Diana Orghian

Diana Orghian did her Ph.D. in Social Cognition, at School of Psychology, University of Lisbon. Her doctoral research was done in collaboration with Leonel Garcia-Marques, Jim Uleman, Dietmar Heinke, and Tânia Ramos. Currently, Diana is a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, where she is collaborating with Cesar Hidalgo.

Social Psychology: Spontaneous Trait Inferences, Attractiveness Perception in Faces, Perception of Social Power in others; Memory and Forgetting: intentional memorization and forgetting; Social Perception in Digital and Online environments: Face Perception, Perception and Correction of Fake Behavioral Information regarding.

Interactions between retrieval and present or subsequent learning (PTDC/MHC PCN/1267/2014)

Orghian, D., Garcia-Marques, L., Marques, P., & Braga, J. (2018). Memory and conceptual learning of relevant and non-relevant items in item-method directed forgetting. Memory. Doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1441424

Orghian, D., Ramos, T., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2018). You are cruel even if he did it: behavior and face processing in spontaneous trait inference and transference. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 40, 104-114. Doi: 10.1080/01973533.2018.1436056 

Orghian, D., Ramos, T., Reis, J., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2018). Acknowledging the role of word-based activation in Spontaneous Trait Inferences. Análise Psicológica, 36, 115-131. Doi: 10.14417/ap.1319

Orghian, D., Smith, A., Garcia-Marques, L., & Heinke, D. (2017). Capturing spontaneous trait inferences with the modified word association task. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 243-258. Doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.07.004

Orghian, D., Garcia-Marques, L., Uleman, J., & Heinke, D. (2015). A Connectionist model of spontaneous trait inference and spontaneous trait transference: Do they have the same underlying processes? Social Cognition, 33, 20-66. DOI: 10.1521/soco.2015.33.1.20