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Isabel R. Pinto
— Leading researcher

Professora Associada com Agregação, com doutoramento em Psicologia Social. Coordenadora da Área de especialização Psicologia das Organizações, Social e Trabalho, do Curso de Mestrado em Psicologia, pela Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto. Coordenadora do grupo de investigação Cultura, Normatividade e Diversidade, do Centro de Psicologia da Universidade do Porto. Diretora do Laboratório de Psicologia Social, na Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto. Membro da Direção da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia. Interesses de investigação: estudo dos processos psicossociais associados à reação a comportamentos desviantes (nomeadamente crime de ódio e crime económico), extremismos (com enfoque em conflito social) e populismos. Envolvimento (enquanto investigador principal, membro da equipa ou membro de Advisory Board) em projetos de investigação sobre discurso de ódio, perceção e impacto da corrupção (enquanto membro da equipa), discriminação e inclusão de refugiados na Europa, extremismos e populismos, desinformação e mau uso das redes sociais, e comportamentos associados a teorias da conspiração e negacionismos. Outros projetos financiados (a decorrer): “VigilHate: Vigilant Citizens Against Hate: How to counter bystander apathy and increase citizens' commitment against online hate speech?” (ref: La Caixa_ Social Research Call 2020 SR20-00136): Fundação La Caixa e Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), iniciado em Fevereiro de 2021. “ClimActiC: CidadaniaPeloClima: Criando Pontes entre Cidadania e Ciência para a Adaptação Climática” (ref: NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000071), iniciado em Julho de 2021. “NEW ABC: Networking the Educational World: Across Boundaries for Community-building” (ref: 101004640): EUROPEAN COMMISSION, iniciado em Janeiro de 2021. “Corrupção e crise económica, uma combinação perigosa: compreender as interacções processo-resultado na explicação do apoio à democracia” (ref: C492603946-00087624): Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), iniciado em 2018.

Catarina L. Carvalho

PhD in Psychology, specialization in Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto (FPCEUP). Member of the Laboratory of Social Psychology, FPCEUP. Since 2021, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at FPCEUP, as part of the VigilHate project: "VIGILANT CITIZENS AGAINST HATE": How to counter bystander apathy and increase citizens' commitment against online hate speech?. Her main research interests focus on civic and political participation, civic empowerment, social movements, collective action and the psychological mechanisms associated with support for social hierarchies and inequality. She is also currently working on adhering to nationalism and populism, discrimination against immigrants and other minority groups, and on hate crime.

Cátia de Carvalho

Researcher and PhD student at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto, where she is dedicated to studying the psychosocial processes associated with prevention and combating radicalization. In this context was visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. She has been involved in research projects on (against) radicalisation, is the author of publications in this area and is an expert at the Radicalisation Awareness Network of the European Commission.

Sara G. Alves

Master in Psychology and PhD student in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. She has professional experience in conducting opinion studies, quantitative and qualitative, in the areas of customer satisfaction, political studies, notoriety of advertising campaigns, among others. Her research interests are in the field of Social Psychology, namely Social Psychology of Groups, and Political Psychology, focusing on the study of attitudes towards immigrants, perception of threat, nationalism and populism. At the methodological level, her experience is mainly related to the implementation of quantitative studies (experimental and correlational), still having some experience in qualitative studies which she would like to increase in the future.

Márcia Bernardo

Master's degree in Psychology of Organizations, Social and Work, from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. She did the curricular internship at DOMP, S.A., an opinion studies company, and the professional internship at SC Fitness, a company that develops its activity in the fitness segment. She was also part of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project at DOMP, in which she performed as an interviewer and supervisor. Her research interests are in the field of Social Psychology, namely in the psychosocial processes inherent to intergroup relations and conflicts and in the adhering to populism. Currently, conducting research in the context of the support to populism, on processes of social inclusion and exclusion and intergroup relations.

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