João Niza Braga
Biographic Data
| ID | 2080106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | João Niza Braga |
| GIVEN NAMES | João Niza |
| FAMILY NAME | Braga |
| SIGNATURE | BRAGA J N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8195-4428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The prosocial pandemic
Purpose Policies aiming to control the COVID-19 pandemic framed health guidelines as prosocial behaviors. This research aims to explore whether contextual cues reminding of the COVID-19 pandemic can activate prosocial goals unrelated to the pandemic. It is hypothesized that COVID-19 reminders, such as mask-wearing images, will increase prosocial behavioral intentions. Design/methodology/approach Five studies (N = 956) test the hypotheses. Study 1…
Not all hands get hot
When predicting someone's performance, people expect that short runs of consistent successful outcomes will continue—the hot‐hand. This tendency has been shown in contexts where athletes show a local performance streak, but no other information about their performance is provided. In real‐life settings, performance predictions often use global‐performance records like success‐rate probabilities, although judgements often neglect such statistical …
The Effects of Construal Level on Predictive Heuristics
Intuitive predictions about the future can expect upcoming events to conform with a pattern - representativeness heuristic - or to simply repeat the most recent and accessible outcome - availability heuristic. The present work proposes that while representativeness predictions require a relatively abstract comparison process, availability-based predictions reflect a concrete and local use of accessible information. Grounded on the construal level…
May the Intentional Candidate Win
In organizational contexts, managers often have to judge and predict others' performance. Previous research has consistently shown that when predicting someone's performance, people expect that a local sequence of successful outcomes will continue—the hot‐hand. The present work proposes that hot‐hand predictions occur when local streaks are dispositionally attributed to the agents' intentionality and explores how the inclusion of global performan…
Suspicious binds
Previous research indicates that conspiracy thinking is informed by the psychological imposition of order and meaning on the environment, including the perception of causal relations between random events. Four studies indicate that conspiracy belief is driven by readiness to draw implausible causal connections even when events are not random, but instead conform to an objective pattern. Study 1 ( N = 195) showed that conspiracy belief was relate…
What's next? Disentangling availability from representativeness using binary decision tasks
Cognição social fora do laboratório não é peixe fora de água
A aplicabilidade da investigação laboratorial a contextos "reais" é um problema comummente discutido nas ciências sociais, em particular na psicologia experimental. Ou seja, até que ponto os estudos feitos em ambientes artificiais nos permitem retirar conclusões e aplicações em contextos "reais"? Este artigo propõe?se a contribuir para a desmistificação deste "problema", recorrendo ao caso do efeito de ancoragem. O efeito de ancoragem - a assimil…
Suspicious binds
Previous research indicates that conspiracy thinking is informed by the psychological imposition of order and meaning on the environment, including the perception of causal relations between random events. Four studies indicate that conspiracy belief is driven by readiness to draw implausible causal connections even when events are not random, but instead conform to an objective pattern. Study 1 ( N = 195) showed that conspiracy belief was relate…
What's next? Disentangling availability from representativeness using binary decision tasks
Cognição social fora do laboratório não é peixe fora de água
A aplicabilidade da investigação laboratorial a contextos "reais" é um problema comummente discutido nas ciências sociais, em particular na psicologia experimental. Ou seja, até que ponto os estudos feitos em ambientes artificiais nos permitem retirar conclusões e aplicações em contextos "reais"? Este artigo propõe?se a contribuir para a desmistificação deste "problema", recorrendo ao caso do efeito de ancoragem. O efeito de ancoragem - a assimil…
Suspicious binds
Previous research indicates that conspiracy thinking is informed by the psychological imposition of order and meaning on the environment, including the perception of causal relations between random events. Four studies indicate that conspiracy belief is driven by readiness to draw implausible causal connections even when events are not random, but instead conform to an objective pattern. Study 1 ( N = 195) showed that conspiracy belief was relate…
What's next? Disentangling availability from representativeness using binary decision tasks
Not all hands get hot
When predicting someone's performance, people expect that short runs of consistent successful outcomes will continue—the hot‐hand. This tendency has been shown in contexts where athletes show a local performance streak, but no other information about their performance is provided. In real‐life settings, performance predictions often use global‐performance records like success‐rate probabilities, although judgements often neglect such statistical …
The Effects of Construal Level on Predictive Heuristics
Intuitive predictions about the future can expect upcoming events to conform with a pattern - representativeness heuristic - or to simply repeat the most recent and accessible outcome - availability heuristic. The present work proposes that while representativeness predictions require a relatively abstract comparison process, availability-based predictions reflect a concrete and local use of accessible information. Grounded on the construal level…
May the Intentional Candidate Win
In organizational contexts, managers often have to judge and predict others' performance. Previous research has consistently shown that when predicting someone's performance, people expect that a local sequence of successful outcomes will continue—the hot‐hand. The present work proposes that hot‐hand predictions occur when local streaks are dispositionally attributed to the agents' intentionality and explores how the inclusion of global performan…
The prosocial pandemic
Purpose Policies aiming to control the COVID-19 pandemic framed health guidelines as prosocial behaviors. This research aims to explore whether contextual cues reminding of the COVID-19 pandemic can activate prosocial goals unrelated to the pandemic. It is hypothesized that COVID-19 reminders, such as mask-wearing images, will increase prosocial behavioral intentions. Design/methodology/approach Five studies (N = 956) test the hypotheses. Study 1…
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (4 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 works) · Sports Analytics and Performance (3 works) · Chemistry (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Heuristics (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)