Catarina L. Carvalho- PhD in Social Psychology
- Invited Assistant Professor at University of Porto
Catarina L. Carvalho
- PhD in Social Psychology
- Invited Assistant Professor at University of Porto
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Introduction
Catarina L. Carvalho is a social psychologist at University of Porto (Portugal). Her main research interests focus on civic and political participation, civic empowerment, social movements, collective action, and the psychological mechanisms associated with individuals’ support for group-based social hierarchies and inequality. Currently, she is also working on adherence to nationalisms and populism, discrimination towards immigrants and other minority groups, and hate crimes.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
July 2021 - present
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Postdoctoral researcher at VigilHate Project https://fundacaolacaixa.pt/documents/728273/1650351/vigilant-citizens-against-hate.pdf
September 2013 - December 2015
March 2012 - October 2012
Soroptimist Internacional Clube Porto Invicta
Position
- Social worker
Description
- Temporary residence for women and child victims of domestic violence
Education
September 2016 - May 2021
September 2011 - July 2013
September 2007 - July 2009
Publications
Publications (27)
Literature has shown that citizens’ mistrust in national institutions has a negative impact on their involvement with, and commitment to, their national group. We examine the idea that citizenship efficacy beliefs may revert this process. We propose that facing institutional inefficacy to exert social control, beliefs that civic participation is ef...
The Western hemisphere has witnessed recent increased immigration flows generating social and political debate across Europe. In one view, migration flows represent an opportunity to construct a diverse social cohesion. In another view, migration flows are perceived as a threat to existent national cultures. This view is held by political nationali...
This study analyzes the range and content of Social Representations (SRs) about the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 geographical zones from 17 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia (N = 4430). Based on Social Representations Theory, as well as the psychosocial consequences of pandemics and crises, we evaluate the perceptions of severity and risks, the...
On the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the overcrowding in prisons led to efforts to decarcerate in order to prevent and control outbreaks in prisons. This study analyses how public support for such exceptional measures are determined by cognitive and ideological factors known to create and maintain racial biases in the criminal system. Participant...
We propose that low-status group members' support for group-based hierarchy and inequality (i.e., social dominance orientation; SDO) may represent an ideological strategy to guarantee the legitimacy of future ingroup status-enhancement. Specifically, we argue that, under unstable social structure conditions, SDO serves as an ideological justificati...
Cultural logic is a set of cultural scripts and patterns organized around a central theme. The cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face describe different ways of evaluating a person’s worth and maintaining cooperation. These cultural logics vary in prevalence across cultures. In this study, we collaboratively develop and validate a measure capt...
Cultural logic is a set of cultural scripts and patterns organized around a central theme. The cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face describe different ways of evaluating a person’s worth and maintaining cooperation. These cultural logics vary in prevalence across cultures. In this study, we collaboratively develop and validate a measure capt...
In this lab experiment, 226 participants in Portugal believed they were engaged in an academic tournament (the "European University Olympics"), organised in teams of four. During the supposed tournament, participants encountered a hate speech message within a (bogus) team chat, directed at a team member who was identi able as an immigrant. Findings...
Biases in favor of culturally prevalent social ingroups are ubiquitous, but random assignment to arbitrary experimentally created social groups is also sufficient to create ingroup biases (i.e., the minimal group effect; MGE). The extent to which ingroup bias arises from specific social contexts versus more general psychological tendencies remains...
All societies are organized based on hierarchies, where some groups have more power than others. Although some may aspire for a hierarchy-free world, hierarchies are inevitable and strongly resistant to changes. People may feel motivated to see hierarchical social systems as fair, legitimate, and justified, and endorse system-justifying ideologies,...
Although different social crises may eventually favour undemocratic and authoritarian forms of governance, at some point, such anti-democratic practices require the support of a significant part of the population to be implemented. The present research investigates how and whether the COVID-19 pandemic may favour greater support for anti-democratic...
Project selected in the Social Research Call 2020 (LCF/PR/SR20/52550016)
Online hate speech has serious consequences, both for individuals and society. In addition to damaging the psychological well-being of victims, the unchecked dissemination of hate speech online can lead to the normalisation of discrimination, intolerance, polarisation, and vi...
We proposed and found that, SDO increased individuals' motivation to get involved in actions favoring the ingroup, by boosting their motivation to compete with the opposing high-status outgroup, consistent with an ideological strategy to guarantee the legitimacy of future ingroup status-enhancement.
A literatura tem mostrado que a desconfiança dos cidadãos nas instituições nacionais tem um impacto negativo no seu envolvimento e comprometimento com o seu grupo nacional. Examinamos a ideia de que a crença na eficácia da cidadania pode reverter esse processo.
Propomos que diante da ineficácia institucional para exercer controlo social (reação ao...
We propose that support for group-based hierarchy among mem-bers of low-status or subordinate groups may be boosted by beliefsin future ingroup high status. Specifically, the more individualsbelieve their group may hold a higher status, the more they supporthierarchical intergroup relations (i.e., high social dominance orienta-tion; SDO), by boosti...
RESUMEN Se describe la producción en términos de revistas y artículos de la psicología social iberoamericana y se examina la evidencia bibliomé-trica que muestra un aumento de la producción, pero que coexiste con el peso dominante de la producción de EEUU y, en menor medida, europea, que constituyen el centro del sistema científico. El mayor peso d...
La actual pandemia de la COVID-19 ha supuesto un marcado incremento de las brechas sociales preexistentes. En esta investigación analizamos las relaciones de diferentes facetas de clase social con el bienestar y afectividad general a lo largo de un total de 8 países de la región cultural iberoamericana. Asimismo, también pusimos a prueba el potenci...
We discuss the idea that competition-based motives boost low-status group members' support for group-based hierarchy and inequality. Specifically, the more low-status group members feel motivated to compete with a relevant high-status outgroup, based on the belief that existing status positions may be reversed, the more they will defend status diff...
Pro-independence movements in the Basque Country and in Catalonia have old historical roots. Whereas in Catalonia the pro-independence social mobilization has recently gained energy, in the Basque Country it seems less prominent nowadays. We explore the psychosocial predictors associated with individuals’ involvement in collective efforts towards i...
Previous research states that low-status groups support hierarchical social systems because they feel negatively about their group membership or because it may help to deal and cope with cognitive dissonance, anxiety, discomfort and uncertainty, resulting from their disadvantaged position. Endorsement of system-justifying or hierarchy-enhancing ide...
8 March (8M), now known as International Women’s Day, is a day for feminist claims where demonstrations are organized in over 150 countries, with the participation of millions of women all around the world. These demonstrations can be viewed as collective rituals and thus focus attention on the processes that facilitate different psychosocial effec...
8 March (8M), now known as International Women's Day, is a day for feminist claims where demonstrations are organized in over 150 countries, with the participation of millions of women all around the world. These demonstrations can be viewed as collective rituals and thus focus attention on the processes that facilitate different psychosocial effec...
8 March (8M), now known as International Women's Day, is a day for feminist claims where demonstrations are organized in over 150 countries, with the participation of millions of women all around the world. These demonstrations can be viewed as collective rituals and thus focus attention on the processes that facilitate different psychosocial effec...
This study analyzes the range and content of Social Representations (SRs) about the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 geographical zones from 17 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia (N = 4430). Based on Social Representations Theory, as well as the psychosocial consequences of pandemics and crises, we evaluate the perceptions of severity and risks, the...
This study analyzes the range and content of Social Representations (SRs) about the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 geographical zones from 17 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia (N = 4430). Based on Social Representations Theory, as well as the psychosocial consequences of pandemics and crises, we evaluate the perceptions of severity and risks, the...
Dois acontecimentos negativos com enorme visibilidade em Novembro de 2015 – o desastre ambiental de Mariana (Brasil) e os ataques terroristas em Paris (França) – levantaram intensos debates entre os cidadãos brasileiros, sobre as controversas reações emocionais que emergiram após cada tragédia.
O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar alguns d...
Resumo: Neste estudo procuramos validar a escala Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Scale numa amostra de adolescentes portugueses. Esta escala mede níveis de orientação da comparação social. Participaram no estudo 238 estudantes portugueses, com idades entre os 13 e os 18 anos (M = 15.43, DP = 1.76). Verificou-se que a estrutura da escala est...
