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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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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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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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The factor structure of cognitive reflection, numeracy, and fluid intelligence: The evidence from the Polish adaptation of the Verbal CRT by Sobkow, Agata, Olszewska, Angelika, Sirota, Miroslav

“…The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is one of the most popular measures of individual differences in rational thought and decision making. To overcome 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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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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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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Framing experts' (dis)agreements about uncertain environmental events by Løhre, Erik, Sobkow, Agata, Hohle, Sigrid Møyner, Teigen, Karl Halvor

“…Agreements and disagreements between expert statements influence lay people's beliefs. But few studies have examined what is perceived as a disagreement. We…”
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The experience‐based format of probability improves probability estimates: The moderating role of individual differences in numeracy by Traczyk, Jakub, Sobkow, Agata, Matukiewicz, Adrian, Petrova, Dafina, Garcia‐Retamero, Rocio

“…People with low statistical numeracy have difficulties understanding numerical information. For instance, they often misunderstand the probability of…”
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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 Jakub Traczyk, Agata Sobkow, Kamil Fulawka, Jakub Kus, Dafina Petrova, Rocio Garcia-Retamero

“…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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Individual differences in emotional reactivity moderate the strength of the relationship between attentional and implicit-memory biases towards threat-related stimuli by Matusz, Pawel J., Traczyk, Jakub, Sobkow, Agata, Strelau, Jan

“…The study investigated whether the strength of the relationship between attentional and implicit-memory biases for threat-related material can be moderated by…”
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