(*Etudiants)
60. 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
59. 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/
58. 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
57. 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
56. 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
55. 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
54. 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-premières autrices
53. 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
52. 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/
51. 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
50. 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
49. 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
48. 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
47. 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
46. 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
45. 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
44. 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
43. 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
42. 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
41. 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
40. 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
39. 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
38. 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
37. 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
36. 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
35. Mylonas, D., Caparos, S., & Davidoff, J. (2022). Augmenting a colour lexicon. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01045-3
34. 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
33. 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
32. 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
31. 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
30. 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
29. 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
28. 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
27. 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
26. 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
25. 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
24. 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
23. 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
22. 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
21. 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
20. 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
19. 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
18. 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
17. 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
16. 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
15. 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
14. 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
13. 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
12. 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
11. 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-premiers auteurs
10. 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
9. 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
8. 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
7. 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
6. Caparos, S., & Linnell, K. J. (2012). Trait anxiety focuses spatial attention. Emotion, 12, 8-12. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026310
5. 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
4. 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
3. 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
2. 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
1. 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.