Frank Van Overwalle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 241500 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Frank Van Overwalle |
| NOMBRES | Frank |
| APELLIDO | Van Overwalle |
| FIRMA | VAN OVERWALLE F |
| AFILIACIONES | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2538-9847 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Understanding abstract knowledge structures in implicit perceptual sequence learning
Sex differences in autistic adults
Studying autism might be a complex endeavor due to its clinical heterogeneity. Little is currently known about potential sex differences in autistic adults, especially regarding mentalizing and narrative coherence. In this study, male and female participants told a personal story about one of their most positive and most negative life events and performed two mentalizing tasks. One of these mentalizing tasks was a recently developed Picture and V…
The myth of the extra mile
Associative Learning in the Cerebellum
Social Classification Occurs at the Subgroup Level
Although the categorization of novel social stimuli according to general qualities of gender, age, and race is known to be automatic and primordial, categorizing stimuli into more specific social subgroups (e.g., hippies or businesswomen) is much more informative and cognitively efficient. In this paper, we show that social stimuli are more likely to be grouped into subgroups with an intermediate degree of specificity than into broad, general cat…
Social Connectionism
Many of our thoughts and decisions occur without us being conscious of them taking place; connectionism attempts to reveal the internal hidden dynamics that drive the thoughts and actions of both individuals and groups. Connectionist modeling is a radically innovative approach to theorising in psychology, and more recently in the field of social psychology. The connectionist perspective interprets human cognition as a dynamic and adaptive system …
Illusory correlation, group size and memory
Spontaneous goal inferences are often inferred faster than spontaneous trait inferences
Social cognition and the brain
This meta‐analysis explores the location and function of brain areas involved in social cognition, or the capacity to understand people's behavioral intentions, social beliefs, and personality traits. On the basis of over 200 fMRI studies, it tests alternative theoretical proposals that attempt to explain how several brain areas process information relevant for social cognition. The results suggest that inferring temporary states such as goals, i…
Talking nets
A multiagent connectionist model is proposed that consists of a collection of individual recurrent networks that communicate with each other and, as such, is a network of networks. The individual recurrent networks simulate the process of information uptake, integration, and memorization within individual agents, and the communication of beliefs and opinions between agents is propagated along connections between the individual networks. A crucial…
Discounting and the role of the relation between causes
This research investigates how the relation between two causes (i.e. whether they co-occur or not) affects the likelihood to discount one of them. In two experiments, two causes were either systematically paired together (positive relation), were paired with many other causes (independent relation), or were never paired together (negative relation). The results indicate that discounting of one of the causes (target cause) depends on the relation …
Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically valid within most cultures. Contrary to expectations, the Model of Self and Model of Other dimensions …
Acquisition of dispositional attributions
Two experiments examined whether dispositional attributions are sensitive to the sample size of the evidence indicating a given level of covariation between person and behavior. Participants were given high or low levels of covariation (i.e. consensus and distinctiveness), and the acquisition of dispositional attributions was monitored by requesting dispositional trait ratings at fixed intervals. The results showed that dispositional attributions…
When more observations are better than less
The statistical law of large numbers prescribes that estimates are more reliable and accurate when based on a larger sample of observations. This effect of sample size was investigated on causal attributions. Subjects received fixed levels of consensus and distinctiveness covariation, and attributions were measured after a varying number of trials. Whereas prominent statistical models of causality (e.g. Cheng & Novick, 1990 ; Försterling, 1992 ) …
Causal explanation as constraint satisfaction
S. J. Read and A. Marcus-Newhall (1993) proposed that constraint satisfaction connectionist models can account for four principles of coherence that underlie social explanation. However, it is argued that the specific implementation they used (ECHO; P. Thagard, 1992) has several important shortcomings. ECHO fails to be sensitive to covariation that is crucial to causality, it does not learn from experience, and it cannot deal efficiently with con…
A test of the joint model of causal attribution
The joint model integrates Mill's methods of difference and agreement for making causal attributions, and introduces a novel type of context attributions which reflect the opposite categories of the standard attribution responses provided in previous covariation research external versus the person, general versus the stimulus, and stable versus the occasion). The joint model predicts that attributions to standard causes require Mill's method of d…
Preattributional and attributional determinants of emotions and expectations
Explores how preattributional variables describing an event (i.e. consensus, consistency, distinctiveness, and effectuality) as well as dimensions of attributions given to explain the event (i.e. locus, stability, globality, and control) determine subsequent emotions and expectations. In a first pilot study, subjects described actual emotion‐evoking incidents. The results indicated that these free descriptions included preattributional variables …
The Effects of Attribution-based Intervention and Study Strategy Training on Academic Achievement in College Freshmen
The effectiveness of two brief remedial programmes on freshmen's academic performance was investigated. In the first study, a programme was developed to increase students' motivation for their study by using attribution change techniques. Participants (N=43) watched video-taped interviews with senior students relating the causes of their failures at the beginning of the first year, and how they had managed to improve their exam scores at the end …
Improving Performance of Freshmen Through Attributional Testimonies From Fellow Students
S ummary . This study investigates the effectiveness of attributional techniques in a remedial programme at university aiming at improving the academic performance of students with learning difficulties. Subjects were 130 freshmen who had failed a mid‐term economics examination. Two experimental conditions were provided. Subjects in the first condition watched a videotape in which senior students related their learning difficulties at the beginni…
Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically valid within most cultures. Contrary to expectations, the Model of Self and Model of Other dimensions …
Talking nets
A multiagent connectionist model is proposed that consists of a collection of individual recurrent networks that communicate with each other and, as such, is a network of networks. The individual recurrent networks simulate the process of information uptake, integration, and memorization within individual agents, and the communication of beliefs and opinions between agents is propagated along connections between the individual networks. A crucial…
Causal explanation as constraint satisfaction
S. J. Read and A. Marcus-Newhall (1993) proposed that constraint satisfaction connectionist models can account for four principles of coherence that underlie social explanation. However, it is argued that the specific implementation they used (ECHO; P. Thagard, 1992) has several important shortcomings. ECHO fails to be sensitive to covariation that is crucial to causality, it does not learn from experience, and it cannot deal efficiently with con…
The Effects of Attribution-based Intervention and Study Strategy Training on Academic Achievement in College Freshmen
The effectiveness of two brief remedial programmes on freshmen's academic performance was investigated. In the first study, a programme was developed to increase students' motivation for their study by using attribution change techniques. Participants (N=43) watched video-taped interviews with senior students relating the causes of their failures at the beginning of the first year, and how they had managed to improve their exam scores at the end …
Spontaneous goal inferences are often inferred faster than spontaneous trait inferences
When more observations are better than less
The statistical law of large numbers prescribes that estimates are more reliable and accurate when based on a larger sample of observations. This effect of sample size was investigated on causal attributions. Subjects received fixed levels of consensus and distinctiveness covariation, and attributions were measured after a varying number of trials. Whereas prominent statistical models of causality (e.g. Cheng & Novick, 1990 ; Försterling, 1992 ) …
Social Classification Occurs at the Subgroup Level
Although the categorization of novel social stimuli according to general qualities of gender, age, and race is known to be automatic and primordial, categorizing stimuli into more specific social subgroups (e.g., hippies or businesswomen) is much more informative and cognitively efficient. In this paper, we show that social stimuli are more likely to be grouped into subgroups with an intermediate degree of specificity than into broad, general cat…
Acquisition of dispositional attributions
Two experiments examined whether dispositional attributions are sensitive to the sample size of the evidence indicating a given level of covariation between person and behavior. Participants were given high or low levels of covariation (i.e. consensus and distinctiveness), and the acquisition of dispositional attributions was monitored by requesting dispositional trait ratings at fixed intervals. The results showed that dispositional attributions…
Preattributional and attributional determinants of emotions and expectations
Explores how preattributional variables describing an event (i.e. consensus, consistency, distinctiveness, and effectuality) as well as dimensions of attributions given to explain the event (i.e. locus, stability, globality, and control) determine subsequent emotions and expectations. In a first pilot study, subjects described actual emotion‐evoking incidents. The results indicated that these free descriptions included preattributional variables …
Improving Performance of Freshmen Through Attributional Testimonies From Fellow Students
S ummary . This study investigates the effectiveness of attributional techniques in a remedial programme at university aiming at improving the academic performance of students with learning difficulties. Subjects were 130 freshmen who had failed a mid‐term economics examination. Two experimental conditions were provided. Subjects in the first condition watched a videotape in which senior students related their learning difficulties at the beginni…
The Effects of Attribution-based Intervention and Study Strategy Training on Academic Achievement in College Freshmen
The effectiveness of two brief remedial programmes on freshmen's academic performance was investigated. In the first study, a programme was developed to increase students' motivation for their study by using attribution change techniques. Participants (N=43) watched video-taped interviews with senior students relating the causes of their failures at the beginning of the first year, and how they had managed to improve their exam scores at the end …
Preattributional and attributional determinants of emotions and expectations
Explores how preattributional variables describing an event (i.e. consensus, consistency, distinctiveness, and effectuality) as well as dimensions of attributions given to explain the event (i.e. locus, stability, globality, and control) determine subsequent emotions and expectations. In a first pilot study, subjects described actual emotion‐evoking incidents. The results indicated that these free descriptions included preattributional variables …
A test of the joint model of causal attribution
The joint model integrates Mill's methods of difference and agreement for making causal attributions, and introduces a novel type of context attributions which reflect the opposite categories of the standard attribution responses provided in previous covariation research external versus the person, general versus the stimulus, and stable versus the occasion). The joint model predicts that attributions to standard causes require Mill's method of d…
Causal explanation as constraint satisfaction
S. J. Read and A. Marcus-Newhall (1993) proposed that constraint satisfaction connectionist models can account for four principles of coherence that underlie social explanation. However, it is argued that the specific implementation they used (ECHO; P. Thagard, 1992) has several important shortcomings. ECHO fails to be sensitive to covariation that is crucial to causality, it does not learn from experience, and it cannot deal efficiently with con…
When more observations are better than less
The statistical law of large numbers prescribes that estimates are more reliable and accurate when based on a larger sample of observations. This effect of sample size was investigated on causal attributions. Subjects received fixed levels of consensus and distinctiveness covariation, and attributions were measured after a varying number of trials. Whereas prominent statistical models of causality (e.g. Cheng & Novick, 1990 ; Försterling, 1992 ) …
Acquisition of dispositional attributions
Two experiments examined whether dispositional attributions are sensitive to the sample size of the evidence indicating a given level of covariation between person and behavior. Participants were given high or low levels of covariation (i.e. consensus and distinctiveness), and the acquisition of dispositional attributions was monitored by requesting dispositional trait ratings at fixed intervals. The results showed that dispositional attributions…
Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically valid within most cultures. Contrary to expectations, the Model of Self and Model of Other dimensions …
Discounting and the role of the relation between causes
This research investigates how the relation between two causes (i.e. whether they co-occur or not) affects the likelihood to discount one of them. In two experiments, two causes were either systematically paired together (positive relation), were paired with many other causes (independent relation), or were never paired together (negative relation). The results indicate that discounting of one of the causes (target cause) depends on the relation …
Talking nets
A multiagent connectionist model is proposed that consists of a collection of individual recurrent networks that communicate with each other and, as such, is a network of networks. The individual recurrent networks simulate the process of information uptake, integration, and memorization within individual agents, and the communication of beliefs and opinions between agents is propagated along connections between the individual networks. A crucial…
Social cognition and the brain
This meta‐analysis explores the location and function of brain areas involved in social cognition, or the capacity to understand people's behavioral intentions, social beliefs, and personality traits. On the basis of over 200 fMRI studies, it tests alternative theoretical proposals that attempt to explain how several brain areas process information relevant for social cognition. The results suggest that inferring temporary states such as goals, i…
Spontaneous goal inferences are often inferred faster than spontaneous trait inferences
Social Connectionism
Many of our thoughts and decisions occur without us being conscious of them taking place; connectionism attempts to reveal the internal hidden dynamics that drive the thoughts and actions of both individuals and groups. Connectionist modeling is a radically innovative approach to theorising in psychology, and more recently in the field of social psychology. The connectionist perspective interprets human cognition as a dynamic and adaptive system …
Illusory correlation, group size and memory
Associative Learning in the Cerebellum
Social Classification Occurs at the Subgroup Level
Although the categorization of novel social stimuli according to general qualities of gender, age, and race is known to be automatic and primordial, categorizing stimuli into more specific social subgroups (e.g., hippies or businesswomen) is much more informative and cognitively efficient. In this paper, we show that social stimuli are more likely to be grouped into subgroups with an intermediate degree of specificity than into broad, general cat…
The myth of the extra mile
Sex differences in autistic adults
Studying autism might be a complex endeavor due to its clinical heterogeneity. Little is currently known about potential sex differences in autistic adults, especially regarding mentalizing and narrative coherence. In this study, male and female participants told a personal story about one of their most positive and most negative life events and performed two mentalizing tasks. One of these mentalizing tasks was a recently developed Picture and V…
Understanding abstract knowledge structures in implicit perceptual sequence learning
Psychology (19 obras) · Cognitive psychology (13 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Cognition (10 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 obras) · Attribution (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Connectionism (5 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 obras) · Developmental psychology (5 obras)