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Entrevista Cognitiva. Guía para la aplicación en la evaluación y mejoramiento de instrumentos de papel y lápiz
(2011)Mucha de la investigación que hacemos en las Ciencias Sociales, de la Educación y de la Salud se construye a partir de información obtenida a través métodos de autoreporte. En estos métodos consultamos directamente a las ... -
Actitudes hacia el matrimonio y la unión civil gay en Costa Rica: ¿religiosidad, homofobia, autoritarismo o desconocimiento?
(2011)En los últimos años, el reconocimiento del matrimonio y la unión civil entre personas del mismo sexo ha sido objeto de debates en diversos países del mundo, particularmente en América Latina. El presente estudio explora ... -
An application of the Linear Logistic Test Model for the construction of a Fluid Intelligence Test
(2019)El presente artículo, de corte cuantitativo, tiene como objetivo poner a prueba —a través del uso de un modelo logístico lineal (LLTM, por sus siglas en inglés)— un conjunto de operaciones cognitivas (reglas), que influencian ... -
The boss is always right: Preschoolers endorse the testimony of a dominant over that of a subordinate
(2016-12)Recent research has shown that young children rely on social cues to evaluate testimony. For instance, they prefer to endorse testimony provided by a consensual group than by a single dissenter. Given that dominance is ... -
Evidence for benefits of argumentation in a Mayan indigenous population
(2016)Group discussion improves on individual reasoning performance for a wide variety of tasks. This improvement, however, could be largely specific to members of modern, schooled, affluent Western cultures. In two studies, we ... -
How Self-Objectification Impacts Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls in Costa Rica
(2017-02)Background: In Latin America, more than 80% of adolescent girls are physically inactive. Inactivity may be reinforced by female stereotypes and objectification in the Latin American sociocultural context. Methods: We ... -
Role of Perceived Importance in Intergroup Contact
(2004-08)Furthering G. W. Allport’s (1954) contentions for optimal contact, the authors introduce a new construct: the perceived importance of contact. They propose that perceived importance is the best proximal predictor of ... -
The influence of power and reason on young Maya children's endorsement of testimony
(2015-09-09)Two important parenting strategies are to impose one's power and to use reasoning. The effect of these strategies on children's evaluation of testimony has received very little attention. Using the epistemic vigilance ... -
Aportes a la comprensión de la identidad étnica en niños, niñas y adolescentes de grupos étnicos minoritarios
(Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 96(2), 2002, 2002-06)El presente artículo hace una revisión de la literatura internacional sobre identidad étnica en niños y niñas pertenecientes a grupos étnicos minoritarios, resume los principales resultados de investigación empírica en ... -
Japanese preschoolers’ evaluation of circular and non-circular arguments
(2017-09)Observational and experimental data have revealed that preschoolers possess some argumentation skills, both in the production and the evaluation of arguments. However, these skills might have been fostered by the particular ... -
Reasoning from transitive premises: An EEG study
(2014)Neuroimaging studies have contributed to a major advance in understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms underpinning deductive reasoning. However, the dynamics of cognitive events associated with inference making ...
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