Search Results - "Jakub Traczyk"

Worry, Risk Perception, and Controllability Predict Intentions Toward COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors by Sobkow, Agata, Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz, Petrova, Dafina, Garcia-Retamero, Rocio, Traczyk, Jakub

“…The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has already had serious worldwide health, socio-economic, political, and educational consequences. In the present study, we…”
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The Affective Bases of Risk Perception: Negative Feelings and Stress Mediate the Relationship between Mental Imagery and Risk Perception by Sobkow, Agata, Traczyk, Jakub, Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz

“…Recent research has documented that affect plays a crucial role in risk perception. When no information about numerical risk estimates is available (e.g.,…”
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Affect-laden imagery and risk taking: the mediating role of stress and risk perception by Traczyk, Jakub, Sobkow, Agata, Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz

“…This paper investigates how affect-laden imagery that evokes emotional stress influences risk perception and risk taking in real-life scenarios. In a series of…”
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Does Mental Number Line Training Work? The Effects of Cognitive Training on Real-Life Mathematics, Numeracy, and Decision Making by Sobkow, Agata, Fulawka, Kamil, Tomczak, Pawel, Zjawiony, Piotr, Traczyk, Jakub

“…We developed and validated intervention aimed at enhancing numeracy (the ability to understand and use the concept of probability and statistical information)…”
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Visualizing risky situations induces a stronger neural response in brain areas associated with mental imagery and emotions than visualizing non-risky situations by Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz, Traczyk, Jakub, Sobkow, Agata, Fulawka, Kamil, Megías-Robles, Alberto

“…In an fMRI study, we tested the prediction that visualizing risky situations induces a stronger neural response in brain areas associated with mental imagery…”
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Polish Validation of the Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (SUIS): Psychometric Characteristics and Relationships with Risk Propensity by Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz, Sobkow, Agata, Traczyk, Jakub

“…In three studies, we developed the Polish version of the Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (SUIS), which measures individual differences in people's spontaneous…”
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Numerate decision makers don't use more effortful strategies unless it pays: A process tracing investigation of skilled and adaptive strategy selection in risky decision making by Traczyk, Jakub, Sobkow, Agata, Fulawka, Kamil, Kus, Jakub, Petrova, Dafina, Garcia-Retamero, Rocio

“…The present study investigated skilled and adaptive strategy selection in risky decision making. We proposed that people with high objective numeracy, a strong…”
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Does Fear Increase Search Effort in More Numerate People? An Experimental Study Investigating Information Acquisition in a Decision From Experience Task by Traczyk, Jakub, Lenda, Dominik, Serek, Jakub, Fulawka, Kamil, Tomczak, Pawel, Strizyk, Karol, Polec, Anna, Zjawiony, Piotr, Sobkow, Agata

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of numeracy and the emotion of fear on the decision-making process. While previous research demonstrated…”
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Conditionality of adaptiveness: Investigating the relationship between numeracy and adaptive behavior by Mondal, Supratik, Traczyk, Jakub

“…Recent studies have illustrated that individuals with higher numeracy are more likely to make adaptive choices than individuals with lower numeracy. Highly…”
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Numeracy moderates the influence of task-irrelevant affect on probability weighting by Traczyk, Jakub, Fulawka, Kamil

“…•We tested whether decision-irrelevant incidental affect alters probability weighting.•Negative affect influenced the curvature of the probability weighting…”
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Multiple numeric competencies predict decision outcomes beyond fluid intelligence and cognitive reflection by Sobkow, Agata, Olszewska, Angelika, Traczyk, Jakub

“…The goal of the present study was to compare the relative contribution of different cognitive abilities and preferences to superior decision making…”
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Entrepreneurial Risk Taking Is Related to Mental Imagery: A Fresh Look at the Old Issue of Entrepreneurship and Risk by Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz, Bernady, Adriana, Traczyk, Jakub

“…This paper contributes to the debate concerning determinants of willingness to take entrepreneurial risks and proposes a new approach to this issue. Our…”
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Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions by Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz, Traczyk, Jakub, Sobkow, Agata

“…This paper introduces a conceptual synthesis of theoretical ideas investigating the relationship between decision making and mental imagery. We claim that the…”
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Imagining risk taking: The valence of mental imagery is related to the declared willingness to take risky actions by Smieja, Joanna, Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz, Sobkow, Agata, Traczyk, Jakub

“…Abstract The aim of the present research was to investigate the involvement of mental imagery in people's choices under risk. We tested the general idea that…”
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Recurring suboptimal choices result in superior decision making by Mondal, Supratik, Lenda, Dominik, Traczyk, Jakub

“…A vast body of research has indicated that intensified deliberation on choice problems often improves decision accuracy, as evidenced by choices that maximize…”
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Associations between Case Fatality Rates and Self-Reported Fear of Neoplasms and Circulatory Diseases by Fulawka, Kamil, Lenda, Dominik, Traczyk, Jakub

“…Background. According to decision by sampling theory, people store relative frequencies of events in memory, and these values constitute subjective…”
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Implicit attitudes toward risk: the construction and validation of the measurement method by Traczyk, Jakub, Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz

“…Methods that are typically used to examine individual differences in risk attitudes (e.g. lotteries, dilemmas, questionnaires) require participants to…”
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The structure of intuitive abilities and their relationships with intelligence and Openness to Experience by Sobkow, Agata, Traczyk, Jakub, Kaufman, Scott Barry, Nosal, Czeslaw

“…In this study, we aimed to explore the relationships between intuitive abilities, intelligence (explicit cognitive ability) and personality. We found that…”
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Consistency in probability processing as a function of affective context and numeracy by Traczyk, Jakub, Fulawka, Kamil, Lenda, Dominik, Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz

“…Processing information about probabilities is an integral part of decision making under risk. Even when objective probabilities are explicitly provided, people…”
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Measuring feelings about choices and risks: The Berlin Emotional Responses to Risk Instrument (BERRI) by Petrova, Dafina, Cokely, Edward T., Sobkow, Agata, Traczyk, Jakub, Garrido, Dunia, Garcia‐Retamero, Rocio

“…We introduce a brief instrument specifically validated for measuring positive and negative feelings about risks—the Berlin Emotional Responses to Risk…”
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