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Cortial, C.*, Prado, J., & Caparos, S. (2026). Does reasoning hurt? The role of negative emotions in triggering deliberative reasoning. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
Josserand, M.*, Dediu, D., Pellegrino, F., & Caparos, S. (2026). There is more than meets the eye: The dual role of perception in shaping color lexicons. Topics in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.70068
Duagani, Y.‡, & Josserand, M.*‡, Akilimali, K.M. J-P.4, Bakulikira, B. B. 4, Batenga, J.5, Kasali, H.*, Caparos, S., Leanza, Y., Kokou-Kpolou, K.C. & Blanchette, I. (2026). The mental health burden of cumulative trauma in a setting of chronic insecurity: A population study in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Lancet Regional Health Africa. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanafr.2026.100126 ‡ co-first authors
Cortial, C.*, Prado, J., & Caparos, S. (2026). The impact of frowning and doubt on deductive reasoning. Motivation and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-026-10212-x
Boissin, E.*, Charbit, L., Raoelison, M., Borst, G., Caparos, S., & De Neys, W. (2026). Reactivating Logic? Age-Dependent Effects of Intuitive Debiasing Training. Thinking and Reasoning. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2026.2727940
Guignette, L.*, Caparos, S., Quesque, F., Trémolière, B., Nimmon, K. & Gosling, C. J. (2025). A head-to-head comparison of the incremental validity of four major mentalizing tests: A preregistered study in adults. Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911251374588*
Blanchette, I., Balume, B., Ingabire, M.-C.*, Kankunda, E., & Caparos, S. (2025). Measuring working memory in contexts of high adversity: The usefulness of the digit span measure in North Kivu. African Journal of Psychological Assessment. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajopa.v7i0.177
Cortial, C.*, Prado, J., & Caparos, S. (2025). Reasoning does hurt: Deliberation is associated with heightened levels of doubt. Thinking & Reasoning. https://doi.org//10.1080/13546783.2025.2531067
Cortial, C.*, Prado, J., & Caparos, S. (2025). Reconceptualizing metacognitive experience in dual-process reasoning: The role of emotion in triggering deliberation. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70084
Eccher, E.*‡ & Josserand, M.*‡, Caparos, S., Boissin, E., Buiatti, M., Piazza, M., & Vallortigara, G. (2025). A universal left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55685-x ‡ co-first authors
Gosling, C. J., Boisseleau, L., Solmi, M., Sandbank, M., Jureik, L., Nourredine, M., Porcu, G.*, Murgia, E.*, Radua, J., Fusar-Poli, P., Kovarski, K., Caparos, S., Cartigny, A., Cortese, S., & Delorme, R. (2025). Complementary and alternative medicines for Autism Spectrum Disorder: online platform for shared-decision making based on a large-scale evidence synthesis. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02256-9
Gosling, C. J., Solmi, M. […], Caparos, S., Delorme, R., & Cortese, S. (2025). Benefits and harms of ADHD interventions: umbrella review and platform for shared decision-making. British Medical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-085875
Wakui, E., Mylonas, D., Caparos, S., & Davidoff, J. (2025). Categorical color perception shown in a cross-lingual comparison of visual search. Color Research & Application. https://doi.org//10.1002/col.22964
Ingabire, M.-C.*, Caparos, S., Rutembesa, E., & Blanchette, I. (2025). Mothers’ psychopathology and their adult offspring’s cortisol levels in a Rwandan sample. South African Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v31i0.2410
Xiong, L.*, Caparos, S., Guéraud, S., Augusto, C., & Habib, M. (2024). Are health protective behaviors promoted by anticipated regret? Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053241298516
Boissin, E.*, Caparos, S., Abi Hana, J., Bernard, C., & De Neys, W. (2024). Easy-fix attentional focus manipulation boosts the intuitive and deliberate use of base-rate information. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org//10.3758/s13421-024-01625-5
Ingabire, M.-C.*, Caparos, S., Rutembesa, E., Habimana, E.,& Blanchette, I. (2024). Maternal trauma exposure is linked to adult offspring’s cognitive functioning in the context of mass violence. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. https://doi.org//10.1037/tra0001807
Caparos, S., & Boissin, E.* (2024). The relationships between urbanicity, general cognitive ability, and susceptibility to the Ebbinghaus illusion. Psychological Research, 88, 1540-1549. https://doi.org//10.1007/s00426-024-01959-4
Blumenthal, A.*, Caparos, S., & Blanchette, I. (2024). Understanding the Structure of Autobiographical Memories: A Study of Trauma Memories from the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Memory & Cognition, 52, 1597–1608 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01565-0
Boissin, E.*, Josserand, M.*, De Neys, W., & Caparos, S. (2023). Debiasing thinking among non-WEIRD reasoners. Cognition, 243, 105681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105681
Gosling, C. J., Caparos, S., Pinabiaux, C., […] & Cortese., S. (2023). Association between relative age at school and persistence of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in prospective studies: an individual participant data meta-analysis. Lancet Psychiatry, 10, 922-933. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00272-9
Ciccione, L., Sablé-Meyer, M., Boissin, E.*, Josserand, M.*, Poitier-Watkins, C., Caparos, S., Dehaene, S. (2023) Trend judgment as a perceptual building block of graphicacy and mathematics, across age, education, and culture. Scientific Reports, 13, 10266. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37172-3
Boissin, E.*, Caparos, S., & De Neys, W. (2023). Examining the role of deliberation in de-bias training. Thinking and Reasoning, 30, 327–355. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2023.2259542
Blumenthal, A.*, Caparos, S., & Blanchette, I. (2023). How threat shapes attention and memory in the Himba, a remote people of Namibia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54, 635-649. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221231175063
Habib, M., Osmont, A., Tavani, J.-L., Cassoti, M., & Caparos, S. (2023). Is adolescence believed to be a period of greater risk taking than adulthood? International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 28, 2242469. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2023.2242469
Boissin, E.*, Caparos, S., & De Neys, W. (2023). No easy fix for belief bias during syllogistic reasoning? Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35, 401–421. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2181734
Boissin, E.*, Caparos, S., Voudouri, A., & De Neys, W. (2022). Debiasing System 1: Training favours logical over stereotypical intuiting. Judgment and Decision Making, 17, 646-690. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500008895
Ingabire, M.-C.*, Caparos, S., Rutembesa, E., Habimana, E.,& Blanchette, I. (2022). Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma and its association with Attitudes towards Reconciliation. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001416
Mylonas, D., Caparos, S., & Davidoff, J. (2022). Augmenting a colour lexicon. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01045-3
Devoisin-Lagarde, C., Trémolière, B., Caparos, S., & Charbonnier, E., (2022). Effects of a Cognitive Schema Account on the Stigma of Schizophrenia: A Study in a French University Student Sample. American Journal of Psychology, 35, 287-300. https://doi.org/10.5406/19398298.135.3.03
Trémolière, B., Davidoff, J., Caparos, S. (2021). A 21st century cognitive portrait of the Himba, a remote people of Namibia. British Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12539
Sablé-Meyer, M., Fagot, J., Caparos, S., van Kerkoerle, T., Amalric M., & Dehaene S. (2021). Sensitivity to geometric shape regularity in humans and baboons: A putative signature of human singularity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023123118
Boissin, E.*, Caparos, S., Raoelison, M., De Neys, W. (2021) From bias to sound intuiting: Boosting correct intuitive reasoning. Cognition, 211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104645
Blais, C., Linnell, K. J., Caparos, S., & Estephan, A. (2021). Cultural differences in face recognition and potential underlying mechanisms. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:627026. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.627026
Caparos, S., Rutembesa, E., Habimana, E., & Blanchette, I. (2020). The psychological correlates of transitional justice in Rwanda: A long-term assessment. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12, 774–784. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000583
Gosling, C. J., Pinabiaux, C., Caparos, S., Delorme, R., & Cortese, S. (2020) Influence of the Month of Birth and Persistence of ADHD in Prospective Studies: Protocol for an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis. BMJ Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040952
Caparos, S., Linnell, K. J., & Blanchette, I. (2020). The local perceptual bias of a non-remote and educated population. Psychological Research, 84, 1211-1222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01158-6
Gosling, C. J., Caparos, S., & Moutier, S. (2020). The interplay between the importance of a decision and emotion in decision-making. Cognition & Emotion, 34, 1260-1270. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1741340
Giroux, S.-V.*, Caparos, S., Gosselin, N., Rutembesa, E., & Blanchette, I. (2020). Impact of Music on Working Memory in Rwanda. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00774
Linnell, K. J., & Caparos, S. (2020). Urbanisation, the arousal system, and covert and overt attentional selection. Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 100-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.030
Caparos, S., Giroux, S.-V., Rutembesa, E., Habimana, E., & Blanchette, I. (2018). Twenty years later, the cognitive portrait of openness to reconciliation in Rwanda. British Journal of Psychology, 109, 362-385. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12275
Charbonnier, E., Caparos, S., & Trémolière, B. (2018). The role of mothers’ affiliate stigma and child’s symptoms on the distress of mothers with ADHD children. Journal of Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2018.1521944
Blanchette, I., Rutembesa, E., Habimana, E., Caparos, S. (2018). Long term cognitive correlates of exposure to political violence: Short-term memory in Rwanda twenty years after the genocide. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 11, 147-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000388
Linnell, K. J., Bremner, A., Caparos, S., Davidoff, J., & De Fockert, J. (2018). Effect of urbanisation on the appearance of brightness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44, 2-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000498
Grégoire, L., Caparos, S., Leblanc, C.-A., Brisson, B., & Blanchette, I. (2018). Sexual abuse exposure alters early processing of emotional words: Evidence from event-related potentials. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 655. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00655
Caparos, S. & Blanchette, I. (2017). Independent effects of relevance and arousal on deductive reasoning. Cognition & Emotion, 31, 2012-2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1179173
Blanchette, I., & Caparos, S. (2016). Working memory function is linked to trauma exposure, independently of PTSD symptoms. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 6, 494-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2016.1236015
Bremner, A. J., Doherty, M., Caparos, S., De Fockert, J., Linnell, K. J., & Davidoff, J. (2016). Effects of culture and the urban environment on the development of the Ebbinghaus illusion. Child Development, 87, 962-981. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12511
Caparos, S., Fortier-St-Pierre, S., Gosselin, J., Blanchette, I., & Brisson, B. (2015). The tree to the left, the forest to the right: Political opinions and perceptual bias. Cognition, 134, 155-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.10.006
Linnell, K. J., Caparos, S., & Davidoff, J. (2014). Urbanization increases left-bias in line-bisection: an expression of elevated levels of intrinsic alertness? Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01127
Caparos, S. & Blanchette, I. (2014). Emotional Stroop interference in trauma-exposed individuals: a contrast between two accounts. Consciousness & Cognition, 28, 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.06.009
Caparos, S., Linnell, K. J., Bremner, A., De Fockert, J., & Davidoff, J. (2013). Do local and global perceptual biases tell us anything about local and global selective attention? Psychological Science, 24, 206-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612452569
Blanchette, I. ‡ & Caparos, S. ‡ (2013). When emotions improve reasoning: The possible roles of relevance and utility. Thinking and Reasoning, 19, 399-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783. 2013.791642 ‡ co-first authors
Linnell, K. J., & Caparos, S. (2013). Perceptual load and early selection: An effect of attentional engagement? Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 498. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00498
Bremner, A., Caparos, S., Davidoff, J., De Fockert, J., Linnell, K. J., & Spencer, C. (2013). “Bouba” and “Kiki” in Namibia? Western shape-symbolism does not extend to taste in a remote population. Cognition, 126, 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.09.007
Linnell, K. J., Caparos, S., De Fockert, J., & Davidoff, J. (2013). Urbanization decreases attentional engagement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 1232-1247. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031139
Caparos, S., Ahmed, L., Bremner, A., De Fockert, J., Linnell, K. J., & Davidoff, J. (2012). Exposure to an urban environment alters the local bias of a remote culture. Cognition, 122, 80-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.013
Caparos, S., & Linnell, K. J. (2012). Trait anxiety focuses spatial attention. Emotion, 12, 8-12. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026310
De Fockert, J., Caparos, S., Linnell, K. J., & Davidoff, J. (2011). Reduced distractibility in a remote culture. PLoS ONE, 6, e26337 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026337
Linnell, K. J., & Caparos, S. (2011). Perceptual and cognitive load interact to control the spatial focus of attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 1643-1648. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024669
Caparos, S., & Linnell, K., J. (2010). The spatial focus of attention is controlled at perceptual and cognitive levels. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 1080-1107. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020367
Caparos, S., & Linnell, K., J. (2009). The interacting effect of load and space on visual selective attention. Visual Cognition, 17, 1218-1227. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280902924083
Giersch, A., & Caparos, S. (2005). Focused attention is not enough to activate discontinuities in lines, but scrutiny is. Consciousness and Cognition, 14, 613-632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2005.01.007
HDR Synthesis
Caparos, S. (2017). Perspectives culturelles dans l'étude de la cognition. Université de Nîmes, France.
PhD Thesis
Caparos, S. (2009). Load and the spatial profile of visual selective attention. Goldsmiths University of London, UK.