2024

Mărcuș, O., Rusu, R., Mueller, S. C., & Visu-Petra, L. (2024). To be or not to be flexible: A hierarchical model of affective flexibility in typical development and internalizing problems. Acta Psychologica, 246, 104275.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104275

Ionel, M. S., Ion, A., Iliescu, D., & Visu-Petra, L. (2024). Climbing anxiety scale (CAS-20): Preliminary development and validation. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 73, 102635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2024.102635

Bulbuc, A. A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2024). Shedding a light on authenticity in high dark trait individuals: A morally grey territory?. Personality and Individual Differences, 224, 112632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112632

Ionel, M. S., Ion, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2023). Personality and rock-climbing performance progression: a 12-months follow-up. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1-24.https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2023.2293935

Dolean, D. D., & Prodan, N. (2023). Let’s eat grandma: Awareness of punctuation and capitalization rules’ violations predicts the development of reading comprehension. Learning and Instruction, 86, 101780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101780 (IF; 6.2, Q1 Education & Educational Research)

Rouyela-Colomer, E., Orue, I., Visu-Petra, L., Fernandez-Gonzales, L. (2023). The Association between Mindful Parenting, and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Adolescence. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-023-02704-y

Prodan, N., Ding, X. P., Szekely-Copîndean, R. D., Tănăsescu, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2023). Socio-cognitive correlates of primary school children’s deceptive behavior toward peers in competitive settings. Acta Psychologica, 240, 104019.

Prodan, N., Ding, X. P., Visu-Petra, L. (2024) Truthful yet misleading: Elementary second-order deception in school-age children and its sociocognitive correlates. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 237, 1019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105759

2023

Seucan, D. T. & Visu-Petra, L. (2023). The relationship between theory of mind and children’s moral judgement: A scoping review. Studia UBB Pscychol.-Paed, LXVIII, 1, 29-60. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbpsyped.2023.1.02

Dumitriu, C. G., Prodan, N., & Toma, A. M. (2023). Intra and interparental factors influencing post-divorce co-parenting. Anthropological Researchers and Studies, 13. https://doi.org/10.26758/13.1.2

Kallay, E., & Cheie, L.* (2023). “Can I still blame my parents?” Links between perceived parenting, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and adolescent mental health. Current Psychology, 42(31), 27259-27274. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12537. 

2022

Stefan, C. A., & Cheie, L. (2022). Self-compassion and social anxiety in late adolescence: Contributions of self-reflection and insight. Self and Identity, 21(2), 210-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2020.1861082

Prodan, N., Moldovan, M., Cacuci, S-A., Visu-Petra, L.*(2022) Interpretive Diversity Understanding, Parental Practices, and Contextual Factors Involved in Primary School-Age Children’s Cheating and Lying Behavior, European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 12, 1621-1643, https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe12110114

Costea, A. R, Jurchiș, R., Visu-Petra, L., Cleeremans, A., Norman, E., Opre, A. (2022) Implicit and explicit learning of socio-emotional information in a dynamic interaction with a virtual avatar. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01709-4

Seucan, D. T., Szekely-Copîndean R. D., Ding, P. X., & Visu-Petra, L.* (2022). Give and take: A microgenetic study of preschoolers’ deceptive and prosocial behavior in relation to their socio-cognitive development. Acta Psychologica, 230, 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103714

Opriș, A. M., Visu-Petra, L.*, & Brown, N. R. (2022). Living in history and by the cultural life script: What events modulate autobiographical memory organization in a sample of older adults from Romania?. Memory Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221108476

Rudaizky, D., Mărcuș, O., Visu-Petra, L., & MacLeod, C. (2022). Anxiety-linked impairment in the ability to recode stimuli. Emotion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001093

Toma, R. A., Kube, S., Hurezan, L., & Banse, R. (2022). Predictive validity of the Static-99R in Romania. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 49(9), 1276-1294.

Moldovan, M., Prodan, N., Coman, A. D., & Visu-Petra, L. (2022). Deep dive into the constructive mind. Relating interpretive diversity understanding to anxiety symptoms and parental practices in middle childhood. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, 22 (1), 55-86. https://doi.org/10.24193/jebp.2022.1.4

Turi, A., Rebeleș, M-R., & Visu-Petra, L.(2022). The tangled webs they weave: A scoping review of deception detection and production in relation to Dark Triad traits. Acta Psychologica, 226,  103574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103574

Ionel, M. S., Ion, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2022). Personality, grit, and performance in rock-climbing: down to the nitty-gritty. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1-23.https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2022.2044368

Otgaar, H., Moldoveanu, G., Melis, V., & Howe, M. L. (2022). A new method to implant false autobiographical memories: Blind implantation.  Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(4), 580.

Anbar, N., Cheie, L., Visu-Petra, L. (2022). Math Anxiety, Math Achievement and Gender Differences among Primary School Children and their Parents from Palestine. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 21 (8), 326-344, https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.21.8.19

Prodan, N., Visu-Petra, L. (2022). The art of telling the truth to deceive: a matter of intent. Studia UBB Pscychol.-Paed, LXVII, 1, 87-98. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbpsyped.2022.1.05

Moldovan, M., Coman, A. D., Visu-Petra, L. (2022). Advanced Theory of Mind and executive functions during middle childhood. Studia UBB Pscychol.-Paed, LXVII, 1, 25-40. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbpsyped.2022.1.02

Petruț, A. I. & Visu-Petra, L. (2022). O sintenză a literaturii privind factorii emoționali, cognitivi și comportamentali implicați în asocierea intergenerațională a anxietății față de matematică părinte-copil. Journal of Psychology, 68(1), 75-85.

2021

Cacuci, S-A., Bull, R., Huang, C-Y & Visu-Petra, L.* (2021). Criteria-Based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases: A cross-cultural perspective. Child Abuse Review, https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2733

Moldovan, M., & Visu-Petra, L.* (2021). Theory of Mind, Anxiety, and Interpretive Bias During Middle Childhood.  Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-02023-0

Buta, M., Visu-Petra, G., Opre, A., Koller, S., & Visu-Petra, L.* (2021). Individual predictors of lie acceptability across development.  European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2021.1947234

Cheie, L., Opriș, A., M., & Visu-Petra, L.* (2021). Remembering the future: Age-related differences in schoolchildren’s prospective memory depend on the cognitive resources employed by the task. Cognitive Development, 58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101048

Opriș, A., M., Cheie, L., & Visu-Petra, L.* (2021). Back to the future: relating the development of episodic future thinking to cognitive and affective individual differences and to motivational relevance in preschoolers, Memory, https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1896734

Dolean, D., D., Lervåg, A., Visu-Petra, L., & Melby-Lervåg, M., (2021). Language skills, and not executive functions, predict the development of reading comprehension of early readers: evidence from an orthographically transparent language. Reading and Writing. doi:10.1007/s11145-020-10107-4

Sipos, M., Farcas, A., Prodan, N., & Mogosan, C. (2021). Relationship between beliefs about medicines and adherence in elderly patients with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases: A cross-sectional study in Romania. Patient education and counseling, 104(4), 911-918.

Anbar, N. & Visu-Petra, L. (2021). Intersecting parent and child math anxiety, parental math-gender stereotypes, and children’s math performance A scoping Review. Journal of Psychology, 67(4), 363-377.

2020

Butean, I., Mone, I., Visu-Petra, L., Opre, A., (2020). Predictors of individual differences in lie acceptability in adolescence: Exploring the influence of social desirability, callous unemotional traits and somatization, Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, 20 (2), 51-66.  https://doi.org/10.24193/jebp.2020.2.11

Mărcuș, O., Martins, E. C., Sassu R., & Visu-Petra, L. (2020). On the importance of being flexible: early interrelations between affective flexibility, executive functions and anxiety symptoms in preschoolers. Early Child Development and Care. doi:10.1080/03004430.2020.1816995

Butean, I., Buta, M., Visu-Petra, L., & Opre, A. (2020). Moral Stories and Young Children’s Confession of Misdeeds in Relation to Their Perception of Honesty and Its Consequences. Early Education and Development. 1-15. doi:10.1080/10409289.2020.1796089

Petra, C. V., Visu-Petra, L., Buta, M., Tămaș, M. M., Benga, O., & Rednic, S. (2020). A computerized assessment of verbal and visuospatial memory (dis)functions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 13, 619-629. doi:10.2147/PRBM.S261312

Buta, M., Visu-Petra, G., Koller, S. H., Visu-Petra, L. (2020). A Little Lie Never Hurt Anyone: Attitudes towards Various Types of Lies over the Lifespan. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 13(1), 70 – 81. https://doi.org/10.11621/pir.2020.0107

Petruț, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2020). Self-reported Mathematics Anxiety: Conceptual and psychometric considerations. Journal of Psychology, 66 (3), pp. 279-291

Petruț, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2020). Computerized math tutoring programs designed to reduce math anxiety and improve math performance in primary and secondary school children. Romanian Journal of School Psychology, 13(25), 7-31

Hurezan, L. A., Turi, A., Visu-Petra, L. (2020). Trăsăturile de personalitate întunecată, factorul D și conduita infracțională. Revista de Practică Penitenciară, 3, 13-25

2019

Petruț, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2019). The efficiency of cognitive tutoring programs in reducing math anxiety for primary school children. Romanian Journal of School Psychology, 12(24), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2019.100754.

Moldovan, M., Seucan, D. T., & Visu-Petra, L. (2019). Pre-and post-theory of mind and deception: Commentary on Walczyk and Fargerson (2019). New Ideas in Psychology, doi: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2019.100754

2018

Opriș, M., A., Cheie, L., Trifan, C., M., & Visu-Petra, L. (2018). Internalising symptoms and verbal working memory in school-age children: A processing efficiency analysis. International Journal of Psychology, 54(6), 828 – 838. doi:10.1002/ijop.12537

Martins, E., Mărcuș, O., Leal, J., & Visu-Petra, L. (2018). Assessing Hot and Cool Executive Functions in Preschoolers: Affective Flexibility Predicts Emotion Regulation.  Early Child Development and Care, 1-15. doi:10.1080/03004430.2018.1545765

Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., Câmpan, M., Scutelnicu, I., & Benga, O. (2018). Identifying early links between temperament, short-term and working memory in preschoolers. Early Child Development and Care, 188 (1), 32-45. doi:10.1080/03004430.2016.1246445

2017

Cheie, L., Macleod, C., Miclea, M., & Visu-Petra, L. (2017). When children forget to remember: Effects of reduced working memory availability on prospective memory performance. Memory and Cognition, 45(4), 651-663. doi: 10.3758/s13421-016-0682-z

Liștea, R., Ducrocq, E., Siminiceanu, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2017). Getting the butterflies to fly in formation: A review on the modulating effect of attentional control on motor and visual aspects of sport performance under pressure. In Special Issue: Mental aspects of sport performance. Cognition, Brain, Behaviour, An Interdisciplinary Journal, 21(4), 249-274. doi:10.24193/cbb.2017.21.16

2016

Hadwin, J.A., Visu-Petra, L., Muris, P., Derakshan, N. & Macleod, C. (2016). Introduction to the Special Issue: Understanding the Role of Attentional Control in the Development of Anxiety in Childhood, Adolescence and Across the Lifespan [Special Issue], Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7(3), 277-295.

Grafton, B., Visu-Petra, L., Mărcuș, O., Liebregts, H., & MacLeod, C. (2016). Controlling the bias: Inhibitory attentional control moderates the association between social anxiety and selective attentional responding to negative social information in children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7(3), 423-436. doi:10.5127/jep.055916

Visu-Petra, L., Jurje, O., Ciornei, O., & Visu-Petra, G. (2016). Can you Keep a Secret? Introducing the RT-based Concealed Information Test to Children. Psychology, Crime and Law, 22(3), 276-301. doi:10.1080/1068316X.2015.1109085

Mărcuș, O., Stanciu, O., MacLeod, C., Liebregts, H., & Visu-Petra, L. (2016). A FISTful of emotion: Individual differences in trait anxiety and cognitive-affective flexibility during preadolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44(7), 1231-1242. doi:10.1007/s10802-015-0110-z

Opre, A., Buzgar, R., Dumulescu, D., Visu-Petra, L., Opre, D., Macavei, B., Buta, M., Pintea, S. (2016). Assessing Risk Factors and the Efficacy of a Preventive Program for School Dropout. Cognitie, Creier, Comportament/Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 20(3), 185-194

2015

Varga, M., Visu-Petra, G., Miclea, M., & Visu-Petra, L. (2015). The “Good Cop, Bad Cop” Effect in the RT-Based Concealed Information Test: Exploring the Effect of Emotional Expressions Displayed by a Virtual Investigator. PLoS ONE, 10(2), e0116087. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116087

Buta, M., Leva, D. S., & Visu-Petra, L. (2015). Who Is the Tattletale? Linking Individual Differences in Socioemotional Competence and Anxiety to Tattling Behavior and Attitudes in Young Children. Early Education and Development, 26(4), 1-21. doi:10.1080/10409289.2015.1000717

Cheie, L., Veraksa, A., Zinchenko, Y., Gorovaya, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2015). A cross-cultural investigation of inhibitory control, generative fluency, and anxiety symptoms in Romanian and Russian preschoolers. Child Neuropsychology, 21(2), 121-149. doi:10.1080/09297049.2013.879111

2014

Visu-Petra, L., Stanciu, O., Benga, O., Miclea, M., & Cheie, L. (2014). Longitudinal and concurrent links between memory span, anxiety symptoms, and subsequent executive functioning in young children. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-21. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00443

Mocan, O., Stanciu, O., & Visu-Petra, L. (2014). Relating individual differences in internalizing symptoms to emotional attention set-shifting in children. Anxiety, stress and coping, 27(5), 509-26. doi:10.1080/10615806.2014.888419

Cheie, L., Miclea, M., & Visu-Petra, L. (2014). What was I supposed to do? Effects of individual differences in age and anxiety on preschoolers’ prospective memory. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 38(1), 1-10. doi:10.1177/0165025413506132

Visu-Petra, G., Miclea, M., Buş, I., & Visu-Petra, L. (2014). Detecting concealed information: The role of individual differences in executive functions and social desirability. Psychology, Crime and Law, 20(1), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/ 1068316X.2012.736509

Visu-Petra, G., Jurje, O., Opre, A., Miclea, M. & Visu-Petra, L. (2014). Which came first, the truth or the lie? Effects of order and habituation in the reaction time-based concealed information test. Cognition, Brain, Behaviour, An Interdisciplinary Journal, 18(4), 283-297

Visu-Petra, L., Jurje, O., & Fizesan, C. (2014). Deceptive Behavior in Young Children Confronted with Physical Evidence of their Transgressions: Links with Executive Functioning and Internalizing or Externalizing Symptoms Procedia – Social and Behavioural Sciences, 140, 599-604. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.04.477

Kallay, E. & Visu-Petra, L. (2014). Indicators of cognitive and emotional functioning in first-year master students in conference interpreting: A focus on individual differences. Cognition, Brain, Behaviour. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 18(3), 209-228.

2013

Visu-Petra, G., Varga, M., Miclea, M., & Visu-Petra, L. (2013). When interference helps: increasing executive load to facilitate deception detection in the concealed information test. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 146, 1-11.  doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00146

Visu-Petra, L., Miclea, M., & Visu-Petra, G. (2013). Individual differences in anxiety and executive functioning: A multidimensional view. International Journal of Psychology, 48(4), 1-11. doi:10.1080/ 00207594.2012.656132

2012

Visu-Petra, G., Miclea, M., & Visu-Petra, L. (2012). Reaction Time-based Detection of Concealed Information in Relation to Individual Differences in Executive Functioning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26(3), 342-351. doi:10.1002/acp.1827

Cheie, L., & Visu-Petra, L. (2012). Relating individual differences in trait-anxiety to memory functioning in young children: An investigation with task-irrelevant emotional stimuli. Journal of Individual Differences, 33(2), 109-118. doi:10.1027/1614-0001/a000079

Sabou, A., Moldovan, M., Cosma, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2012). Working memory training in typical and atypical development: Revisiting the evidence. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 16(1), 1-47

Cheie, L., Visu-Petra, L., & Miclea, M. (2012). Trait-anxiety, visual search and memory for facial identities in preschoolers: An investigation using task-irrelevant emotional information. Procedia – Social and Behavioural Sciences, 33, 622–626. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.01.196

Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., Benga, O., & Miclea, M. (2012). The structure of executıve functıons ın preschoolers: an ınvestıgatıon usıng the NEPSY Battery. Procedia – Social and Behavioural Sciences, 33, 627–631. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.01.197

Cheie, L., & Visu-Petra, L. (2012). Relating individual differences in trait-anxiety to children’s memory for emotional information: An investigation using illustrated emotional stories. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 16, 20-20.

Mocan, O., Stanciu, O., & Visu-Petra, L. (2012). Attentional set-shifting in children: Effects of individual differences in anxiety and attentional control. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 16, 38-39.

2011

Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., Benga, O., & Miclea, M. (2011). Cognitive control goes to school: The impact of executive functions on academic performance. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 11, 240 – 244. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.01.069

Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., Benga, O., & Alloway, T. P. (2011). Effects of anxiety on memory storage and updating in young children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 35(1) 38–47. doi:10.1177/0165025410368945

2010

Visu-Petra, L., Ţincaş, I, Cheie, L., & Benga, O. (2010). Anxiety and visual-spatial memory updating in young children: An investigation using emotional facial expressions. Cognition and Emotion [Emotional states, attention, and working memory], volume special edited by N. Derakshan, M.W. Eysenck, 24(2), 223-240. doi:10.1080/02699930903387546

Benga, O., Ţincaş, I. & Visu-Petra, L. (2010). Investigating the structure of anxiety symptoms among Romanian preschoolers using the Spence Preschool Anxiety Scales. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 14, 159-182.

2009

Visu-Petra, L., Miclea, M., Cheie, L., & Benga, O. (2009). Processing efficiency in preschoolers’ memory span: A longitudinal investigation of individual differences related to age and anxiety. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 103(1), 30-48. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2008.09.002

2008

Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., & Benga, O. (2008). Short-term memory performance and metamemory judgments in preschool and early school-age children: A quantitative and qualitative analysis. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 12(1), 71-101.

2007

Visu-Petra, L., Benga, O., Tincas¸ I. & Miclea, M. (2007). Visual-spatial processing in children and adolescents with Down’s syndrome: A computerized assessment of memory skills. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51(12), 942-952. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2007.01002.x

Ciairano, S., Visu-Petra, L., & Settani, M. (2007). Executive inhibitory control and cooperative behavior during early school years: a follow-up study. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 35(3), 335-345. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-006-9094-z

Visu-Petra, L., Benga, O. & Miclea, M. (2007). Dimensions of attention and executive functioning in 5- to 12-years-old children: Neuropsychological assessment with the NEPSY battery. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 11(3), 539-553.

Boroş, S., Visu-Petra, L., & Cheie, L. (2007), A Q-Sort analysis investigating the social perception of a chronic disease: Between sympathy and stigma. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 11 (2), 437-459.

Visu-Petra, L. & Cheie, L. (2007). Investigarea memoriei de scurtă durată la copiii cu simptome de anxietate.  Revista de Neurologie și Psihiatrie a Copilului si Adolescentului din România, 10(4), 36-43. 

2006

Visu-Petra, L., Ciairano, S., Miclea, M. (2006). Neurocognitive correlates of child anxiety: A review of working memory research. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 4, 517-541.

2005

Benga, O. & Petra, L. (2005). Social cognition and executive functioning: A constructivist developmental approach.  Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2, 301-317.

2004

Petra, L. (2004The dynamic systems approach: Theoretical and therapeutic implications for the study of atypical developmental trajectories. Cognitie, Creier, Comportament / Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 3-4, 381-397.

Petra, L. (2004). O perspectivă critică asupra neuropsihologiei – Aplicaţii şi implicaţii pentru studiul dezvoltării atipice. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8 (1), 1-19.

Petra, L., & Benga, O., (2004). Methodological Controversies In The Neuropsychological Assessment Of Atypical Development. Implications For The Study Of Autism. Part I: The Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment Method: Flaws And Assets, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai: Psychologia-Paedagogia, 1, 93-107.

2002

Benga, O., & Petra, L. (2002). Integrating biological constraints and socialization: A developmental perspective upon autobiographical memory. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 6(2), 107-15