Itxaso Barberia Fernandez

Associate professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-3045-2289
Researcher ID: L-8477-2014
Knowledge area: Psicologia Bàsica

Contact Information
Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology
Secció Processos Cognitius-Passeig Vall d'Hebron, 171
933125146
itsasobarberia(a)ub.edu

Teaching impartedi (last 5 years)

Aprenentatge, Motivació i Emoció (Bachelor's degree) - Psychology - Universidad de Barcelona.
Cognició Comparada (Bachelor's degree) - Psychology - Universidad de Barcelona.
Aprenentatge i Cognició (University Master's Degree) - Recerca en Comportament i Cognició - Universidad de Barcelona.

Teaching Innovation Projects

Análisis de pseudociencias en el aula para promover el pensamiento crítico . 2016 - 2017 . Ref.2015PID-UB/030 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Itxaso Barberia Fernandez

Research Projects

Ilusiones causales: mecanismos explicativos, factores moduladores, e intervenciones para combatirlas . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.PSI2016-75776-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Itxaso Barberia Fernandez
Fundamento cognitivo de las creencias pseudocientíficas . 2020 - 2023 . Ref.PID2019-106102GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Javier Rodriguez Ferreiro

Relevant publications

Blanco, F.; Barberia, I.; Matute, H. (2015). Individuals Who Believe in the Paranormal Expose Themselves to Biased Information and develop More Causal Illusions than Nonbelievers in the Laboratory. PLoS One, 10(7), p. e0131378 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Matute, H.; Blanco, F.; Yarritu, I.; Díaz-Lago, M.; Vadillo, M. A.; Barberia, I. (2015). Illusions of causality: How they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(888) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1664-1078
Rodríguez-Ferreiro, N.; Barberia, I. (2017). The moral foundations of illusory correlation. PLoS One, 12(10), p. e018575 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
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, 2018 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Barberia, I.; Oliva, R.; Bourdin, P.; Slater, M. (2018). Virtual mortality and near-death experience after a prolonged exposure in a shared virtual reality may lead to positive life-attitude changes. PLoS One, 13(11), p. e0203358 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Barberia, I.; Vadillo, M.A.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2019). Persistence of Causal Illusions After Extensive Training. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, p. 24 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1664-1078
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, p. 191114 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2054-5703
Torres, M.N.; Barberia, I.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2020). Causal illusion as a cognitive basis of pseudoscientific beliefs. British Journal of Psychology, early access . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0007-1269
Barberia, I; Blanco, F.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2020). The more, the merrier: Treatment frequency influences effectiveness perception and further treatment choice. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review . https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01832-6 . ISSN: 1069-9384
Morís, J.; Barberia, I.; Vadillo, M. A.; Andrades, A.; López, F. J. (2017). Slower reacquisition after partial extinction in human contingency learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, pp. 81 - 93 . ISSN: 0278-7393