’s lay conceptions of intuition and analysis. Open-ended descriptions of intuition and analysis were generated by participants (Study 1) and resulting exemplars were sorted into features subsequently rated in centrality by independent participants (Study 2). Feature centrality was validated by showing that participants were quicker and more accurate in classifying c...
Meta-analysis of social presence effects on stroop task performance
Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Fernandes, AlexandreIn this paper, we conducted a meta-analytic review to examine the impact of social presence on individuals’ performance on the Stroop task, shedding light on the cognitive processes underlying social facilitation. We followed PRISMA guidelines to identify and include 33 relevant studies in a multivariate random-effects meta-analysis. Our results show that social presence reliably modulates Stroop interference (...
A Cognitive toolbox for persuasion. Perceived diagnosticity and persuasibility ...
Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Loureiro, FilipePersuasive features such as argument quality, source expertise, support, affect, consensus, source likability, and source attractiveness are linked to mental rules that vary in their reliability in supporting the persuasive process. We address these features as cognitive tools available to support judgments, investigating their self-other perceived diagnosticity and persuasibility, and using self-other differen...
Perceptual anchoring effects: Evidence of response bias and a change in estimat...
Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Fernandes, AlexandreIntroduction: People’s estimates of perceptual quantities are commonly biased by the contextual presence of other quantities (like numbers). In this study, we address assimilation anchoring effects (approximation of real quantities to contextual quantities) that occur for visually displayed proportions, defining a new methodological setting for the effect. Method: Similar to classic approaches, we asked partici...
How does the presence of others influence control inhibition? Contradictory evi...
Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Fernandes, AlexandreInhibitory control (IC) is defined as the (in)ability to change, suppress, or delay a response that is no longer required under the current circumstances. This ability was previously argued to increase in social contexts, based on Stroop’s performance, showing that participants performed the Stroop task better in others’ presence than alone. In this paper, we extend the testing of this same hypothesis to the us...
Deontic signs increase control monitoring: Evidence from a modified traffic fla...
Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Figueira, Pedro; Fernandes, Alexandre; Martins, JoãoDeontic norms are expected to impose individuals’ control over their behavior. In this paper, we address such norms presented in trafc signs and test their infuence over executive control functions. For Experiment 1, we develop a trafc fanker task in which the typical neutral arrows are replaced with trafc prohibition/obligation signs. Experiment 2 isolated the deontic aspect of the signs using simple arrows on...