Curriculum Vitae
André Mata
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- André Mata
Citation names
- Mata, André
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- F914-9BEE-4086
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5087-4919
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Psychology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| French | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | |
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2010
Concluded
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Programa Doutoral em Psicologia Social e das Organizações (PhD in Social and Organizational Psychology) (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Motivated Reasoning in Judgment of Covariation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor (equivalent to mag |
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2002
Concluded
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Licenciatura em Psicologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
"Não se aplica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2015/02/01 - 2017/09/03 | Principal Investigator (Research) | Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2017/09/04 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2011/09/01 - 2015/01/31 | Investigador em Pós-Doutoramento (Postdoctoral Fellow) | Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2010/04/01 - 2011/08/31 | Investigador em Pós-Doutoramento (Postdoctoral Fellow) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal |
| 2005/09/01 - 2010/03/18 | Estudante de Doutoramento (Doctoral student) | ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2003/09/01 - 2004/07/31 | Professor Assistente Estagiário | Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
| 2002/09/01 - 2004/07/31 | Professor Assistente Estagiário | Universidade Independente, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021 - Current | The Psychology of the Living and the Dead: Interpersonal Psychology in the Afterlife
BIAL 2020
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| 2019 - Current | Why cynicism stays: Asymmetries in belief-updating regarding the goodness of man
PD/BD/150547/2019
Supervisor
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| 2015 - 2019 | The social amplification of bias
PD/BD/113491/2015
Supervisor
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| 2009 - 2011 | Cue competition in social learning and its effects on social prediction and diagnosis
SFRH/BPD/66956/2009
Post-doc Fellow
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| 2005 - 2009 | Motivated reasoning in judgment of covariation
SFRH/BD/25492/2005
PhD Student Fellow
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021/03/29 - 2025/03/28 | Fighting Pluralistic Ignorance to Defeat Prejudice
PTDC/PSI-GER/7592/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2014 - 2019 | Fighting over-indebtedness: Self-regulation and consumer environment
PTDC/MHC-PAP/1556/2014
Researcher
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| 2014 - 2016 | Social perception and communication about prejudice
IF/01612/2014
Principal investigator
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| 2012/03/20 - 2015 | Spontaneous Trait Inferences in Context: Proposal of a new theoretical framework
Researcher
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Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia |
Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2019 | Mendonça, C., Mata, A., & Vohs, K. (2019). Self-other asymmetries in the perceived validity of the Implicit Association Test. 2019 European Social Cognition Network, Bordeaux, France. | |
| 2018 | Alves, H., & Mata, A. (2018). Cumulative information bias. 2018 European Social Cognition Network, Cologne, Germany. | |
| 2018 | Mendonça, C., Mata, A., & Ferreira, M. B. (2018). The social amplification of the denominator neglect. 2018 European Social Cognition Network, Cologne, Germany. | |
| 2018 | Ferreira, M. B., Sôro, J., Reis, J., & Mata, A. (2018). A importância de falsos alarmes em julgamento e decisão. 13º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Braga, Portugal. | |
| 2018 | Mendonça, C., Mata, A., & Ferreira, M. (2018). Reprodução serial da negligência do denominador. 13º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Braga, Portugal. | |
| 2017 | Mendonça, C., & Mata, A. (2017). The social amplification of illusory correlations. General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Granada, Spain. | |
| 2017 | Mascarenhas, M. F., Mata, A., & Mendonça, C. (2017). The social filtering of reasoning problems. XIII PhD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal. | |
| 2017 | Mendonça, C., Mata, A., & Ferreira, M. (2017). The social amplification of illusory correlations. 12º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Porto, Portugal. | |
| 2017 | Mendonça, C., & Mata, A. (2017). Serial reproduction of illusory correlations. Dia do Jovem Investigador em Psicologia, Lisbon, Portugal. | |
| 2016 | Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Mata, A. (2016). Prever o futuro: O processo de concluir um padrão ou de esperar repetição. IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, Algarve, Portugal. | |
| 2016 | Mata, A. (2016). Intuitive vs rational confidence: Feeling of knowing versus knowledge of knowing. International Conference on Thinking, Providence Rhode Island, United States. | |
| 2016 | Mata, A., Costa-Lopes, R., & Mendonça, C. (2016). Dilemas morais, identificação e número de vítimas: Entre pessoas e estatísticas. IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, Algarve, Portugal. | |
| 2016 | Mendonça, C., & Mata, A. (2016). The social amplification of illusory correlations. 2016 European Social Cognition Network, Lisbon, Portugal. | |
| 2016 | Mendonça, C., & Mata, A. (2016). Self-other asymmetries in the perceived validity of the Implicit Association Test. Fundamental Group Meeting of the William James Center for Research, Lisbon, Portugal. | |
| 2016 | Reis, J., Ferreira, M., & Mata, A. (2016). Reducing anchoring through others. 2016 European Social Cognition Network, Lisbon, Portugal. | |
| 2016 | Soro, J., Ferreira, M., Mata, A., & Reis, J. (2016). Biased use of statistical knowledge using false-alarms in base-rate problems. 2016 European Social Cognition Network, Lisbon, Portugal. | |
| 2016 | Steimer, A., & Mata, A. (2016). Motivated conceptions of the self across time: Self-serving beliefs about current personality, future personal development, and the meaning of past behavior. 2016 European Social Cognition Network, Lisbon, Portugal. | |
| 2016 | Quinteiro, P. M., Simão, C., Mata, A., Gaspar, R., & Farias, A. R. (2016). In the eye of the beholder: Synchrony and shared goal attainment in dyads. INGRoup Conference - Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research, Helsinki, Finland. | |
| 2016 | Steimer, A., & Mata, A. (2016). Motivated beliefs about the malleability of personality in present and future. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Heidelberg, Germany. | |
| 2015 | Mata, A. (2015). Social metacognition. Keynote address at the 2015 European Social Cognition Network Conference, Bensheim, Germany. | |
| 2015 | Braga, J., Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2015). Motivated reasoning in the prediction of sports outcomes and the belief in the “hot hand”. 2015 European Social Cognition Network Conference, Bensheim, Germany. | |
| 2015 | Mata, A. (2015). Thinking about other people’s thinking: Reasoning, morality and prejudice. Fundamental Group Meeting of the William James Center for Research, Lisboa, Portugal. | |
| 2015 | Steimer, A., & Mata, A. (2015). Motivated implicit theories: Self-serving beliefs about the malleability of personality traits. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie 2015, Potsdam, Germany. | |
| 2015 | Steimer, A., & Mata, A. (2015). Motivated implicit theories of personality: My weaknesses will go away, but my strengths are here to stay. Sopot Seminar in Person Perception, Sopot, Poland. | |
| 2015 | Mata, A. (2015). Pensar sobre o pensamento dos outros: Raciocínio, moralidade e preconceito. Seminário de Psicologia Social, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisboa, Portugal. | |
| 2015 | Mata, A. (2015). The metacognitive advantage of deliberative thinkers: Dual process models and social metacognition. International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands. | |
| 2015 | Ferreira, M. B., & Mata, A. (2015). Reasoning about others’ reasoning: The upside of the bias blind spot. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach California, United States. | |
| 2015 | Ferreira, M. B., & Mata, A. (2015). The metacognitive advantage of deliberative thinkers. Social Program Colloquium, University of Washington, United States. | |
| 2015 | Braga, J., Mata, A., Sherman, S. J., & Ferreira, M. B. (2015). Motivated reasoning in the prediction of sports outcomes and the belief in the “hot hand”. 10º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Algarve, Portugal. | |
| 2014 | Mata, A. (2014). The metacognitive advantage of deliberative thinkers. Department of Economics and Business, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain. | |
| 2014 | Mata, A. (2014). The metacognitive advantage of deliberative thinkers. Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, United States. | |
| 2014 | Mata, A. (2014). The metacognitive advantage of deliberative thinkers: Dual-process models and social metacognition. Cognitive and Decision Sciences Seminar, University of Basel, Switzerland. | |
| 2014 | Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., Sherman, S. J., & Mata, A. (2014). What’s next: Disentangling availability from representativeness using binary decision tasks. 9º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Covilhã, Portugal. | |
| 2014 | Ferreira, M. B., & Mata, A. (2014). The metacognitive advantage of deliberative thinkers. Social Program Colloquium, New York University, United States. | |
| 2014 | Krueger, T., & Mata, A. (2014). Inferential latitude: The influence of target vagueness on drawing inferences about others. 2014 European Social Cognition Network Conference, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. | |
| 2014 | Krueger, T., & Mata, A. (2014). Why less is more: The ironic consequences of target specificity on perspective taking and familiarity. General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands. | |
| 2014 | Mata, A. (2014). The metacognitive advantage of deliberative thinkers: Dual-process models and social metacognition. General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands. | |
| 2014 | Steimer, A., & Mata, A. (2014). Motivated implicit theories: My weaknesses will go away, my strengths are here to stay. 2014 European Social Cognition Network Conference, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. | |
| 2013 | Braga, J., Mata, A., Sherman, S. J., Ferreira, M. B., Zhang, L., Buechele, W., & Braga, S. J. (2013). Motivation and causal attributions in predictions of binary events. 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation, Washignton DC, United States. | |
| 2013 | Mata, A. (2013). Social metacognition from a dual-process perspective. 2013 European Social Cognition Network Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania. | |
| 2013 | Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (2013). Metacognição social numa perspectiva dualista: Raciocínio e resolução de problemas. VIII Congresso Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, Aveiro, Portugal. | |
| 2013 | Almeida, T., & Mata, A. (2013). Metacognição social sobre dilemas morais. VIII Congresso Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, Aveiro, Portugal. | |
| 2013 | Mata, A., & Almeida, T. (2013). Social metacognition in moral judgment and decision making. Small Group Meeting on Social Cognition (Heidelberg-Lisbon-Exchange Project, HELP), Heidelberg, Germany. | |
| 2013 | Almeida, T., & Mata, A. (2013). Metacognitive cues to others’ thinking. Small Group Meeting on Social Cognition (Heidelberg-Lisbon-Exchange Project, HELP), Heidelberg, Germany. | |
| 2013 | Schubert, A., Mata, A., & Ferreira, M. B. (2013). Good-enough representations of reasoning problems. Small Group Meeting on Social Cognition (Heidelberg-Lisbon-Exchange Project, HELP), Heidelberg, Germany. | |
| 2013 | Mata, A., Schubert, A., & Ferreira, M. B. (2013). When does the bias start? Inaccurate representations of reasoning problems. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Vienna, Austria. | |
| 2013 | Mata, A. (2013). Dual-process models and metacognition. PostDoc-2013, Cologne, Germany. | |
| 2012 | Mata, A., & Schubert, A. (2012). Where does the bias start: Good-enough representations of JDM problems. 2012 European Social Cognition Network Conference, Estoril, Portugal. | |
| 2012 | Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (2012). The metacognitive advantage of rational thinkers: A dual process perspective of overconfidence. International Conference on Thinking, London, UK. | |
| 2012 | Mata, A., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (2012). A dual process perspective on overconfidence: The metacognitive advantage of rational thinkers. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Manheim, Germany. | |
| 2012 | Ferreira, M. B., & Mata, A. (2012). Vantagens metacognitivas do pensamento racional: Uma perspectiva dualista sobre sobreconfiança. 7º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Lisbon, Portugal. | |
| 2011 | Mata, A. (2011). A dual process perspective on overconfidence: The metacognitive advantage of rational thinkers. University of Heidelberg Social Psychology Colloquium, Heidelberg, Germany. | |
| 2010 | Mata, A., Percy, E., & Sherman, S. J. (2010). Cognition and native language grammar. Indiana University Social Seminar, Indiana, U.S.A. | |
| 2008 | Ferreira, M. B.; Garcia-Marques, L., & Mata, A. (2008). Hypothesis testing and causal asymmetry. 10th European Social Cognition Network, Volterra, Italy. | |
| 2008 | Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2008). Perceptions of covariation: Evidence for flexible rule following. 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia. | |
| 2008 | Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2008). Raciocínio motivado no julgamento de covariação. 3º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Algarve, Portugal. | |
| 2008 | Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2008). Motivated reasoning in judgment of covariation. Indiana University Social Seminar, Indiana, U.S.A. | |
| 2008 | Sherman, S.J., Percy, E.J., Garcia-Marques, L., Mata, A., & Garcia-Marques, T. (2008). The grammar of social cognition: Adjective-noun word order and social information representation. Social Cognition Conference, Duck, North Carolina, U.S.A. | |
| 2007 | Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2007). Motived judgment of covariation. 2007 European Social Cognition Network Conference, Brnö, Czech Republic. | |
| 2007 | Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2007). A influência da motivação na percepção de covariação. IV Encontro de Investigação em Psicologia Social e das Organizações, Lisbon, Portugal. | |
| 2006 | Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2006). A influência da motivação na percepção de covariação. VI Congresso Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, Évora, Portugal. |
Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2022/02/01 - Current | Understanding and mitigating science scepticism: The case of psychology
Supervisor
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| 2019 - Current | Why cynicism stays: Asymmetries in belief-updating regarding the goodness of man
Supervisor
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| 2015 - 2020 | The social amplification of bias
Supervisor
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| 2018 - 2019 | Science can explain other people’s minds, but not mine: Self-other differences in beliefs about science
Supervisor
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| 2017 - 2018 | Metacognition in moral decisions: Does your moral intuition feel right or do you have to think about it?
Supervisor
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| 2013 - 2018 | Motivated Conceptions of Self and Others Across Time: Self-Enhancement and Self-Other Differences in the Past, Present, and
Future
Supervisor
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Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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| 2015 - 2017 | When Playing Chinese Whispers Turns Right into Wrong: The Serial Reproduction of Moral Dilemmas
Supervisor
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| 2015 - 2016 | Social filtering of reasoning problems
Supervisor
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| 2013 - 2014 | Impulsiveness wins: When being patient can cost you
Supervisor
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2016 - Current | European Social Cognition Network Conference, ISPA – Instituto Universitário e Universidade de Lisboa, 2016. (2016) | |
| 2015 - Current | Fundamental Group Research Seminars, William James Centre for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, 2015-2016. (2015) | |
| 2013 - Current | Small Group Meeting on Social Cognition (Heidelberg-Lisbon-Exchange Project, HELP), Heidelberg, 2013. (2013) | |
| 2009 - Current | Seminário de Pesquisa do Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, 2009. (2009) |
Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2020 | Beyond discrete biases: Human judgment as a continuous interactive process | Joana Reis (PhD) |
| 2019 | Serão as profissões relacionadas com crianças desvalorizadas socialmente? | Beatriz Gusmão (Master) |
| 2019 | The effect of speaker’s age on social trait inference in voice perception | Marta Granadeiro (Master) |
| 2019 | Papel da aprendizagem através de testing repetido na determinação de estratégias de codificação categórica | Rafael Neves (Master) |
Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 - Current | Journal of Environmental Psychology (1522-9610) | Elsevier |
| 2019 - Current | Journal of Experimental Psychology General (1939-2222) | American Psychological Association |
| 2019 - Current | Psicologia (2183-2471) | Associacao Portuguesa de Psicologia |
| 2018 - Current | Emotion (1931-1516) | American Psychological Association |
| 2018 - Current | Social Psychology (0147-829X) | JSTOR |
| 2017 - Current | Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (1099-0771) | Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) |
| 2017 - Current | Memory & Cognition (1532-5946) | Springer - Psychonomic Society |
| 2017 - Current | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (0033-555X) | SAGE Publications |
| 2016 - Current | Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied (1939-2192) | American Psychological Association |
| 2016 - Current | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (1095-9920) | Elsevier |
| 2016 - Current | Psychological Science (1467-9280) | SAGE Publications |
| 2015 - Current | Análise Psicológica (1646-6020) | ISPA - Instituto Universitario |
| 2015 - Current | Basic and Applied Social Psychology (1532-4834) | Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) |
| 2015 - Current | Journal of Mental Health (1360-0567) | Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) |
| 2015 - Current | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1939-1315) | American Psychological Association |
| 2014 - Current | Cognition (0010-0277) | Elsevier |
| 2014 - Current | Cognitive Psychology (1095-5623) | Elsevier |
| 2014 - Current | Thinking & Reasoning (1464-0708) | Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) |
| 2013 - Current | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (1552-7433) | SAGE Publications |
| 2012 - Current | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (1096-0465) | Elsevier |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023 - Current | Psychological Themes: Societal Challenges | ||
| 2018 - Current | Motivation | ||
| 2017 - Current | Motivated Thinking | ||
| 2015 - Current | Social Psychology | ||
| 2011 - Current | Judgment and Decision Making | ||
| 2011 - Current | Motivated Reasoning | ||
| 2017 - 2017 | Automatic Cognitive Processes | ||
| 2017 - 2017 | Themes in Social Psychology | ||
| 2014 - 2017 | Intuition and Deliberation in Social Judgment | ||
| 2016 - 2016 | Selected Topics in Motivated Cognition | ||
| 2016 - 2016 | Advanced Studies in Social Psychology | ||
| 2013 - 2016 | Motivated Cognition | ||
| 2014 - 2014 | Scientific Presentation | ||
| 2013 - 2014 | Social Inference and Metacognition | ||
| 2012 - 2012 | Social Cognition, Judgment and Decision Making | ||
| 2003 - 2005 | Environmental Psychology | ||
| 2003 - 2004 | Cognitive Psychology | ||
| 2003 - 2003 | Organizational Psychology |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2023 - Current | Social Psychological and Personality Science |
Distinctions
Award
| 2022 | Prémio Científico Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Other distinction
| 2015 | Keynote Speaker for the European Social Cognition Network Conference |