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Sofia Jacinto completed her PhD in Social Psychology ("The Clinical Gut: Examining the cognitive processes and neural underpinnings of judgments, feelings of rightness and its impact on information seeking") at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in 2021. Sofia is currently a researcher at Iscte-IUL, CIS-IUL, under the CEEC funding from FCT, and at the Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland working on the development and implementation of online self-help interventions for emotion regulation. Sofia is also an invited assistant professor at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics where she supervises master dissertations on the topics of judgment and decision making in the context of eHealth and well-being. Sofia publishes in international journals and has received 4 awards and/or honors, including a PhD scholarship from FCT, a research grant from Bial Foundation and a CEEC contract from FCT.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sofia Jacinto

Citation names

  • Jacinto, Sofia
  • Sofia Jacinto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D413-5948-8C00
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4883-2351
Google Scholar ID
bmKopgUAAAAJ

Email addresses

  • sofia.jacinto@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)
  • sofia.jacinto@fhnw.ch (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Health Policy and Services

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/01/01 - 2021/06
Concluded
 The Clinical Gut: Examining the cognitive processes and neural underpinnings of judgments, feelings of rightness and its impact on information seeking (awaiting defense) (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2010
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
"Co-construção intergeracional de valores : À procura de um modelo sistémico" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17 Valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/06 - Current Researcher (Research) Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Campus Olten, Switzerland
2021/06 - 2023/02 Researcher (Research) Universität Bern, Switzerland
2015/01/01 - 2021/06 Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2012/08/07 - 2021/06 Researcher (Research) Indiana University Bloomington Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, United States
Indiana University Bloomington Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, United States
2020/01/17 - 2021/05 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/09 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/06 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/10/01 - 2014/12/01 Visiting Scholar New York University, United States
2014/01/01 - 2014/09/30 Bolsa de Gestão Científica e Tecnologia (BGCT). Gestão financeira e científica de projectos de investigação com financiamento nacional e internacional. Apoio a candidaturas; organização de eventos ci ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2013/12/30 Research Assistant. Coordinated by Ximena Garcia-Rada and Supervised by Dan Ariely Duke University, United States
2012/09/03 - 2013/07/05 Visiting Scholar Indiana University Bloomington Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, United States
2012/05/01 - 2012/07/31 Research Assistant Project: “Conservação da Abetarda, Sissão e Peneireiro-das-torres na estepe cerialífera do Baixo Alentejo”, financed by European Commission (LIFE07/NAT/P/0000654). ISCTE-IUL - Cent ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2011/10/03 - 2012/03/30 Honorary Clinical Psychologist Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
2008/09/01 - 2010/09/30 Research Assistant Project: Aprender em Parceria (A PAR): Evaluation of the effectiveness of the implementation of the Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) in Portugal”. Financed by FCT (Foundati ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/03 - Current eHealth for all: When psychological distance increases help seeking and reduces stigma
2022.06175.CEECIND
2020/01 - 2023/01 LEAVES: optimizing the mentaL health and resiliencE of older Adults that haVe lost thEir spouSe via blended, online therapy
AAL 2019
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
School of Social Work, University SSW of Applied Sciences and Arts, Olten, Switzerland

Universität Bern, Switzerland
Active Assisted Living Programme
Concluded
2015/05/01 - 2020/07/30 The Clinical Gut: Examining the cognitive processes and neural underpinnings of judgments, feelings of rightness and its impact on information seeking
85/14
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação Bial
Ongoing
2015 - 2019 The clinical gut. Examining the cognitive processes underlying therapist’s intuitive judgments in the psychotherapy session.
SFRH/BD/101524/2014
PhD Student Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. "Braga, J. & Jacinto, S. (July 2021) Will streaks of good or bad life outcomes prevail? Immanent justice reasoning in binary predictions of future life outcomes.". Paper presented in International Society for Justice Research Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021.
  2. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. "Braga, J., & Jacinto S. (2020, May/postponed) Abstraction is for Pleasure. Construal level theory and hedonic and utilitarian consumption.". Paper presented in Behavioral Decision Research and Management., Barcelona, Spain., 2021.
  3. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. "Braga, J. & Jacinto, S. (2020, October) The Effects of Online and Offline Shopping Contexts on Consumers’ Use of Heuristic Cues.". Paper presented in Association of Consumer Research Conference, Paris, France., 2020.
  4. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. "Jacinto S., Braga, J., Ferreira-Folgado, M. & Collings, E. (2020, July/postponed) Is the body over the mind? Causal attributions of suffering, moral judgments and euthanasia acceptance decisions.". Paper presented in International Society for Justice Research Conference., Lisbon, Portugal., 2020.
  5. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. "Braga, J. & Jacinto S. (2020, May/postponed) Body over Mind: The impact of causal attribution on decisions of euthanasia acceptance and denial.". Paper presented in Behavioral Decision Research and Management., Barcelona, Spain., 2020.
  6. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. "Backward and forward inferences in the psychotherapy session.". Paper presented in 49th International Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Amsterdam, 2018.
  7. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. "Symposium - Clinical Gut: Therapists intuitions within psychotherapy session.". Paper presented in Panel conducted at the 49th Society for Psychotherapy Research Annual Meeting. Amsterdam, Netherlands., Amsterdam, 2018.
  8. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. "Body over Mind: Mental illness stigma and perceived morality of euthanasia.". Paper presented in Paper presented at the 49th Society for Psychotherapy Research Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, 2018.
  9. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. "The impact of task decomposability in hypothesis testing within the psychotherapy session.". Paper presented in Clinical Decision Making Workshop 2018, Gottingen, Germany., 2018.
Journal article
  1. João Braga; Sofia Jacinto. "Not all hands get hot: Success rates and hot-hand predictions". Asian Journal of Social Psychology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12603.
    10.1111/ajsp.12603
  2. Lena Brandl; Lex van Velsen; Jeannette Brodbeck; Sofia Jacinto; Dennis Hofs; Dirk Heylen. "Developing an eMental health monitoring module for older mourners using fuzzy cognitive maps". DIGITAL HEALTH (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076231183549.
    10.1177/20552076231183549
  3. Lex van Velsen; Lotte Schokking; Eva Siderakis; Gloria-Mona Knospe; Lena Brandl; Bettina Mooser; Sarah Madörin; et al. "Development of an online service for coping with spousal loss by means of human-centered and stakeholder-inclusive design: the case of LEAVES". Death Studies (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2023.2203680.
    10.1080/07481187.2023.2203680
  4. Sarah Madörin; Sofia Jacinto. "Achieving Gender Equality through Paid and Unpaid Work: An Exploration of Mothers’ Perspectives on Work". Social Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12040218.
    10.3390/socsci12040218
  5. Jeannette Brodbeck; Sofia Jacinto; Afonso Gouveia; Nuno Mendonça; Sarah Madörin; Lena Brandl; Lotte Schokking; et al. "A Web-Based Self-help Intervention for Coping With the Loss of a Partner: Protocol for Randomized Controlled Trials in 3 Countries". JMIR Research Protocols (2022): https://doi.org/10.2196/37827.
    10.2196/37827
  6. Jacinto, S., Brodbeck, J., Madoerin, S., … & Van Velsen, L. .. "An online self-help intervention for coping with the loss of a partner: Randomized control trials in three countries". (2022):
    Submitted
  7. Niza Braga, João; Jacinto, Sofia. "Effortless online shopping? How online shopping contexts prime heuristic processing". Journal of Consumer Behaviour (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cb.2032.
    10.1002/cb.2032
  8. Jacinto, Sofia; Braga, João Niza; Ferreira, Marina Silva; Collins, Elizabeth C.; Krendl, Anne C.; Lewis, Cara C.. "Psychological disorder diagnosis is no cure for trait inferences bias". Journal of Applied Social Psychology 51 11 (2021): 1061-1072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12821.
    10.1111/jasp.12821
  9. Lopes, David G.; Henriques, Ana Rita; Santos-Dias, Margarida; Nunes-da-Silva, Catarina; Gonçalves, Juliana; de Sousa, Rute D.; Abdulghani, Saba; et al. "Staff SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Mental Health as Key Factors in University Response to COVID-19 Pandemic". Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.689919.
    10.3389/fpubh.2021.689919
  10. Orghian, D.; Almeida, F.; Jacinto, S.; Gracia-Marques, L.; Santos, A. S.. "How your power affects my impression of you". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2019): https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0146167218788558.
    10.1177/0146167218788558
  11. Jacinto, S. B.; Lewis, C. C.; Braga, J. N.; Scott, K.. "A conceptual model for generating and validating in-session clinical judgments". Psychotherapy Research (2018): http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10503307.2016.1169329.
    10.1080/10503307.2016.1169329
  12. João N. Braga; Mário B. Ferreira; Sherman, S. J.; Mata, A.; Jacinto, S.; Ferreira, M.. "What's next? Disentangling availability from representativeness using binary decision tasks". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2018): https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/publications/whats-next-disentangling-availability-from-representativeness-using-binary-decision-tasks/53657?lang=en.
    10.1016/j.jesp.2018.03.006
Preprint
  1. Marian Z. M. Hurmuz; Lena Brandl; Eva Siderakis; Lotte Schokking; Sofia Jacinto; Mandy Verdam; Stephanie M. Jansen-Kosterink. "Can we support mourning older adults in their grief process with an e-mental health intervention?". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3185131/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-3185131/v1
Working paper
  1. Jacinto Braga, Sofia; João Braga (D51C-25CC-8C4C); Trope, Yaacov. 2021. "Braga, J., Jacinto, S. & Trope, Y. (manuscript in prep). Abstraction is for reward: How the level of construal shapes consumers¿ preferences and representations of hedonic consumption.".
  2. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. 2021. "Braga, J., & Jacinto, S. (Submitted). Social exposure and the effects of the Online shopping contexts on the use of intuitive heuristics.".
  3. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. 2021. "Jacinto, S., Braga, J., Ferreira-Folgado, M., Collins, E., Lewis, C., & Krendl, A. (under review.). The impact of task decomposability in hypothesis testing within the psychotherapy session.".
  4. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. 2021. "Jacinto, S., Ferreira-Folgado, M., Braga, J., & Collins, E. (submitted). Body over mind: Assisted death and mental-illness stigma.".
  5. Jacinto Braga, Sofia. 2021. "Braga, J. & Jacinto, S., (under review). Success-rates and intentional performances: The effect of success-rate information on hot-hand predictions and intentionality judgments.".

Other

Other output
  1. Symposium - Clinical Gut: Therapists intuitions within psychotherapy session. 2018. Jacinto, S.. https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/publications/symposium---clinical-gut-therapists-intuitions-within-psychotherapy-session/53661?lang=en.
  2. The impact of task decomposability in hypothesis testing within the psychotherapy session. 2018. Jacinto, S.; Ferreira, M.; Braga, J. N.; Collins, E. C.. https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/publications/the-impact-of-task-decomposability-in-hypothesis-testing-within-the-psychotherapy-session/53659?lang=en.
  3. Body over Mind: Mental illness stigma and perceived morality of euthanasia. 2018. Jacinto, S.; Ferreira, M.; Collins, E. C.; Lewis, C. C.; Krendl, A.. https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/publications/body-over-mind-mental-illness-stigma-and-perceived-morality-of-euthanasia/53662?lang=en.
  4. Psychological disorder diagnosis: No cure for trait inferences. 2018. Jacinto, S.; Braga. J. N.; Ferreira, M.; Collins, E. C.; Krendl, K.; Lewis, C. C.. https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/publications/psychological-disorder-diagnosis-no-cure-for-trait-inferences/53663?lang=en.
  5. Inferences on psychotherapist’s metacognitive confidence and information seeking strategy. 2017. Jacinto, S.; Braga, S.; Ferreira, M.; Lewis, C. C.,. https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/publications/inferences-on-psychotherapists-metacognitive-confidence-and-information-seeking-strategy/41500?lang=en.
  6. Diagnostic Inferences No cure for correspondent inference. 2017. Jacinto, S.; Ferreira, M.; Braga, J.; Krendl, A.; Collins, E. C.. https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/publications/diagnostic-inferences-no-cure-for-correspondent-inference/41498?lang=en.
Distinctions

Award

2022 Estimulo ao Emprego Científico
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2015 Individual PhD Scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2015 BIAL Bursaries for Scientific Research
Fundação Bial, Portugal
2014 1st Year PhD Fees Grant
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2010 Awarded Communication in I Jornadas de Iniciação à Investigação em Psicologia (project classification: 4,75 points - call BD 2013)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal