Raquel Pinto

University of Minho · Centro de Investigação em Psicologia (CIPsi)

Purpose This study aimed to study autobiographical memories in women with eating disorders regarding emotional verbal expression, according to age. Our hypotheses are threefold: due to the emotional avoidance that occurs in women with eating disorders, in the younger ages, it was hypothesized that younger participants with anorexia and bulimia nerv...

Research on familiar faces has been conducted in different countries and resort to celebrities faces, stimuli that are highly constrained by geographic context and cultural peculiarities, since many celebrities are only famous in particular countries. Despite their relevance to psychological research, there are no normative studies of celebrities’...

Destination memory involves remembering to whom we told information. Low accuracy of this memory is linked to higher self‐focus and lower attentional resources allocated to the recipient of the information. The present paper aimed to investigate whether the existence of distinctive features (e.g., tattoos) of destination face would improve destinat...

Positive and negative life events play a decisive role in the development, maintenance, and recovery of eating disorders (Schmidt et al., 1997). For this reason, they can be considered risk and protective factors for eating disorders. However, little is known about how these life events relate to the experience of specific emotions or feelings and...

Although effective in reducing virus transmission, face masks might compromise face recognition and trait judgments. With this study, we aimed to observe the influence of masks on face recognition and trait judgments—more specifically, in trustworthiness, dominance, and distinctiveness judgments. Also, we wanted to observe the possible influence of...

To remember to whom we transmit a piece of information, we rely on destination memory, with worse performance occurring when participants share personal facts (e.g., my age is ...) compared to interesting ones (e.g., a shrimp's heart is in its head). When reporting personal information, the internal attentional focus decreases the attentional resou...

Considering the global pandemic we currently experience, face masks have become standard in our daily routine. Even though surgical masks are established as a safety measure against the dissemination of COVID-19, previous research showed that their wearing compromises face recognition. Consequently, the capacity to remember to whom we transmit info...

Considering the current state of the worldwide pandemic, it is still common to encounter people wearing face protection masks. Although a safety measure against COVID-19, face masks might be compromising our capacity for face recognition. We conducted an online study where 140 participants observed masked and unmasked faces in a within-subjects des...

To remember to whom we transmit a piece of information, we rely on destination memory, with worse performance occurring when participants transmit personal facts (e.g., my age is ...) compared to interesting ones (e.g., a shrimp's heart is in its head). It seems that when reporting personal information, the internal attentional focus decreases the...

The capacity to remember to whom we transmit information - Destination Memory - is worse when participants shared personal facts compared to sharing non personal information (Gopie MacLeod, 2009 Johnson Jefferson, 2018). In two experiments where we apply the standard paradigm used to study destination memory, our goal was to replicate these results...

Destination memory refers to the capacity to remember the person to whom we have given specific information (Gopie & MacLeod, 2010). Past research (El-Haj, Antoine, & Nandrino, 2016; El-Haj, Saloppé & Nandrino, 2018) showed higher destination memory in participants with a high-tendency to deceive than in those with a low-tendency to deceive. Also,...

Several studies (e.g., Nevonen& Broberg, 2000; Tozzi, Sullivan, Fear, McKenzie, & Bulik, 2003) have identified sad events as events that lead to the development of eating disorders and happy events as events that lead to recovery in different psychopathologies. However, some positive events can also be considered risk factors (Pike, Wilfley, Hilber...

Different studies regarding verbal emotional expressions in women with eating disorders have obtained opposite results. With an inhibitory task, Seddon and Waller had observed that women aged between 22 and 40 and with more bulimic symptoms exhibited an attentional bias for negative emotional words. In contrast, younger women – between the ages of...