Mirjana Tonkovic

University of Zagreb Faculy of Humanities and Social Sciences · Department of Psychology

In this paper we discuss the framing effects of the ego- vs. time-moving metaphor in relation to climate change. Previous studies have found that time-moving metaphors (e.g., climate disaster is approaching us ) led participants to assess the urgency and perceived risk of climate change as higher than ego-moving metaphors (e.g., we are approaching...

Epistemically suspect beliefs, such as endorsement of conspiracy theories or pseudoscientific claims, are widespread even among highly educated individuals. The phenomenon of conspiratorial thinking is not new, yet the COVID-19 pandemic, causing a global health crisis of an unprecedented scale, facilitated the emergence and rapid spread of some rat...

The study of moral judgements often centres on moral dilemmas in which options consistent with deontological perspectives (that is, emphasizing rules, individual rights and duties) are in conflict with options consistent with utilitarian judgements (that is, following the greater good based on consequences). Greene et al. (2009) showed that psychol...

PurposeFausey and Boroditsky (2010) demonstrated that agentive descriptions of accidents can increase perceived blame and financial liability. We conducted direct replications of their studies 1 and 2 in English, as originally used, and in Croatian.Methods Participants in the first experiment read either an agentive or a nonagentive description of...

Purpose Fausey and Boroditsky ( Psychon. Bull. Rev. , 17, 2010, 644) demonstrated that agentive descriptions of accidents can increase perceived blame and financial liability. We conducted direct replications of their studies 1 and 2 in English, as originally used, and in Croatian. Methods Participants in the first experiment read either an agenti...

Mentalnozdravstveni indikatori upućuju na razmjerno dobru prilagodbu i psihološku otpornost većine građana, ali i na postojanje ranjivih skupina. Mlađi građani, žene, niže obrazovani i oni nižega ekonomskog standarda više su pogođeni krizom, te im treba osigurati podršku i pomoć za brži i uspješniji oporavak. Pad povjerenja u ključne (političke) in...

Previous research has shown that different metaphorical framings lead people to reason differently, even about important social issues. Critics of such investigations argue that there is no empirical evidence to show that framing significantly influences how people think about real-world problems. In our experiment, we investigated the effects of d...

p>Epistemically suspect beliefs, such as endorsement of conspiracy theories or pseudoscientific claims are widespread even among highly educated individuals. The phenomenon of conspiratorial thinking is not new, yet the COVID-19 pandemic, causing a global health crisis of an unprecedented scale, facilitated the emergence and rapid spread of some ra...

p>Epistemically suspect beliefs, such as endorsement of conspiracy theories or pseudoscientific claims are widespread even among highly educated individuals. The phenomenon of conspiratorial thinking is not new, yet the COVID-19 pandemic, causing a global health crisis of an unprecedented scale, facilitated the emergence and rapid spread of some ra...

As implied by many and explicitly stated by Florida (2002), „human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.“ However, just like human knowledge, which is one of the preconditions for creativity to occur, creativity does not happen out of thin air. It has its foundations, triggers and constituents. The aim of this conceptual paper is to discuss...

As implied by many and explicitly stated by Florida (2002), „human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.“ However, just like human knowledge, which is one of the preconditions for creativity to occur, creativity does not happen out of thin air. It has its foundations, triggers and constituents. Consequently, it can be developed and fostered...

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to numerous new conspiracy theories related to the virus. This study aimed to investigate a range of individual predictors of beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories that account for sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, education, economic standard, the importance of religion, and political self-identi...

Protection motivation theory (PMT) is a theoretical framework informative for understanding behavioral intentions and choices during exceptional and uncommon circumstances, such as a pandemic of respiratory infectious disease. PMT postulates both the threat appraisal and the coping appraisal as predictors of health behaviors. Recent advances in the...

Psycholinguistic databases containing ratings of concreteness, imageability, age of acquisition, and subjective frequency are used in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies which require words as stimuli. Linguistic characteristics (e.g. word length, corpus frequency) are frequently coded, but word class is seldom systematically treated, alth...

The conceptualization of abstract concepts is very often metaphorical, meaning that we think and talk about abstract concepts in terms of other, usually more concrete experiences. Recent research suggests that many abstract concepts are linked to bodily sensations. In two experiments, we tested a hypothesis about weight as an embodiment of difficul...

U literaturi je pokazano kako se sintaktička struktura, za razliku od značenja iskaza, vrlo kratko zadržava u pamćenju, osobito nakon rečenične granice (Caplan 1972, Jarvella 1971). Unatoč tomu postoje istraživanja koja pokazuju kako sintaktička struktura koja prethodi elipsi glagolske skupine utječe na njezinu obradu i interpretaciju (Hankamer i S...

Much research on moral judgment is centered on moral dilemmas in which deontological perspectives (i.e., emphasizing rules, individual rights and duties) are in conflict with utilitarian judgements (i.e., following the greater good defined through consequences). A central finding of this field Greene et al. showed that psychological and situational...

This article presents the initial results of the project The Building Blocks of Croatian Mental Grammar: Constraints of Information Structure, within the scope of which the Croatian Psycholinguistic Database is being constructed. The database contains empirically established values for the categories of concreteness, imageability, subjective freque...

Functional approach to autobiographical memory (AM) posits its three broad functions: directive, self, and social. Although these functions are probably universal, life stage and gender variations are expected. This research builds on previous studies investigating the validity of Thinking About Life Experiences Questionnaire (TALE; Bluck and Alea,...

When we speak or think about time, we most often do it from one of two possible perspectives: ego-moving or time-moving. From ego-moving perspective, time is perceived as static while we perceive ourselves as moving through time. From time-moving perspective, time is perceived as something that moves towards us while we are static. Time perspective...

Studies often posit the processing dichotomy of positive vs. negative affect. People in a negative mood tend to process information in a more systematic manner while those in a positive mood tend to adopt a more heuristic, schema-directed processing style. A 3 (mood: negative vs. neutral vs. positive) × 2 (exposure duration: one vs. five minutes) ×...

Based on theoretical and empirical similarities between Construal level theory of psychological distance and the Need for cognitive closure (NFC) theory, it could be hypothesized that psychological distance and NFC represent constructs that overlap to some degree. Since both theories describe judgmental behavior in terms of schematic processing, we...

Background and objective: This article presents a multimodal analysis of startle type responses using a variety of physiological, facial, and speech features. These multimodal components of the startle type response reflect complex brain-body reactions to a sudden and intense stimulus. Additionally, the proposed multimodal evaluation of reflexive...

Elicitation of startle reflex and affective reactions by visual, auditory and tactile stimuli, as well as synchronized measurement of the corresponding physiological, speech and facial responses has been conducted in healthy participants, using a developed laboratory system. Ten female first-year university students passed through five elicitation...

Prilikom procjene pojmova ljudi gotovo automatski pretpostavljaju kako su objekti koji se u prostoru nalaze gore pozitivni, dok su objekti koji se u prostoru nalaze dolje negativni (Meier i Robinson, 2004). Budući da se prostor i udaljenost koristi i kako bi se opisala sličnost među nekim pojmovima (Casasanto, 2008), pokazuje se i kako razdvajanje...

Abstract concepts are often described in terms of spatial dimensions. For example, time is represented on a horizontal line with past on the left, and future on the right. Mental number line goes form left to the right. Some studies indicate that a horizontal axis is also used to describe power and affect. Theories of grounded cognition assume that...

When evaluating concepts people tend to use metaphors linking spatial location and affect, thus judging positive concepts to be up and negative down (e.g. feeling high and being down; Meier & Robinson, 2004). Space and information on proximity is used when describing similarities between concepts - research shows that separating hands in the task o...

The term metamemory refers to the knowledge one has about the development and use of memory in general, and one's own memory processes in particular. The current theoretical perspective on memory processes is best described by the memory systems framework which represents a useful tool in specifying different 'kinds' of memory. We present here the...

Sažetak Metamemorija se odnosi na naše znanje o pamćenju općenito, poznavanje vla-stitih procesa i pamćenja te zadovoljstvo svojim pamćenjem. Područje mjerenja me-tamemorije relativno je novo, a ovaj je rad prilog raspravi o važnosti uključivanja metamemorije u procjenu nečijeg pamćenja, te nedostacima zaključivanja o kvaliteti ili poteškoćama neči...

Metamemory refers to our knowledge of memory functioning, of our mnemonic processes, as well as satisfaction with our own mnemonic system. Its assessment is a relatively new field in memory research, and in this paper we aimed at drawing attention to the importance of incorporating metamory assessment in the neuropsychological screening procedure....

This paper gives an overview of the most important experimental studies in the field of minority influence, starting with early studies of minority influence on perceptual judgments and Moscovici's conversion theory as the result of those researches. Emphasis is given to the studies of conversion theory in the field of attitude change, with the foc...

This paper gives an overview of the most important experimental studies in the field of minority influence, starting with early studies of minority influence on perceptual judgments and Moscovici's conversion theory as the result of those researches. Emphasis is given to the studies of conversion theory in the field of attitude change, with the foc...

This paper gives an overview of the most important experimental studies in the field of minority influence, starting with early studies of minority influence on perceptual judgments and Moscovici’s conversion theory as the result of those researches. Emphasis is given to the studies of conversion theory in the field of attitude change, with the foc...

Korištenjem implicitnih mjera, konkretno Testa implicitnih asocijacija, u mjerenju samopoštovanja može se izbjeći davanje socijalno poželjnih odgovora. No, još uvijek postoje određene dileme oko optimalne forme ovoga testa kada se njime mjeri implicitno samopoštovanje i načina formiranja konačnog rezultata na testu. U ovom radu usporedili smo dvije...

Using implicit measures, such as Implicit Association Test (IAT) in measuring self-esteem enables us to avoid socially-desirable answers. However, certain dilemmas regarding the most appropriate form of the test for implicit self-esteem measurement and an optimal way of forming the final result still exist. Two parallel forms of Implicit Associatio...

U modelu radnog pamćenja Baddeleya i Hitcha (1974) središnji izvršitelj je strateška komponenta ograničenog kapaciteta koja nadzire usmjeravanje pažnje, organizaciju informacija, te kontrolu procesa pretraživanja kod dosjećanja. Iako najintrigantnija, središnji izvršitelj je ujedno i najslabije istražena komponenta modela radnog pamćenja, a njegova...

Central executive (CE) is a strategic and resource-demanding component of the Baddeley and Hitch (1974) working memory model, serving in orienting attention, organizing information, initiating and guiding search during retrieval. It is the least studied component of the WM model; its unitary or modular nature still being debated. The aim of this st...

The goal of this research was to examine the effects of positive and negative mood on message processing, reflected in the difference that strong and weak messages have on attitude change. It was also examined how the presence of peripheral cue combined with a strong vs. weak message influences attitude change in positive and negative mood. The exp...

The goal of this research was to examine the effects of positive and negative mood on message processing, reflected in the difference that strong and weak messages have on attitude change. It was also examined how the presence of peripheral cue combined with a strong vs. weak message influences attitude change in positive and negative mood. The exp...

Cilj rada bio je istražiti neke aspekte dijagnostičke i prediktivne valjanosti dva hrvatska instrumenta za mjerenje emocionalne inteligencije: Testa analize emocija (Kulenović, 2000) i Upitnika emocionalne kompetentnosti (Takšić, 2000). U istraživanju je sudjelovalo ukupno 197 studenata četiri fakulteta zagrebačkog sveučilišta: Fakulteta strojarstv...