Projects

The SUGAR project examines the eating habits and the sugar content of processed food, and how such information is acquired and processed. It also experimentally examines contextual (e.g., sugar content labeling) and individual (e.g., attitudes, regulatory focus) factors underlying the perception and consumption of different types of high-sugar processed foods. The findings will be highly informative to understand the current problem of excessive free-sugar intake and to design future evidence-based interventions to address it. Although this project focuses on free sugars, its rationale and methodologies may be applied to other nutrients that have been shown to contribute to malnutrition (e.g. fat and sodium content) as well as to other population (e.g., children).

Marília Prada

The objective of AWESOME project is to investigate the emotional dimension of movie and provide support for the classification, access, navigation and visualization of movies based on the emotions expressed in the content of the movies as well as the emotions felt by the viewers during and after watching movies. This will help users to gain more awareness on the emotional impact of watching movies and empower them in regulating emotions when accessing and watching movies and videos.

Teresa Chambel (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa), Patrícia Arriaga (ISCTE-IUL)

The research project investigates the social nature of memory and the distinctive mechanisms underlying collaborative memory process. It focuses on two forms of social memory phenomena that have been robustly demonstrated: (a) effects of socially shared encoding on individual memory, and (b) effects of group collaboration in memory tasks.

Margarida Vaz Garrido

The project involves the collaborative effort of INESC-ID and ISCTE-IUL. This project investigates the role of emotions and adaptation in interactions between a robot and a group of users, contrasting to the typical one-robot one user paradigm in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Ana Paiva (Instituto De Engenharia De Sistemas E Computadores, Técnico Lisboa); Patricia Arriaga (ISCTE-IUL)

Elizabeth Collins (II)

This project examines the nature of information (including its stereotypicality and complexity) shared between people depending on the nature of their relationship (emotional closeness and amount of contact).

Researcher: Elizabeth C. Collins

Diniz Lopes

Francisco Esteves e Lígia Amâncio

Global-MINDS is the European Master in the Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society funded by the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree funding programme (Erasmus+ – Key Action 1). It is a comprehensive 2- year study programme with 120 ECTS focusing on insights into contemporary social and societal issues from Social and Cultural Psychology. Universities from five countries jointly deliver the Global-MINDS programme in English.

Christin-Melanie Vauclair