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Gonçalo Aires de Oliveira completed the PhD in Psychology (Psychobiology) in 2015/12/17 by ISPA - Instituto Universitário and Licenciatura in Applied psychology (Clinical Psychology) in 2007/12/20 by Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada. He is currently a full-time Assistant Professor at ISPA - Instituto Universitário, with a teaching background that includes psychology courses at various universities in Lisbon. His experience as a postdoctoral researcher comprises scientific work performed at the William James Center for Research, Instituto de Medicina Molecular and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Published 14 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Has received 1 awards and/or honors. Works in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Psychology and Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences. In their professional activities interacted with 53 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Biological Sciences - Animal Biology; Psychology; Cognitive control; Androgens; Social behaviour; Experimental psychology.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Gonçalo Aires de Oliveira

Citation names

  • Oliveira, Gonçalo A

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
281B-A1E5-E342
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6462-0546
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jcrXFnAAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/12/17
Concluded
 Psychology (Doutoramento)
Major in Psychobiology
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
"Social Modulation of Androgen Levels in Humans: Psychological Mechanisms and Adaptative Function" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa cum laude
2007/12/20
Concluded
 Applied psychology (Licenciatura)
Major in Clinical psychology
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Portugal
"Resilience in addiction recovery" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/02/16 - 2023/07/31 Postdoc (Research) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2017/04/01 - 2023/07/31 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2016/06/30 Postdoc (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2011/01 - 2015/12 Researcher (Research) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Research Assistant (Research) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/09/01 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/09/01 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/09/01 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2016/02 - 2017/07 Lecturer (University Teacher) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2012/02 - 2014/07 Assistant (University Teacher) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/04/01 - 2023/07/31 Feeling control: Affective and neurophysiological mechanisms of familiarity and conflict
SFRH/BPD/123616/2016
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/01/01 - 2016/05/31 Molecular mechanisms and evolutionary implications of social plasticity
EXCL/BIA-ANM/0549/2012
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011 - 2015 Social Modulation of Androgens in Humans: psychological mechanisms and adaptive function
SFRH/BD/68528/2010
PhD Student Fellow
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/04/01 - 2010/08/31 Effects of social competition and social context on hormones and behaviour: testing the challenge hypothesis in humans
PTDC/PSI/80985/2006
Research Fellow
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes
LA/P/0082/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0082/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Instituto de Medicina Molecular - IMM
UID/BIM/50005/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Oliveira, Gonçalo A; Garcia-Marques, T.. Corresponding author: Oliveira, Gonçalo A. "Investigating familiarity effects on cognitive control using the Simon task". Paper presented in 17º Encontro Nacional da APPE, 2023.
  2. Oliveira, Gonçalo A; Remondes, Miguel; Garcia-Marques, T.. Corresponding author: Oliveira, Gonçalo A. "Gaming the system: Processing fluency impairs adaptive control adjustments". Paper presented in Psychonomic Society 63rd Annual Meeting, 2022.
  3. Oliveira, Gonçalo A; Remondes, Miguel; Garcia-Marques, T.. "Control adaptations motivated by perceptual disfluency facilitates conflict resolution". Paper presented in 15.º Encontro Nacional da APPE, 2021.
  4. Oliveira, Gonçalo A; Remondes, Miguel; Garcia-Marques, T.. "Perceptual Disfluency and Incongruence Promotes Additive Control Adjustments". Paper presented in Psychonomics 2020 Annual Meeting, 2020.
  5. Oliveira, GA. "Unexpected winners decrease testosterone levels after the competition.". Paper presented in 4th Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium - Perspectives on social behavior, Lisboa, Portugal., 2015.
  6. Oliveira, GA. "Testosterone and DHEA modulate the recognition of emotional faces.". Paper presented in Implications of Research on the Neuroscience of Affect, Attachment and Social Cognition Conference, London, UK., 2013.
  7. Oliveira, GA. "Hormonal response to an experimental emotion induction procedure". Paper presented in 10º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia 24-25 Outubro, Algés, Portugal, 2013.
  8. Oliveira, Gonçalo A.. "Threat appraisal moderates the effect of opponent familiarity on testosterone response". Paper presented in 7º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Lisboa, Portugal., 2012.
  9. Oliveira, GA. "Testosterone changes after a competition moderates response to emotional faces.". Paper presented in 41st International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany., 2011.
  10. Oliveira, GA. "Effects of mood, arousal and affective valence on salivary levels of testosterone and cortisol.". Paper presented in 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Toronto, Canada., 2010.
  11. Oliveira, GA. "Changes in testosterone related to competition outcome moderates responses to emotional faces.". Paper presented in 40th Annual meeting: Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA., 2010.
  12. Oliveira, GA. "Affective valence and arousal effects in testosterone and cortisol responses.". Paper presented in 5º Congresso de Psicologia Experimental, Braga, Portugal., 2010.
  13. Oliveira, GA. "Can mood work as a mediator of winner/loser status effects on hormonal responses? An experimental approach to mood impact on testosterone.". Paper presented in 5º Congresso de Psicologia Experimental, Braga, Portugal., 2010.
  14. Oliveira, GA. "Human hormonal responses to social challenges: an experimental paradigm for a laboratory setting". Paper presented in 40th Annual International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology Conference. San Francisco, USA., 2009.
Journal article
  1. Oliveira, Gonçalo A; Remondes, Miguel; Garcia-Marques, T.. "Easy to process, hard to control: transient and sustained processing fluency impairs cognitive control adjustments to conflict". Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2023): 174702182311597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218231159787.
    Open access • Published • 10.1177/17470218231159787
  2. Oliveira, Gonçalo A.; Remondes, Miguel; Garcia-Marques, Teresa. Corresponding author: Oliveira, Gonçalo A.. "Bad after bad is good: previous trial disfluency reduces interference promoted by incongruence". Psychological Research (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01626-y.
    Published • 10.1007/s00426-021-01626-y
  3. Cerqueira, Marco; Millot, Sandie; Silva, Tomé; Félix, Ana S.; Castanheira, Maria Filipa; Rey, Sonia; MacKenzie, Simon; et al. "Stressor controllability modulates the stress response in fish". BMC Neuroscience 22 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-021-00653-0.
    10.1186/s12868-021-00653-0
  4. Cerqueira, M.; Millot, S.; Felix, A.; Silva, T.; Oliveira, G. A.; Oliveira, C. C. V.; Rey, S.; MacKenzie, S.; Oliveira, R.. "Cognitive appraisal in fish: stressor predictability modulates the physiological and neurobehavioural stress response in sea bass". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 1923 (2020): 20192922. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2922.
    10.1098/rspb.2019.2922
  5. Almeida, Olinda; Félix, Ana S.; Oliveira, Gonçalo A.; Lopes, João S.; Oliveira, Rui F.. "Fighting Assessment Triggers Rapid Changes in Activity of the Brain Social Decision-Making Network of Cichlid Fish". Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 13 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00229.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00229
  6. Rui Miguel Costa; Gonçalo Oliveira; José Pestana; David Costa; Rui F. Oliveira. "Do Psychosocial Factors Moderate the Relation between Testosterone and Female Sexual Desire? The Role of Interoception, Alexithymia, Defense Mechanisms, and Relationship Status". Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology (2018): https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs40750-018-0102-7.
    Published • 10.1007/s40750-018-0102-7
  7. M. Cerqueira; S. Millot; M. F. Castanheira; A. S. Félix; T. Silva; G. A. Oliveira; C. C. Oliveira; C. I. M. Martins; R. F. Oliveira. "Cognitive appraisal of environmental stimuli induces emotion-like states in fish". Scientific Reports 7 1 (2017): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13173-x.
    Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41598-017-13173-x
  8. António Roleira; Gonçalo A. Oliveira; João S. Lopes; Rui F. Oliveira. "Audience Effects in Territorial Defense of Male Cichlid Fish Are Associated with Differential Patterns of Activation of the Brain Social Decision-Making Network". Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 11 (2017): https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffnbeh.2017.00105.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00105
  9. Oliveira, Gonçalo A.; Aires, Rui F.; Oliveira, Tânia F.; Ros, Albert F. H.; Oliveira, Rui F.. "Dear Enemies Elicit Lower Androgen Responses to Territorial Challenges than Unfamiliar Intruders in a Cichlid Fish". PLOS ONE 10 9 (2015): e0137705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137705.
    Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0137705
  10. Ana I. Faustino; Gonçalo A. Oliveira; Rui F. Oliveira. "Linking appraisal to behavioral flexibility in animals: implications for stress research". Front. Behav. Neurosci. 9 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00104.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00104
  11. Oliveira, Gonçalo A.; Uceda, Sara; Fernandes, Alexandre C.; Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Oliveira, Rui F.. "Testosterone response to competition in males is unrelated to opponent familiarity or threat appraisal". Frontiers in Psychology 5 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01240.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01240
  12. Oliveira, Gonçalo A.; Oliveira, Rui F.. "Androgen modulation of social decision-making mechanisms in the brain: an integrative and embodied perspective". Frontiers in Neuroscience 8 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00209.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fnins.2014.00209
  13. Oliveira, Gonçalo A.; Oliveira, Rui F.. "Androgen responsiveness to competition in humans: the role of cognitive variables". Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics 3 (2014): 19-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/nan.s55721.
    Open access • Published • 10.2147/nan.s55721
  14. Gonçalo A. Oliveira; Sara Uceda; Tânia Oliveira; Alexandre Fernandes; Teresa Garcia-Marques; Rui F. Oliveira. "Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women". Front. Psychol. 4 (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00389.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00389
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/05/07 Easy to process, hard to control: fluency driven challenges to cognitive control International APPE-SEPEX Meeting
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2021/12/20 Information processing challenges to cognitive control Neuroscience seminar
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/10/26 Disfluency and cognitive control: when it’s better to make it worse Neuroscience seminar
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06/19 Familiarity and fluency effects on proactive and reactive control Internal seminar
William James Center for Research (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/02/18 Feeling control: affective and neurophysiological mechanisms of familiarity and conflict Neuroscience seminar
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/02/11 Social modulation of the hormone response to competition in humans Ciclo de conferências ISPA
ISPA – Instituto Universitário (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018 Is the relation between testosterone and female sexual desire moderated and emotional and bodily awareness? 12th National Congress of Health Psychology
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2014 Effects of threat and familiarity as a moderator of the testosterone response to competition 16th European Social Cognition Network Meeting
ESCON (Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium)
2012 Threat appraisal moderates the effect of opponent familiarity on testosterone response 9º Congresso Nacional de Etologia
Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia (Lisboa, Portugal)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022/12/06 Nem é preciso pensar duas vezes: A memória de pessoas e os efeitos deincongruência, negatividade e familiaridade
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Mafalda Luísa Telles de Sousa (Master)
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2021/12/17 A Resposta Sexual: Absorção, Estados Alterados de Consciência e Fase de Resolução
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Maria Madalena Teixeira de Lima Wiborg de Carvalho (Master)
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2021/12/03 Face Mask and Emotion Discrimination: A Duchenne smile study
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Giuliana Hohenberger (Master)
ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2021/05/27 Hemispheric side and vagal nerve activity: A systematic review
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rodrigo Bento (Master)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2020/07/29 Será que a comunicação online aumenta o sentimento de solidão em jovens adultos?
President of the jury
 Ana Carolina de Almeida Figueiredo (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2020 Mind the body: As inter-relações entre mindfulness disposicional, consciência interocetiva e funcionamento sexual feminino
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Vera Nunes Gonçalves de Carvalho Rodrigues (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2019/07/17 Hábitos tabágicos e funcionamento sexual
President of the jury
 Cardoso, Cheila Alexandra Gomes (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2019/07/17 Altered states of consciousness, absorption and sexual responsiveness
President of the jury
 Ellero, Jacopo (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2018/10/24 Fantasias sexuais, funcionamento sexual e relações amorosas
(Thesis) Arguer
 Tomaz, Catarina Guimarães (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2018/04/07 Absorção, dissociação e funcionamento sexual
(Thesis) Arguer
 Rebôlo, Ana Catarina Pereira (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2017/02/20 Variabilidade da frequência cardíaca em repouso e desejo sexual em mulheres
(Thesis) Arguer
 Batata, Joana Teresa Ramos (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020/07/01 - Current Psychonomic Society Member
2013 - Current Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology (APPE) Member
2012 - Current Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses (national board of Psychology) Full member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/04/27 - Current Advanced topics in cognitive science Neurociências Cognitivas e Comportamentais Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/01/01 - 2024/07/01 Psychophysiology Psicologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2023/09/05 - 2023/12/20 Cognitive Psychology Psicologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2023/09/18 - 2023/12/15 Research methods in psychology Psicologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2016/02 - 2017/07 Neuroscience of motivation and emotion Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience (Mestrado) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2016/02 - 2017/07 Psychobiology of motivation and emotion Psychology (Mestrado integrado) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2012/02 - 2014/07 Psychosomatics, endocrinology and immunology Psychobiology (Mestrado) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2012/02 - 2014/07 Compared psychobiology of stress Psychobiology (Mestrado) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2012/02 - 2014/07 Psychobiology of stress Psychology (Mestrado integrado) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2016 Award of academic merit (PhD)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal