Courses
Areas of Study and possible Supervisors/Co-supervisors
Areas of Study
Clinical and Health Psychology
Educational and Developmental Psychology
Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology
Social and Cognitive Psychology
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Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| Research Themes | Supervisors/Co-supervisors |
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| Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging | |
| Object recognition and visual processing (conscious or non-conscious) | |
| Visual perception, object recognition, and how information is organized in the cortex | |
| Object related action processing and Brain Computer interface | |
| Conscious experience & non-conscious cognition (could relate to visual perception, decision-making, memory or attention) | Bergström, Fredrik, CINEICC |
| Value-based (e.g., economic, social, or moral) decision-making | Bergström, Fredrik, CINEICC |
| Statistical modeling in neuroscience | de Sousa, Bruno, CINEICC |
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Neuropsychology | |
| Research Themes | Supervisors/Co-supervisors |
| Normative and validation studies of Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) | Albuquerque, Cristina Petrucci; CINEICC |
| Effects of semantic richness on working memory capacity | Leitão, José Augusto S. G.; CINEICC |
| Chronotype and time-of-day effects on cognition | |
| Chronotype and time-of-day impact on the validity of psychological assessments | |
| Neuropsychological assessment and aging processes | Vilar, Manuela; CINEICC |
| Episodic / autobiographical memory, transitory memory, metamemory, and forgetting (individuals from working-age population, with and without a memory deficit, and older individuals with and without non-normative cognitive decline) | Pinho, Maria Salomé; CINEICC |
| Training / rehabilitation programs focused on memory | Pinho, Maria Salomé; CINEICC |
| Development, adaptation and validation of psychological/neuropsychological assessment instruments for the Portuguese population, in different domains (e.g., intelligence, neurocognitive functions, personality, response styles, performance and symptom validity) and contexts (clinical, forensic, educational, community). | Simões, Mário Rodrigues; CINEICC |
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Clinical and Health Psychology | |
| Research Themes | Supervisors/Co-supervisors |
| Study of risk and protective factors and processes (e.g., compassion, mindfulness, acceptance, values, emotion regulation, transdiagnostic mechanisms) for psychological adjustment and psychopathology, in clinical, forensic, academic and community settings. | |
| Development and assessment of psychological interventions for the prevention/treatment of mental illness and promotion of mental health, namely second and third wave cognitive-behavioral interventions in different clinical and non-clinical populations (individual, group and e-health formats) | Canavarro, Maria Cristina, CINEICC Salvador, Maria do Céu, CINEICC |
| Validation of psychological assessment instruments for preschool age | Santos, Maria João Seabra, CINEICC |
| Prosociality, well-being and stress biophysiological correlates of compassion and mindfulness based interventions | Matos, Marcela, CINEICC |
| Acceptance and self-compassion processes in psychopathology and well-being | Salvador, Maria do Céu, CINEICC |
| Personality | Lima, Margarida Pedroso, CINEICC |
| Active aging and wellbeing | Lima, Margarida Pedroso, CINEICC |
| Evaluation of the applicability and effectiveness of interventions based on dialectical-behavioral therapy in specific populations (e.g., bipolarity, transsexuality) | Castilho, Paula, CINEICC |
| Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health | |
| Body image and eating-related difficulties in adolescents and adults. | Ferreira, Cláudia, CINEICC |
| Chronic disease and quality of life: Development and validation of Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention programs | Ferreira, Cláudia, CINEICC |
| Chronic pain: Exploration of psycho-emotional mechanisms and development of intervention programs based on cognitive-contextual therapies. | Castilho, Paula, CINEICC |
| Effectiveness of second and third-wave cognitive-behavioral interventions in forensic settings (e.g., young and adult offenders, caregivers of youth at risk) | Rijo, Daniel, CINEICC |
| Sleep Psychology, according to the American Psychological Association | Gomes, Ana Allen; CINEICC |
| Morningness-eveningness (diurnal type or chronotype) | Gomes, Ana Allen; CINEICC |
| Adaptation to pregnancy and parenting in different phases of the life cycle | |
| New parenthood | Carvalho, Madalena de, CES |
| Parent education: Incredible Years program | Santos, Maria João Seabra, CINEICC |
| Parent education: Parenting wisely Program | Alarcão. Madalena, CES |
| The psychological functions and the impact of internet (mis)use on well-being/psychopathology: assessment of second and third wave cognitive-behavioral interventions for the prevention and treatment of internet addiction | Matos, Ana Paula, CINEICC |
| Family, pathological game/ Gaming and ICT (Information and communication technology) | Relvas, Ana Paula ,CES Sotero, Luciana CES |
| Psychology of interpersonal relationships (sexuality and romantic relationships; couple relationship) | Pereira, Marco, CINEICC |
| Familial and conjugal well-being; Families and couples | Relvas, Ana Paula ,CES Sotero, Luciana CES |
| Divorce Therapy | Carvalho, Madalena de, CES |
| Education for/in divorce | Alarcão. Madalena, CES |
| Intimate partner violence | Paixão, Rui, CES |
| Study of the therapeutic process in familial therapy/ Involuntary clients and therapeutic alliance | Relvas, Ana Paula ,CES
Sotero, Luciana CES |
| Dynamic psychopathology | Paixão, Rui, CES |
| Dynamic psychotherapies | Paixão, Rui, CES |
Educational and Developmental Psychology | |
| Research Themes | Supervisors/Co-supervisors |
| Intellectual difficulties and developmental disorders | Albuquerque, Cristina Petrucci, CINEICC |
| Assessment and intervention in learning difficulties | Albuquerque, Cristina Petrucci, CINEICC |
| Game-based Learning | Almeida, Ana Cristina Ferreira de, FPCEUC |
| Learning and problem solving / PBL: Project based Learning | Almeida, Ana Cristina Ferreira de, FPCEUC |
| Empowering people/ Promoting skills / Learning communities | Almeida, Ana Cristina Ferreira de, FPCEUC |
| Metalinguistic awareness and figurative/metaphorical language: assessment and intervention tools for different age groups | Couceiro Figueira, Ana Paula Mendes Correia, FPCEUC |
| Socio-emotional development: assessment and intervention tools | Couceiro Figueira, Ana Paula Mendes Correia, FPCEUC |
| Assessment and intervention at the language level with a computerized tool (SICOLE) | Couceiro Figueira, Ana Paula Mendes Correia, FPCEUC |
| Psychosocial transitions and well-being throughout life | Ferreira, Joaquim Armando, CINEICC |
| Studies about higher education students | Ferreira, Joaquim Armando, CINEICC |
| (In)adaptive trajectories of children and youth in residential care | Lima, Luiza Nobre, CINEICC |
| Socio-emotional development and mental health in childhood and adolescence | Lima, Luiza Nobre, CINEICC |
| Understanding the role of time perspective (TP) constructs and future time perspective (FTP) constructs in career transition processes and psychological adjustment of adolescents and adults | |
| Construction and empirical validation of a systemic model of prevention and psychological intervention in compulsory education | Paixão, Maria Paula, CINEICC |
| Study of risk and protection factors (e.g., individual, relational, contextual) in psychosocial transitions throughout life | |
| Analysis of the impact of cognitive-motivational factors (self-efficacy, interests, values) on behavior and vocational development | |
| Giftedness, talented and high achievement | Pereira, Marcelino Pereira, CINEICC |
| Longitudinal studies of neurodevelopmental Disorders | Pereira, Marcelino Pereira, CINEICC |
| Cognition, Learning, and Education | Santos, Eduardo; FPCE |
| Contextualist-developmental Counseling | Santos, Eduardo; FPCE |
| Development, adaptation and validation of psychological assessment instruments with a particular focus on children in the first 6 years of life (e.g. development, intelligence, behavior) and on their parents/caregivers (e.g. variables related to parenting) | Santos, Maria João Seabra, CINEICC |
| Empirical validation of intervention programs for pre-school age | Santos, Maria João Seabra, CINEICC |
| Parental education | |
| Career decision-making difficulties: measures and interventions | Silva, José Tomás da, CES |
| Mathematical/Statistical anxiety: antecedents, correlates and consequences | Silva, José Tomás da, CES |
| Human development and anti-social behavior | Vale-Dias, Maria da Luz B. R., FPCEUC |
| Development, well-being and mental health promotion | Vale-Dias, Maria da Luz B. R., FPCEUC |
| Well-being education or positive mental health literacy | Vale-Dias, Maria da Luz B. R., FPCEUC |
Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology | |
| Research Themes | Supervisors/Co-supervisors |
| Organization 4.0 and automation of work processes | Canavarro, José Manuel, CEIS20 |
| Corporate universities, training and human resource management | Canavarro, José Manuel, CEIS20 |
| Psychological processes of adaptation to retirement | Canavarro, José Manuel, CEIS20 |
| Work on/of the future: Factors associated with trust in human-robot interaction in industrial context | Carvalho, Carla, CINEICC |
| Emotions, Feelings and Affections in Work Contexts (EMOTRAB) | Carvalho, Carla, CINEICC |
| Work teams | |
| Organizational and team learning | |
| Knowledge Management | Pais, Leonor,
CINEICC |
| Decent work | Pais, Leonor, CINEICC |
| Cooperative processes [Organizational and global (for example: economy for the common good, United Nations global treaty)] | Teresa Rebelo, CeBER |
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Forensic Psychology | |
| Research Themes | Supervisors/Co-supervisors |
| Family violence (in intimate relationships, between siblings) | Alarcão. Madalena, CES |
| Assessment (and promotion of) parenting skills | Alarcão. Madalena, CES |
| Response styles: performance and symptom validity tests | |
| "Sins" of memory (suggestibility, misattribution of memory, and bias); false memories/ memory errors; and procedures to increase the accuracy of memory performance concerning reports and person recognition | Pinho, Maria Salomé; CINEICC |
| Compassion-focused therapy with young and adult offenders | Rijo, Daniel, CINEICC |
| Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral interventions in clinical and forensic settings | Rijo, Daniel, CINEICC |
| Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral interventions with caregivers of youth at risk | Rijo, Daniel, CINEICC |
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Social and Cognitive Psychology | |
| Research Themes | Supervisors/Co-supervisors |
| Social cognition | Mónico, Lisete, CINEICC |
| Self and interpersonal relations | Mónico, Lisete, CINEICC |
| Social representations | Valentim, Joaquim Pires, CINEICC |
| Social psychology of cultural diversity | Valentim, Joaquim Pires, CINEICC |
| Political psychology | Valentim, Joaquim Pires, CINEICC |
