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Helena Matute

Helena Matute

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
4197
World Ranking
9963
National Ranking
122

Overview

Helena Matute is affiliated with the University of Deusto in Spain and conducts research primarily in the field of Psychology. Their work covers several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Mental Health and Psychiatry, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Mental Health Research Topics, and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

Recent publications by Helena Matute include:

  • "Humans inherit artificial intelligence biases" (2023), published in Scientific Reports
  • "The influence of algorithms on political and dating decisions" (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • "The impact of AI errors in a human-in-the-loop process" (2024), published in Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • "Assessing Emotion and Sensitivity of AI Artwork" (2022), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "I want to believe: Prior beliefs influence judgments about the effectiveness of both alternative and scientific medicine" (2023), published in Judgment and Decision Making

Helena Matute frequently collaborates with a number of researchers. Their most common coauthors include Fernando Blanco, Ujué Agudo, María Manuela Moreno-Fernández, Naroa Martínez, and Aranzazu Vinas.

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in notable venues such as Scientific Reports, PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Psychology, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, and Judgment and Decision Making.

Best Publications

  • Biological significance in forward and backward blocking: Resolution of a discrepancy between animal conditioning and human causal judgment

    Ralph R. Miller;Helena Matute

  • Learned Helplessness and Superstitious Behavior as Opposite Effects of Uncontrollable Reinforcement in Humans

    Helena Matute

  • Illusions of causality: How they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced

    Helena Matute;Fernando Blanco;Ion Yarritu;Marcos Díaz-Lago

  • Illusion of Control: Detecting Response-Outcome Independence in Analytic but Not in Naturalistic Conditions:

    Helena Matute

  • Illusions of causality at the heart of pseudoscience.

    Helena Matute;Ion Yarritu;Miguel A. Vadillo

  • Test question modulates cue competition between causes and between effects.

    Helena Matute;Francisco Arcediano;Ralph R. Miller

  • Human Reactions to Uncontrollable Outcomes: Further Evidence for Superstitions Rather than Helplessness:

    Helena Matute

  • Biological Significance as a Determinant of Cue Competition

    James C. Denniston;Ralph R. Miller;Helena Matute

  • Illusion of control: The role of personal involvement.

    Ion Yarritu;Helena Matute;Miguel A. Vadillo

  • Making the uncontrollable seem controllable: The role of action in the illusion of control

    Fernando Blanco;Helena Matute;Miguel A. Vadillo

  • Flexible use of recent information in causal and predictive judgments.

    Helena Matute;Sonia Vegas;Pieter-Jan De Marez

  • A behavioural preparation for the study of human Pavlovian conditioning.

    Arcediano F;Ortega N;Matute H

  • Blocking of Pavlovian Conditioning in Humans

    Francisco Arcediano;Helena Matute;Ralph R. Miller

  • Predictions and causal estimations are not supported by the same associative structure.

    Miguel A. Vadillo;Helena Matute

  • Stimulus competition in the absence of compound conditioning

    Helena Matute;Oskar Pineño

  • Pathological gamblers are more vulnerable to the illusion of control in a standard associative learning task

    Cristina Orgaz;Ana Estevez;Helena Matute

  • Interactive effects of the probability of the cue and the probability of the outcome on the overestimation of null contingency

    Fernando Blanco;Helena Matute;Miguel A. Vadillo

  • Measuring Software Timing Errors in the Presentation of Visual Stimuli in Cognitive Neuroscience Experiments

    Pablo Garaizar;Miguel A. Vadillo;Diego López-de-Ipiña;Helena Matute

  • Contrasting Predictive and Causal Values of Predictors and of Causes

    Oskar Pineño;James C. Denniston;James C. Denniston;Tom Beckers;Tom Beckers;Helena Matute

  • Illusion of control in Internet users and college students.

    Helena Matute;Miguel A. Vadillo;Sonia Vegas;Fernando Blanco

  • Cues trained apart compete for behavioral control in rats: convergence with the associative interference literature.

    Martha Escobar;Helena Matute;Ralph R. Miller

  • Bidirectional associations

    Mirko Gerolin;Helena Matute

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel A. Vadillo
Miguel A. Vadillo Autonomous University of Madrid
Ralph R. Miller
Ralph R. Miller Binghamton University
Tom Beckers
Tom Beckers KU Leuven
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman University of Iowa
Michael S. Humphreys
Michael S. Humphreys University of Queensland
Ottmar V. Lipp
Ottmar V. Lipp Curtin University

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