Gabriela Hofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1747949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriela Hofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriela |
| FAMILY NAME | Hofer |
| SIGNATURE | HOFER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4407-1487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women’s Humility and Men’s Lack of Hubris
Women tend to view themselves as less capable than men. Some have interpreted this as female underestimation and male overestimation, a phenomenon called hubris-humility effect. While such an effect could have important practical implications (e.g., on career choices), only few studies compared women's and men's self-estimates to their measured abilities. We investigated the hubris-humility effect in spatial intelligence, a domain in which many s…
Improving self-knowledge
Self-estimates of cognitive abilities are often inaccurate. • Performance feedback did not improve self-estimate accuracy in two experiments. • Task experience boosted correlations between self-estimates and performance. • Thus, task experience rather than simple feedback might foster self-knowledge. Individuals assess their cognitive abilities in different situations, however, those self-estimates are rather inaccurate. In two experiments (each …
Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing
Self-viewing varies significantly among individuals. The present eye-tracking study investigated whether specific facets of grandiose narcissism and self-esteem are associated with gaze behavior during self-face viewing. In a novel visual probe task, participants pressed a button when a visual target appeared next to a mirror reflecting their face. The task required participants to shift their attention away from their reflection that acted as a …
Assessing Raters
Creativity research crucially relies on creativity evaluations by external raters, but it is not clear what properties characterize good raters. In the present study, we investigated whether rater personality and rater creativity are related to discernment (i.e., the ability to distinguish creative from uncreative responses) when evaluating others’ responses. To this end, 166 novice raters evaluated a pre‐selected set of responses from the altern…
Love is not blind
How much do our partners, close friends, and acquaintances know about our abilities, as compared to ourselves? This registered report aimed to investigate asymmetries in these perspectives’ knowledge of a person’s verbal, numerical, and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional abilities. We collected self-estimates and performance measures of these abilities from 238 targets. Each target’s abilities were also rated…
Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities
Who is the best judge of a person’s abilities—the person, a knowledgeable informant, or strangers just met in a 3-min speed date? To test this, we collected ability measures as well as self-, informant- and stranger-estimates of verbal, numerical and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional competence from 175 young adults. While people themselves were the most accurate about the majority of their abilities, their …
Author Correction
What you see is what you want to get
Are intelligent, creative, and emotionally competent people more desirable? Evolution-based theories and studies on the ideal partner suggest that they are. We aimed to assess whether verbal, numerical, and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional competence are associated with higher real-life mate appeal. In speed dates, 87 women and 88 men met up to 14 members of the opposite sex (2188 observations). While only …
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Love is not blind
How much do our partners, close friends, and acquaintances know about our abilities, as compared to ourselves? This registered report aimed to investigate asymmetries in these perspectives’ knowledge of a person’s verbal, numerical, and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional abilities. We collected self-estimates and performance measures of these abilities from 238 targets. Each target’s abilities were also rated…
Women’s Humility and Men’s Lack of Hubris
Women tend to view themselves as less capable than men. Some have interpreted this as female underestimation and male overestimation, a phenomenon called hubris-humility effect. While such an effect could have important practical implications (e.g., on career choices), only few studies compared women's and men's self-estimates to their measured abilities. We investigated the hubris-humility effect in spatial intelligence, a domain in which many s…
Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities
Who is the best judge of a person’s abilities—the person, a knowledgeable informant, or strangers just met in a 3-min speed date? To test this, we collected ability measures as well as self-, informant- and stranger-estimates of verbal, numerical and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional competence from 175 young adults. While people themselves were the most accurate about the majority of their abilities, their …
What you see is what you want to get
Are intelligent, creative, and emotionally competent people more desirable? Evolution-based theories and studies on the ideal partner suggest that they are. We aimed to assess whether verbal, numerical, and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional competence are associated with higher real-life mate appeal. In speed dates, 87 women and 88 men met up to 14 members of the opposite sex (2188 observations). While only …
What you see is what you want to get
Are intelligent, creative, and emotionally competent people more desirable? Evolution-based theories and studies on the ideal partner suggest that they are. We aimed to assess whether verbal, numerical, and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional competence are associated with higher real-life mate appeal. In speed dates, 87 women and 88 men met up to 14 members of the opposite sex (2188 observations). While only …
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Assessing Raters
Creativity research crucially relies on creativity evaluations by external raters, but it is not clear what properties characterize good raters. In the present study, we investigated whether rater personality and rater creativity are related to discernment (i.e., the ability to distinguish creative from uncreative responses) when evaluating others’ responses. To this end, 166 novice raters evaluated a pre‐selected set of responses from the altern…
Love is not blind
How much do our partners, close friends, and acquaintances know about our abilities, as compared to ourselves? This registered report aimed to investigate asymmetries in these perspectives’ knowledge of a person’s verbal, numerical, and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional abilities. We collected self-estimates and performance measures of these abilities from 238 targets. Each target’s abilities were also rated…
Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities
Who is the best judge of a person’s abilities—the person, a knowledgeable informant, or strangers just met in a 3-min speed date? To test this, we collected ability measures as well as self-, informant- and stranger-estimates of verbal, numerical and spatial intelligence, creativity, and intra- and interpersonal emotional competence from 175 young adults. While people themselves were the most accurate about the majority of their abilities, their …
Author Correction
Women’s Humility and Men’s Lack of Hubris
Women tend to view themselves as less capable than men. Some have interpreted this as female underestimation and male overestimation, a phenomenon called hubris-humility effect. While such an effect could have important practical implications (e.g., on career choices), only few studies compared women's and men's self-estimates to their measured abilities. We investigated the hubris-humility effect in spatial intelligence, a domain in which many s…
Improving self-knowledge
Self-estimates of cognitive abilities are often inaccurate. • Performance feedback did not improve self-estimate accuracy in two experiments. • Task experience boosted correlations between self-estimates and performance. • Thus, task experience rather than simple feedback might foster self-knowledge. Individuals assess their cognitive abilities in different situations, however, those self-estimates are rather inaccurate. In two experiments (each …
Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing
Self-viewing varies significantly among individuals. The present eye-tracking study investigated whether specific facets of grandiose narcissism and self-esteem are associated with gaze behavior during self-face viewing. In a novel visual probe task, participants pressed a button when a visual target appeared next to a mirror reflecting their face. The task required participants to shift their attention away from their reflection that acted as a …
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Creativity (4 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (3 works) · Interpersonal communication (3 works) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Competence (human resources) (2 works) · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (2 works)