tania ramos - Cognition in Context

TANIA RAMOS
15 Washington Place, 4L NY 10003
[email protected]
EDUCATION
University of Lisbon/New York University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2011 – currently
Projects: New paradigms to study STIs/Processes underlying implicit impression formation
processes/ STIs, counterfactual thinking and attribution of blame/Brand personality and STIs/
/Goal-driven influences on typicality.
Lisbon University Institute/University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD in Social Cognition
2010
Title: A Flexible view of spontaneous trait inferences.
Supervisors: Leonel Garcia-Marques and David Hamilton
University of California, Santa Barbara
Visiting researcher
2007-2008
Project: Implicit measures of impression formation/The influence of stereotypes in trait and
situational inferences.
Responsible Researcher: David Hamilton
Faculty of Psychology - University of Lisbon
5 Year Graduation in Psychology
2003
(Including 1 year internship in Social Cognition)
Thesis: Controlled and automatic components of stereotype activation: Application of the
process dissociation procedure.
TEACHING
Faculty of Psychology - University of Lisbon
2010-2014
Courses: Methods of Research in Psychology, Topics of Memory, Social Cognition, Themes of
Social Psychology.
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Institute of Education - University of Lisbon
2010-2011
Doctoral Program
Course: Advanced Experimental Designs
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ISPA – Superior Institute of Applied Psychology, Lisbon
2009-2010
Doctoral Program
Course: Experimental Designs
ISPA – Superior Institute of Applied Psychology, Lisbon
Assistant Professor
Course: Cognitive Psychology I
2004-2006
AWARDS AND HONORS
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Portuguese Science Foundation
2010
R & D Project, Portuguese Science Foundation ((€ 39.000, member)
2010
Title: "Spontaneous trait inferences in context: Proposal of a new theoretical framework".
(PTDC/PSI-PSO/117009/2010)
Scientific Meeting Grant, Gulbenkian Foundation
2008
Doctoral Fellowship, Portuguese Science Foundation
2004
LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES
Meetings Organization
3th Lisbon Heidelberg Conjoint Labtmeeting. Heidelberg, Germany.
Transfer of Knowledge Conference. Estoril, Portugal.
Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology. Lisbon, Portugal.
6th European Social Cognition Network Meeting. Lisbon, Portugal.
2013
2012
2012
2004
PUBLICATIONS
Reis, J., Ramos., T., Ferreira, M., & Orghian, D. (in prep.). Portuguese norms for behaviors and
implied traits.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D., Uleman, J., & Ferreira, M. (in prep.).
Spontaneous trait inferences from a “minimalist” perspective: An integrative review.
Ramos, T. Oliveira, M., Santos, A. S., Garcia-Marques, & L. Carneiro, P. (under review).
Evaluating Young and Old Faces on Social Dimensions: Trustworthiness and Dominance.
Santos, A. S., Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., & Carneiro, P. (under review). Beyond mere
repetition: Inhibitory processes affect the “Truth Effect”.
Ramos, T. Garcia-Marques, L., Uleman, J., & Santos, A. S. (under review). A Face-Priming
Test of Spontaneous Trait Inferences: Faces Activate Traits Implied by Prior Behaviors.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Santos, A. S., & Carneiro, P. (2015). Stimulus-Response
Bindings in the Go/NoGo Task: Effects on the Judged Typicality of Stimuli. Experimental
Psychology.
Orghian, D., Ramos, T., Rato, L. T., Nunes, C., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2014). [The phenomena
of Spontaneous Inferences and Transfer of Traits: What they are, where they came from,
where they go?]. Os fenómenos das Inferências e Transferências Espontâneas de Traço: O
que são, de onde vieram, para onde vão?. Revista PSICOLOGIA, 28(1), 83-95.
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Ramos, T., Orghian, D., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2013). [Spontaneous trait inferences: The four
key paradigms]. Inferências espontâneas de traço: Os quatro paradigmas-chave. Laboratório
de Psicologia, 10(2), 299-312.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D., Van Acker, K., & Ferreira., M (2012). What I
infer depends on who you are: The influence of stereotypes on trait and situational
spontaneous inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(6), 1247-1256.
Carneiro, P., Fernandez, A., Diez, E, Garcia-Marques, L, Ramos, T., & Ferreira, M. (2012).
“Identify-to-reject”: A specific strategy to avoid false memories in the DRM paradigm.
Memory & Cognition, 40(2), 1-12.
Ferreira, M., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D., Ramos, T., Uleman, J. & Jerónimo, R (2012).
On The Relation between Spontaneous Trait Inferences and Intentional Inferences: An
Activation-Monitoring Hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1-12.
Ramos, T. & Garcia-Marques, L. (2011). [Tell me what you do, I’ll tell you who you
are…Spontaneous Trait Inferences]. Diz-me o que fazes, dir-te-ei quem és...Inferências de
Traços de Personalidade. Revista In-Mind.
Carneiro, P., Ramos, T., Costa, R. S., & Albuquerque. (2011). [Identifiability of the themes of
lists formed by backward association: Contributions to the study of false memories].
Identificabilidade dos temas de listas formadas por associação retrógrada (backward):
contributos para o estudo das memórias falsas. Laboratório de Psicologia, 1(9).
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D., & Jerónimo, R. (2009). [n contrast to the
expected assimilation: accessibility effects in social judgemnts].Em contraste com a
assimilação esperada: efeitos da acessibilidade nos julgamentos social. In Percursos de
Investigação em Psicologia Social e Organizacional, Vol. III (pp. 71-86). Lisboa: Edições
Colibri.
Ramos, T. & Garcia-Marques, L. (2006). [When an action allows different interpretations: Pretest of ambiguous behaviors]. Quando uma acção permite diferentes interpretaçãoes: Préteste de comportamentos ambíguos. Laboratório de Psicologia, 4 (1), 45-63.
Ramos, T. (2010). A Flexible View of Spontaneous Trait Inferences. (Unpublished doctoral
dissertation). ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal.
PRESENTATIONS
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L. Uleman, J. (September, 2015). A face-priming test of
spontaneous trait inferences: Targets of STI serve as primes for new faces. Person Memory
Interest group. Denver, Colorado, USA.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L. Uleman, J. (May, 2015). The face-priming effect: Targets of
spontaneous trait inferences serve as primes for new faces. Poster presented at
27th APS Annual Convention. New York, USA.
Garcia-Marques, L., Ramos, T., Santos , S., Carneiro, P. (May, 2015). Selection processes
affect judgments of typicality. Poster presented at 27th APS Annual Convention. New York,
USA.
Ferreira, M., Loureiro, C., Santos, A. S., Ramos, T. Garcia-Marques, L., & Carneiro, P.
(December, 2014). Influência da selecção atencional na informatividade e valência afectiva.
Poster presented at 3ºSeminário Pedagógico de Investigação em Psicologia. FPUL. Lisbon,
Portugal.
Ferreira, M., Loureiro, C., Santos, A. S., Ramos, T. Garcia-Marques, L., & Carneiro, P. (May,
2014). Attentional selection influence on informativeness and affective valence. Poster
presented at X Encontro de Investigação em Psicologia Social e das Organizações. Lisbon,
Portugal.
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Ramos, T. (February, 2014). Spontaneous Trait Inferences: Debates and new approaches.
Invited Speaker. Communication presented at Ciclo de Conferências ISPA. Lisbon, Portugal.
Ramos, T. Garcia-Marques, L., Santos, A. S., Carneiro, P. (Jully, 2013). Are inhibited items
judged as less typical? Testing the diagnostic-devaluation hypothesis. Communication to be
presented at the 12th European Social Cognition Network Conference. Vilnius, Lithuania.
Jerónimo, R., Ramos, T. Clérigo, T. & Ferreira, M. (Jully, 2013). When the behavior gets in the
way: The incongruency as a limit to spontaneous trait transference. Communication to be
presented at the 12th European Social Cognition Network Conference. Vilnius, Lithuania.
Clérigo, T., Jerónimo, R., Ramos, T., & Ferreira, M. B. (June, 2013). Mark my personality:
traits transfer of a brand to an actor and limitations of their occurrence. Poster presented at
the VIII National Symposium of Psychology Research, Aveiro, Portugal.
Ramos, T. & Garcia-Marques. L. (June, 2013). Spontaneous trait inferences from the
perspective of the language literature: An integrative view and a new proposal.
Communication presented at the VIII National Symposium of Psychology Research, Aveiro,
Portugal.
Garcia-Marques. L., Ramos, T, & Uleman, J. (June, 2013). Differences that make a difference:
Exploring the interaction between automatic and controlled processes in spontaneous trait
inferences. Communication presented at the VIII National Symposium of Psychology
Research, Aveiro, Portugal.
Reis, J., Garcia-Marques, L., Ferreira, M., Ramos, T., & Orghian, D. (June, 2013). The Stroop
effect and spontaneous trait inferences: proposal for a new paradigm. Communication
presented at the VIII National Symposium of Psychology Research, Aveiro, Portugal.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Santos, A. S., & Carneiro, P. (April, 2013). Is ignored
information judged as less typical? The diagnostic-devaluation hypothesis. Communication
presented at the 3rd Lisbon-Heidelberg Social Cognition Joint Labmeeting.
Nunes, L., Garcia-Marques, L., Ferreira. M., Ramos, T. (2012, March). Centrality effect: From
organization in memory to impression formation. Communication presented at the 7º
Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental.
Ramos, T., Ferreira, M., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D., Uleman, J., & Jerónimo, R. (2012,
March). How intentional personality inferences differ from spontaneous inferences? An
inference monitoring hypothesis. Communication presented at the 7º Encontro Nacional da
Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental.
Carneiro, P., Fernandez, A. Diez, E., Garcia-Marques, L., Ramos, T., Ferreira, M.
(2011,August). “Identify-to-reject”: How to avoid false memories in the DRM paradigm.
Communication presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory. York, UK.
Jerónimo, R., Ferreira, M., & Ramos, T. (2010, September). When the bystander target has a
word to say: The role of expectancies on spontaneous trait transferences. Communication
presented at the 12th European Social Cognition Network Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D., & Ferreira, M. (2010, February). Inferring traits
from behaviors: Impact of previous behavioral information on Spontaneous Trait Inferences.
Communication presented at the VII National Symposium of Psychology Research, Braga,
Portugal.
Ferreira, M., Garcia-Marques, L., Ramos, T., & Hamilton, D. (2010, February). The relation
between Spontaneous and Intentional Trait Inferences: New data in favor of the ActivationMonitorization Hypothesis. Communication presented at the VII National Symposium of
Psychology Research, Braga, Portugal.
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Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D., & Ferreira, M. (2010, January). The need for
coherence: How previous actor's behaviors influence spontaneous trait inferences.
Communication to be presented at the 11th Annual SPSP Conference. Las Vegas, USA.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D. (2009, May). Testing the influence of behavioral
information on spontaneous trait inferences occurrence. Communication presented at the V
PhD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology, Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon,
Portugal.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D. (2009, April). When is the "acting" considered
"being"? Exploring the flexibility of spontaneous trait inferences. Communication presented
at the 4th Meeting of the Portuguese Assotiation of Experimental Psychology, ISPA, Lisbon,
Portugal.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D. (2009, February). The Contextual-Dependent
nature of spontaneous trait inferences. Communication presented at the 10th SPSP
Conference , Tampa (Florida), USA.
Ferreira, M., Garcia-Marques, L., Ramos, T., Hamilton, D. (2009, February). On the relation
between spontaneous trait inferences and intentional inferences: An activation-monitoring
hypothesis. Communication presented at the 10th SPSP Conference , Tampa (Florida), USA.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D. (2008, September). Not so Spontaneous...Testing
the flexibility of Spontaneous Trait Inferences. Communication presented at the 10th
European Social Cognition Network, Volterra, Italy.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D. (2008, June). The flexibility of spontaneous trait
inferences: Stereotypes inhibit incongruent trait inferences but foster alternative inferences.
Communication presented at the 15th General Meeting of the European Association of
Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia.
Garcia-Marques, L., Ramos, T., Hamilton, D. (2008, June). Are spontaneous trait inferences
spontaneously used as retrieval cues? Differences between spontaneous and intentional
retrieval inferences. Communication presented at the 15th General Meeting of the European
Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D. (2007, June). Assimilation and contrast in the
impression formation domain: Exploring the cognitive mechanisms underlying priming
effects. Communication presented at the Cognitio 2007, Montreal, Canada.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., Hamilton, D., & Jerónimo, R. (2007, March). Assimilation
and contrast effects in the impression formation. Communication presented at the IV Social
and Organizational Psychology Research Meeting, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., & Hamilton, D. (2006, November). Unconscious processes in
impression formation: extending the TRAP model to the implicit domain. Communication
presented at the VI National Symposium of Psychology Research, Évora, Portugal.
Ramos, T, & Garcia-Marques, L. (2006, September). Frequency estimates and indirect
measures in impression formation: are we using the same underlying process?
Communication presented at the 8th European Social Cognition Network, Pultusk, Poland.
Ramos, T., Hamilton, D., Garcia-Marques, L., Garrido, M. & Low, S. (2004, September).
Heuristic and non-heuristic frequency estimation about groups. Communication presented at
the 6th European Social Cognition Network, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ramos, T., Gouveia, A., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2003, October). False memories and false
personality impressions. Communication presented at the V National Symposium of
Psychology Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
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WORK AS ADVISER
Marques, J. (currently). Spontaneous Trait Inferences, counterfactual Thoughts and blame
attributions. PhD student. (Advisers: C. Quelhas & T. Ramos).
Jiang, C. (currently). How In-group/Out-group Bias Influence STIs. Master Thesis. (Advisers:
T. Ramos & J. Uleman).
Deodato, S. (currently). Testing the trait brand transference from actors to brands. . Master
Thesis. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL (Advisers: Rita Jerónimo & Tânia
Ramos)
Ferreira, M. (2015). Effects of attentional selection on judgments of truth. . Master Thesis.
Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa. (Advisers: Ana Sofia Santos & Tania
Ramos)
Anselmo, I. (2014). Trait brand transference from brands and their limits. Master Thesis
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL (Advisers: Rita Jerónimo & Tânia Ramos)
Loureiro, C. (2014). Exploring the dispositional nature of Spontaneous Trait Inferences with a
face priming paradigm. . Master Thesis. Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa.
(Advisers: Tânia Ramos & Ana Sofia Santos)
Silva. L. P. (2013). Exploring disposiitonal trait inferences with a reading time task. Master
Thesis. Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa. (Adviser: T. Ramos).
Clérigo, T. (2013). Marca a minha personalidade: transferência de traços de uma marca para um
ator. Master Thesis. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL (Advisers: Rita Jerónimo
& Tânia Ramos).
Raymond, S. (2012-2013). The Process Underlying Spontaneous Trait Inferences: A FacePriming Test of Associative and Attributional Interpretations. Honors Thesis. New York
University. (Advisers: T. Ramos & J. Uleman).
Nunes, C. C. (2012). Processes underlying the spontaneous inferences and transferences
processes. . Master Thesis. Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa. (Advisers: T.
Ramos & L. Garcia-Marques).
Rato, T. P. L. T. (2011). Let’s face it – An analysis of the nature of the effects of inference and
spontaneous transfer of the trait by applying the PDP procedure. . Master Thesis. Faculdade
de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa. (Advisers: L. Garcia-Marques & T. Ramos).
Work as Reviewer
Revista PSICOLOGIA
Análise Psicológica
Laboratório de Psicologia
In-Mind
CogSci Conference 2009
CogSci Conference 2008
MEMBER OF PhD JURY
ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon
Cláudia Patricia Candeias Simão. PhD defense.
December, 2013
Communal Sharing and Gratitude: How They Interrelate.
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