Rui Gaspar

Assistant Professor

rgaspar@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt

Rui Gaspar

Assistant Professor

Rui Gaspar has a PhD in Psychology, specialization in Social Psychology from the University of Lisbon and is Master in Science (MSc) in Psychological Research Methods from the University of Plymouth (UK). He is currently a board member of the Society for Risk Analysis – Europe (SRA-E), Scientific Council Member – Risk Communication Panel of the Economic and Food Safety Authority of Portugal (ASAE), member of the Working Group on Effective Communication in Food (GTCEA) of the National Health Institute Dr. Ricardo Jorge and Management Committee member (MC substitute) of the COST action CA15212 - "Citizen Science to promote creativity, scientific literacy & innovation throughout Europe." He is an Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal and a member of the Catholic Research Center for Psychological, Family & Social Wellbeing (CRC-W). In 2017 he has been awarded the Society for Risk Analysis Presidential Merit Award.

Areas of Research:

Psychology

Publications

Paper

Emerging technologies, human behavior, and human behavior and emerging technologies

Rui Gaspar (with Zheng Yan). 2019. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Latest News

Tomada de posse da nova Direção da FCH

Próximo Evento

CLE Conference 2019 - Cultural Literacy & Cosmopolitan Conviviality

Rui Gaspar

Rui Gaspar

Emerging technologies, human behavior, and human behavior and emerging technologies

Lisbon Emoji and Emoticon Database (LEED): Norms for emoji and emoticons in seven evaluative dimensions

Motives, frequency and attitudes toward emoji and emoticon use

Serving science to the public: Deliberations by a sample of older adults upon exposure to a serving size recommendation for meat

Two sizes may fit all: Promoting healthier choices through regulatory fit in risk communications.

Understanding Climate Change Adaptation: The Role of Citizens’ Perceptions and Appraisals About Extreme Weather Events

Lisbon Emoji and Emoticon Database (LEED): Norms for emoji and emoticons in seven evaluative dimensions

Psychology, Community and Health: Consolidation and transformation

Sufficiency before efficiency: Consumers' profiling and barriers/facilitators of energy efficient behaviours

Beyond positive or negative: Qualitative sentiment analysis of social media reactions to unexpected stressful events

Consumers' avoidance of information on red meat risks: Information exposure effects on attitudes and perceived knowledge

Determinants of tannin-rich food and beverage consumption: Oral perception vs. psychosocial aspects

Dynamic mental representations of habitual behaviours: Food choice on a web-based environment

Energy efficiency and appliance’s characteristics considered prior to purchase: Differences and similarities between the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Greece, Poland, Spain and Italy

Life Design Counseling: A study on client's operations for meaning construction

'Would you eat cultured meat?': Consumers' reactions and attitude formation in Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom

A changing world: coping with environmental, social and economic risks

Analogies, metaphors, and wondering about the future: Lay sense-making around synthetic meat

Beyond information seeking: Consumers’ online deliberation about the risks and benefits of red meat

Crisis as seen by the individual: The Norm Deviation Approach

Energy efficient appliances and energy efficient behaviors: From consumer's assessment to behavior intervention

Tweeting during food crises: A psychosocial analysis of threat coping expressions in Spain, during the 2011 European EHEC outbreak

Cognitive and context "Tuning": Tools to break anti-ecological habits

Understanding the reasons for behavioral failure: A process view of psychosocial barriers and constraints to pro-ecological behavior

Energy efficient appliances and energy efficient behaviors: From consumer's assessment to behavior intervention

Energy efficiency and appliance purchases in Europe: Consumer profiles and choice determinants

why do people fail to act? Situational barriers and constraints on pro-ecological behavior