Publications

Caballero, A., Fernández, I., Aguilar, P., Muñoz, D., & Carrera, P. (2023). Does poverty promote a different and harmful way of thinking? The links between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors. Current Psychology, 42(10), 8402-8413. DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-02382-3

Carrera, P., Aguilar, P., Fernández, I., & Caballero, A. (2023). Health or wealth? The influence of perceived health and wealth threats and style of thinking on protective behaviors and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. International Journal of Social Psychology, 38:1, 66-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2022.2132744 .

Caballero, A., Fernández, I., Aguilar, P., & Carrera, P. (2022). The links among relative financial scarcity, thinking style, fatalism, and well-being. Their role in predicting protective behaviors against COVID-19. PsyCh Journal, 11, 885-894. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.566

Caballero, A., Villar, S., Fernández, I., Sevillano, V., Gavilán, P. & Carrera, P. (2022). Disentangling emotions Disentangling Emotions during the Coronavirus Outbreak in Spain: Inner Emotions, Descriptive Feeling Rules and Socioemotional Conventions. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 25, E12. DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2022.7

Carrera, P., Sheppard, V.B., Caballero, A., Gómez-Trillos, S.& Hurtado-de-Mendoza, A. (2022). A culturally targeted video to promote genetic counseling in a community sample of at-risk US Latina women: The role of the concrete mindset. Journal of Community Psychology, 50(3), 1331–1342. DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22718

Villar, S., Carrera, P., & Oceja, L. (2022). From aesthetics to ethics: Testing the link between an emotional experience of awe and the motive of quixoteism on (un)ethical behavior. Motivation and Emotion, 16, 508-520. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09935-4

Fernández, I., Caballero, A., Muñoz, D. & Carrera, P. (2021). Media consumption for information about Covid-19 during lockdown in Spain: the influence of demographic variables, focus-alertness reaction and emotions. Estudios de Psicología, 42(3), 493-516. DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1950459

Hurtado de Mendoza, A., Gomez-Trillos, S., Graves, K.D., Carrera, P., Campos, C., Anderson, L., Gronda, A., Orellana, H., Peshkin, B.N., Schwartz, M.D., Cupertino, P., Ostrove, N., Luta, G., Gonzalez, N., Sheppard, V.B. (2021). Process evaluation of a culturally targeted video for Latinas at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 30(3), 730-741. DOI: 10.1002/jgc4.1361

Fernández, I., Caballero, A., Sevillano, V., Muñoz, D., Oceja, L., & Carrera, P. (2020). The bright side of abstraction: abstractness promoted more empathic concern, a more positive emotional climate, and more humanity-esteem after the Paris terrorist attacks. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 545662. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.545662

Aguilar, P., Caballero, A., Sevillano, V., Fernández, I., Muñoz, D., & Carrera, P. (2020). The Relationships between Economic Scarcity, Concrete Mindset and Risk Behavior: A Study of Nicaraguan Adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(11), 3845. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17113845

Carrera, P., Fernández, I., Muñoz, D., & Caballero, A. (2019). Using Abstractness to Confront Challenges: How the Abstract Construal Level Increases People’s Willingness to Perform Desirable but Demanding Actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6(2), 339–349. DOI: 10.1037/xap0000244

Hurtado de Mendoza, A., Graves, K.D., Gómez-Trillos, S., Carrera, P., Campos, C., Anderson, L., Luta, G., Peshkin, B.N., Schawartz, M.D., Cupertino, A.P., Gonzalez, N., & Sheppard, V.B. (2019) Culturally targeted video improves psychosocial outcomes in Latina women at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(23), 4793. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16234793

Carrera, P., Fernandez, I., Muñoz, D., & Caballero, A. (2019). Desires matter! Desired attitudes predict behavioural intentions in people who think abstractly: the case of eating products without added salt. International Journal of Social Psychology, 34(2), 281-306. DOI: 10.1080/02134748.2019.1583512

Villar, S., Oceja, L., Salgado, S., Stocks, E., & Carrera, P. (2019). The challenge of making this world a better place: analyzing the chivalrous quality of the quixoteism motive. Current Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-0140-8

Hurtado-de-Mendoza, A., Carrera, P., Parrott, W.G., Gómez-Trillos, S., Perera, R.A., & Sheppard, V.B. (2019). Applying the theory of planned behavior to examine adjuvant endocrine therapy adherence intentions. Psycho-Oncology, 28, 187-194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pon.4931

Hurtado de Mendoza, A., Graves, K.D., Gómez-Trillos, S., Song, M., Anderson, L., Campos, C., Carrera, P., Ostroves, N., Peshkin, B.N., Schwartz, M.D., Ficca, N., Cupertino, A.P., Gonzalez, N., Otero, A., Huerta, E., & Sheppard, V.B. (2020). Developing a culturally targeted video to enhance the use of genetic counseling in Latina women at increased risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Journal of Community Genetics, 11, 85–99. DOI: 10.1007/s12687-019-00423-w

Carrera, P., Muñoz, D., Fernández, I., & Caballero, A. (2018). Abstractness and messages describing consequences promote healthier behavioral intentions. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 152, 515-527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2018.1486801

Fernández, I., Caballero, A., Muñoz, D., Aguilar, P., & Carrera, P. (2018). Relationships among Abstract Construal Level, Cross-Situational Consistency in Self-Concept, and Self-Control. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 21, 1-8 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2018.43

Oceja, L., Salgado, S., & Carrera, P. (2018). Do we really care for the world? Testing the link between transcendental change values and the Quixoteism motive. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 40, 421-433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2018.1528153

Oceja, L., …, Villar, S., Salgado, S., …,Carrera, P., …, Caballero, A., …, Muñoz, D., …(2018). Revisiting the differences between instrumental and terminal values to predict (stimulating) prosocial behaviours: The transcendental-change profile. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(3). 749-768, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12306

Carrera, P., Caballero, A., Fernández, I, & Muñoz, D. (2017). Abstractness leads people to base their behavioral intentions on desired attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70, 27-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.12.004

López-Pérez, B., Carrera, P., Oceja, L., Ambrona, T., & Stocks, E. (2017). Sympathy and tenderness as components of dispositional empathic concern: Predicting helping and caring behaviors. Current Psychology, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-017-9615-7

Oceja, L., Stocks, E., Ambrona, T., López-Pérez, B., & Carrera, P. (2017). Local versus Global Perceptual Scope, Empathic Concern, and Helping Preferences in Multiple-Victim Situations. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 20 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2017.25

Oceja, L.; Villegas, M.; Beramendi, M.; & Salgado, S. (2016). “You should (not) do that”: An Evaluative Model of Normative Appeals (EMNA). Journal of Social Psychology, 156, 382-396. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2015.1111855

Ambrona, T., Oceja, L., López-Pérez, B., & Carrera, P. (2016). Can empathic concern be generalized from one person to others? Another positive side of the “one-among-others” effect. Scandinavian Journal of Social Psychology, 57, 547-553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12316