Javier Rodriguez Ferreiro

University Full professor

Scopus Author ID: 6504094373

Researcher ID: B-5232-2011

Knowledge area: Psicologia Bàsica

Grup de Recerca en Cognició i Llenguatge (GRECIL)

Grup d'innovació docent Aprenentatge i Pensament

Contact Information
Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology
Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171
933125158
rodriguezferreiro(a)ub.edu

Teaching impartedi (last 5 years)

Pensament i Resolució de Problemes (Bachelor's degree) - Psychology - Universidad de Barcelona.

Bases Cognitives de l'Adquisició i les Alteracions del Llenguatge (Bachelor's degree) - Psychology - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research Projects

Diferencias individuales en el procesamiento lingüístico: memoria semántica, personalidad esquizotípica y pensamiento creativo . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.PSI2016-80061-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Javier Rodriguez Ferreiro

Fundamento cognitivo de las creencias pseudocientíficas . 2020 - 2023 . Ref.PID2019-106102GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Javier Rodriguez Ferreiro

Relevant publications

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

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, p. e9511 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2167-8359

Barberia, I; Blanco, F.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2021). The more, the merrier: Treatment frequency influences effectiveness perception and further treatment choice. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, pp. 665 - 675 . https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01832-6 . ISSN: 1069-9384

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

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), pp. 851 - 868 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0278-7393

Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Barberia, I. (2021). Believers in pseudoscience present lower evidential criteria. Scientific Reports, 11, p. 24352 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

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 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04197-2 . ISSN: 1046-1310

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 . ISSN: 1932-6203

Josue Garcia-Arch; Itxaso Barberia; Javier Rodríguez-Ferreiro; Lluís Fuentemilla (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 . ISSN: 1661-7827

Braida, B.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Hernández, M. (2022). The foreign language effect on motivational quotes. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(2), pp. 416 - 424 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1366-7289