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Mata, A., Nilson, T., Erlandsson, A., & Ferreira, R. (in press). People underestimate how receptive other people are to different political opinions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Vaz, A., Mata, A., & Critcher, C. R. (in press). Establishing and explaining absolute moral perceptions: People are bad, a person is good, I am great. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Cruz, F., & Mata, A. (in press). Lay perceptions of psychology: The (mis)match between lay beliefs and explanatory stances. Philosophical Psychology.
Cruz, F., & Mata, A. (in press). Learning psychology changes deep-rooted beliefs about the nature of psychological phenomena: Effects on intuitive dualism and beliefs about science. Learning and Instruction.
Cruz, F., & Mata, A. (in press). Love is in the soul, math is in the brain: Dualist intuitions and belief in psychological science. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Cruz, F., & Mata, A. (in press). Motivated bias blind spot: People confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability. Mind & Society.
Cruz, F., & Mata, A. (in press). The spirit is noble, but the flesh is corrupt: Lay beliefs about the bases of (im)moral behavior. Self and Identity.
Mata, A. & Vaz, A. (in press). One life of ours equals X lives of theirs: Motivated proportional thinking about the value of lives in different countries. Judgment and Decision Making.
Quinteiro, P. M., Mata, A., Simão, C., Gaspar, R., Farias, A. R. (in press). How bystanders’ perception of interpersonal synchrony shapes their beliefs and intentions towards dyads, in a naturalistic setting. Spanish Journal of Psychology.
Vaz, A., Ingendahl, M., Mata, A., & Alves, H. (in press). "Stop the count!" How reporting partial election results fuels beliefs in election fraud. Psychological Science.
Vaz, A., & Mata, A. (in press). The perceived authenticity of attitudes toward groups: Attitudinal expressions are seen as more genuine when ascribed to individuals than collectives. Social Psychology.
Vaz, A., Mata, A., & Critcher, C. R. (2025). A watched pot seems slow to boil: Why frequent monitoring decreases perceptions of progress. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(4), 895–918.
*Cruz, F., & *Mata, A. (2024). Self-serving beliefs about science: Science justifies my weaknesses (but not other people’s). Public Understanding of Science, 34(2), 172-187.
* equal contribution
Mata, A. (2024). Pluralistic ignorance for automatic and controlled expressions of prejudice: People believe that others can correct their automatic biases, but still overestimate their prejudice. Social Psychology, 55(6), 316–320.
Mata, A., & Vaz, A. (2024). Self-other differences in the perceived authenticity of attitudes expressed towards social groups. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1467396.
*Mendonça, C., *Mata, A., & Ferreira, M. B. (2024). The social amplification of distortions in representations of ratios. Social Psychology, 55(4), 221–226.
* equal contribution
*Mendonça, C., *Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., & Alves, H. (2024). The social amplification of illusory correlations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54(7), 1489-1499 .
* equal contribution
Palma, T., Vieira, A., Cruz, F., & Mata, A. (2024). The effect of face race on metamemory: Examining its robustness and underlying mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50(11), 1811–1843.
Alves, H., Vogel, T., Grüning, D., & Mata, A. (2023). Why leading is (almost) as important as winning. Cognition, 230, 105282.
Grüning, D. J., Alves, H., Mata, A., & Fiedler, K. (2023). Reversing the cumulative redundancy bias to demonstrate metacognitive flexibility in cue utilization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 107, 104471.
Lackner, S., Francisco, F., Mendonça, C., Mata, A., & Gonçalves-Sá, J. (2023). Intermediate levels of scientific knowledge are associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes towards science. Nature Human Behavior, 7, 1490-1501.
Mata, A. (2023). Overconfidence in the Cognitive Reflection Test: Comparing confidence resolution for reasoning versus general knowledge. Journal of Intelligence 11(5), 81.
Reis, J., Ferreira, M. B., Mata, A., Seruti, A., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2023). Anchoring in a social context: How the possibility of being misinformed by others impacts one’s judgment. Social Cognition, 41, 67-87.
*Simão, C., & *Mata, A. (2023). Self-other differences in social mindfulness: Beliefs about other people’s selfishness are grounded in one’s selfish impulses. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 100104.
* equal contribution
Ferreira, M. B., Soro, J. C., Reis, J., Mata, A., & Thompson, V. (2022). When type 2 processing misfires: The indiscriminate use of statistical thinking about reasoning problems. Journal of Intelligence, 10(4), 109.
Mata, A., & Amaral, J. (2022). Desirable biases: Self-enhancement is seen as biased and bad, other-enhancement is seen as biased but good. Social Cognition, 40(4), 317-335.
Mata, A., Vaz, A., & Mendonça, B. (2022). Deliberate ignorance in moral dilemmas: Protecting judgment from conflicting information. Journal of Economic Psychology, 90, 102523.
Vaz, A., & Mata, A. (2022). Failing to ignore the ignorant: Mistaking ignorance for error. Judgment and Decision Making, 17(5), 937-961.
Vaz, A., Mata, A., & Palma, T. A. (2022). Blocking effects in social inference generalize across targets: Learning to interpret a person’s behavioral cues interferes with learning about other people’s behavior. Social Cognition, 40(4), 364-386.
Zorn, T. J., Mata, A., & Alves, H. (2022). Attitude similarity and interpersonal liking: A dominance of positive over negative attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 100, 104281.
Costa-Lopes, R., Mata, A., & Mendonça, C. (2021). Real people or mere numbers? The influence of kill-save ratios and identifiability on moral judgments. International Journal of Social Psychology, 36(2), 378-395.
Mata, A., Simão, C., & Gouveia, R. (2021). Science can explain other people’s minds, but not mine: self-other differences in beliefs about science. Self and Identity, 20(8), 1077-1095.
Mata, A., Vaz, A., & Palma, T. (2021). Cue competition in mental state inference: Blocking effects in learning to interpret the behaviors of others. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104122.
Schubert, A. L., Ferreira, M. B., Mata, A., & Riemenschneider, B. (2021). A diffusion model analysis of belief bias: Different cognitive mechanisms explain how cognitive abilities and thinking styles contribute to conflict resolution in reasoning. Cognition, 211, 104629.
Vaz, A., Mata, A., & Critcher, C. R. (2021). Analogies Offer Value Through the Struggle to Make Them Work: Making Sense of the Psychological Immune System. Psychological Inquiry, 32(4), 230-239.
*Vega, S., *Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., & Vaz, A. (2021). Metacognition in moral decisions: Judgment extremity and feeling of rightness in moral intuitions. Thinking and Reasoning 27(1), 124-141.
* co-first authorship
Fiedler, K., Schott, M., Kareev, Y., Avrahami, J., Ackerman, R., Goldsmith, M., Mata, A., Ferreira, M., Newell, B., & Pantazi, M. (2020). Metacognitive myopia in change detection: A collective approach to overcome a persistent anomaly. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46, 649–668.
Mata, A. (2020). An easy fix to reasoning errors: Attention capturers improve reasoning performance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1695-1702.
Mata, A. (2020). Conflict detection and social perception: bringing meta-reasoning and social cognition together. Thinking and Reasoning, 26, 140-149.
Mata, A., & Semin, G. R. (2020). Multiple shared realities: The context sensitivity of the saying-is-believing effect. Social Cognition, 38, 364-366.
Mata, A., & Simão, C. (2020). Karmic forecasts: The role of justice in forecasts about self and others. Motivation Science, 6, 335-345.
Alves, H., & Mata, A. (2019). The redundancy in cumulative information and how it biases impressions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 1035-1060.
Mata, A. (2019). Further tests of the metacognitive advantage model: Counterfactuals, confidence and affect. Psychological Topics (Special Issue on Meta-Reasoning), 28, 155-124.
Mata, A. (2019). Social metacognition in moral judgment: Decisional conflict promotes perspective taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 1061-1082.
Mata, A.*, Simão*, C., Farias, A. R., & Steimer, A. (2019). Forecasting the duration of emotions: A motivational account and self-other differences. Emotion, 19, 503-519.
* co-first authorship
Mendonça, C*., Mata, A.*, & Vohs, K. D. (2019). Self-other asymmetries in the perceived validity of the Implicit Association Test. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25, 192-218.
* co-first authorship
Quinteiro, P. M., Mata, A., Simão, C., Gaspar, R., Farias, A. R. (2019). Observing synchrony in dyads: Effects on observers’ expectations and intentions. Social Psychology, 50, 174-184.
Steimer, A.*, Mata*, A., & Simão, C. (2019). Ascribing meaning to the past: Self-other differences in weighing good and bad deeds. Social Cognition, 37, 174-196.
* co-first authorship
Braga, J. N., Ferreira, M. B., Sherman, S. J., Mata, A., Jacinto, S., & Ferreira, M. (2018). What's next? Disentangling availability from representativeness using binary decision tasks. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 307-319.
Mata, A., & Ferreira, M. B. (2018). Response: Commentary: Seeing the conflict: an attentional account of reasoning errors. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 24.
Braga, J., Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (2017). Motivated reasoning in the prediction of sports outcomes and the belief in the “hot hand”. Cognition and Emotion, 31, 1571-1580.
Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., Voss, A., & Kollei, T. (2017). Seeing the conflict: An attentional account of reasoning errors. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24, 1980-1986.
Sôro, J., Ferreira, M. B., Semin, G. R., Mata, A., & Carneiro, P. (2017). Ad hoc categories and false memories: Memory illusions for categories created on the spot. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 43, 1779-1792.
Mata, A. (2016). Proportion dominance in valuing lives: The role of deliberative thinking. Judgment and Decision Making, 11, 441-448.
Ferreira, M. B., Mata, A., Donkin, C., Sherman, S. J., & Ihmels, M. (2016). Analytic and heuristic processes in the detection and resolution of conflict. Memory & Cognition, 44, 1050-1063.
Mata, A. (2016). Judgment of covariation: A review. Psicologia, 30, 61-74.
Steimer, A., & Mata, A. (2016). Motivated implicit theories of personality: My weaknesses will go away, but my strengths are here to stay. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 415-429.
Mata, A., Garcia-Marques, L., Ferreira, M. B., & Mendonça, C. (2015). Goal-driven reasoning overcomes cell D neglect in contingency judgments. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27, 238–249.
Mata, A., Sherman, S. J., Ferreira, M. B., & Mendonça, C. (2015). Strategic numeracy: Self-serving reasoning about health statistics. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 37, 165-173.
Krüger, T., Mata, A., & Ihmels, M. (2014). The presenter’s paradox revisited: An evaluation mode account. Journal of Consumer Research, 41, 1127–1136.
Mata, A., & Almeida, T. (2014). Using metacognitive cues to infer others’ thinking. Judgment and Decision Making, 9, 349–359.
Mata, A., Percy, E. J., & Sherman, S. J. (2014). Adjective-noun order as representational structure: Native language grammar influences perception of similarity and recognition memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 21, 193–197.
Mata, A., Schubert, A., & Ferreira, M. B. (2014). The role of language comprehension in reasoning: How "good-enough" representations induce biases. Cognition, 133, 457–463.
Fiedler, K., & Mata, A. (2013). The art of exerting verbal influence through powerful lexical stimuli. In J. P. Forgas, J. Laszlo & O. Vincze (Eds.), Social cognition and communication (43–62). New York: Psychology Press.
Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., & Reis, J. (2013). A process-dissociation analysis of semantic illusions. Acta Psychologica, 144, 433–443.
Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (2013). Flexibility in motivated reasoning: Strategic shifts of reasoning modes in covariation judgment. Social Cognition, 31, 465–481.
Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (2013). The metacognitive advantage of deliberative thinkers: A dual-process perspective on overconfidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 353–373.
Mata, A., Fiedler, K., Ferreira, M. B., & Almeida, T. (2013). Reasoning about others’ reasoning. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 486–491.
Mata, A., Sôro, J., & Ferreira, M. B. (2011). Raciocínio motivado: O caso do advogado intuitivo [Motivated reasoning: The case of the intuitive lawyer]. In-Mind, 2, 9–16.
Sherman, S. J., Percy, E. J., & Mata, A. (2011). The role of language in constraining mental representations, judgments, and stereotypes. In M. Cadinu, S. Galdi, & A. Maass (Eds.), Social Perception, cognition, and language in honour of Arcuri (109–122). CLEUP.
Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2009). A influência da motivação na percepção de covariação [The influence of motivation on perception of covariation]. In A. Caetano, M. Garrido, S. Batel, & A.C. Martins (Eds.). Percursos de Investigação em Psicologia Social e Organizacional (vol. III). Lisboa: Edições Colibri.
Percy, E. J., Sherman, S. J., Garcia-Marques, L., Mata, A., & Garcia-Marques, T. (2009). Cognition and native language grammar: The organizational role of adjective-noun word order in information representation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 16, 1037–1042.
Schmitt, D. P., et al. (2007). The geographic distribution of Big Five personality traits: Patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38, 173–212.
Mata, A., Antunes, D., Gaspar de Carvalho, R., Rodrigues, C., & Palma-Oliveira, J. M. (2006). Risk Communication: How to communicate and be understood successfully. In C.Guedes Soares & E. Zio (Eds.) Safety and Reliability for Managing Risk (vol.2). London: Taylor & Francis.
Mata, A., Antunes, D., Gaspar de Carvalho, R., Palma-Oliveira, J. M., Lino, J., Luís, S., Marques, N., Silveira, C., & Alves, I. (2006). Psychological monitoring: Understanding irrational people. In C. Guedes Soares & E. Zio (Eds.). Safety and Reliability for Managing Risk (vol.2). London: Taylor & Francis.
Schmitt, D. P., et al. (2004). Patterns and universals of adult romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions: Are models of self and other pancultural constructs? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 367–402.
Schmitt, D. P., et al. (2004). Patterns and universals of mate poaching across 53 nations: The effects of sex, culture, and personality on romantically attracting another person’s partner. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 560–584.
Carvalho, R., Mata, A., Marques, S., Moreira, S., Antunes, D., & Palma-Oliveira, J. M. (2003). Social impact assessment methodology. In T. Craig (Ed.). Crossing boundaries - The value of interdisciplinary research. Aberdeen: The Robert Gordon University.
Mata, A., Carvalho, R., Marques, S., Moreira, S., Antunes, D., & Palma-Oliveira, J. M. (2003). A case study on psychosocial monitoring. In T. Craig (Ed.). Crossing boundaries - The value of interdisciplinary research. Aberdeen: The Robert Gordon University.
Schmitt, D. P., et al. (2003). Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions. Personal Relationships, 10, 307–333.
Schmitt, D. P., et al. (2003). Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 85–104.