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Primary vs. secondary knowledge contents in reasoning: Motivated and efficient vs. overburdened
Published in Acta psychologica (01-07-2022)“…Primary knowledge is the knowledge for which our cognitive architecture has evolved so that we acquire it quickly and effortlessly. We are intrinsically…”
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Reasoning More Efficiently with Primary Knowledge Despite Extraneous Cognitive Load
Published in Evolutionary psychology (01-04-2024)“…Geary's evolutionary approach in educational psychology differentiates between primary (low cognitive costs and motivational advantage) and secondary knowledge…”
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Fitness Costs Predict Emotional, Moral, and Attitudinal Inbreeding Aversion
Published in Frontiers in psychology (24-11-2016)“…In terms of sexual intercourse, the very last people we think about are our kin. Imagining inbreeding intercourse, whether it involves our closest kin or not,…”
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Effects of an online self-help intervention on university students’ mental health during COVID-19: A non-randomized controlled pilot study
Published in Computers in human behavior reports (01-03-2022)“…The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on university students, particulary on their mental health. However, little is yet known about how to prevent…”
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The Effect of Intervention Approaches of Emotion Regulation and Learning Strategies on Students’ Learning and Mental Health
Published in Inquiry (Chicago) (01-03-2023)“…University students are a vulnerable population, and many recent studies show that anxiety, depressive symptoms, and academic burnout have been on the increase…”
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Effects of three prophylactic interventions on French middle-schoolers' mental health: protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Published in BMC Psychology (13-04-2024)“…Adolescence is a strategic developmental stage in terms of preventing later difficulties and ensuring good mental health. Prophylactic interventions, which are…”
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Exploring the Use of a Learning-Based Exergame to Enhance Physical Literacy, Soft Skills, and Academic Learning in School-Age Children: Pilot Interventional Study
Published in JMIR serious games (23-02-2024)“…There is ample evidence that most children do not perform enough physical activity (PA). To address this major public health problem, the French government…”
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Using Primary Knowledge in Unpopular Statistics Exercises
Published in Educational psychology review (01-12-2022)“…Human cognitive architecture has evolved throughout history, thus facilitating the processing of certain types of knowledge that emerged early on in evolution…”
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Using Primary Knowledge: an Efficient Way To Motivate Students and Promote the Learning of Formal Reasoning
Published in Educational psychology review (01-12-2019)“…According to Geary's evolutionary approach, humans are able to easily acquire primary knowledge and, with more efforts, secondary knowledge. The present study…”
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Primary knowledge enhances performance and motivation in reasoning
Published in Learning and instruction (01-08-2018)“…•Primary knowledge is used as context for logical reasoning tasks.•It increases performance, emotional and cognitive investment.•It decreases perceived…”
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Keeping it for yourself or your sister? Experimental evidence on birth order effects on resource distribution between kin and non-kin
Published in Journal of economic psychology (01-01-2021)“…Birth order supposedly influences individuals’ cooperative attitudes: firstborns are more family-oriented and favor their kin, while laterborns are more likely…”
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An Evolutionary Approach to Motivation and Learning: Differentiating Biologically Primary and Secondary Knowledge
Published in Educational psychology review (01-06-2024)“…The ubiquity of formal education in modern nations is often accompanied by an assumption that students’ motivation for learning is innate and self-sustaining…”
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Additions are biased by operands: evidence from repeated versus different operands
Published in Psychological research (01-03-2014)“…Recent evidence led to the conclusion that addition problems are biased towards overestimation, regardless of whether information is conveyed by symbolic or…”
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