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Nuno Gomes is a post-doctoral researcher (CEEC IND) at the William James Center for Research (University of Aveiro) - funded by an individual grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) - and an assistant professor at ISPA - Instituto Universitário. In May 2021, he obtained a PhD degree, funded by an individual doctoral fellowship from FCT, in Social Psychology at ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal, with unanimous distinction and laudation. During his PhD, he was interested in understanding the modulatory effects of emotional chemosignals (e.g., fear body odors) and the presence of conspecifics on human vigilance. He also worked on an international research project (POTION) funded by the European Commission under the H2020 program, which explores the contribution of happy and fear-related body odors in modulating several dimensions of social relations. Currently, he is interested in understanding how aggression and happiness chemosignals may modulate the establishment of social relations in healthy and anosmic people. He has published 12 articles in international peer-reviewed journals (9 as the first author) in collaboration with 12 different researchers from national and international universities. He was also invited to give 2 talks at international universities/conferences and received 2 national awards. Keywords: Attention; Vigilance; Human Olfaction; Emotion-related Body Odors; Social Relations.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Nuno Gomes

Citation names

  • Gomes, Nuno

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6713-CA64-F3AB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0545-607X
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dRTwepcAAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus Author Id
57192590353

Email addresses

  • ngomes@ispa.pt (Professional)
  • ngomes92@ua.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • William James Center for Research - ISPA. Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34 1149-041 Lisboa, 1149-041, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
  • William James Center for Research, Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 , Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/03/01 - 2021/05/06
Concluded
 PhD in Psychology (Doutoramento)
Major in Social Psychology
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
"Modulating Vigilance: The differential contribution of fear chemosignals and group contexts." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa cum laude
2016/04/01
Concluded
 Master in Neuropsychology (Mestrado)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
"The Advantage Of Fear Stimuli In Accessing Visual Awareness" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2013
Concluded
 Bachelor in Psychology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/07/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2021/05/17 - 2023/06/30 Postdoc (Research) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2016/04/01 - 2017/02/28 Research Assistant (Research) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10/15 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/09/15 - 2015/07/31 Neuropsychologist Trainee (Academic Internship) Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/07/01 - Current Social Nose: The Contribution of Emotional Body Odors to Social Relations
2022.06494.CEECIND
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/11/01 - 2026/10/31 Growing up kind: Neural markers of prosocial development and the effects of social media.
SR24-00474
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
 Fundación Bancaria Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona 'la Caixa'
Ongoing
2017/03/01 - 2021/05/06 Modulating vigilance: The differential contributions of fear chemosignals and group contexts
SFRH/BD/116653/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/05/17 - 2023/06 POTION - Promoting social interaction through emotional body odours
Grant agreement no. 824153
Post-doc
EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Future and Emerging Technologies
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Investigação William James
UID/PSI/04810/2019
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

William James Center for Research, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2018/04/01 - 2018/06/30 Invisible Danger: The Role Of Attention In Processing Unaware Threat Stimuli
B.14.2.TBT.0.06.01.02-216-188222
Researcher
Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey
 TÜBITAK - The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Soares, Sandra C.; Pinheiro, Sara; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Fábio; Gomes, Nuno; Magano, Sara ; Madeira, Nuno. "Comparing social and nonsocial relevant stimuli in accessing visual awareness". Paper presented in European Congress of Psyquiatry, Warsaw, 2019.
    Published
  2. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Azevedo, Joana; Soares, Sandra C.. "The advantage of fear stimuli in accessing visual awareness". Paper presented in European Congress of Psyquiatry, Madrid, 2016.
    Published • 0.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1337
Conference poster
  1. Bruderer, T; Ripszam, M; Vivaldi, F; Gargano, A; Gomes, Nuno; Callara, A. L.; Ghimenti, S.; et al. "Comprehensive GCxGC high resolution ms and selective isolation of chemicals in the investigation of human chemosignals elicited from emotional stimulation". Paper presented in Euroanalysis, 2023.
  2. Gomes, Nuno; Pause, B. M.; Smeets, M. A. M.; Semin, G. R.. "Comparing Fear and Anxiety Chemosignals: Do they modulate facial muscle activity?". Paper presented in 17º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2023.
  3. Gomes, Nuno; Semin, Gün R.. "Mapping Human Vigilance: The Effect of a Group Context". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência ’19, 2019.
  4. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "O processamento privilegiado de estímulos evolutivamente relevantes depende de informações de baixa frequência espacial". Paper presented in 12º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2017.
  5. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "O Papel da frequência espacial no acesso à consciência de estímulos biologicamente relevantes.". Paper presented in IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, 2016.
  6. Soares, Sandra C.; Kessel, Dominique; Hernández-Lorca, María; García-Rubio, María J.; Rodrigues, Paulo; Gomes, Nuno; Carretié, Luis. "Deconstructing Exogenous Attention to Fear: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates.". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), 2016.
  7. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Beware the Serpent: The advantage of evolutionary-relevant stimuli in accessing visual awareness.". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), 2016.
  8. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Ansiedade não modula o acesso de estímulos evolutivamente relevantes à consciência.". Paper presented in 10º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2016.
  9. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Xavier, Sandra; Soares, Sandra C.. "The Advantage of Fear Stimuli in Accessing Visual Awareness.". Paper presented in 25th European Congress of Psychiatry, 2016.
Journal article
  1. Biondi, Luiz; Gomes, Nuno; Maior, Rafael S.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Revisiting “The Malicious Serpent”: Phylogenetically Threatening Stimulus Marked in the Human Brain". Emotion Review (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17540739241277942.
    10.1177/17540739241277942
  2. Silva, Fábio; Magalhães, Ana C.; Fidalgo, Daniela; Gomes, Nuno; Garrido, Marta I.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Inbound friend or foe: how motion bistability is resolved under threat". Motivation and Emotion (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11031-024-10085-y.
    10.1007/s11031-024-10085-y
  3. Semin, Gün R.; DePhillips, Michael; Gomes, Nuno. "Investigating Inattentional Blindness Through the Lens of Fear Chemosignals". Psychological Science 35 1 (2023): 72-81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09567976231213572.
    10.1177/09567976231213572
  4. Gomes, Nuno; Benrós, Miguel F.; Semin, Gün R.. "Validation of the open biological negative image set for a Portuguese population: Comparing Japanese and Portuguese samples and an exploration of low-order visual properties of the stimuli". Behavior Research Methods (2023): https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-023-02090-9#article-info.
    Open access • Published
  5. Gomes, Nuno; Pause, Bettina M; Smeets, Monique A M; Semin, Gün R. "Comparing fear and anxiety chemosignals: Do they modulate facial muscle activity and facilitate identifying facial expressions?". Chemical Senses 48 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjad016.
    10.1093/chemse/bjad016
  6. Semin, Gün R.; Gomes, Nuno; D’Aniello, Biagio; Sabiniewicz, Agnieszka. "Can Humans Discriminate Horse ‘Fear’ Chemosignals from Control Chemosignals? Comment on Sabiniewicz et al. A Preliminary Investigation of Interspecific Chemosensory Communication of Emotions: Can Humans (Homo sapiens) Recognise Fear- and Non-Fear Body Odour from Horses (Equus ferus caballus). Animals 2021, 11, 3499". Animals 12 12 (2022): 1489. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12121489.
    10.3390/ani12121489
  7. Gomes, Nuno; Semin, Gün R. "The Function of Fear Chemosignals: Preparing for Danger". Chemical Senses 46 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjab005.
    Published • 10.1093/chemse/bjab005
  8. Silva, Fábio; Gomes, Nuno; Korb, Sebastian; Semin, Gün R. "Not All Emotions Are Equal: Fear Chemosignals Lower Awareness Thresholds Only for Fearful Faces". Chemical Senses 45 7 (2020): 601-608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaa047.
    10.1093/chemse/bjaa047
  9. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Fábio; Semin, Gün R.. "The lasting smell of emotions: The effects of reutilizing fear sweat samples". Behavior Research Methods 52 6 (2020): 2438-2451. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01412-5.
    10.3758/s13428-020-01412-5
  10. Gomes, Nuno; Semin, Gün R.. "Mapping human vigilance: The influence of conspecifics". Evolution and Human Behavior (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.10.002.
    10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.10.002
  11. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Soares, Sandra C.. ""Threat-unrelated" properties: An ill-defined concept. A reply to "The danger of interpreting detection differences between image categories" (Gayet, Stein, & Peelen, 2019).". Emotion 19 5 (2019): 933-937. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000632.
    10.1037/emo0000632
  12. Gomes, Nuno; Soares, Sandra C.; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.. "Mind the snake: Fear detection relies on low spatial frequencies.". Emotion 18 6 (2018): 886-895. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000391.
    10.1037/emo0000391
  13. Soares, Sandra C.; Kessel, Dominique; Hernández-Lorca, María; García-Rubio, María J.; Rodrigues, Paulo; Gomes, Nuno; Carretié, Luis. "Exogenous attention to fear: Differential behavioral and neural responses to snakes and spiders". Neuropsychologia 99 (2017): 139-147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.03.007.
    10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.03.007
  14. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Beware the serpent: the advantage of ecologically-relevant stimuli in accessing visual awareness". Evolution and Human Behavior 38 2 (2017): 227-234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.10.004.
    10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.10.004
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/02 (Invited Speaker) Vigilance in Humans: The Influence of Copresence and Fear Body Odors ISPA Conference Cycle
ISPA - Instituto Universitário (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/09 (Invited Speaker) Reutilizing Sweat Samples: The robustness of information transfer through fear chemosignals XXXI ECRO meeting
European Chemoreception Research Organization (Cascais, Portugal)
2020 Mapping Human Vigilance: The Influence of Fear Body Odors in Detecting Threatening Changes 4thLiSP Annual Meeting
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019 Mapping Human Vigilance: The Effect of a Group Context X Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia (Funchal, Portugal)
2018/04 (Invited Speaker) Invisible Danger: What is behind the privileged access of threat stimuli to visual awareness? Cognitive Sciences Colloquium
Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey)
2018/01 Modulating Vigilance: The contribution of a Group Context 3rd LiSP Annual Meeting
LiSP (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Beware the Serpent: The Advantage of Ecologically-Relevant Stimuli in Accessing Visual Awareness Cerimónia de entrega do Prémio ISPA de Investigação em Psicologia e Ciências do Comportamento
ISPA - Instituto Universitário (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Modulating Vigilance: The Contributions of Fear Chemosignals 2nd LiSP Annual Meeting
LiSP (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/12/29 - Current From mood to chemosignalling: the reward of being prosocial
Co-supervisor of Andreia Santiago
 Cognitive Psychology (PhD)
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/01/02 - Current Do fear chemosignals modulate face perception?
Supervisor of Miguel F. Benrós
 Doutoramento em Psicologia (Psicologia Social) (PhD)
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/12 - 2019/12 3rd Lisbon Social Psychology Annual PhD Meeting (2019/12 - 2019/12)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2018/12 - 2018/12 2nd Lisbon Social Psychology Annual PhD Meeting (2018/12 - 2018/12)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2017 - 2017 Outreach activity
Exhibition
 European Researchers Night
2017 - 2017 Outreach activity
Exhibition
 Futurália

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/30 Análise empírica dos Modelos de Duplo-Processamento no contexto de consumo de álcool: A influência da Motivação para o Controlo do Consumo de Álcool
President of the jury
 Cláudia Sofia Monte da Graça (Master)
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/12 Memory and mate selection: the role of carotenoid coloration
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Jênnyfer Cristina Almeida de Freitas (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/11/24 Effects Of Anxiety States On Attention Towards Irrelevant Emotional Distractors
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tânia Freitas Fonseca (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/09 - Current Psychological Science Sage
2024/05 - Current BMC Psychiatry Springer Nature
2023 - Current PeerJ
2023 - Current Collabra: Psychology
2021 - Current Plos One (1932-6203)
2021 - Current Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry (0005-7916)
2020 - Current Scientific Reports (2045-2322)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019 - 2021 Student representative - Representative Assembly of ISPA
Member
 ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/10 - Current Statistical Analysis I & II (Bachelor in Psychology) (Licenciatura) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2024/04 - 2024/05 Introduction to Linear Mixed-Effects Models (LMMs) (Doutoramento) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/11 - 2023/11 JASP & JAMOVI - “The power of R with the simplicity of SPSS” (Training for University Faculty) (Outros) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Research Methods in Psychology II Bachelor in Psychology (Licenciatura) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2021 - 2023 Research Methods in Psychology I Bachelor in Psychology (Licenciatura) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/09 - Current Análise Psicológica (0870-8231)

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/03 - 2023/10 Program for the development of research skills, ISPA -Instituto Universitário Susana Sá
2020/03 - 2021/10 Program for the development of research skills, ISPA -Instituto Universitário Rita Cordeiro
2019/03 - 2019/07 Program for the development of research skills, ISPA -Instituto Universitário Francisco Queirós
2019/03 - 2019/06 Program for the development of research skills, ISPA -Instituto Universitário Guida Rodrigues

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current Evaluator of Grant Proposal for the National Science Centre, Poland

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2018/04 - 2018/07 Visiting PhD Student - Supervisor: Professor Cengiz Acartürk Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey
2018/02 - 2018/04 Visiting PhD Student - Supervisor: Professor Monique A. M. Smeets Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Distinctions

Award

2017 ISPA Award For Research In Psychology And Behavioral Sciences
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2016 Best Poster Award - IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia, Portugal