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Catarina Possidónio holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. Currently, she is a researcher at HEI-Lab: Digital Human-Environment Interaction Labs, and Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona and Instituto Piaget. Catarina has been supervising students across different institutions and acting as a reviewer for manuscripts submitted to renowned international scientific journals in Psychology. Additionally, she holds the position of Scientific Editor at PSICOLOGIA, the scientific journal of the Portuguese Psychology Association (APP). Specialized in social psychology and consumer behavior, Catarina is driven by a passion to advance scientific knowledge that facilitates transitions towards healthier, more sustainable, and ethical behaviors - focusing on (1) studying human-animal relationships, (2) promoting the adoption of plant-based diets and (3) the adoption of bioplastic products in everyday consumption patterns. Working with different methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative data analysis, her research work has been published in esteemed international scientific journals and has been presented at several national and international conferences, communicating key findings to different audiences. Motivated to design and implement research studies that deliver relevant insights and actionable recommendations, Catarina strives to make a meaningful impact in promoting more sustainable societies.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Catarina Possidónio

Citation names

  • Possidónio, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D31E-A62C-2F65
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8213-6125
Education
Degree Classification
2022
Concluded
 Psicologia (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Psicologia Social
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Meet your meat: Psychological factors impacting on attitudes towards animals, their consumption, and plant-based alternatives " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19 (AP+)
2016
Concluded
 Psicologia Social e das Organizações (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Am I too cute to eat? The effect of cuteness appeal on the promotion of a more plant-based diet" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Educação e Administração, Portugal
2017/09 - 2022 Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/02 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal
2024/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário Lisboa, Portugal, Portugal
2023 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/11/01 - 2022/03/31 Meet your meat: The effect of meat-animal association on meat comsumption and substitution
COVID/BD/152045/2021
10.54499/COVID/BD/152045/2021
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2021/11/01 - 2022/03/31 Meet your meat: The effect of meat-animal association on meat comsumption and substitution
COVID/BD/152045/2021
10.54499/COVID/BD/152045/2021
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/09/01 - 2021/10/31 Meet your meat: The effect of meat-animal association on meat comsumption and substitution
PD/BD/135440/2017
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/09/01 - 2021/10/31 Meet your meat: The effect of meat-animal association on meat comsumption and substitution
PD/BD/135440/2017
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/10 - Current Cybersecurity Awareness Training Simulator (CATS)
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Researcher
2023/04/01 - Current Laboratórios Digitais de Ambientes e Interacções Humanas
UIDB/05380/2020
10.54499/UIDB/05380/2020
Post-doc Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2023/04/01 - Current Laboratórios Digitais de Ambientes e Interacções Humanas
UIDP/05380/2020
10.54499/UIDP/05380/2020
Post-doc Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2023 - Current Proof of principle fly larvae biorefinery for biopolymer plastic production (BioLaMer)
10.3030/101099487
Post-doc Fellow
2023 - Current Ecosystem services to enhance the resilience of coastal regions and communities to flood risks in a catchment to sea perspective (EcoC2S)
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Researcher
2023 - Current Assessment of minimum level of proficiency in digital literacy (TechMap)
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Researcher
2023 - Current Translating eco-anxiety into pro-environmental behaviour: The mediation of risk perception
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Researcher
2023 - Current The effect of culture on Implicit Self-Theories
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2023 - Current O impacto do conflito consciência sustentável-comportamento para a fast-fashion nas intenções de compra, no consumo de fast-fashion
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Supervisor
2023 - Current The impact of cute anthropomorphism and the default effect on the adoption of plant based meals
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Supervisor
2022 - 2022 MISTRUST
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Researcher
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Investigação e de Intervenção Social
UID/PSI/03125/2019
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2023 - Current From likes to lifestyle: Examining consumer perceptions and social media communication of new plant-based products
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Principal investigator
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Samuel Domingos; Ana Rita Farias; Rui Gaspar; Sílvia Luís; Catarina Possidónio; Bernardo Cruz; Eliana Portugal. "Climate Change Adaptation for Disaster Risk Reduction". 2025.
    10.1007/978-981-97-4547-0_166-1
Conference abstract
  1. Luís, S.; Ana Loureiro; Soro, Jerônimo C.; Possidónio, Catarina; Sampaio, Francisco; Rui Gaspar de Carvalho. "Translating eco-anxiety into proenvironmental behaviour: The mediation of risk perception [Paper Presentation].". Paper presented in 32nd Society for Risk Analysis -Europe, 2024.
Conference poster
  1. Soro, Jerônimo C.; Luís, S.; Loureiro, Ana; Possidónio, Catarina; Sampaio, Francisco; Rui Gaspar de Carvalho. "Exploring the relation between eco-anxiety and risk perception and their effect on pro-environmental behavior". Paper presented in 5th SRA-E Iberian Chapter Meeting, 2024.
Journal article
  1. Catarina Possidónio; Ana Rita Farias; Samuel Domingos; Bernardo Cruz; Sílvia Luís; Ana Loureiro. "Exploring Supply-Side Barriers for Commercialization of New Biopolymer Production Technologies: A Systematic Review". Sustainability (2025): https://doi.org/10.3390/su17030820.
    10.3390/su17030820
  2. Possidónio, Catarina; Piazza, Jared; Graça, João; Prada, Marília. "An appetite for meat? Disentangling the influence of animal resemblance and familiarity". (2022): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/50971.
    10.1016/j.appet.2021.105875
  3. Possidónio, C.; Piazza, J.; Graça, J.; Prada, M.. "An appetite for meat? Disentangling the influence of animal resemblance and familiarity". Appetite 170 (2021): https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/appetite.
    Published • 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105875
  4. Possidónio, C.; Piazza, J.; Graça, J.; Prada, M.. "From pets to pests: Testing the scope of the “Pets as Ambassadors” hypothesis". Anthrozoös 34 5 (2021): 707-722. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfan20/current.
    Published • 10.1080/08927936.2021.1926708
  5. Possidónio, C.; Prada, M.; Graça, J.; Piazza, J.. "Consumer perceptions of conventional and alternative protein sources: a mixed-methods approach with meal and product framing". Appetite 156 (2021): https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/appetite/vol/156/suppl/C.
    Published • 10.1016/j.appet.2020.104860
  6. Possidónio Da Silva, Catarina; Prada, Marília; Graça, João; Piazza, Jared Raymond. "Consumer perceptions of conventional and alternative protein sources: A mixed-methods approach with meal and product framing". (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/44418.
    10.1016/j.appet.2020.104860
  7. Possidónio, Catarina; Piazza, Jared Raymond; Graça, João; Prada, Marília. "From Pets to Pests: Testing the Scope of the “Pets as Ambassadors” Hypothesis". (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/48594.
    10.1080/08927936.2021.1926708
  8. Possidónio, C.; Graça, J.; Piazza, J.; Prada, M.. "Animal images database: validation of 120 images for human-animal studies". Animals 9 8 (2019): 1-20. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/8/475.
    Published • 10.3390/ani9080475
  9. Possidónio, Catarina; Graça, João; Piazza, Jared; Prada, Marília. "Animal images database: validation of 120 images for human-animal studies". (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/32412.
    10.3390/ani9080475
  10. Possidónio, Catarina; Graça, João; Piazza, Jared; Prada, Marília. "Animal Images Database: Validation of 120 Images for Human-Animal Studies". (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/39263.
    10.3390/ani9080475
Report
  1. Catarina Possidónio; Ana Rita Farias; Samuel Domingos; Bernardo Cruz; Sílvia Luís; Ana Loureiro. 2023. Exploring supply-side barriers for commercialization of new biopolymer production technologies: A systematic review. https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2023.5.0076.
    10.37766/inplasy2023.5.0076
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Silva, Catarina Rocha Possidónio da. "Meet your meat: Psychological factors impacting on attitudes towards animals, their consumption, and plant based alternatives". PhD, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/27309.
  2. Silva, Catarina Rocha Possidónio da. "Am I too cute to eat? The effect of cuteness appeal on the promotion of a more plant-based diet". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/12583.
  3. Silva, Catarina Rocha Possidónio da. "Am I too cute to eat? The effect of cuteness appeal on the promotion of a more plant-based diet". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/12583.

Other

Other output
  1. From meat to beets: Exploring pathways towards healthier meat alternatives. 1ª Conferência de Saúde Societal. 2022. Possidónio, C..
  2. From meat to beets: Exploring pathways towards more sustainable meat alternatives. 27th IAPS. 2022. Possidónio, C..
  3. How to trigger transitions towards more sustainable and healthier diets. Encontro Ciência 2021. 2021. Possidónio, C.; Prada, M..
  4. From meat to beets - Exploring pathways to more plant-forward diets. Society for the Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR). 2021. Possidónio, C.; Prada, M.; Graça, J.; Jared Piazza. https://phairsociety.org/.
  5. Meet your meat: How to trigger transitions towards more plant-based diets. 5th LiSP Annual Meeting. 2021. Possidónio, C..
  6. From meat to beets: Exploring pathways to more plant-forward diets. Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR Society). 2021. Possidónio, C..
  7. Meet your meat: The effect of familiarity and animal resemblance on meat consumption and substitution. XVI PhD Meeting. 2021. Possidónio, C.; Prada, M..
  8. It’s the veggie effect! The halo effect on consumers' perceptions of meat alternatives. XVI PhD Meeting. 2021. Habrykh, I.; Possidónio, C.; Prada, M..
  9. An Appetite for Meat? Disentangling the Influence of Animal Resemblance and Familiarity. Pangborn Symposium. 2021. Possidónio, C.; Prada, M..
  10. Meet your meat: The effect of meat-animal association on meat consumption and substitution. 4th LiSP Annual Meeting. 2020. Possidónio, C..
  11. Perceptions toward meat alternatives. XV PhD Meeting. 2019. Possidónio, C..
  12. Minding animals: Validation of a large set of open-source animal images on 11 evaluative dimensions. 3rd LiSP Annual Meeting. 2019. Possidónio, C..
  13. How do people perceive meat and alternatives to meat consumption?. Bridg’it. 2019. Possidónio, C..
  14. Primeiro estranha-se, depois entranha-se!? Percepções de consumidores face a produtos alternativos ao consumo de carne. Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia. 2019. Possidónio, C..
  15. Animal.ID – Animal Images Database: Validation of Animal Images on 11 Evaluative Dimensions. International Convention of Psychological Science (Paris). 2019. Possidónio, C..
  16. Meet your meat: The effect of meat-animal association on meat consumption and substitution.. XIV PhD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology. 2018. Possidónio, C.; Prada, M.; Graça, J.; Piazza, J..
  17. Todos os animais são iguais?. Animais-companheiros nas vidas dos humanos: Desafios sociais e éticos. 2018. Possidónio, C.; Graça, J.; Prada, M.; Piazza, J..
  18. Meet your meat: The effect of meat-animal association on meat consumption and substitution. 2nd LiSP Annual Meeting. 2017. Possidónio, C..
  19. Am I too cute to eat? the effect of cuteness appeal towards the promotion of a more plant-based diet. XII PHD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology. 2016. Possidónio, C.; Prada, M.; Graça, J..
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07 Consumer-environmental sustainability: Exploring the multi-level challenges of biopolymer commercialization for a greener future 28th International Association People-Environment Studies conference
Universitat de Barcelona (UB), in collaboration with Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) (Barcelona, Spain) (barcelona, Spain)
2024/06 Bioplastics: Risk factors for industry and consumer acceptance 32nd SRA-Europe Annual Conference
Harokopio University of Athens (Atenas, Greece)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current The impact of cute anthropomorphism and the default effect on the adoption of plant based meals
Supervisor
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - Current O impacto do conflito consciência sustentável-comportamento para a fast-fashion nas intenções de compra, no consumo de fast-fashion
Supervisor
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - Current Capital Psicológico, Conflito Trabalho-Família, Satisfação no Trabalho, Stress e Burnout nos Profissionais da Educação
Supervisor
Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal
2022 - Current It's the veggie effect! O efeito de halo nas perceções dos consumidores face a produtos alternativos à carne
Co-supervisor
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023 VIDA DE IDOSOS: A SOLIDÃO EMOCIONAL
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Garcia (Master)
Instituto Piaget de Almada, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023 - Current Secretariado Científico e Técnico
Distinctions

Award

2016 Mérito Académico por obter a mais elevada classificação na escala ECTS - A, no Mestrado em Psicologia Social e das Organizações
2016 Menção honrosa pelo poster apresentado no âmbito do XII Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia Social e das Organizações
2016 Prémio de Excelência Académica - As melhores notas de finalista no Mestrado de Psicologia Social e das Organizações (Iscte-IUL)