Rui Gaspar

Assistant Professor

Rui Gaspar

Assistant Professor

Rui Gaspar has a PhD in Psychology, specialization in Social Psychology from the University of Lisbon. He is Coordinator of the Degree in Psychology since February 2020 and of the post-grad course in Public Health Communication since February 2019. Board member and Principal Investigator at the Catolica Research Centre for Psychological, Family & Social Wellbeing (CRC-W). He is President of the Society for Risk Analysis – Europe (SRA-E) and scientific committee member - “Risk Communication” panel - at the Portuguese Food Safety & Economic Authority and was member of the Behavioural Sciences Task Force to fight COVID-19, nominated by the Portuguese government. He is Associate Editor of Human Behaviour & Emerging Technologies (Wiley). His research focuses on Emerging Risks Perception, Risk Communication and Crisis Communication, and Information and Communication Technologies use. In 2017 he received the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Presidential Merit Award.

Areas of Research:

Psychology

Publications

Paper

How humans behave with emerging technologies during the COVID ‐19 pandemic?

Rui Gaspar (with Zheng Yan). 2021. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Undergraduate Degree's Applications 2022/2023 - Last Round

Curso superior universitário mais antigo da área de Serviço Social em Portugal celebra 25 anos

Asian Studies & Indian Ocean Summer School (5-8 September 2022)

Rui Gaspar

Rui Gaspar

How humans behave with emerging technologies during the COVID ‐19 pandemic?

Striving for crisis resolution or crisis resilience? The crisis layers and thresholds model and Information and Communication Technology ‐ mediated social sensing for evidence‐based crisis management and communication

Telluric and Climate-Related Risk Awareness, and Risk Mitigation Strategies in the Azores Archipelago: First Steps for Building Societal Resilience

DeCodeR framework: data collection and coding for demands and resources appraisal in extreme weather events (DeCodeR framework: recogida de datos y codificación de exigencias y evaluación de recursos en fenómenos climáticos extremos)

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