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Monica Renee Policarpio

Associate Lecturer 9

Educational Background

MS in Psychology major in Clinical Psychology
De La Salle University, Philippines

Monica Renee G. Policarpio is a psychology researcher and educator from De La Salle University. In completing her M.S. degree in the same institution, she explored intertemporal decision making and individual differences in anticipatory pleasure. Her primary interests include self-regulation, reasoning, judgment, and decision making. Her publications and current projects are about self-control, skin color bias, cognitive biases, moral reasoning, and the non-religious. Monica is currently advancing her expertise through a Ph.D. program in Educational Psychology, with a focus on metacognitive accuracy and its implications for decision-making in learning.

Research Interest

  • Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making
  • Self-Regulation
  • Metacognition

Selected Publications

  • Policarpio, M.R., Dreisbach, J., Masalunga, A.G., Demeterio III, FPA (2022). Generational and Gender Differences among Filipinos in Metro Manila in their Perceptions of the Attractiveness of the Light and Dark-Complexioned Male and Female Models. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 18 (2).
  • Policarpio, M.R., Dreisbach, J., Masalunga, A.G., Redondo, A., Demeterio III, FPA (2022). Generational
    and Gender Differences on the Perception of the Attractiveness of the Darker Skin Complexion by Filipinos in Metro Manila. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 31 (2).
  • Policarpio, M.R. (2020). Behavioral Consequence of Emotional Masking: The Cost of Surface Acting Emotional Labor on Self-Control. In Proceedings of the DLSU Research Congress 2020, 8(6). E-ISSN 2449-3309.
  • Anastacio, D., Liwanag, L.A. & Policarpio, M.R. (2024). Recognizing the ANIMO of Filipino Psychology: The Development of Filipino Psychology from the University of the Philippines to De La Salle University as the Second Center of Filipino Psychology. National Research Council of the Philippines Research Journal. 23(1), 105-119.
  • Aruta, J. J. B. R., Dumaop, D. E., Policarpio, M. R., & Aquino, J. B. S. (2022). A measure of stigma in receiving mental help among atheists and agnostics in rural and urban communities in a religious country. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 71, 103083.
  • Dumaop, D., Aruta, J. J. B., Policarpio, M. R., Aquino, J. B., Siao, A. M., & Cabantog, J. M. (2023). Mental help-seeking intention among atheists and agnostics: Evidence from a non-Western and highly religious country. Stigma and Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000468
  • Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., Policarpio, M.R. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgments in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern, and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5.

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