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Relational processing in faces in paintings varying along a realism continuum
Human face processing relies heavily on configural processing—the ability to perceive the spatial relationships between facial …
Paulo Ventura, Alexandre Pereira, Francisco Cruz, Tina T. Liu
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Learning psychology changes deep-rooted beliefs about the nature of psychological phenomena: Effects on intuitive dualism and beliefs about science
Learning about certain disciplines can change students’ way of thinking (e.g., economy students become less cooperative, philosophy …
Francisco Cruz, André Mata
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Naturalistic faces and faces in paintings: An overview
Faces are the most important social signal in our society. Nevertheless, there is a problem with faces: they are all made up of the …
Paulo Ventura, Francisco Cruz
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How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon
Individuals rely on others’ expertise to achieve a basic understanding of the world. But how can non-experts achieve understanding from …
Francisco Cruz, Tania Lombrozo
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Motivated bias blind spot: People confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability
Though people readily claim that others fall prey to several biases, they are less likely to recognize those same biases in themselves …
Francisco Cruz, André Mata
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Lay perceptions of psychology: The (mis)match between lay beliefs and explanatory stances
People do not think that all psychological phenomena are equally explainable through science: Psychological phenomena associated with a …
Francisco Cruz, André Mata
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The spirit is noble, but the flesh is corrupt: Lay beliefs about the bases of (im)moral behavior
In four studies, we explored the relation between mind-body dualism and morality, specifically, whether people associate whether the …
Francisco Cruz, André Mata
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Can large language models help predict results from a complex behavioural science study?
We tested whether large language models (LLMs) can help predict results from a complex behavioural science experiment. In study 1, we …
Steffen Lippert, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Warren Tierney, Wilson Cyrus-Lai, Eric Luis Uhlmann, Francisco Cruz, Emotion Expression Collaboration, Thomas Pfeiffer
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The role of transitional probabilities in word holistic processing
In recent years, increased attention has been devoted to visual word recognition under a perceptual expertise framework. Because the …
Paulo Ventura, Francisco Cruz, Alexandre Pereira
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The effect of face race on metamemory: Examining its robustness and underlying mechanisms
Perceivers typically exhibit better recognition memory for same-race faces than for cross-race faces, a phenomenon known as the …
Tomás A. Palma, Alexandre Vieira, Francisco Cruz, André Mata
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