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Angela did her Bachelor's in Psychology and her Master's in Social Psychology both at Iscte, with a Thesis on the psychological antecedents of misinformation, that was then published in a high-impact journal. She then worked in a computational social science group (SPAC lab) as a research assistant and is now pursuing her PhD with a project that aims to model belief change.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
ANGELA CARDOSO GAMADO ESPINHEIRA RIJO

Citation names

  • Rijo, Angela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
161C-2556-E73F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8319-5493

Email addresses

  • angelarijo@lip.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 912677246 (Personal)

Addresses

  • urbanização moinho de vento 1, 7200-285, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/10/01 - 2027/10/01
Ongoing
 Psychology PhD program (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/09/20 - 2021/07/28
Concluded
 Social and Organizational Psychology (Mestrado)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Towards a General Model of (Mis-)Information Belief and Sharing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2016/10/17 - 2019/07/14
Concluded
 Psychology (Licenciatura)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/11/01 - 2027/11/01 Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2021/08/01 - 2023/10/31 Research Assistant (Research) Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
SPAC Social Physics and Complexity lab, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/11/01 - 2027/11/01 The Social Bayesian Brain: the roles of social identity and informational environment in belief-updating
2023.00381.BD
Research Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

UvA University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/08/25 - 2023/10/31 FAKE NEWS AND REAL PEOPLE – USING BIG DATA TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
853566
Research Fellow
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
 European Research Council
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. WALDZUS, Sven; Rijo, Angela. "How surprising! Epistemic emotions and perceived credibility mediate the relation between prior beliefs and responses to fake and true news". Paper presented in General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), 2023.
  2. WALDZUS, Sven; Rijo, Angela. "Wow , I Didn¿t Know That! the Role of Epistemic Emotions and Perceived Credibility in the Relation betw een Political Beliefs and Responses to Fake and True News". Paper presented in Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), 2023.
Journal article
  1. Angela Rijo; Sven Waldzus. "That's interesting! The role of epistemic emotions and perceived credibility in the relation between prior beliefs and susceptibility to fake-news". Computers in Human Behavior 141 (2023): 107619-107619. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107619.
    10.1016/j.chb.2022.107619
Online resource
  1. Barómetro de Sentimento Político nas Redes Sociais. 2019. https://medialab.iscte-iul.pt/barometro/sentimento-politico/.
Preprint
  1. Angela Rijo; Sven Waldzus. "That's interesting! The role of epistemic emotions and perceived credibility in the relation between prior beliefs and susceptibility to fake-news". 2023. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uz8p7.
    10.31234/osf.io/uz8p7
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Rijo, A.. "Towards a General Model of (Mis-)Information Belief and Sharing". Master, 2021.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/11/01 - 2024/05/31 Part of the organizing committee for the 2024 PhD meeting in Psychology, at Iscte-IUL. (2024/05/23 - 2024/05/24)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/02/01 Winter School Program (2017/10/01 - 2018/02/01)
Other (Co-organisor)
 ISCTE Business School, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/01/01 - 2024/07/01 The impact of humor in political attitudes Several students
Distinctions

Award

2017 Honorable Mention
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal