Tomás Palma

My research focuses broadly on how social categorization and stereotypes interface with face perception. For example, in one research line I investigate how processing goals and task requirements influence how ingroup and outgroup faces are processed, interpreted and remembered. In another research line, I investigate the contextual malleability of social and non-social categories.

Social categorization, stereotypes, face perception, face memory, impression formation

Ah-hoc reviewer for Acta Psychologica, Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB), Social Cognition

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa

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. Doi: 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, 26, 144-156. Doi: 10.1080/09658211.2017.1335328

Garcia-Marques, L., Santos, A. S., Mackie, D. M., Hagá, S. & Palma, T. A. (2017). Cognitive Malleability and the Wisdom of Independent Aggregation. Psychological Inquiry, 28, 262-267.  Doi: 10.1080/1047840

Weil, R., Palma, T. A., & Gawronski, B. (2017). At the Boundaries of Misattribution:  Does Positivity Influence Judgments of Familiarity in the Affect Misattribution Procedure? Experimental Psychology, 64, 369-386. Doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000379

Palma, T. A., Garrido, M. V., & Semin, G., R. (2014). Situating person memory: The role of the visual context on memory for behavioral information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 52, 32-43. Doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.12.006