2025

Davydova, T., Marin, L. M, Vives, M. L.,…, & Costumero, V. (2025). Reading fiction in a foreign language reduces the neural synchronization between semantic and emotional areas. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

2024

Young-Son, J., Vives, M. L., Bhandari, A., & FeldmanHall, O. (2024). Replay shapes abstract cognitive maps for efficient social navigation. Nature Human Behaviour.

Vives, M. L., de Bruin, D., van Baar, J. M., & FeldmanHall, O. (2024). Tweeting under uncertainty: The relationship between uncertain language and negative emotions in the wild. Emotion.

2023

Herrera, E., Vergara, T., León-Villagrá, P., Vives, M. L., & Calderon, C.B. (2023). Large language models overestimate profoundness. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Vives, M. L., Frances, C., & Baus, C. (2023). Automating weighing of faces and voices based on cue saliency in trustworthiness impressions. Scientific Reports.

Vives, M. L., de Bruin, D., van Baar, J. M., FeldmanHall, O., & Bhandari, A. (2023). Uncertainty aversion predicts the neural expansion of semantic representations. Nature Human Behaviour.

Vives, M. L., Heffner, J., and FeldmanHall, O. (2023). The conceptual representation of uncertainty predicts risky decision-making. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.

2022

Sloman, S. A., & Vives, M. L. (2022). Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding? Cognition.

Vives, M. L., Cikara, M., & FeldmanHall, O. (2022). Following your group or your morals? The in-group promotes immoral behavior while the out-group buffers against it. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

2021

Vives, M. L., Fernandez-Navia, T., Teixidó, J. J., & Serra-Burriel, M. (2021). Lenience breeds strictness: The generosity-erosion effect in hiring decisions. Science Advances.

Vives, M. L., Costumero, V., Ávila, C., & Costa, A. (2021). Foreign language processing undermines affect labeling. Affective Science.

Heffner, J., Vives, M. L., & FeldmanHall, O. (2021). Anxiety, gender, and social media consumption predict COVID-19 emotional distress. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Heffner, J., Vives, M. L., & FeldmanHall, O. (2021). Emotional responses to prosocial messages increase willingness to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Personality and Individual Differences.

2019

Costa, A., Corey, J. D., Hayakawa, S., Aparici, M., Vives, M. L., & Keysar, B. (2019). The role of intentions and outcomes in the foreign language effect on moral judgments. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

2018

Vives, M. L., & FeldmanHall, O. (2018). Tolerance towards ambiguous uncertainty predicts prosocial behavior. Nature communications.

Vives, M. L., Lepke, L., & Costa, A. (2018). Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Vives, M. L., Aparici, M., & Costa, A. (2018). The limits of the foreign language on decision-making: the case of the outcome bias and the representativeness heuristic. PloS one.

2017

Costa, A., Vives, M. L., & Corey, J. D. (2017). On language processing shaping decision-making. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Commentaries & Book chapters

Vives, M. L. (2023) Uncertainty aversion predicts the neural expansion of semantic representations. Behind the paper. Neuroscience blog at Springer Nature. https://communities.springernature.com/posts/uncertainty-aversion-predicts-the-neural-expansion-of-semantic-representations

Vives, M. L., & FeldmanHall, O. (2023). People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations. Research briefing at Nature Human Behaviour. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01566-0

FeldmanHall, O. & Vives, M. L. (2023). Prosociality. Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology.