Ana Sofia Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3882564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Sofia Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana Sofia |
| FAMILY NAME | Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4954-483X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Meaningful ties
Social networks are key social determinants of migrants’ health, yet they remain understudied despite undergoing significant changes in composition and structure throughout the migration process. This study explores how migrants’ health-specific social networks evolve, focusing on tie strength (weak vs. strong) and structural holes (efficiency and constraint). A mixed-methods longitudinal diary study was conducted online with a convenience sample…
Does voice signal sexual orientation? Testing the gaydar accuracy, masculinity and femininity of Portuguese and Brazilian men based on vocal stimuli / ¿La voz indica la orientación sexual? Prueba de l…
This project examined the categorizations of individuals based on their voices. Specifically, we recorded the voices of 24 men belonging to the intersecting social categories of nationality (i.e., Portuguese and Brazilian) and sexual orientation (i.e., straight or gay). In Study 1, Portuguese and Brazilian listeners ( n = 75) evaluated speakers on the strength of their perceived nationality and sexual orientation. Results indicated participants w…
Reframing Relational Space. Migration from the Perspective of Those ‘Who Stay’
Migratory research projects are increasingly concerned with bringing together those ‘who go’ and those ‘who stay’, considering the impact of living in transnational family relationships. The perception and use of space have moved between digital and face-to-face spaces in the management of these dynamics. Considering that Portugal has both a high rate of ageing and a high number of young adult emigrants, it is important to explore how parental fi…
Can Speaking English Negatively Impact Non-Native Speakers? Investigating the Vocal Cross-Categorizations and Evaluations of Majority and Minority Members Across Language and Accent in a Non-English-S…
Individuals are quickly categorized as members of a group (e.g., national, migrants) based on their standard or nonstandard accent. However, this has usually been studied in the context of the native language, and less is known about accent-based categorization when individuals speak a second language. In this research, we tested whether speaking in Portuguese or English would influence Portuguese participants’ evaluations and recall of Portugues…
Solidarity Typologies in Dynamics Between Portuguese Emigrants and Their Parents
Motivations for migratory movements tend to be contextualised at an individual level and refer to opportunities related to the country of destination. In the Portuguese context, this view is increasingly limited when we analyse the emigration of young adults since this process directly involves family figures in the country of origin, as they tend to be the first source of support. This paper aims to explore the dimensions of intergenerational so…
Engaging in counterstereotypical behaviours shifts the perceived masculinity or femininity of men and women, regardless of sexual orientation
Examining the Impact of Social and Perceptual Encoding Strategies on the Cross‐Race Recognition Deficit
The cross‐race recognition deficit (CRD) involves poorer recognition of faces perceived as cross‐race compared to faces perceived as the same race. In this literature, research has examined social and perceptual encoding in the CRD separately. Recent research comparing these strategies shows that encoding faces based on social information (personality traits) enhances face recognition relative to encoding faces based on perceptual information (fa…
Ambivalence and transnational intergenerational solidarity
Existing literature has highlighted solidarity across generations as a crucial mechanism for transfers and maintaining cohesion within families. However, researching solidarity across generations among transnational families is still an underexplored area, especially from the viewpoint of highly skilled female migrants. This study explored the way highly educated Portuguese adult daughters, living transnationally, perceive the existing solidarity…
A case of ‘de-immigrantization’
Individuals generally hold multiple, and sometimes stereotypically contrasted, group memberships which may change depending on uncontrollable contextual factors. For instance, if someone is a foreigner, there exist certain social stereotypes regarding their nationality which may influence others’ conceptualizations. However, how might an intersection of memberships, such as being both foreign and gay, affect natives’ perceptions of them when thes…
Triggering competence may protect multiple minority members from hiring discrimination
Hiring managers may consider hundreds of applicants for one position, leading to rapid decisions based on minimal information which may discriminate against certain individuals. However, past research shows that individuals belonging to multiple minority groups may, in fact, benefit from their intersectional status in certain contexts. First, to identify possible types of prejudice, the Attitudes Toward Gay Men (ATG) and Attitudes Toward Brazilia…
Behavioral descriptions pretested for racial stereotypicality and valence
In social psychology research, there are several kinds of stereotypical materials that can be used – faces, videos, lists of words, attributes. However, when it comes to behavioral sentences, there is a lack of pre-tested racial stimuli available in the literature. To fill the gap, this paper provides two lists of 154 short behavioral sentences, with stereotypicality (white to black) and valence (negative to positive) ratings. The first list was …
Dating Conflict-Resolution Tactics and Exposure to Family Violence
An increasing prevalence of abusive dynamics in intimate relationships among young people has been reported in recent data. The purposes of this study are to outline the conflict-resolution strategies used in dating relationships, to describe the exposure to violent dynamics in the family of origin, and to analyse the correlation between conflict-resolution tactics in dating and exposure to family violence. This quantitative/cross-sectional study…
Employability narratives in digital storytelling
Migration has been steadily increasing worldwide, bringing with it precarious work conditions and the issue of overqualification, having repercussions on job satisfaction and the mental health of migrants. This study explores digital storytelling (DST) as a tool to promote debate on those issues among immigrant workers and potentiate soft skills valued in the job market. A threeday DST workshop and focus group with 7 semi and skilled Brazilian an…
Disentangling perceptions of social support and social capital as social determinants of mental health
Social network changes may occur during disruptive events (e.g., COVID-19), especially with immigrants who need to rebuild networks, undermining their mental health. Study 1 (N =18) investigates immigrants' perceived changes before and during the pandemic in their networks, mental health, social support and social capital. Study 2 (N =53) examines the same in a sample of non-migrants. Convenience samples were collected online between July and Nov…
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of
Behavior as a stereotype cue
When it comes to the study of stereotypes, plenty of material can be of use. While personality traits tend to be the most commonly adopted, behavioral information can also be relevant, both in the study of stereotypes, as well as in other research fields (e.g., illusory correlations, memory and judgement and decision making). The purpose of this paper was to create a readily available list of behavioral sentences with stereotypicality ratings for…
Generation and testing of emergent traits in composite professional stereotypes
Somos frequentemente confrontados com pessoas que fazem parte de múltiplas categorias, por vezes com implicações que conflictuam no que respeita aos estereótipos que lhes estão associados. Investigação anterior demonstra que, quando são gerados atributos para estereótipos compósitos, são criados os chamados atributos novos e emergentes. Estes parecem derivar do conhecimento acerca das categorias constituintes, mas também do conhecimento acerca do…
The cultural stereotype of professional groups
The purpose of the present work was to measure the stereotypic content of several professional groups in a Portuguese sample, by determining the culturally shared stereotypic attributes, their accessibility and typicality. Study 1 used a spontaneous attribute-generation-task to collect the stereotypic content of 28 professional groups. The frequency of generation was used to measure consensus on the attributes generated. The order of generated at…
À semelhança do estudo de Chase e Simon
Psicoterapeutas de orientação com diferentes graus de experiência, foram sujeitos, uns à condição de dois casos clínicos típicos e outros à condição de dois casos clínicos atípicos. Todos os psicoterapeutas foram confrontados com dias tarefas: (1) avaliação diagnóstica, e (2) tarefa de memória em que reconheciam a informação contida nos casos, depois de os terem visto separadamente durante seis minutos (para cada um). Os resultados mais important…
Sobre o choro
O choro tem sido vastamente estudado como indicador de diagnóstico de desordens de foro neurológico. Contudo, os contributos dos teóricos preocupados com a interacção mãe-bebé sugerem, ainda que indirectamente, a importância desta manifestação – choro– no contexto da relação entre o bebé e uma figura privilegiada. Lebovici sublinha, aliás, a importância do choro neste contexto quando diz: «basta imaginar o que seria a tarefa dos pais na ausência …
Implicit open-mindedness
Stereotypes
Stereotypes have been assumed to be long-lasting knowledge structures that persist even in the face of contrary evidence. However, there is almost no within-participant research relevant to this assumption. The authors describe 4 studies (N=267), the first 3 of which assessed within-participant stereotype stability over a few weeks with measures of stereotypic trait verification, typicality ratings of exemplar sets, and exemplar retrieval. In the…
Sobre imagens mentais e representações visuo-espaciais de objectos e ambientes
O papel funcional das imagens mentais e das representações visuoespaciais na memória tem sido documentado desde o tempo da Grécia antiga. Contudo, só recentemente, através da investigação em psicologia cognitiva, as propriedades das representações visuo-espaciais e os mecanismos pelos quais elas medeiam o desempenho da memória foram elucidados. Uma das conclusões centrais da presente revisão é que as representações visuo-espaciais fornecem um for…
Stereotypes
Stereotypes have been assumed to be long-lasting knowledge structures that persist even in the face of contrary evidence. However, there is almost no within-participant research relevant to this assumption. The authors describe 4 studies (N=267), the first 3 of which assessed within-participant stereotype stability over a few weeks with measures of stereotypic trait verification, typicality ratings of exemplar sets, and exemplar retrieval. In the…
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of
Implicit open-mindedness
Sobre imagens mentais e representações visuo-espaciais de objectos e ambientes
O papel funcional das imagens mentais e das representações visuoespaciais na memória tem sido documentado desde o tempo da Grécia antiga. Contudo, só recentemente, através da investigação em psicologia cognitiva, as propriedades das representações visuo-espaciais e os mecanismos pelos quais elas medeiam o desempenho da memória foram elucidados. Uma das conclusões centrais da presente revisão é que as representações visuo-espaciais fornecem um for…
Stereotypes
Stereotypes have been assumed to be long-lasting knowledge structures that persist even in the face of contrary evidence. However, there is almost no within-participant research relevant to this assumption. The authors describe 4 studies (N=267), the first 3 of which assessed within-participant stereotype stability over a few weeks with measures of stereotypic trait verification, typicality ratings of exemplar sets, and exemplar retrieval. In the…
Sobre o choro
O choro tem sido vastamente estudado como indicador de diagnóstico de desordens de foro neurológico. Contudo, os contributos dos teóricos preocupados com a interacção mãe-bebé sugerem, ainda que indirectamente, a importância desta manifestação – choro– no contexto da relação entre o bebé e uma figura privilegiada. Lebovici sublinha, aliás, a importância do choro neste contexto quando diz: «basta imaginar o que seria a tarefa dos pais na ausência …
Implicit open-mindedness
À semelhança do estudo de Chase e Simon
Psicoterapeutas de orientação com diferentes graus de experiência, foram sujeitos, uns à condição de dois casos clínicos típicos e outros à condição de dois casos clínicos atípicos. Todos os psicoterapeutas foram confrontados com dias tarefas: (1) avaliação diagnóstica, e (2) tarefa de memória em que reconheciam a informação contida nos casos, depois de os terem visto separadamente durante seis minutos (para cada um). Os resultados mais important…
The cultural stereotype of professional groups
The purpose of the present work was to measure the stereotypic content of several professional groups in a Portuguese sample, by determining the culturally shared stereotypic attributes, their accessibility and typicality. Study 1 used a spontaneous attribute-generation-task to collect the stereotypic content of 28 professional groups. The frequency of generation was used to measure consensus on the attributes generated. The order of generated at…
Generation and testing of emergent traits in composite professional stereotypes
Somos frequentemente confrontados com pessoas que fazem parte de múltiplas categorias, por vezes com implicações que conflictuam no que respeita aos estereótipos que lhes estão associados. Investigação anterior demonstra que, quando são gerados atributos para estereótipos compósitos, são criados os chamados atributos novos e emergentes. Estes parecem derivar do conhecimento acerca das categorias constituintes, mas também do conhecimento acerca do…
Behavior as a stereotype cue
When it comes to the study of stereotypes, plenty of material can be of use. While personality traits tend to be the most commonly adopted, behavioral information can also be relevant, both in the study of stereotypes, as well as in other research fields (e.g., illusory correlations, memory and judgement and decision making). The purpose of this paper was to create a readily available list of behavioral sentences with stereotypicality ratings for…
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of
Triggering competence may protect multiple minority members from hiring discrimination
Hiring managers may consider hundreds of applicants for one position, leading to rapid decisions based on minimal information which may discriminate against certain individuals. However, past research shows that individuals belonging to multiple minority groups may, in fact, benefit from their intersectional status in certain contexts. First, to identify possible types of prejudice, the Attitudes Toward Gay Men (ATG) and Attitudes Toward Brazilia…
Behavioral descriptions pretested for racial stereotypicality and valence
In social psychology research, there are several kinds of stereotypical materials that can be used – faces, videos, lists of words, attributes. However, when it comes to behavioral sentences, there is a lack of pre-tested racial stimuli available in the literature. To fill the gap, this paper provides two lists of 154 short behavioral sentences, with stereotypicality (white to black) and valence (negative to positive) ratings. The first list was …
Dating Conflict-Resolution Tactics and Exposure to Family Violence
An increasing prevalence of abusive dynamics in intimate relationships among young people has been reported in recent data. The purposes of this study are to outline the conflict-resolution strategies used in dating relationships, to describe the exposure to violent dynamics in the family of origin, and to analyse the correlation between conflict-resolution tactics in dating and exposure to family violence. This quantitative/cross-sectional study…
Employability narratives in digital storytelling
Migration has been steadily increasing worldwide, bringing with it precarious work conditions and the issue of overqualification, having repercussions on job satisfaction and the mental health of migrants. This study explores digital storytelling (DST) as a tool to promote debate on those issues among immigrant workers and potentiate soft skills valued in the job market. A threeday DST workshop and focus group with 7 semi and skilled Brazilian an…
Disentangling perceptions of social support and social capital as social determinants of mental health
Social network changes may occur during disruptive events (e.g., COVID-19), especially with immigrants who need to rebuild networks, undermining their mental health. Study 1 (N =18) investigates immigrants' perceived changes before and during the pandemic in their networks, mental health, social support and social capital. Study 2 (N =53) examines the same in a sample of non-migrants. Convenience samples were collected online between July and Nov…
Ambivalence and transnational intergenerational solidarity
Existing literature has highlighted solidarity across generations as a crucial mechanism for transfers and maintaining cohesion within families. However, researching solidarity across generations among transnational families is still an underexplored area, especially from the viewpoint of highly skilled female migrants. This study explored the way highly educated Portuguese adult daughters, living transnationally, perceive the existing solidarity…
A case of ‘de-immigrantization’
Individuals generally hold multiple, and sometimes stereotypically contrasted, group memberships which may change depending on uncontrollable contextual factors. For instance, if someone is a foreigner, there exist certain social stereotypes regarding their nationality which may influence others’ conceptualizations. However, how might an intersection of memberships, such as being both foreign and gay, affect natives’ perceptions of them when thes…
Solidarity Typologies in Dynamics Between Portuguese Emigrants and Their Parents
Motivations for migratory movements tend to be contextualised at an individual level and refer to opportunities related to the country of destination. In the Portuguese context, this view is increasingly limited when we analyse the emigration of young adults since this process directly involves family figures in the country of origin, as they tend to be the first source of support. This paper aims to explore the dimensions of intergenerational so…
Engaging in counterstereotypical behaviours shifts the perceived masculinity or femininity of men and women, regardless of sexual orientation
Examining the Impact of Social and Perceptual Encoding Strategies on the Cross‐Race Recognition Deficit
The cross‐race recognition deficit (CRD) involves poorer recognition of faces perceived as cross‐race compared to faces perceived as the same race. In this literature, research has examined social and perceptual encoding in the CRD separately. Recent research comparing these strategies shows that encoding faces based on social information (personality traits) enhances face recognition relative to encoding faces based on perceptual information (fa…
Meaningful ties
Social networks are key social determinants of migrants’ health, yet they remain understudied despite undergoing significant changes in composition and structure throughout the migration process. This study explores how migrants’ health-specific social networks evolve, focusing on tie strength (weak vs. strong) and structural holes (efficiency and constraint). A mixed-methods longitudinal diary study was conducted online with a convenience sample…
Does voice signal sexual orientation? Testing the gaydar accuracy, masculinity and femininity of Portuguese and Brazilian men based on vocal stimuli / ¿La voz indica la orientación sexual? Prueba de l…
This project examined the categorizations of individuals based on their voices. Specifically, we recorded the voices of 24 men belonging to the intersecting social categories of nationality (i.e., Portuguese and Brazilian) and sexual orientation (i.e., straight or gay). In Study 1, Portuguese and Brazilian listeners ( n = 75) evaluated speakers on the strength of their perceived nationality and sexual orientation. Results indicated participants w…
Reframing Relational Space. Migration from the Perspective of Those ‘Who Stay’
Migratory research projects are increasingly concerned with bringing together those ‘who go’ and those ‘who stay’, considering the impact of living in transnational family relationships. The perception and use of space have moved between digital and face-to-face spaces in the management of these dynamics. Considering that Portugal has both a high rate of ageing and a high number of young adult emigrants, it is important to explore how parental fi…
Can Speaking English Negatively Impact Non-Native Speakers? Investigating the Vocal Cross-Categorizations and Evaluations of Majority and Minority Members Across Language and Accent in a Non-English-S…
Individuals are quickly categorized as members of a group (e.g., national, migrants) based on their standard or nonstandard accent. However, this has usually been studied in the context of the native language, and less is known about accent-based categorization when individuals speak a second language. In this research, we tested whether speaking in Portuguese or English would influence Portuguese participants’ evaluations and recall of Portugues…
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Portuguese (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)