Papers by Olimpia Matarazzo
dataset of a study examining the effects of a performance feedback, relate feelings and a monetar... more dataset of a study examining the effects of a performance feedback, relate feelings and a monetary reward on decision-making
dataset of a study examining the effects of a performance feedback, related feelings and a moneta... more dataset of a study examining the effects of a performance feedback, related feelings and a monetary reward on decision-making
LE SCIENZE COGNITIVE IN ITALIA 2011 …, 2011
... trarre la conclusione che deriva necessariamente da esse (v. Evans et al. 2010 per una rasseg... more ... trarre la conclusione che deriva necessariamente da esse (v. Evans et al. 2010 per una rassegna). Le due principali teorie deduttive del ragionamento umano, la Teoria della Logica Mentale (TLM; Braine 1978; Braine et al. 1984) e la Teoria dei Modelli Mentali (TMM; Johnson ...
Psychological Reports
In social interactions, the reciprocity norm implies to adjust one’s behavior to that of the othe... more In social interactions, the reciprocity norm implies to adjust one’s behavior to that of the other agents. Conversely, behaving according to self-interest involves taking into account the reciprocity principle only if it does not hinder the achievement of one’s goals. However, reciprocity and self-interest may conflict with each other, as when returning a kind action involves sacrificing the possibility to achieve a personal objective. The conflict could be exacerbated by some contextual factors, such as competitive pressures. This study investigated, in a competitive interaction context, which principle prevails when the two conflict. To this end, 276 unpaid participants (M = 138) took part in a two-stage experiment entailing a simulated interaction with a fictitious opponent, which behaved selfishly, fairly or altruistically toward them during the first stage. Participants had to decide whether or not to reciprocate the opponent’s previous behavior, which in the critical experimen...
Dataset of the study "<b> The gambler's fallacy in problem and non-problem gambler... more Dataset of the study "<b> The gambler's fallacy in problem and non-problem gamblers".</b>
EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science, 2015
EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science, 2015
This study investigated the effect of mood and bias-eliciting contextual cues on decision making ... more This study investigated the effect of mood and bias-eliciting contextual cues on decision making in problem gamblers and healthy individuals. The experimental design involved two between-subjects variables: mood induction (none induction, positive induction, negative induction) and gambling attitude (problem gamblers, healthy individuals), and one withinsubjects variable: bias-inducing contextual cues (gambler's fallacy, illusion of control, wishful thinking, endowment effect). In four decision tasks, participants were asked to select one option among four (very prudent, prudent, hazardous, very hazardous) after having been induced with negative or positive mood (or without mood induction for control group). They filled the South Oaks Gambling Screen at the end of the experiment. Results showed that mood did not influence healthy participants; however, problem gamblers were more risk-seeking after negative mood induction.
Dataset of the study "Choosing task difficulty: the effects of performance feedback, related... more Dataset of the study "Choosing task difficulty: the effects of performance feedback, related emotions and conditional monetary reward".<br>
Datasets (Study 1 and 2) of the paper "Regret and other emotions related to decision-making ... more Datasets (Study 1 and 2) of the paper "Regret and other emotions related to decision-making in the career domain: antecedents and phenomenology" - Applied psychology, Call for papers: Regret in Organizational Life<br>
dataset of a study examining the effects of a performance feedback, related feelings and a moneta... more dataset of a study examining the effects of a performance feedback, related feelings and a monetary reward on decision-making
Dataset of the study "Influences of a luck game on offers in Ultimatum and Dictator games: i... more Dataset of the study "Influences of a luck game on offers in Ultimatum and Dictator games: is there a mediation of emotions?"<br>
Supplementary Materials of the study "Influences of luck game on offers in Ultimatum and Dic... more Supplementary Materials of the study "Influences of luck game on offers in Ultimatum and Dictator games: is there a mediation of emotions?"
dataset of a study examining the effects of a performance feedback, related feelings and a moneta... more dataset of a study examining the effects of a performance feedback, related feelings and a monetary reward on decision-making
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2014
The study investigated the situated linguistic interactions of the users of the Samsung and Apple... more The study investigated the situated linguistic interactions of the users of the Samsung and Apple Facebook pages, with a focus on the attitudinal/affectual values they displayed towards these brands and their products, in a comparative perspective. Following Corpus Linguistics (CL) methodology, two corpora were created, named AppleCorpus (7337 tokens) and SamsungCorpus (5216 tokens), consisting in the wall posts on Apple Inc. and Samsung Mobile pages collected over a period of four days. These corpora were scrutinized both in a CL quantitative perspective and in a qualitative perspective by using the resources of the Appraisal Framework (AF) for discourse analysis to better identifying these social network users' stance and attitudinal positioning. The findings of this pilot study showed that Samsung's users display a more positive attitude toward the brand than Apple's users. Results are discussed in the text.
In two studies we challenged the well consolidated position in regret literature according to whi... more In two studies we challenged the well consolidated position in regret literature according to which the necessary condition for the emergence of regret is a bad outcome ensuing from free decisions. Without free choice, and, consequently, personal responsibility, other emotions, such as disappointment, but not regret, are supposed to be elicited. In our opinion, a main source of regret is being obliged by circumstance out of our control to chose an undesired option. We tested the hypothesis that regret resulting from a forced choice is more intense than regret derived from a free choice and that the outcome affects the latter, not the former. Besides, we investigated whether two other variables – the perception of the level of freedom of the choice and the choice justifiability – mediated the relationships between choice and regret, as well as the other four emotions we examined: satisfaction, anger toward oneself, disappointment, anger towards circumstances. The two studies were bas...
Abstract—In two studies we challenged the well consolidated position in regret literature accordi... more Abstract—In two studies we challenged the well consolidated position in regret literature according to which the necessary condition for the emergence of regret is a bad outcome ensuing from free decisions. Without free choice, and, consequently, personal responsibility, other emotions, such as disappointment, but not regret, are supposed to be elicited. In our opinion, a main source of regret is being obliged by circumstance out of our control to chose an undesired option. We tested the hypothesis that regret resulting from a forced choice is more intense than regret derived from a free choice and that the outcome affects the latter, not the former. Besides, we investigated whether two other variables – the perception of the level of freedom of the choice and the choice justifiability – mediated the relationships between choice and regret, as well as the other four emotions we examined: satisfaction, anger toward oneself, disappointment, anger towards circumstances. The two studies...
Abstract—In recent years linguistic research has turned increasing attention to covert/overt stra... more Abstract—In recent years linguistic research has turned increasing attention to covert/overt strategies to modulate authorial stance and positioning in scientific texts, and to the recipients' response. This study discussed some theoretical implications of the use of rhetoric in scientific communication and analysed qualitative data from the authoritative The Cognitive Neurosciences III (2004) volume. Its genre-identity, status and readability were considered, in the social interactive context of contemporary disciplinary discourses – in their polyphony of traditional and new, emerging genres. Evidence was given of the ways its famous authors negotiate and shape knowledge and research results – explicitly appraising team work and promoting faith in the fast-paced progress of Cognitive Neuroscience, also through experiential metaphors – by presenting a set of examples, ordered according to their dominant rhetorical quality. Keywords—Appraisal, disciplinary discourses, experienti...
Frontiers in Psychology
Objectives: The mainstream position on regret in psychological literature is that its necessary c... more Objectives: The mainstream position on regret in psychological literature is that its necessary conditions are agency and responsibility, that is, to choose freely but badly. Without free choice, other emotions, such as disappointment, are deemed to be elicited when the outcome is worse than expected. In two experiments, we tested the opposite hypothesis that being forced by external circumstances to choose an option inconsistent with one’s own intentions is an important source of regret and a core component of its phenomenology, regardless of the positivity/negativity of the post-decision outcome. Along with regret, four post-decision emotions – anger toward oneself, disappointment, anger toward circumstances, and satisfaction – were investigated to examine their analogies and differences to regret with regard to antecedents, appraisals, and phenomenological aspects.Methods: Through the scenario methodology, we manipulated three variables: choice (free/forced), outcome (positive/ne...
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