
Sónia M. P. SantosUniversity of Aveiro | UA · Division of Psychology
Sónia M. P. Santos
Master in Forensic Psychology
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I am a PhD candidate at the William James Center for Research, Departament of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
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Biologically, humans have evolved to adapt against pathogens but, since fighting them can be costly, a set of mechanisms have emerged to avoid contact, called the Behavioral Immune System (BIS). Experimental Psychology studies the BIS, for instance, by conducting experiments where a participant is exposed to several objects some of which are presen...
The adaptive value of disgust has been associated with situations of threat to our survival. This study explored this topic using eye-tracking, which provides an objective measurement of attention, while solving previous methodological issues (e.g., not considering discrete emotions and comparing across perceptually-different stimuli). We used the...
The Behavioral Immune System (BIS), which prompts responses to prevent sickness, can be activated by sounds (e.g., hearing cough), visual stimuli (e.g., seeing someone coughing), or their combination (e.g., seeing and hearing someone cough). Memory might play a key role in the BIS: studies have been reporting a memory tuning for potential sources o...
O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar de que forma os níveis de autoaversão (sentimentos de repulsa dirigidos para o próprio)
podem influenciar a memória para estímulos emocionais e os correlatos psicofisiológicos deste processo, através do registo de ECG. Era
pedido aos participantes que memorizassem e posteriormente recordassem faces de a...
Não considerar as características individuais pode prejudicar a deteção da mentira, uma vez que algumas pessoas, devido ao seu comportamento aparentam naturalmente maior honestidade ou desonestidade do que outras. Neste estudo considerámos a influência do nível de ansiedade social na deteção da mentira, pois pessoas com elevada ansiedade social ten...
Na área forense, a discriminação de inocentes e mentirosos é ainda um desafio. Um aspeto importante a considerar, no sentido de prevenir erros, são as características individuais. Neste estudo atentamos ao nível de ansiedade social, uma característica relevante a considerar, uma vez que pessoas com elevada ansiedade social se tornam suscetíveis de...
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I need to publish an online questionnaire with timed stimuli presentation. Does anyone know a platform where you can do this for free? For exemple, Qualtrics allows it, but only in paid versions.
Does anyone know of a site or program that does the automated calculation of the unified formula for light-adapted pupil size from Watson and Yellot?