Ana Sofia Santos

I am an Associate Professor at FPUL and an integrated member at the CICPSI – ULisboa. I have a background in Social Cognition, with specific training in experimental research and I conduct research in socio-cognitive processes underpinning stereotypes and social categorization. I am particularly interested in how these processes may explain: Stereotype assembling and stereotype consistency overtime on both the individual and the aggregated level; contextual effects on stereotype assembling under manipulation of feedback about consensus information; effects of priming non-related and counter-stereotypic information on stereotype change; and the role of source misattributions and belief illusions; with findings challenging standard theories of associative memory.

I developed my Master and PhD research on these themes and I have authored more than 30 publications as a senior and first author, some of them resulted  from strong collaborations with international scholars and teams (Keith Payne lab, UNC at Chapel Hill; Diane Mackie Social Evaluations and Emotions Lab, UC Santa Barbara; Fabio Fasoli Lab, Surrey University). My studies span also other research area: Intersectionality and minorities in migration contexts. In this research area I presently collaborate in an international research project (RE-PLACE) funded by the European Commission under the Horizon-RIA program, which studies non-metropolitan left behind places through mobility and alternative development, reframing the mixed narratives about these LBAs through the mobilization of participative methodologies and driven by concepts as place attachment and place identity. The project includes the collaboration of 6 international partners, such as University of Bamberg, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Latvia, Romania Academy, University de Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, and IGOT-UL. This axe of my research resulted from a close collaboration, along the years, with other teams belonging to the social sciences strategic area of ULisboa (IGOT, ICS, ISEG, IE and FP), since I took on the role of FPUL coordinator (2016) in the Migration Studies PhD (DeMIG-UL).

Stereotypes and stereotype assembling:

• – Instability and contextual effects on the individual and the aggregated level
• – The role of source monitoring, source misattributions and belief illusions
• – Consistency overtime under feedback about consensus information
• – Priming of non-related and counter-stereotypic information and stereotype change

Intersectionality and minorities – stereotypes in migration contexts
Place attachment and place identity in left behind areas
Perception of power and impression formation

RE-PLACE: REFRAMING NON-METROPOLITAN LEFT BEHIND PLACES THROUGH MOBILITY AND ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT. Financed by [HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-02] — [The impact of spatial mobility on European demographics, society, welfare system and labourmarket].
EU Grants: Application form (HE RIA/IA): V1.2 – 25.05.2021.

On becoming an expert: A continuous training method to improve memory for cross-race faces. Financiamento do Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica (CICPSI) – Concurso Interno para Projetos de Investigação.
Proponent: Tomás A. Palma (FP-UL). Colaborators: Leonel Garcia-Marques (FP-UL), Joana Quarenta (FP-UL), Ana Sofia Santos (FP-UL), Ana Luísa Raposo (FP-UL)

Member of the research team of the project “Interactions between retrieval and present or subsequent learning” (2015-219). FCT (PTDC/MHC-PCN/1267/2014)

Reese, J., Santos, A. S., Palma, T.A., & Roberto, M.S. (2023). Triggering competence may protect multiple minority members from hiring discrimination. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-02379-2.

Reese, J., Santos, A. S., & Palma, T.A. (2023). A case of ‘de-immigrantization’: When sexual minority individuals lose immigrant status. Current Psychology. DOI: 10.1007/s12144-023-05142-7.

Cruz, F.; Palma, T.A.; Bansemer, E.; Correll, J.; Fonseca, S.; Gonçalves, P.; Santos, A. S. (2023). Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of Hugenberg et al. (2007). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 104 (104423). DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104423.

Nascimento, P., Roberto, M., S., Lemos, M., Poole-da-Costa, M. C., & Santos, A. S. (2023). Employability narratives in digital storytelling: Do overqualified Brazilian and Venezuelan immigrants in Portugal tell the same story? Qualitative Research in Psychology, 21(1), 140 – 174. DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2023.2293078.

Nascimento, P., Roberto, M., & Santos, A.S. (2021). Validation of the Personal Social Capital Scale-16 in Portugal: Preliminary data on Portuguese and Immigrants. Health Promotion International. DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daab022.

Orghian, D., de Almeida, F., Jacinto, S., Garcia-Marques, L & Santos, A.S. (2018). How your power affects my impression of you. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 00(0), 1-15. DOI: 10.1177/0146167218788558.

Palma, T.A., Santos, A.S., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2018). Off The Top of My Head: Malleability and Stability in Natural Categories. Acta Psychologica, 185, 104-115. 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.02.002.

Palma, T.A., Santos, A.S., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2018). The future is now: The impact of present fluency in judgments about the future. Memory, 8, 1-10. 10.1080/09658211.2017.1335328.

Garcia-Marques, L., Santos, A.S., Hagá, S., Palma, T.A., & Mackie, D.M. (2017). Cognitive malleability and the wisdom of independent aggregation. Psychological Inquiry, 28(4), 262-267. DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2017.1373558.

Santos, A.S., Ramos, T., Garcia-Marques, L., & Carneiro, P. (2017). “To-be-forgotten” statements become less true: Memory processes involved in selection and forgetting lead to truthfulness changes of ambiguous sentences. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 58(3), 205-210. DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12365.

Santos, A. S., Garcia-Marques, L., Mackie, D., Costa, R.S., Palma, T.A., & de Almeida, F. (2017). Something in the way you primed me: Belief monitoring when source identification is not possible. Social Cognition, 35 (3), 273-298. DOI: 10.1521/soco.2017.35.3.273.

Santos, A. S., Garcia-Marques, L., Mackie, D., Ferreira, M., Payne, B.K., & Moreira, S. (2012). Implicit Open-Mindedness: Evidence for and limits on stereotype malleability. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1257-1266. DOI: 10.1016/J.JESP.2012.05.013.

Garcia-Marques, L., Santos, A. S., & Mackie, D. M. (2006). Stereotypes: Static abstractions or dynamic knowledge structures? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(5), 814-831. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.5.814.