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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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Self-serving beliefs about science: Science justifies my weaknesses (but not other people’s)
This research explored the strategic beliefs that people have about science and the extent to which it can explain moral and immoral …
Francisco Cruz, André Mata
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Learned attentional strategies in word holistic processing
Previous research has shown that, like faces, words are processed either holistically or through the automatic representation of their …
Paulo Ventura, Isabel Leite, Alexandre Pereira, Francisco Cruz
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Domain specificity vs. Domain generality: The case of faces and words
Faces and words are ever-present stimuli in social environments that require fine-grained, efficient discrimination of their …
Paulo Ventura, Francisco Cruz
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From Perugino to Picasso revisited: Electrophysiological responses to faces in paintings from different art styles
Behavioral research (Ventura, et al., 2023) suggested that pictorial representations of faces varying along a realism-distortion …
Paulo Ventura, Mariona Pascual, Francisco Cruz, Susana Araújo
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