Carolina Santos holds a degree in Psychological Sciences from ISPA-Instituto Universitário (Portugal) and has a Masters in Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal), having obtained an FCT grant (SFRH/BD/138705/2018) in a national call.

She participated in several research projects as an intern at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (‘Constructing Social Minds: Communication and Cultural Transmission’, Josep Call), and at ISCTE-IUL (‘Dad’s Involvement: is it just “cool and trendy” or does it really matter’, Lígia Monteiro), and as a research assistant and at the University of Dundee (‘Cultural differences in the development of self-consciousness’, Josephine Ross). As a result of these participations she presented papers in scientific meetings of the area.

Her research interests focus on the evolution of parental care, especially on the role of the father in child development, from a comparative perspective. Her current thesis focuses on parental involvement and its implications for the child’s socio-emotional development, as part of the project ‘Dad’s Involvement: is it just “cool and trendy” or does it really matter’ (Lígia Monteiro).