Francisco Esteves

Full Professor

Francisco Esteves

Full Professor

Bio

Visiting Full Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences at UCP, and director of the PhD program in Psychology: Emotions and Well-being. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Uppsala University, Sweden. He has worked as a lecturer and researcher in Sweden (Uppsala University, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and Mid Sweden University in Östersund), and in Portugal (Universidade Lusófona, ISCTE/IUL, and currently at Universidade Católica Portuguesa). At ISCTE/IUL, he was coordinator of the Center for Research and Social Intervention (CIS-IUL) and director of the master’s program in Psychology of Emotions. At Mid Sweden University, he was director of the Department of Psychology and Social Work and coordinator of the master’s program in Psychology of Emotions. His research has focused primarily on the relationship between emotion and cognition, especially how our emotions and affective states influence our attention. This research, partly integrated into several funded projects, has resulted in the publication of dozens of articles in scientific journals.

Areas of Research:

Psychology

Publications

Paper

Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness

Francisco Esteves (with Petisca, Sofia). 2022. International Journal of Social Robotics

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Workshop "How to write a cover letter"

Francisco Esteves

Francisco Esteves

Bio

Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness

Can you be a follower even when you do not follow the leader? Yes, you can

Children’s Attitudes and Behaviors about Oral Health and Dental Practices

Editorial: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): The Impact and Role of Mass Media During the Pandemic

Empirical investigation of the relationship between bilingualism and social flexibility

In Memoriam: Arne Öhman (1943–2020)

Perceptions of People’s Dishonesty Towards Robots

The effect of a robotic agent on dishonest behavior

Emotional Impact and Perceived Effectiveness of Text-Only versus Graphic Health Warning Tobacco Labels on Adolescents

A sensibilidade materna e a regulação emocional em contexto pré-escolar: O efeito moderador da qualidade da relação educador-criança

Development and validation of the Portuguese version of the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale,Desarrollo y validación de la versión portuguesa de la Escala de Diagnóstico del Trastorno Alimentario

Identification of facial expressions of emotion by 4-year-old children from different linguistic environments

Preoperative preparation programs: Playing about surgery and hospitalization

Let's play about children's hospitalization and surgery

Must we suffer to succeed?: when anxiety boosts motivation and performance

Psychometric Assessment of the "Child Surgery Worries Questionnaire" Among Portuguese children

Psychometric assessment of the Child Surgery Worries Questionnaire among Portuguese children

Seeing the funny side of things: humour processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Adaptação da escala de empatia com animais (EEA) para a população Portuguesa

Cross-Cultural Comparison of Personality Traits, Attachment Security, and Satisfaction With Relationships as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being in India, Sweden, and the United States

Internalized stigma and quality of life domains among people with mental illness: The mediating role of self-esteem

Let’s play about surgery

Maternal sensitivity and emotion regulation in the preschool context: Moderating effect of quality of teacher-child interactions.

Parenting styles and emotion regulation in the preschool context: Moderating effect of quality of teacher-child interactions.

Toward an understanding of the quality of life construct: validity and reliability of the WHOQOL-Bref in a psychiatric sample

A "dry eye" for victims of violence: Effects of playing a violent video game on pupillary dilation to victims and on aggressive behavior

Attachment style impacts behavior and early oculomotor response to positive, but not negative, pictures

Beyond Traditional Clinical Measurements for Screening Fears and Phobias

Clinical profiles of stigma experiences, self-esteem and social relationships among people with schizophrenia, depressive, and bipolar disorders

Emotions under the skin autonomic reactivity to emotional pictures in insecure attachment

Exams? Why worry? Interpreting anxiety as facilitative and stress appraisals

In the grip of fear: Dissociations in attentional processing of animal fearful individuals

Motivational approach and avoidance in autism spectrum disorder: A comparison between real photographs and cartoons

Sense of presence inside a feared (virtual) tunnel

The Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the ISMI Scale

Using an Educational Multimedia Application to Prepare Children for Outpatient Surgeries

Will you thrive under pressure or burn out? Linking anxiety motivation and emotional exhaustion

100 anos depois: onde está o Watson?

Adult Attachment, Love Styles, Relationship Experiences and Subjective Well-Being: Cross-Cultural and Gender Comparison between Americans, Portuguese, and Mozambicans

Children's attitudes regarding health care and perception of pain: The mediating role of medical fears,Atitudes infantis face aos cuidados de saúde e perceção de dor: Papel mediador dos medos médicos

Clown Doctors in pediatric preoperative and recovery areas: effects on parental anxiety and on children's affective and behavioral responses

Effects of fear-relevant stimuli on attention: Integrating gaze data with subliminal exposure

Looking at the (mis) fortunes of others while listening to music

On prototypical facial expressions vs variation in facial behavior: What Have We Learned on the “Visibility” of Emotions from Measuring Facial Actions in Humans and Apes

Providing preoperative information for children undergoing surgery: a randomized study testing different types of educational material to reduce children’s preoperative worries

Sensitization to emotional chills

The brain mapping of emotion in human faces: Clinical aplication in epilepsy

The brain mapping of emotion in human faces: Clinical application in epilepsy

The hidden snake in the grass: Superior detection of snakes in challenging attentional conditions

Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Temporal Invariance of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)

Emotional gaming

Measuring store emotional experience through facial electromyography and skin conductance

Playing for better or for worse?: Health and social outcomes with electronic gaming

The Role of Personality Traits, Attachment Style, and Satisfaction With Relationships in the Subjective Well-Being of Americans, Portuguese, and Mozambicans

Virtual environment to treat social anxiety

Attachment insecurity and strategies for regulation: When emotion triggers attention

Atypical moral judgment following traumatic brain injury

Can humans read emotions in animal facial expressions?

Changes in social emotion recognition following traumatic frontal lobe injury

Do humans read emotions in animal facial expressions?

Do You know what I'm feeling? Children's Perception of Animal Emotions

Evolutionary derived modulations of attention to two common fear stimuli: Serpents and hostile humans

How adolescents and adults interpret and react to dynamic pictures of facial expression? On the attunement and unattunement of different measures in the study of emotional empathy

Is it just a game? Emotional and Behavioural outcomes of gaming with violence

Preschooler's faces in spontaneous emotional contexts-how well do they match adult facial expression prototypes?

Reactividade pupilar como indicador de activação fisiológica a estímulos de medo filogeneticamente relevantes

Skin conductance vs appraisal of dynamic emotional stimuli

The naturalistic approach revisited as a means to adress the pending question of what does spontaneuos facial expression look like in everyday life.

Ver ou não ver, eis a questão. A relação entre atenção visual selectiva e emoção.

Violência a brincar e emoções face a vítimas reais: Um estudo experimental com jogos electrónicos

Violent gaming, emotions and helping behavior towards victims of random violence

Virtual environments to cope with anxiety situations: Two case-studies

Effects of Playing Violent Computer Games on Emotional Desensitization and Aggressive Behavior

Empathic Cross-paths: SCR and EMG responses to emotion in ape and Human faces. Does Species Matter?