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- Nutritional profile and consumers’ perceptions of cereal barsPublication . Saraiva, Magda; Garrido, Margarida; Viegas, Cláudia; Prada, MaríliaThe fast pace of our daily lives often prompts consumers to seek convenient and ready-to-eat snacks, such as cereal bars. This work aims to characterize the cereal bars available in the Portuguese market (Study 1), as well as consumers’ perceptions of different types of these products (Study 2). First, we collected data (e.g. nutritional information, price) on 277 cereal bars from two major Portuguese retailers. The results indicated that most of these products do not comply with the current guidelines for key nutrients like sugar, fat, and salt. Second, using an online survey, we asked participants (N = 373) to evaluate cereal bars from different categories (e.g. “energy/protein”) across eleven dimensions. Overall, the bars were rated as tasty but also unhealthy, highly caloric, processed, and unsuitable for athletes, children, and weight loss. Interestingly, participants overestimated the content of most nutrients contained in cereal bars. A content analysis revealed that participants indicated more reasons for not consuming (e.g. excessive sugar content) than consuming (e.g. convenience) these products. Given the increasing popularity of cereal bars, our findings call for action from multiple stakeholders toward improving cereal bars’ nutritional profile and advancing our understanding of consumers’ perceptions of these products to facilitate healthier choices.
- The “ins” and “outs” of person perception: The influence of consonant wanderings in judgments of warmth and competencePublication . Garrido, Margarida; Godinho, Sandra; Semin, Gün R.In five studies (N=638), we extended the in-out effect to person perception, examining the influence of oral approach-avoidance movements activated by word articulation, on preference, sociability and competence judgments of mock-usernames. Users with inward, in contrast to outward-usernames, were always preferred and judged as warmer. However, they were judged as equally competent. The differential impact of the in-out effect in the core dimensions of social perception suggests that the phenomenon relies on the affective mechanism of approach-avoidance that is only pertinent to judgments related to the warmth dimension. The present research provides further support for the link between the activation of oral muscles and impression formation, emphasizing the relevance of the in-out effect for the person perception domain and embodied social cognition.
- A revisão sistemática de literatura em psicologia : desafios e orientaçõesPublication . Camilo, Cláudia; Garrido, MargaridaNas últimas décadas, a comunidade científica tem assistido a um incremento exponencial na divulgação de ciência, com novas revistas lançadas anualmente e milhares de trabalhos de pesquisa publicados em vários domínios científicos entre os quais a Psicologia. No entanto, se por um lado é através da acumulação de conhecimento que a ciência avança, por outro, esse conhecimento deve ser integrado no sentido de informar a investigação, a prática e os decisores políticos. As revisões sistemáticas da literatura constituem um valioso método para dar sentido a grandes corpos de informação sobre um determinado tópico, sumariar a investigação acumulada e avaliar a robustez dos seus resultados. Assim, e atendendo à importância que as revisões sistemáticas de literatura têm na acumulação e divulgação do conhecimento, é importante que sejam conduzidas através de métodos estruturados que permitam identificar, sintetizar e avaliar todos os estudos relevantes para responder a uma pergunta específica. Neste artigo apresentam-se diferentes perspetivas e orientações sobre a condução de uma revisão sistemática da literatura no domínio da Psicologia, discutem-se os desafios associados a este método e procura-se facilitar cada etapa da condução da revisão sistemática através da apresentação de instrumentos e procedimentos recomendados na literatura.