Predrag Teovanović

University of Belgrade · Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation

In this paper we seek to gain an improved understanding of the structure of cognitive biases and their relationship with measures of intelligence and relevant non-cognitive constructs. We report on the outcomes of a study based on a heterogeneous set of seven cognitive biases — anchoring effect, belief bias, overconfidence bias, hindsight bias, bas...

In the coronavirus “infodemic”, people are exposed to both official recommendations and to potentially dangerous pseudoscientific advice claimed to protect against COVID-19. We examined whether irrational beliefs predict adherence to COVID-19 guidelines as well as susceptibility to such misinformation. Irrational beliefs were indexed by cognitive i...

The study aimed to investigate the role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality in health-related behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., recommended health behaviors according to COVID-19 guidelines and engagement in pseudoscientific practices related to COVID-19. Basic personality space was defined by the HEXACO model comp...

People resort to various questionable health practices to preserve or regain health - they intentionally do not adhere to medical recommendations (e.g. self-medicate or modify the prescribed therapies; iNAR), or use traditional/complementary/alternative (TCAM) medicine. As retrospective reports overestimate adherence and suffer from recall and desi...

Introduction The belief-bias effect is a tendency to evaluate syllogistic statements based on believability rather than on formal logic validity. Following this rationale, the study examines desirability bias as the tendency to evaluate syllogistic conclusions based on their desirability when reasoning is conducted on personality-relevant categoric...

When they are asked to test a given hypothesis, individuals tend to be biased towards confirming evidence. This phenomenon has been documented on different cognitive components: information search, weighing of evidence, and memory recall. However, the interpretation of these observations has been debated, and it remains unclear whether they truly r...

A growing body of evidence suggests that questionable health behaviors- not following medical recommendations and resorting to non-evidence based treatments—are more frequent than previously thought, and that they seem to have strong psychological roots. We thus aimed to: 1) document the lifetime prevalence of intentional non-adherence to medical r...

Background: Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) encompasses a wide range of healthcare practices that are typically not part of “conventional” medicine and that are widely used in general populations. The aim of the study was to test for the most appropriate latent structure of a comprehensive instrument measuring TCAM use an...

Based on the literature review and clinical experiences, it can be concluded that measuring the amplitude of movement is one of the fundamental kinesiometric methods used in assessing joint functionality. The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of measuring the shoulder joint's range of motion using the digital system KEMT...

Purpose A rise in strokes worldwide means that the number of people affected by aphasia is increasing. Early and accurate diagnosis of aphasia is crucial for recovery. Presently, there are no dedicated screening tests tailored for evaluating aphasia in Serbian-speaking individuals. This paper presents and describes the psychometric properties of th...

When they are asked to test a given hypothesis, individuals tend to be biased towards confirming evidence. This phenomenon has been documented on different cognitive components: information search, weighing of evidence, and memory recall. However, the interpretation of these observations has been debated, and it remains unclear whether they truly r...

Irrational beliefs encompass a broad set of beliefs that lack verifiable empirical evidence and contradict scientific principles, often grouped into conspiratorial, pseudoscientific, and paranormal domains. This paper investigated whether these beliefs are rooted in a set of cognitive biases. Across four studies, low socioeconomic status, right-win...

Play is a natural state in which children enjoy and practice various cognitive, social, and motor skills. Play observations in the natural learning environment helps practitioners and researchers to develop appropriate intervention. Previous research based on observations in the natural learning environment indicates a large gap between the behavio...

People resort to various questionable health practices to preserve or regain health - they intentionally do not adhere to medical recommendations (e.g., self-medicate or modify the prescribed therapies;iNAR), or use traditional/complementary/alternative (TCAM) medicine. As retrospective reports overestimate adherence and suffer from recall and desi...

Despite insufficient evidence base for some of its practices, traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) use is rapidly growing; psychological roots of this trend are still under-studied. Based on previous research, input from TCAM practitioners, and content analysis of online media, we developed a comprehensive instrument to measu...

It is well established that people tend to favor confirming strategies in hypothesis testing. However, little is known about individual differences in this topic. The present study has two aims: (a) adapting existing experimental tasks on hypothesis testing to measure individual differences, (b) investigating the convergent and discriminant propert...

While the COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone, not everyone‘s experience of the pandemic is the same. Young people, for example, were not considered a risk group, but from a public health perspective, successful mitigation of the outbreak calls for coordinated effort across generations. The aim of the study was to explore the »generational view« of...

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between sex, empathy, systemizing, and autistic traits in primary school children. The sample included 353 primary school children aged 7-11 years. The children?s versions of the Empathy Quotient - EQ-C, Systemizing Quotient ? SQ-C, and children?s version of the Autism Spectrum Quotient ? AQ-...

COVID-19 pandemic is a long-lasting process associated with dynamic changes within society and in individual psychological responses. Effective communication of measures by credible sources throughout the epidemic is one of the crucial factors for the containment of the disease, and the official communication about pandemics is straightforwardly di...

In the coronavirus "infodemic", people are exposed to official recommendations but also to potentially dangerous pseudoscientific advice claimed to protect against COVID-19. We examined whether irrational beliefs predict adherence to COVID-19 guidelines as well as susceptibility to such misinformation. Irrational beliefs were indexed by belief in C...

COVID-19 je dugotrajan proces povezan sa dinamičnim promenama unutar društva, psihološkim reakcijama i ponašanjem ljudi. Pored zdravstvenog sistema i ponašanja ljudi, efikasna komunikacija i verodostojni izvori informisanja tokom svake faze epidemije ključni su faktori ublažavanja epidemije. Pozivi na pridržavanje zaštitnih mera usmereni su ka celo...

The study aimed to investigate the role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality in health-related behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., recommended health behaviors according to COVID-19 guidelines and engagement in pseudoscientific practices related to COVID-19. Basic personality space was defined by the HEXACO model comp...

The aim of the research was to assess if people high on a personality trait would score better or worse on syllogisms indicative of that trait. The syllogisms corresponded to both ends of a trait continuum. Three hundred students participated in the study. The syllogisms were specifically constructed for the purpose of the research so that NEO-PI-R...

Eysenck's model of personality (PEN) was one of the most influential personality models in the 20th century. A unique characteristic of this model is the claim of psychosis-proneness being incorporated into it as one of its three basic traits - Psychoticism. The main goal of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to find out the associations b...

Although the anchoring effect is one of the most reliable results of experimental psychology, researchers have only recently begun to examine the role of individual differences in susceptibility to this cognitive bias. Yet, first correlational studies yielded inconsistent results, failing to identify any predictors that have a systematic effect on...

The study aimed to examine several assumptions of dual process theories of reasoning by employing individual difference approach. A set of categorical syllogisms was administered to a relatively large sample of participants (N = 247) along with attached confidence rating scales, and measures of intelligence and cognitive reflection. As expected, re...

Decisions about one's own health range from everyday easy ones, such as taking a vitamin pill, to those made in the situations of life-threatening diseases. When it comes to choosing treatments, patients have difficulty understanding statistical information about the possible outcomes of alternative treatments, such as probabilities and risks. Thes...

Decisions about one's own health range from everyday easy ones, such as taking a vitamin pill, to those made in the situations of life-threatening diseases. When it comes to choosing treatments, patients have difficulty understanding statistical information about the possible outcomes of alternative treatments, such as probabilities and risks. Thes...

Relying on a recent re-conceptualization of psychosis proneness as a personality trait, its relations with the Big Five traits were investigated in a meta-analytic study. This re-conceptualized trait – named Disintegration – is articulated as a broad, hierarchically organized, nine-faceted behavioral disposition. Disintegration is postulated to be...

This meta-analytic study investigates the relations between Disintegration-like phenomena (i.e., various aspects of symptomatology with the prefix “schizo-”, both at the clinical and the sub-clinical level) and the traits of the Psychobiological Model of Personality (PBMP). The empirically based benchmark for assuming the distinctness of the trait...

Anchoring effect is “one of the most reliable and robust findings of experimental psychology” (Kahneman, 2011, p.119). Research aimed to investigate (1) how both direction and distance of anchor (from anchor-free estimates) contribute to size of anchoring effect and (2) whether these effects are predictable by measures of personality traits (Big Fi...

Unutar teorija dualnih procesa, fenomeni kognitivnih pristrasnosti se razumeju kao efekti delovanja oba pretpostavljena kognitivna sistema, prvog koji automatski generiše pristrasan odgovor i drugog koji propušta da takav odgovor prepozna kao pogrešan i pokrene algoritamske procese koji potencijalno vode normativnom rešenju. Individualne razlike u...

Kognitivne pristrasnosti su tipične greške suđenja, odlučivanja, mišljenja i pamćenja koje se registruju kao predvidiva odstupanja ishoda kognitivnih procesa od normativnih kriterijuma racionalnosti. Većina danas poznatih fenomena pristrasnosti registrovana je unutar istraživačkog okvira heuristika i pristrasnosti. Pristalice konkurentnog, ekološko...

People’s systematic tendency of overestimating their own abilities is traditionally expressed through the score of difference between subjective and objective probability of giving correct answers (overconfidence effect). In order to avoid an objection about the algebra origin of bias measure in the scores of achievement (intelligence), this study...

Aim of this paper is to conceptually, graphically and mathematically present principles of latent growth modeling (LGM). Model is presented as a part of more general approach of structural equation modeling (SEM). Application of LGM is presented through examples of result structures. Extensions and limitations of basic model are thoroughly discusse...

span>Cilj rada je da čitaocu konceptualno, grafički, matematički i kroz primere strukture rezultata predstavi postavke osnovnog modela latentnog rasta (LGM), koji su deo opštijeg okvira modelovanja strukturalnim jednačinama (SEM), a potom i da ga upozna sa ekstenzijama osnovnog modela, ukaže na prednosti u odnosu na tradicionalne tehnike i upozori...

Review of the literature on the psychology of giftedness.

The main goal of this research was to study the correlates of school underachievement and to sketch the possible profile of the gifted underachiever. The study was conducted on a sample of high school students in Belgrade (N = 434). The subjects were administered a battery of ability tests and asked to self-estimate their intelligence. On the ba...

IQ argument alleges that (1) there are racial, i.e. group differences in intelligence between Black and White people, and that (2) intelligence is highly hereditary, thus (3) given differences are congenital. Results of population geneticists suggest that the notion of race (and the notion of ethnic group likewise) is only a social construct, a cul...

Historical review of psychoanalytical conceptions on development of gender identity.