Rui Gaspar

Assistant Professor

rgaspar@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt

Rui Gaspar

Assistant Professor

Rui Gaspar has a PhD in Psychology, specialization in Social Psychology (University of Lisbon) and a MSc in Psychological Research Methods (University of Plymouth). He is President-elect (2021-2023) of the Society for Risk Analysis – Europe (SRA-E), scientific committee member - “Risk Communication” panel - at the Portuguese Food Safety & Economic Authority, and a founding member of the Portuguese Observatory for Emerging Risks. He is board member of the Católica Research Centre for Psychological, Family & Social Wellbeing (CRC-W). His applied research is focused on Emerging Risks Perception & Communication and Crisis Informatics, particularly concerning Information and Communication Technologies use during crisis and extreme events. He was Editor-in-Chief of Psychology, Community & Health (PsychOpen) and is currently Associate Editor of Human Behaviour & Emerging Technologies (Wiley). In 2017 he received the Society for Risk Analysis Presidential Merit Award.

Areas of Research:

Psychology

Publications

Paper

A look into future risks: A psychosocial theoretical framework for investigating the intention to practice body hacking

Rui Gaspar (with Jean‐Christophe Giger). 2019. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Candidaturas Internacionais Licenciaturas 2020/2021

2nd Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication

Rui Gaspar

Rui Gaspar

A look into future risks: A psychosocial theoretical framework for investigating the intention to practice body hacking

Emerging technologies, Emerging Risks: Current Approaches on the Future Risks of Human Enhancement Technologies

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

Extreme natural and man-made events and human adaptive responses mediated by information and communication technologies' use: A systematic literature review

Observing Synchrony in Dyads: Effects on Observers' Expectations and Intentions

Unconventional settings and uses of human enhancement technologies: A nonsystematic review of public and experts' views on self‐enhancement and do‐it‐yourself biology/biohacking risks

Unconventional settings and uses of human enhancement technologies: A non‐systematic review of public and experts' views on self‐enhancement and DIY biology/biohacking risks

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