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Dr. Sofia Navarro-Báez

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Work S1|15 225
Alexanderstr. 10
64283 Darmstadt

Consultation hours by appointment by .

  • Metacognition and metamemory
  • Learning and memory
  • Automatic and conscious processes
2019 to 2024 Graduate student, Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
2019 to 2024 PhD student in Psychology, University of Mannheim
2017 to 2018 Master of Science Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
2011 to 2016 Bachelor of Science Psychology, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico
Since 2024 Postdoctoral researcher, Research Group Applied Cognitive Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt
2023 to 2024 Doctoral researcher, Research Group Applied Cognitive Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt
2019 to 2023 Doctoral researcher in the DFG-project “Metacognition viewed through the judgment lens” (lead by Prof. Dr. Monika Undorf and Prof. Dr. Arndt Bröder), University of Mannheim
2017 to 2018 Research intern, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
2022 to 2023 J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award of the Psychonomic Society
2022 to 2023 1-year full scholarship for Doctoral studies at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
2017 to 2018 1-year full scholarship for Master studies in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT)
2017 Charles Darwin Award for Young Researchers in Experimental and Comparative Psychology, Interamerican Society of Psychology (SIP)
2016 Second place in the Mexican National Contest of Bachelor’s Theses, National Council for Teaching and Research in Psychology (CNEIP)

2025

Bröder, A., Navarro-Báez, S., & Undorf, M. (in press). Reducing cheap talk? How monetary incentives affect the accuracy of metamemory judgments. Memory & Cognition, 0123456789. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01679-5

2024

Navarro-Báez, S. (2024). Cue learning in metamemory: understanding how people learn to judge memory [Doctoral dissertation, University of Mannheim]. MADOC. https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/68095/1/Thesis_Final_SNB_MADOC.pdf (opens in new tab)

Navarro-Báez, S., Undorf, M., & Bröder, A. (2024). Predicting the memorability of scene pictures: Improved accuracy through one’s own experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(00), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241239829

2022

Undorf, M., Navarro-Báez, S., & Bröder, A. (2022). "You don’t know what this means to me” – Uncovering idiosyncratic influences on metamemory judgments. Cognition, 222, 105011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.105011

Undorf, M., Navarro-Báez, S., & Zimdahl, M. F. (2022). Metacognitive illusions. In R. F. Pohl (Ed.), Cognitive Illusions: Intriguing Phenomena in Thinking, Judgment, and Memory (3rd ed., pp. 307–323). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003154730-22

2024

Navarro-Báez, S., Bröder, A., & Undorf, M. (2024, 21.-24.11.). Learning cues for metacognitive judgments via statistical learning [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York, USA.

Navarro-Báez, S., Undorf, M., & Bröder, A. (2024, 17.-20.03.). Learning cues for metamemory judgments through statistical learning. In F. Schäfer & S. Navarro-Báez (Chairs), Recent Insights on the Basis, Accuracy, and Impact of Metacognitive Judgments [Symposium]. 66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany

2023

Navarro-Báez, S., Undorf, M., & Bröder, A. (2023, 23.-26.03.). Do linguistic structures acquired via statistical learning inform judgments of learning? [Poster presentation]. 65th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Trier, Germany.

2022

Navarro-Báez, S., Giebler, J, Undorf, M., & Bröder, A. (2022, 17.-20.11.). Idiosyncratic influences on metamemory monitoring and control [Poster presentation]. 64th Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society. Boston, US.

Navarro-Báez, S., Undorf, M., & Bröder, A. (2022, 20.-23.03.). Cue Learning via Hidden Covariation in Judgments of Learning (JOLs) [Talk]. 64th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Cologne, Germany.

2021

Navarro-Báez, S., Undorf, M., & Bröder, A. (2021, 04.-07.11.). Predicting the memorability of scene pictures: the benefit of learning experiences [Poster presentation]. 62.]. 62nd Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society (Virtual Conference). New Orleans, US.

Navarro-Báez, S., Undorf, M., & Bröder, A. (2021, 14.-17.03.). Idiosyncratic encoding influences on metamemory judgments [Poster presentation]. 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Ulm, Germany.

Teaching

  • Experimental Psychology (BSc Psychology: 03-03-0001): Summer term 2024
  • Experimental Psychological Internship (BSc Psychology: 03-03-0007): Winter term 2023/2024, Winter term 2024/2025

Supervised theses

Bachelor theses

  • Agricola, T. R. (2024). Stability Bias: Überprüfung metakognitiver Verzerrungen anhand angewandter Materialien.
  • Henz, M. (2024). Die Einprägsamkeit von Wörtern einschätzen: Ein Blick auf Metagedächtnisurteile über das eigene und das Gedächtnis Anderer.
  • Markgraf, F. J. (2024). The Moderating Role of Metacognition in the Relationship Between Work Demands and Emotional Exhaustion Among Nurses.
  • Rudolph, L. S. (2024). Anwendung des Brunswik’schen Linsenmodells auf verzögerte Urteile über das Lernen.
  • Steffan, A. S. (2024). Stability Bias im menschlichen Gedächtnis: Auch bei realitätsnäheren Lernmaterialien?