Castro JLG's scientific contributions

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... Despite its rhetoric, though, some experimental studies inspired by Social Representation Theory speak of representations as 'steering', 'controlling', 'influencing', and 'guiding' behaviour and action (e.g. Echebarria Echabe, Guede, & Castro, 1994;Faucheux & Moscovici, 1968;Thommen, Amann, & von Cranach, 1988). These and other empirical studies subscribe to an 'intentional causality' either explicitly or implicitly by designing studies according to the idea of causal research: They first assess a belief as part of a representation, give it the status of an independent variable X, and subsequently 'observe' a verbal proxy of behaviour as the dependent variable Y. ...