Sofia Jacinto
Biographic Data
| ID | 5524085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sofia Jacinto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sofia |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacinto |
| SIGNATURE | JACINTO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Social Work University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland Olten Switzerland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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 …
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…
Development of an online service for coping with spousal loss by means of human-centered and stakeholder-inclusive design
To support older mourners after the loss of their partner, LEAVES, an online self-help service that delivers the LIVIA spousal bereavement intervention, was developed. It integrates an embodied conversational agent and an initial risk assessment. Based on an iterative, human-centered, and stakeholder inclusive approach, interviews with older mourners and focus groups with stakeholders were conducted to understand their perspective on grief and on…
What's next? Disentangling availability from representativeness using binary decision tasks
What's next? Disentangling availability from representativeness using binary decision tasks
Development of an online service for coping with spousal loss by means of human-centered and stakeholder-inclusive design
To support older mourners after the loss of their partner, LEAVES, an online self-help service that delivers the LIVIA spousal bereavement intervention, was developed. It integrates an embodied conversational agent and an initial risk assessment. Based on an iterative, human-centered, and stakeholder inclusive approach, interviews with older mourners and focus groups with stakeholders were conducted to understand their perspective on grief and on…
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 …
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 (4 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sports Analytics and Performance (3 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Alternation (linguistics (1 work) · Applied Psychology (1 work)