CV Summary

Sofia Jacinto completed her PhD in Social Psychology ("The Clinical Gut: Examining the cognitive processes and neural underpinnings of judgments, feelings of rightness and its impact on information seeking") at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in 2021. Sofia is currently a researcher at Iscte-IUL, CIS-IUL, under the CEEC funding from FCT, and at the Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland working on the development and implementation of online self-help interventions for emotion regulation. Sofia is also an invited assistant professor at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics where she supervises master dissertations on the topics of judgment and decision making in the context of eHealth and well-being. Sofia publishes in international journals and has received 4 awards and/or honors, including a PhD scholarship from FCT, a research grant from Bial Foundation and a CEEC contract from FCT.

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa
CIS-IUL - Portugal - Lisboa
Training Session PhD 2015 - 2021
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Psicologia
Portugal - Lisboa
Integrated M.Sc. Psicologia 2010 - 2015
Research Interests
Clinical Judgment and Decision Making
Social stigma
Clinical Psychology
Empathy
Intuition
Metacognition
Implementation Science
Online Interventions - Mental health
Psychology Social Sciences