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Dispositional beliefs regarding “affect as information” determine the perception of persuasive self-efficacy

Publication . Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Loureiro, Filipe

Abstract: In this paper, we approach the relationship between believing that affect informs about the validity of a claim and believing that one persuasive strategy will be more or less efficient in changing one’s own attitude. In one study, participants were asked to select from a set of features of a persuasive context those they perceived to have more persuasive power. Results showed that these selections were clearly clustered in two groups, suggesting that individuals tend to select either more cognitive features or more experiential affective features. Individual measures regarding participants’ need for cognition and faith in intuition did not explain the tendency to select more one type of cluster or another, but this selection was determined by how much people generally believe that affect informs about the validity or goodness of a claim.

2016-06Journal article

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Morning or evening person? Which type are you? Self-assessment of chronotype

Publication . Loureiro, Filipe Pereira; Garcia-Marques, Teresa

A marked individual difference is the morningness–eveningness preference or chronotype. Presenting its high relevance in predicting human behavior, we stress the need to control for this dimension in different studies, suggesting that this can be easily and succinctly done since individuals are aware of their chronotypes. We tested this hypothesis selecting the self-assessment item from the rMEQ scale, demonstrating that the item by itself is capable of classifying individuals in the same category as the score obtained through the original scale.

2015Journal article

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