Publications

Here you can find some of our most recent publications:

• Huete-Pérez, D.; Davies, R.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Ferré, P. (2025) Individual differences in associative/semantic priming: Spreading of activation in semantic memory and epistemically unwarranted beliefs. PLoS One,20, 2:e0313239. (link)

• García-Arch, J.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Barberia, I. (2024) Individual differences in the evolution of causal illusions. British Journal of Psychology (link)

• Martínez, N.; Barberia, I.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2024) Proneness to false memory generation predicts pseudoscientific belief endorsement. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 9, 39. (link)

• Braida, B.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Hernández, M. (2023) The foreign language effect on motivational quotes. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26, 416-424. (link)

• Martínez, N.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Barberia, I.; Matute, H. (2023) A debiasing intervention to reduce the causality bias in undergraduates: the role of a bias induction phase. Current Psychology, 42, 32456-32468. (link)

• Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Vadillo, M.A.; Barberia, I. (2023) Debiasing Causal Inferences: Over and beyond suboptimal sampling. Teaching of Psychology, 50, 230-236. (link)

• Saltor, J.; Barberia, I.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2023) Thinking disposition, thinking style, and susceptibility to causal illusion predict fake news discriminability. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37, 360-368. (link)

• Torres, M. N.; Barberia, I.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.(2023) A validation of the Pseudoscience Endorsement Scale and assessment of the cognitive correlates of pseudoscientific beliefs. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, 1-8. (link)

• Tubau, E.; Colomé, À.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2023) Previous beliefs affect Bayesian reasoning in conditions fostering gist comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 51, 1819-1835. (link)

• García-Arch, J.; Barberia, I.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Fuentemilla, L. (2022) Authority brings responsibility: feedback from experts promotes an overweighting of health-related pseudoscientific beliefs. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 15154. (link)

• Torres, M.N.; Barberia, I.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2022) Causal illusion in the core of pseudoscientific beliefs: The role of information interpretation and search strategies. PLoS ONE, 17(9): e0272201. (link)

• Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Barberia, I. (2021) Believers in pseudoscience present lower evidential criteria. Scientific Reports, 11, 24352. (link)

• Aguilera, M.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2021) Differential effects of schizotypy dimensions on creative personality and creative products. Creativity Research Journal, 33(2), 202-208. (link)

• Torres, M.N.; Barberia, I.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2020) Causal illusion as a cognitive basis of pseudoscientific beliefs. British Journal of Psychology, 111(4), 840-852. (link) (postprint)

• Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Aguilera, M.; Davies, R. (2020) Positive schizotypy increases the acceptance of unpresented materials in false memory tasks in non-clinical individuals. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 262. (link)

• Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Aguilera, M.; Davies, R. (2020) Semantic priming and schizotypal personality: reassessing the link between thought disorder and enhanced spreading of semantic activation. PeerJ, 8, e9511. (link)

• Barberia, I; Blanco, F.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2020) The more, the merrier: Treatment frequency influences effectiveness perception and further treatment choice. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 665–675. (link).

• Tubau, E.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Barberia, I.; Colomé, A. (2019) From reading numbers to seeing ratios: a benefit of icons for risk comprehension. Psychological Research, 83(8), pp. 1808-1816. (link) (postprint)

• Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Barberia, I.; González-Guerra, J.; Vadillo, M.A. (2019) Are we truly special and unique? A replication of Goldenberg et al. (2001). Royal Society Open Science, 6, 191114. (link)

• Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Aguilera, M. (2019) Schizotypal personality and semantic functioning: Revisiting category fluency effects in a subclinical sample. Psychiatry Research, 271, 365-369. (link) (postprint)

• Barberia, I.; Vadillo, M.A.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2019) Persistence of Causal Illusions After Extensive Training. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 24. (link)

• Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Davies, R (2018) The graded effect of valence on word recognition in Spanish. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(5), 851-868. (link) (postprint)

• Colomé, A.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Tubau, E. (2018) Too Worried to Judge: On the Role of Perceived Severity in Medical Decision-Making. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1906. (link)

• Barberia, I.; Tubau, E.; Matute, H.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2018) A short educational intervention diminishes causal illusions and specific paranormal beliefs in undergraduates. PLoS One,13(1), e0191907. (link)

• Rodríguez-Ferreiro, N.; Barberia, I. (2017) The moral foundations of illusory correlation. PLoS One, 12(10), e018575. (link)

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Here you can find some of our works explained in a more accessible language:

• Martínez, N.; Barberia, I.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2024) ¿Se relacionan las falsas memorias con las creencias en pseudociencias? Ciencia Cognitiva (link)

• García-Arch, J.; Barberia, I.; Rodriguez-Ferreiro, J.; Fuentemilla, L. (2023) ¿Cómo sobreviven las pseudoterapias? La influencia del feedback de expertos en las creencias sobre tratamientos alternativos. Ciencia Cognitiva. (link)

• Torres, M.; Barberia, I.; Rodriguez-Ferreiro, J.(2020) ¿Por qué creemos en las pseudociencias?. Ciencia Cognitiva. (link)

• Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.& Barberia, I. (2018) Sesgos cognitivos y convicciones morales. Ciencia Cognitiva. (link)

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And here you can listen to NotebookLM podcasts explaining some of them:

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