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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Bruno Alexandre Gomes da Silva

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FB1B-086F-4ABF
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6117-9743

Email addresses

  • pt.bruno.silva@gmail.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2008
Concluded
 Master's Degree in Psychology with Specialization in Social Psychology and European Diploma in Advanced Studies in Social Psychology (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
"Opting for the Use of Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Social Representations of Alternative and/or Complementary Medicine and Conventional Medicine" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good
2000
Concluded
 Psychology (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
"End-of-course Seminar - "Spirituality and Religiosity: the sacred in Psychology and in the context of Psychological Counseling"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/08/09 - 2022/08/08 Science and Technology Management Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014 - Current Collaborating Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Collaborating Researcher Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
2010/07/19 - 2016/08/08 Scholarship Holder in Science and Technology Management Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Collaborating Researcher Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Collaborating Researcher Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
2012 - 2013 Collaborating Researcher Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
2006 - 2010 Project Manager Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Educação, Portugal
2003 - 2005 School Psychologist Ministério da Educação, Portugal
2000 - 2003 School Psychologist Ministério da Educação, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2014 - 2016 Contributions to the Analysis of the Perception of Insured Fraud against Insurance Companies - Automobile Insurance, Workplace Accidents, and Health
CAPFSES-AATS
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2014 - Current Exceptional Human Experiences: A View through Social Psychology and Attachment Theory
EHE-PHD-BS
PhD student
2013 - 2020 Dynamic Model of Family Assessment and Intervention: a transformative action in primary healthcare
MDAIF
Researcher
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Silva, B. A.; Gabrielle Anny Poeschl. "Exceptional Human Experiences beliefs scale (EHEBS): an exploratory factor analysis". Paper presented in 62nd Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, Paris, 2019.
  2. Silva, B. A.; Gabrielle Anny Poeschl. "Bem´s Feeling the future (2011), five years later: impact on scientific literature". Paper presented in Accessing the Exceptional, Experiencing the Extraordinary: An Integration of the 59th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association and 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Boulder, Denver, Colorado, 2016.
  3. Silva, B. A.; Gabrielle Anny Poeschl. "Why do we use, or do not use, complementary and alternative therapies: Social representations of medicines". Paper presented in XI Conferência Internacional sobre Representações Sociais, Évora, 2012.
  4. Silva, B.; Poeschl, G.. "Social representations of Conventional/Official Medicine (COM) and Complementary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Portugal: their effect on the decision of (not) using CAM". Paper presented in 5th International Congress on Complementary Medicine Research, Tromson, Noruega, 2010.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Silva, B.; Poeschl, Gabrielle. "Impact of Bem´s "Feeling the future" (2011): methodological considerations". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência ’17, Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Ribeiro, R.; Silva, B.; Pimenta, C.; Poeschl, G.. "Why do consumers perpetrate fraudulent behaviors in insurance?". Crime, Law and Social Change (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85072111127&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10611-019-09857-2
  2. Silva, B.A.; Poeschl, G.. "BEM's "feeling the future" (2011) five years later: Its impact on scientific literature". Journal of Parapsychology 81 1 (2017): 33-45. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85025643391&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Report
  1. Pimenta, C.; Ribeiro, R.; Silva, B. A.; Gabrielle Anny Poeschl. 2016. Contributos para a análise da perceção da fraude dos segurados contra as empresas de seguros: Seguro automóvel, acidentes de trabalho e saúde.

Other

Other output
  1. Optar pelo uso de Terapias Alternativas e Complementares: Representações sociais da Medicina Alternativa e/ou Complementar e da Medicina Oficial /Convencional [To opt for the Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies: Social representations of Conventional/Official Medicine (COM) and Complementay/Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Portugal]. 2008. Silva, B.. http://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/54173.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019 Exceptional Human Experiences beliefs scale (EHEBS): an exploratory factor analysis 62nd Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association
Parapsychological Association (Paris, France)
2019 "Convicções e Experiências Humanas Excecionais: Um olhar pela Psicologia Social e Teoria da Vinculação" parte II Seminários do Grupo de Investigação Dinâmicas Relacionais, Processos de Mudança e Bem-estar (DRPMBE)
CPUP
2018 Experiências Humanas Excecionais: diversidade, controvérsias científicas, mundivisões e religiosidade
2017 Impact of Bem´s "Feeling the future" (2011): methodological considerations Encontro Ciência ’17
Governo da República Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 "Convicções e Experiências Humanas Excecionais: Um olhar pela Psicologia Social e Teoria da Vinculação" parte I
2017 Scientific controversies: the case of Daryl Bem´s "Feeling the future" (2011) debate
2016 Bem´s Feeling the future (2011), five years later: Its impact on scientific literature
2015 Consumer insurance fraud: Contributions to explanation and research
2012 Why do we use, or do not use, complementary and alternative therapies: Social representations of medicines XI Conferência Internacional sobre Representações Sociais
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2014 - 2014 Families, teachers and children: The balancing of different relational contexts (2014 - 2014)
2014 - 2014 Seminário Internacional | Teoria crítica e formação do trabalhador flexível: contradições e possibilidades de emancipação (2014 - 2014)
2013 - 2013 Seminário internacional | Saúde no trabalho: dos inquéritos europeus aos instrumentos e práticas locais de intervenção (2013 - 2013)
2013 - 2013 Programas europeus, oportunidades de financiamento (2013 - 2013)
2013 - 2013 Publicação Científica em Ciências Sociais e Humanas: Bases de Dados, Factor de Impacto e Outros Indicadores Bibliométricos (2013 - 2013)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023 Lessons learned during the Transparent Psi Project - a consensus-based multi-site replication of Bem 2011 experiment 1
2022 - 2022 Galileo Commission Summit V - Spiritual Awakenings
2022 - 2022 13th Symposium of BIAL Fundation, Aquém e Além do Cérebro, The mistery of time

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020 - Current The Scientific & Medical Network
2018 - Current Centro Transdisciplinar de Estudos da Consciência, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
2014 - Current Parapsychological Association (AAAS member since 1969)

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2015 - 2016 Contributos para a análise da perceção da fraude dos segurados contra as empresas de seguros: Seguro automóvel, acidentes de trabalho e saúde

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019 - 2020 Exceptional Human Experiences in everyday life and in the laboratory. A 4-hour module in the Special Topics in Social Psychology course of the 4th year of the Integrated Master's Degree in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (option of Organizational, Social, and Work Psychology), during the academic year 2019-2020.
2018 - 2019 Developed and ensured the teaching, including content and pedagogical planning, of a 4-hour module titled "Exceptional Human Experiences: human potential or illusion" in the Special Topics in Social Psychology course of the 4th year of the Integrated Master's Degree in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (option of Organizational, Social, and Work Psychology), during the academic year 2018-2019.
2017 - 2018 Designed and ensured the teaching, including the content and pedagogical planning, of a 6-hour module titled "Worldviews and Beliefs in the Paranormal," in the 4th year of the Integrated Master's Degree in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (option of Organizational, Social, and Work Psychology), during the academic year 2017-2018, in the context of the course "Special Topics in Social Psychology."
Distinctions

Award

2016 Robert L. Morris Student Travel Fund Grant
2008 Research Methods of Complementary and Alternative Medicine - An International Summer School supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung