André Mata
Associate Professor
Coordinator of the Masters in Cognitive and Social Psychology
Disciplines
Social Psychology
Social Cognition
Taught Modules
Judgment and Decision under Uncertainty
Motivated Thinking
Motivation
Social Psychology I
Social Psychology II
Societal Challenges: Psychological Themes
Social Cognition
Judgment and Decision Making
Metacognition
Reasoning
Moral Judgment
PTDC/PSI-GER/7592/2020: Fighting pluralistic ignorance to defeat prejudice
BIAL 2020: The psychology of the living and the dead: Interpersonal psychology in the afterlife
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. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01677-8.
Mata, A., Vaz, A., & Mendonça, B. (2022). Deliberate ignorance in moral dilemmas: Protecting judgment from conflicting information. Journal of Economic Psychology, 90, 102523. DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2022.102523.
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. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104122.
Alves, H., & Mata, A. (2019). The redundancy in cumulative information and how it biases impressions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 1035-1060. DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000169.
Mata, A. (2019). Social metacognition in moral judgment: Decisional conflict promotes perspective taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 1061-1082. DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000170.
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. DOI: 10.1037/emo0000455.
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. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.07.011.
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. DOI: 10.1037/a0033640.
Mata, A., Fiedler, K., Ferreira, M. B., & Almeida, T. (2013). Reasoning about others’ reasoning. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 486–491. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.01.010.