Pilar Carrera
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 169125 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pilar Carrera |
| PRENOMES | Pilar |
| SOBRENOME | Carrera |
| ASSINATURA | CARRERA P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5411-2097 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction
Construal-level theory (CLT) proposes that psychological distance influences the level of abstraction at which something is mentally construed: Things perceived as less probable (likelihood) or further away from the here (spatial distance), now (temporal distance), or self (social distance) are thought about more abstractly. In this international multilab study, we tested four basic hypotheses derived from core assumptions of CLT and explore pote…
Relato Cinematográfico Y Lógica Discursiva Del Capital
Las tipologías de relato propias del modelo Hollywood, pero asumidas globalmente, suelen distinguir entre las transgresiones individualizadas y el funcio-namiento sistémico de la sociedad en que aquellas se producen. Por eso, que el transgresor acabe pagando por sus actos deja siempre a salvo la lógica sistémica. Puede haber jueces corruptos, policías venales, políticos impresentables, pero casi nunca se cuestiona la idea del sistema judicial, po…
Breaking self‐focused orientation in people who perceive economic scarcity
Previous research shows that being in a situation of economic scarcity promotes a more concrete mindset that motivates behavioral decisions based on action difficulty and their short‐term outcomes, which frequently entails negative consequences. However, a concrete mindset can be counteracted by inducing an abstract mindset to help people focus on final broad goals. We explored how focusing on transcendent motives (vs. self‐oriented) promotes a m…
Ceci n’est pas un tas de pavés
El análisis de la dimensión documental de la fotografía se ha centrado esencialmente en su capacidad para constituirse en “huella del pasado” o ilustrar determinados acontecimientos históricos. Esta dimensión funcional, vinculada a un supuesto valor veredictorio, ha ocultado el abundante uso dogmático y la dimensión política de la noción de documento fotográfico. Pero, en realidad, una fotografía solo se documenta a sí misma. Y es precisamente en…
Does poverty promote a different and harmful way of thinking? The links between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors
We tested the relationships between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors. We manipulated the lack of economic resources using a priming task in Studies 1 and 2, and participants reported their real income and completed the BIF scale to measure their construal level in Study 3. Studies 1–3 supported the link between perceived economic scarcity and the concrete construal level. Study 4 demonstrated the mediating role playe…
Health or wealth? The influence of perceived health and wealth threats and style of thinking on protective behaviours and well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain ( ¿Salud o riqueza? La influe…
The present research explored the influence of thinking style and the perception of threats to health and wealth on protective actions and well-being within the framework of the first wave of COVID-19 in Spain. We expected that an abstract (versus concrete) thinking style would be related to greater protective behaviours while maintaining a higher sense of well-being. Through an online questionnaire ( N = 1,043), we explored these relationships a…
Antígona O La Razón Espectacular
La noción de espectáculo, que suele asumirse negativamente desde la opinión y la crítica, especialmente la relativa a los mass media, debe ser revitalizada como espacio de enunciación que se sitúa más allá de la lógica mediática. Antígona, la figura de Sófocles, es un ejemplo de esta lógica espectacular a la que nos referimos
A culturally targeted video to promote genetic counseling in a community sample of at‐risk US Latina women
Latina women, who are at increased risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC), have lower use of genetic counseling and testing (GCT) than non‐Hispanic White women. In a recent study, culturally targeted video improved psychosocial outcomes related to GCT. Additional analyses examine whether the culturally targeted video improved positive reactions in women who focus on difficulties (concrete mindset) versus women who focus on the final …
“Based on actual facts”
This article analyzes the discursive functions of the expression ‘based on actual facts’, or related utterances such as ‘based on real events’, ‘based on a true story’, ‘inspired by a true story’, etc., through which documentary rhetoric is inscribed in fiction films. It is concluded that one of these functions is to substract fictional stories from textual and ideological criticism by means of a supposed closeness to ‘factuality’, creating a sim…
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
The Relationships between Economic Scarcity, Concrete Mindset and Risk Behavior
Background : Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, with an extremely low human development index (HDI). Fifty-two percent of the Nicaraguan population are children and adolescents under 18 years of age. Nicaraguan adolescents present several risk behaviors (such as teenage pregnancies, consumption of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis). Our study examines the links between risk behaviors, fatalism, real economic scarcity, and concre…
Consumo mediático entre adolescentes. Nuevos medios y viejos relatos en el entorno transmedia
El objetivo de este artículo es conocer cuáles son las preferencias en contenidos mediáticos de la juventud entre 12 y 18 años. La hipótesis de partida es que la aparente diversidad de oferta no conlleva un consumo de contenidos mediáticos alternativos ni tampoco sin sesgos de género. Se realizó una encuesta de 10 preguntas abiertas -codificadas y tratadas de forma cuantitativa- a 1538 adolescentes (798 mujeres-771 varones). Los resultados confir…
Developing a culturally targeted video to enhance the use of genetic counseling in Latina women at increased risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
Culturally Targeted Video Improves Psychosocial Outcomes in Latina Women at Risk of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Latina women at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) have lower awareness, knowledge, and use of genetic counseling and testing services (GCT) than non-Latina Whites. Few interventions have been developed to reduce these disparities among at-risk Latinas. This pilot study assessed the impact of a culturally targeted narrative video developed by our team. The study included 40 Latina immigrants living in the United States who were a…
Kama muta
English-speakers sometimes say that they feel "moved to tears," "emotionally touched," "stirred," or that something "warmed their heart;" other languages use similar passive contact metaphors to refer to an affective state. The authors propose and measure the concept of kama muta to understand experiences often given these and other labels. Do the same experiences evoke the same kama muta emotion across nations and languages? They conducted studi…
Abstractness leads people to base their behavioral intentions on desired attitudes
Are smiles a sign of happiness? Spontaneous expressions of judo winners
Transmedialidad y ecosistema digital
This article explores some structural features of the so-called “transmedia storytelling”. In order to progress towards a conceptual clarification, the Internet has to be considered as a mass media with specific and privative traits that would define the “form of the media”: global, viral, participative, continuous (or almost), mobile, pervasive, pragmatically oriented etc. Some opinions of professionals related to the field have also been taken …
Testing the qualitative differences between empathy and personal distress
In two studies the emotional valence, the level of arousal and self-orientation of empathic concern and personal distress are tested. The empathic concern prevalence versus personal distress prevalence is induced through pictures in Study 1 (N = 62) and perspective-taking instructions in Study 2 (N = 60). Results of Study 1 show that participants in the personal distress-prevalence condition report significantly more negative emotional valence (d…
Prototypical Anger Components
This study explored the effects of psychological and cultural variables on self-reported emotional prototypes of anger. Eight anger components were examined using a multilevel analysis. Competitiveness, interdependence, gender, instrumentality, and expressivity were entered as individual variables, and individualism/collectivism, masculinity/femininity, and the Human Development Index (HDI) were entered as cultural variables. All highlight the im…
Cultural Differences in Attitudes Toward Action and Inaction
The current research examined whether nations differ in their attitudes toward action and inaction. It was anticipated that members of dialectical East Asian societies would show a positive association in their attitudes toward action/inaction. However, members of non-dialectical European-American societies were expected to show a negative association in their attitudes toward action/inaction. Young adults in 19 nations completed measures of dial…
Periodismo y Social Media
As part of their professional routine, Spanish journalists are gradually joining the ranks of active users of social networks like Twitter. Following some on-the-fly strategy or just winging it, and fully putting into practice the idea that “one must be where the people are,” they distribute information coming from their own media, viralize information from other users/media, editorialize as they go, sum up daily life or shoot the breeze about a …
The present projects past behavior into the future while the past projects attitudes into the future
El cineasta que vino del frío (Bico-Visión)
En el año 2004 Aki Kaurismäki rueda Bico, un corto de 5 minutos para una obra colectiva titulada Visions of Europe. En este aparente documental, rodado bajo el signo del Inferno de Strindberg y los ecos de Las Hurdes, la frontera entre el relato y el documento se desdibuja, fragmentos textuales salen de debajo de las piedras y el método Rubens alcanza cierto grado de perfección fílmica
Implicit theories about interrelations of anger components in 25 countries
We were interested in the cross-cultural comparison of implicit theories of the interrelations of eight anger components (antecedents, body sensations, cognitive reactions, verbal expressions, nonverbal expressions, interpersonal responses, and primary and secondary self-control). Self-report scales of each of these components were administered to a total of 5,006 college students in 25 countries. Equivalence of the scales was supported in that s…
Periodismo y Social Media
As part of their professional routine, Spanish journalists are gradually joining the ranks of active users of social networks like Twitter. Following some on-the-fly strategy or just winging it, and fully putting into practice the idea that “one must be where the people are,” they distribute information coming from their own media, viralize information from other users/media, editorialize as they go, sum up daily life or shoot the breeze about a …
Differential effects of priming at the encoding and judgment stage
Two experiments investigated whether the direction of priming effects depends on the processing stage at which the individual links the prime to a trait that is applicable to the evaluation of an ambiguously described target person. In line with previous research, it is hypothesized that assimilation effects will emerge when primes are processed in terms of a trait concept that is applicable to the encoding task. However, when the primes are not …
Consumo mediático entre adolescentes. Nuevos medios y viejos relatos en el entorno transmedia
El objetivo de este artículo es conocer cuáles son las preferencias en contenidos mediáticos de la juventud entre 12 y 18 años. La hipótesis de partida es que la aparente diversidad de oferta no conlleva un consumo de contenidos mediáticos alternativos ni tampoco sin sesgos de género. Se realizó una encuesta de 10 preguntas abiertas -codificadas y tratadas de forma cuantitativa- a 1538 adolescentes (798 mujeres-771 varones). Los resultados confir…
The present projects past behavior into the future while the past projects attitudes into the future
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
Prototypical Anger Components
This study explored the effects of psychological and cultural variables on self-reported emotional prototypes of anger. Eight anger components were examined using a multilevel analysis. Competitiveness, interdependence, gender, instrumentality, and expressivity were entered as individual variables, and individualism/collectivism, masculinity/femininity, and the Human Development Index (HDI) were entered as cultural variables. All highlight the im…
Abstractness leads people to base their behavioral intentions on desired attitudes
Transmedialidad y ecosistema digital
This article explores some structural features of the so-called “transmedia storytelling”. In order to progress towards a conceptual clarification, the Internet has to be considered as a mass media with specific and privative traits that would define the “form of the media”: global, viral, participative, continuous (or almost), mobile, pervasive, pragmatically oriented etc. Some opinions of professionals related to the field have also been taken …
Emotional Climate as Emotion Accessibility
Many everyday collective emotions are shared emotional conventions, that is, social practices with an attributed emotional meaning (e.g., complimenting as a sign of conventional love). Emotional conventions lead to a collective priming of some categories of emotion. For example, New Year Eve's emotional conventions prime words such as “happy.” We define emotional atmosphere and emotional climate as emotion accessibility caused by the priming of s…
Differential effects of priming at the encoding and judgment stage
Two experiments investigated whether the direction of priming effects depends on the processing stage at which the individual links the prime to a trait that is applicable to the evaluation of an ambiguously described target person. In line with previous research, it is hypothesized that assimilation effects will emerge when primes are processed in terms of a trait concept that is applicable to the encoding task. However, when the primes are not …
Emotional Climate as Emotion Accessibility
Many everyday collective emotions are shared emotional conventions, that is, social practices with an attributed emotional meaning (e.g., complimenting as a sign of conventional love). Emotional conventions lead to a collective priming of some categories of emotion. For example, New Year Eve's emotional conventions prime words such as “happy.” We define emotional atmosphere and emotional climate as emotion accessibility caused by the priming of s…
False recognition of facial expressions of emotion
This article examines the importance of semantic processes in the recognition of emotional expressions, through a series of three studies on false recognition. The first study found a high frequency of false recognition of prototypical expressions of emotion when participants viewed slides and video clips of nonprototypical fearful and happy expressions. The second study tested whether semantic processes caused false recognition. The authors foun…
Implicit theories about interrelations of anger components in 25 countries
We were interested in the cross-cultural comparison of implicit theories of the interrelations of eight anger components (antecedents, body sensations, cognitive reactions, verbal expressions, nonverbal expressions, interpersonal responses, and primary and secondary self-control). Self-report scales of each of these components were administered to a total of 5,006 college students in 25 countries. Equivalence of the scales was supported in that s…
El cineasta que vino del frío (Bico-Visión)
En el año 2004 Aki Kaurismäki rueda Bico, un corto de 5 minutos para una obra colectiva titulada Visions of Europe. En este aparente documental, rodado bajo el signo del Inferno de Strindberg y los ecos de Las Hurdes, la frontera entre el relato y el documento se desdibuja, fragmentos textuales salen de debajo de las piedras y el método Rubens alcanza cierto grado de perfección fílmica
Periodismo y Social Media
As part of their professional routine, Spanish journalists are gradually joining the ranks of active users of social networks like Twitter. Following some on-the-fly strategy or just winging it, and fully putting into practice the idea that “one must be where the people are,” they distribute information coming from their own media, viralize information from other users/media, editorialize as they go, sum up daily life or shoot the breeze about a …
The present projects past behavior into the future while the past projects attitudes into the future
Cultural Differences in Attitudes Toward Action and Inaction
The current research examined whether nations differ in their attitudes toward action and inaction. It was anticipated that members of dialectical East Asian societies would show a positive association in their attitudes toward action/inaction. However, members of non-dialectical European-American societies were expected to show a negative association in their attitudes toward action/inaction. Young adults in 19 nations completed measures of dial…
Transmedialidad y ecosistema digital
This article explores some structural features of the so-called “transmedia storytelling”. In order to progress towards a conceptual clarification, the Internet has to be considered as a mass media with specific and privative traits that would define the “form of the media”: global, viral, participative, continuous (or almost), mobile, pervasive, pragmatically oriented etc. Some opinions of professionals related to the field have also been taken …
Testing the qualitative differences between empathy and personal distress
In two studies the emotional valence, the level of arousal and self-orientation of empathic concern and personal distress are tested. The empathic concern prevalence versus personal distress prevalence is induced through pictures in Study 1 (N = 62) and perspective-taking instructions in Study 2 (N = 60). Results of Study 1 show that participants in the personal distress-prevalence condition report significantly more negative emotional valence (d…
Prototypical Anger Components
This study explored the effects of psychological and cultural variables on self-reported emotional prototypes of anger. Eight anger components were examined using a multilevel analysis. Competitiveness, interdependence, gender, instrumentality, and expressivity were entered as individual variables, and individualism/collectivism, masculinity/femininity, and the Human Development Index (HDI) were entered as cultural variables. All highlight the im…
Are smiles a sign of happiness? Spontaneous expressions of judo winners
Abstractness leads people to base their behavioral intentions on desired attitudes
Kama muta
English-speakers sometimes say that they feel "moved to tears," "emotionally touched," "stirred," or that something "warmed their heart;" other languages use similar passive contact metaphors to refer to an affective state. The authors propose and measure the concept of kama muta to understand experiences often given these and other labels. Do the same experiences evoke the same kama muta emotion across nations and languages? They conducted studi…
Developing a culturally targeted video to enhance the use of genetic counseling in Latina women at increased risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
Culturally Targeted Video Improves Psychosocial Outcomes in Latina Women at Risk of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Latina women at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) have lower awareness, knowledge, and use of genetic counseling and testing services (GCT) than non-Latina Whites. Few interventions have been developed to reduce these disparities among at-risk Latinas. This pilot study assessed the impact of a culturally targeted narrative video developed by our team. The study included 40 Latina immigrants living in the United States who were a…
The Relationships between Economic Scarcity, Concrete Mindset and Risk Behavior
Background : Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, with an extremely low human development index (HDI). Fifty-two percent of the Nicaraguan population are children and adolescents under 18 years of age. Nicaraguan adolescents present several risk behaviors (such as teenage pregnancies, consumption of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis). Our study examines the links between risk behaviors, fatalism, real economic scarcity, and concre…
Consumo mediático entre adolescentes. Nuevos medios y viejos relatos en el entorno transmedia
El objetivo de este artículo es conocer cuáles son las preferencias en contenidos mediáticos de la juventud entre 12 y 18 años. La hipótesis de partida es que la aparente diversidad de oferta no conlleva un consumo de contenidos mediáticos alternativos ni tampoco sin sesgos de género. Se realizó una encuesta de 10 preguntas abiertas -codificadas y tratadas de forma cuantitativa- a 1538 adolescentes (798 mujeres-771 varones). Los resultados confir…
“Based on actual facts”
This article analyzes the discursive functions of the expression ‘based on actual facts’, or related utterances such as ‘based on real events’, ‘based on a true story’, ‘inspired by a true story’, etc., through which documentary rhetoric is inscribed in fiction films. It is concluded that one of these functions is to substract fictional stories from textual and ideological criticism by means of a supposed closeness to ‘factuality’, creating a sim…
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
A culturally targeted video to promote genetic counseling in a community sample of at‐risk US Latina women
Latina women, who are at increased risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC), have lower use of genetic counseling and testing (GCT) than non‐Hispanic White women. In a recent study, culturally targeted video improved psychosocial outcomes related to GCT. Additional analyses examine whether the culturally targeted video improved positive reactions in women who focus on difficulties (concrete mindset) versus women who focus on the final …
Does poverty promote a different and harmful way of thinking? The links between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors
We tested the relationships between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors. We manipulated the lack of economic resources using a priming task in Studies 1 and 2, and participants reported their real income and completed the BIF scale to measure their construal level in Study 3. Studies 1–3 supported the link between perceived economic scarcity and the concrete construal level. Study 4 demonstrated the mediating role playe…
Health or wealth? The influence of perceived health and wealth threats and style of thinking on protective behaviours and well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain ( ¿Salud o riqueza? La influe…
The present research explored the influence of thinking style and the perception of threats to health and wealth on protective actions and well-being within the framework of the first wave of COVID-19 in Spain. We expected that an abstract (versus concrete) thinking style would be related to greater protective behaviours while maintaining a higher sense of well-being. Through an online questionnaire ( N = 1,043), we explored these relationships a…
Antígona O La Razón Espectacular
La noción de espectáculo, que suele asumirse negativamente desde la opinión y la crítica, especialmente la relativa a los mass media, debe ser revitalizada como espacio de enunciación que se sitúa más allá de la lógica mediática. Antígona, la figura de Sófocles, es un ejemplo de esta lógica espectacular a la que nos referimos
Breaking self‐focused orientation in people who perceive economic scarcity
Previous research shows that being in a situation of economic scarcity promotes a more concrete mindset that motivates behavioral decisions based on action difficulty and their short‐term outcomes, which frequently entails negative consequences. However, a concrete mindset can be counteracted by inducing an abstract mindset to help people focus on final broad goals. We explored how focusing on transcendent motives (vs. self‐oriented) promotes a m…
Psychology (18 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (10 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Developmental psychology (6 obras) · Humanities (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras)