Curriculum Vitae - Faculdade de Psicologia

João Pedro Niza Braga
Curriculum Vitae
November, 2015
Education
2011 - 2015 – PhD in Psychology - Social Cognition, University of Lisbon.
Advisor: Mário B. Ferreira (University of Lisbon) & Co-advisor: Steven J. Sherman
(Indiana University).
2007 – 2009 – Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia – Secção de Cognição Social
Aplicada (equivalent to Master in Psychology; specialization in Social Cognition)
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa – Faculty
of Psychology University of Lisbon
2004 – 2007 – Licenciatura em Ciências Psicológicas (equivalent to Bachelor in
Psychological Sciences) Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências de Educação,
Universidade de Lisboa – Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon
2001 - 2004 – High School Studies: Natural/Scientific Area – Escola Secundária de
Santo André, Barreiro (Portugal).
Academic Experience
Sept 2015 – Present – Invited Assistant Professor – Faculty of Psychology –
University of Lisbon.
Sept 2015 – Present – Invited Assistant Professor – Faculty of Human Sciences –
Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon.
Oct 2014 – Dec 2014 – Visiting scholar – New York University. Department of
Psychology. Trope’s Lab. Under supervision of Yaacov Trope.
Apr 2014 – Present – Scientific Secretary for Psicologia –Journal of the
Portuguese Psychological Association (APP).
Sep 2012 – Jul 2013 – Visiting scholar – Indiana University, Bloomington.
Department of psychology and brain sciences. Sherman’s Social Cognition Lab.
Under supervision of Steven J. Sherman.
Mar - Nov 2010 – Research Assistant – ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon) – Project: “Proposal of a
Dual-Process Architecture for Social Cognition”, financed by FCT (Foundation for
Science and Technology) (PTDC/PSI/66864/2006).
Applications & Grants
Jan 2015 – application as principal Investigator for the project call FCT I&D 2015
with the project: How far can intuition go?: Mapping the effects of psychological
distance on decision heuristics and intuitive reasoning. Project ref:
PTDC/MHCPCN/1603/2014. Collaborators: André Mata, Yaakov Trope, Steven
Sherman, & Sofia Jacinto.
PhD grant SFRH/BD/73378/2010 from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
(Foundation for Science and Technology) - FCT (Portugal) – 4 years fellowship.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Review Publications
Braga, J., Mata, A., Sherman, S. J., & Ferreira, M. B. (2015) Motivated reasoning in
the prediction of sports outcomes and the belief in the “hot hand”. (Manuscript
submitted)
Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., Sherman, S. J., & Mata, A. (2015). What’s Next?
Disentangling Availability from Representativeness. (invited for resubmission on
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)
Jacinto, S., Lewis, C., Braga, J., & Scott, K. (2015). An interdisciplinary approach
to understanding clinical judgments. (invited for resubmission on Psychotherapy
Research)
Braga, J., Sherman, S. J., & Ferreira, M. B. (2015). The effects of construal level
on heuristic reasoning: The case of representativeness and availability. Decision.
2(3), 216–227. DOI: 10.1037/dec0000021.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (2013). Disentangling Availability from
Representativeness: Gambler’s Fallacy under pressure. In C. Andrade, J. Garcia, S.
Fernandes, T. Palma, V. H. Silva, P. Castro (Eds.), Research Directions in Social and
Organizational Psychology, (pp. 109-124). Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.
Braga, J., Garcia-Marques, L., & Ferreira, M. B. (2012). Cognição social fora do
laboratório não é peixe fora de água: O caso do efeito de ancoragem. Psicologia.
Lisboa. 141-166.
Social cognition out of the lab is not a fish out of the water: The case of anchoring
effect.
Ongoing research projects
Orghian, D., Garcia-Marques, L. & Braga, J. (in prep). May be you can forget, but
you cannot prevent from learning: Implicit learning in direct forgetting paradigm.
Orghian, D., Braga, J., & Garcia-Marques, L. (in prep). How solving disfluent tasks
lead to positive evaluation and hedonic experience.
Braga, J. (invited paper in prep). The psychology behind “fraudulent” risk decision.
Anatomia do Crime.
Braga, J. (in prep). The effect of psychological distance in the perception of
randomness. (Manuscript in preparation)
Braga, J., & Ferreira, M. (in prep.). Counterfactuals under time-pressure: the role
of availability and representativeness.
Braga, J., Orghian, D., Jacinto, S. & Uleman, J. (in prep.). Temporal asymmetry
when forming impressions about others.
Sutton, R., Braga, J., Lange, J., & Van der Wal, R. (in prep.). The causal reasoning
of conspiracy theories’ believers.
Braga, J., Harvey, A., Lange, J., & Van der Wal, R. (in prep.). The belief in a just
world: Motivational effect or a cognitive bias?
Jacinto, S., Ferreira, M. B., & Braga, J., (in prep.). Clinical Gut: Backward and
forward inferences in psychotherapy.
Braga, J., & Ferreira, M. (in prep.). Not all streaks feel the same: Hot-hand and
sensitivity to base-rates.
Braga, J., & Ferreira, M. (in prep.). Rolling the dice: Reasoning about complex
random mechanisms.
Thesis
Braga, J. (2015). Disentangling the representativeness heuristic from the
availability heuristic. (Doctoral dissertation). Faculty of Psychology, University of
Lisbon, Lisbon.
Braga, J. (2010). O Processo de Ancoragem enquanto activação-monitorização:
Ancoragem sob pressão. (Tese de Mestrado não publicada). Faculdade de Psicologia
da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa.
The Anchoring effect as activation-monitoring: Anchoring under pressure.
(Unpublished Master Thesis). Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon.
Oral Communications
Garcia-Marques, L., Orghian, D., & Braga, J. (2015, November) Maybe you can
forget, but you can’t prevent from learning: Implicit Learning in the Directed
Forgetting Paradigm. Psychonomic Society’s 56th Annual Meeting | Chicago, USA
Braga, J., Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2015, August). Motivated
reasoning in the prediction of sports outcomes and the belief in the “hot hand”. 17th
European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Bensheim,
Germany.
Braga, J. (2015, June). Invited Comment on “O dolo nas decisões de risco (Matos
Viana, 2015) ”. Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2014, May). Predicting complex random
events: The effects of construal level on the predicted outcome of a rolling die. X
Encontro de Investigação em Psicologia Social e das Organizações. ISCTE, Lisboa,
Portugal.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2014, April). Disentangling availability
from representativeness. 9º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de
Psicologia Experimental, Covilhã, Portugal.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2013, August). When availability,
when representativeness: The role of construal levels. 15th European Social
Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Vilnius,Lithuania.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2013, August). What's Next? Disentangling
availability from representativeness. Subjective Probability, Utility, and
Decision Making Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2013, April). Disentangling
Classic Heuristics: How Availability why Representativeness? Biennial Meeting of the
Social Psychologists of Indiana, Bloomington, IN.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2013, February). What's Next?
Disentangling availability from representativeness. Social Seminar, Department of
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (May, 2012). Dissociando
Disponibilidade e Representatividade. Lab Seminar (Prof. Leonel Garcia-Marques),
Faculdade de Psicologia – Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon.
Dissociating availability from representativeness.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (Apr, 2012). Disentangling Availability
from Representativeness: Gambler’s Fallacy under pressure. Lab Seminar (Prof. David
Lagnado), University College of London, London.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (Feb, 2012). Quando
representatividade, quando disponibilidade? A falácia do jogador sob pressão. I
Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa.
When Availability, when Representativeness: Gambler’s Fallacy under pressure.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (May, 2011). Disentangling Availability
from Representativeness: Gambler’s Fallacy under pressure. IV PhD Meeting in Social
and Organizational Psychology, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon.
Braga, J., & Ferreira, M. B. (Oct, 2010). (Re) distinguir as heurísticas da
representatividade e da disponibilidade: Quando representatividade, quando
disponibilidade? I Jornadas de Iniciação à Investigação em Psicologia, Coimbra.
(Re) distinguishing representativeness and availability heuristics: When availability,
when representativeness?
Braga, J., & Palma-Oliveira, J. M. (Oct, 2010). O processo de sobreendividamento:
Uma abordagem socio-cognitiva. I Jornadas de Iniciação à Investigação em Psicologia,
Coimbra.
A social-cognitive approach to the over-indebtedness process.
Braga, J., Soro, J.C., Jesus, L., & Palma-Oliveira; J.M. (Feb, 2010). “Longe da
vista, Longe do Coração”: A teoria dos níveis de construção e a relação entre
percepção de distância, identidade social e entitatividade. VII Simpósio Nacional de
Investigação em Psicologia, Braga.
Far from the view, far from the heart: Construal Level theory and its relation with
distance perception, social identity and entitativity.
Posters in Conferences
Braga, J., Mata, A., Sherman, S. J., Ferreira, M., Zhang, L., Jacinto, S. (2013,
May) Gambler’s Fallacy or Hot-hand? Motivation in predictions of binary events.
Society for the Study of Motivation Conference, Washington, D.C.
Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (December, 2010). Quando
representatividade, quando disponibilidade? A falácia do jogador sob pressão. I
Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa.
When Availability, when Representativeness: Gambler’s Fallacy under pressure.
Braga, J., & Garcia-Marques, L. (December, 2010). O efeito de ancoragem
enquanto activação-monitorização: Ancoragem sob pressão. I Seminário de
Investigação em Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa.
The anchoring effect as activation-monitoring: Anchoring under pressure.
Teaching Experience
Introduction to Statistics – undergraduate program, Lic. in Psychology at Faculty of
Psychology, University of Lisbon
Social Psychology – undergraduate program, Lic. in Psychology at Faculty of
Psychology, University of Lisbon
Judgment and Decision Making – graduate program, Masters in Social Cognition at
Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon
Seminars/Conferences/Workshops
2014 Aug – Summer-school of the European Association of Social Psychology.
Workshop on Social Justice. Lisbon.
2012 May - Demonstrations and training with ERPs. (Prof. Bruce Bartholow) ISCTEIUL. Lisbon
2011 Feb - Interdisciplinary Winter School: Research Methods in Cognitive Studies
(REMICS). Zakopane, Poland.
2009 Nov - 7º European Congress of Community Psychology. Paris, France.
2009 Jan - X Congress of Environmental Psychology – Human Behaviour and Global
Changes. Lisbon, Portugal.
2009 June - Conference “Climatic Changes and International Security” –
Gulbenkian Environmental Program. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon,
Portugal.
2009 Apr – International Seminar: The government of major enterprises, regulation
and consumer interests. Culturgest Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
Non-academic Experience
Dec 2009 - Mar 2010 – Internship at Michael Page (Lisbon) – Human resources
consultant.
Sep 2008 - Jun 2009 – Academic Traineeship - Consultant in Applied, Environmental
and Consumer Psychology – DECO – Portuguese Association for Consumer Defence
(Lisbon).
2008 – 2009 – Marketing and Communication Consultant – Tentações do Gosto ®,
Jacibil Lda (Lisbon).
Experience with Behavioral Studies software – E-Prime, Qualtrics, Opensesame.
Experience with Statistical Analysis software – SPSS, Statistica, Excell
High proficiency in written and spoken English