Curriculum Vitae
Pedro Simão Oliveira Mendes
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Pedro Simão Oliveira Mendes
Citation names
- Pedro S. Mendes
- Mendes, Pedro Simão
- Pedro Simão Mendes
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- C51E-E3EC-4708
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5011-6579
Email addresses
- pedro.simao.mendes@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/psomendes/ (Social media)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pedro-Mendes-35 (Social media)
- https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/pedro-mendes/cv (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Psychology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| French | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| German | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2023/04/17 - 2023/10/31
Concluded
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Specialization in Innovation and Digital Creativity (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Escola de Tecnologias Inovação e Criação, Portugal |
17 |
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2017/02/01 - 2021/05/21
Concluded
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Psicologia Básica (PhD in Basic Psychology) (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"(Meta)memory: Effects of word frequency on judgments of learning and recall" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado com Muito Bom |
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2015/07/21
Concluded
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Psicologia (Master's in Psychology) (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Testing effect on a college course: examining test format and repeated questioning" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 valores |
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2014/09 - 2014/12
Concluded
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Psychologie des Processus Neurocognitifs et Sciences Affectives (Master Degree) (Master)
Major in Psicologia dos Processos Neurocognitivos e Ciências Afetivas
Université de Lille UFR de Psychologie, France
"Testing effect on a college course: examining test format and repeated questioning" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 (très bien) |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/09/01 - 2022/08/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal |
| Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal | ||
| 2021/02/15 - 2021/08/31 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Grupo Lusófona, Portugal |
| Universidade Lusófona do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia Educação e Desporto, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/09/01 - Current | Junior Researcher conducting Science Communication Managment | ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal |
| ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal | ||
| 2021/09/01 - 2022/08/31 | Scientific, organizational and administrative collaborator of the project AaZ - Ler melhor, saber mais, with students with reading and writing problems | Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017/02/01 - 2021/03 | (Meta)memory: Effects of word frequency on judgments of learning and recall
PD/BD/128460/2017
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2025/04/10 | Uma análise FOFA à comunicação de ciência do Iscte | SciComPt Congresso 2025
Rede SciComPt (Funchal, Portugal)
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| 2025/04/10 | Projeto para avaliar perceções sobre Escape Rooms na Comunicação de Ciência | SciComPt Congresso 2025
Rede SciComPt (Funchal, Portugal)
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| 2024/06/07 | Exploring Citizen Science in Psychology Projects |
CIS-Iscte; Doctoral Program in Psychology (Iscte) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/03/31 | Metamemory for (un)masked faces | 17º Encontro Nacional APPE
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (APPE) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/05/07 | The pervasive effects of subjective and objective word frequency on JOLs | International APPE-SEPEX Meeting
APPE (Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental) and SEPEX (Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental) (Faro, Portugal)
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| 2022/03/21 | Objective and subjective word frequency affect judgments of learning in multiple-cue situations | 64th TeaP - Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (Conference of Experimental Psychologists)
University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
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| 2021/04/15 | The basis of judgments of learning: Monitoring memory for words of high and low frequency | Iberian Online Memory Seminar
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2021/04/10 | Are low-frequency words perceived as nonwords? Effects on judgments of learning | 15º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2021/03/15 | What if the word frequency effect on judgments of learning is actually a nonword effect? | 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)
Ulm University (Ulm, Germany)
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| 2019/05/03 | Directing people's beliefs about word frequency while presenting (in)congruent prompts: Effects on JOLs and recall | 14º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (Évora, Portugal)
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| 2019/03/07 | It's all about extremes: Word frequency effects on judgments of learning and recall (Poster) | 3rd Biennial International Convention of Psychological Science
Association for Psychological Science (Paris, France)
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| 2018/06 | Effects of word frequency on judgments of learning: Only a question of beliefs? | Summer School of the Swiss Graduate School for Cognition, Learning, and Memory
University of Bern (Weggis, Switzerland)
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| 2018/05/11 | Word frequency and judgments of learning: The role of (in)congruent prompts | International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
Psychonomic Society (Amesterdão, Netherlands)
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| 2018/04/13 | Effects of (in)congruent prompts about word frequency on judgments of learning and recall (Poster) | 13º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2017/02/24 | Como tirar altas notas na Universidade | PubhD UMinho #13
STOL-Science Through Our Lives (Guimarães, Portugal)
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| 2016/07/18 | Testing effect on a university course: Studying repeated questioning and test format | 6th International Conference on Memory
(Budapeste, Hungary)
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| 2016/06/17 | Repeatedly testing students improves their performance on related information | I Jornadas Internacionais de Leitura, Educação e Sucesso Escolar,
(Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal)
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| 2016/04/01 | Testing effect on related materials: A study on a college course (Poster) | 11º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2015/05/29 | Testing effect on a college course: Examining the effects of type of questions and repeated testing on tested and non-tested items | VI Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia da Universidade do Minho
Associação de Estudantes de Psicologia da Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/09/27 - 2024/09/27 | Organization and facilitation of CIS-Iscte's participation in the European Researchers' Night 2024, at MUHNAC (Lisbon). (2024/09/27 - 2024/09/27)
Other (Other)
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| 2023/09/29 - 2023/09/29 | Organization and facilitation of CIS-Iscte's participation in the European Researchers' Night 2023, at MUHNAC (Lisbon). (2023/09/29 - 2023/09/29)
Other (Other)
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| 2022/09/30 - 2022/09/30 | Organization and facilitation of CIS-Iscte's participation in the European Researchers' Night 2022, at MUHNAC (Lisbon). (2022/09/30 - 2022/09/30)
Other (Other)
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| 2019/03 - 2020/02 | AMP Sessions - Science communication sessions that challenge experts from different fields to simplify concepts and share
their scientific knowledge, bridging the gap to the world outside the laboratory, which took place at FNAC Braga. (2019/03 - 2020/02)
Other (Co-organisor)
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| 2018/09/11 - 2018/09/15 | Assistance with the organization of the 4th Congress of the Portuguese Psychologists' Association, by preparing kits, organizing
rooms, and others. The main area of activity was welcoming participants, speakers and guests. (2018/09/12 - 2018/09/15)
Congress (Other)
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Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Portugal |
| 2015/09/06 - 2015/09/12 | Assistant at the 17th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, from the European Association of Developmental Psychology.
Activities included preparing participants' kits, program management, support in conference rooms and poster sessions, and
team management. (2015/09/08 - 2015/09/12)
Congress (Other)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2021/08/02 - 2021/08/06 | Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the context of the German EU Council presidency, the International
Summer School "Communicating Science" gave an overview of the general conditions and communication cultures, and forms and
methods of science communication. Through interactive sessions, the course covered different formats and communication strategies
with various stakeholders, and included discussion rounds and public evening Science Communication live events. More info:
https://tinyurl.com/ISS-Communicating-Science
Other
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International Summer School "Communicating Science"
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2022/06/13 | The impact of facial signs of potentially contaminating diseases on the destination memory
(Thesis) Arguer
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Ana Catarina Areias Ribeiro (Master)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
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| 2021/06/22 | A Influência da Importância no Efeito do Tamanho da Fonte: Evidências na Memória e Metamemória
(Thesis) Arguer
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Paula Daniela Pereira Baptista (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/01 - Current | Rede SciComPt - Rede de Comunicação de Ciência e Tecnologia de Portugal/Portugal's Science and Technology Communication Network | Full Member |
| 2022/01/15 - Current | Portuguese Association for Experimental Psychology/Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (APPE) | Full Member |
| 2018/04/13 - 2021/12/31 | Portuguese Association for Experimental Psychology/Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (APPE) | Associate Member |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/03/01 - 2022/08/31 | Cognição Social | Licenciatura em Psicologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal |
| 2022/03/01 - 2022/08/31 | Psicologia das Emoções | Licenciatura em Psicologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal |
| 2021/09/01 - 2022/02/28 | Psicologia da Memória | Licenciatura em Psicologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal |
| 2021/09/01 - 2022/02/28 | Psicologia da Aprendizagem | Licenciatura em Psicologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal |
| 2021/04/01 - 2021/08/31 | Laboratório de Competências Académicas | Licenciatura em Psicologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade Lusófona do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia Educação e Desporto, Portugal |
| 2021/02/15 - 2021/08/31 | Metodologia de Investigação Quantitativa (componente prática) | Licenciatura em Psicologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade Lusófona do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia Educação e Desporto, Portugal |
| 2018/02 - 2018/07 | Laboratório I (Memória) e Psicologia da Memória (colaboração durante o doutoramento) | Licenciatura em Psicologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/09/20 - 2018/09/20 | UM & ID (Rádio Universitária do Minho) | O efeito da testagem repetida na aprendizagem |
Distinctions
Award
| 2018 | International Graduate Accommodation Award
Psychonomic Society Inc, United States
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