João Pedro Niza Braga Curriculum Vitae November, 2015

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1 João Pedro Niza Braga Curriculum Vitae November, 2015 Education PhD in Psychology - Social Cognition, University of Lisbon. Advisor: Mário B. Ferreira (University of Lisbon) & Co-advisor: Steven J. Sherman (Indiana University) Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia Secção de Cognição Social Aplicada (equivalent to Master in Psychology; specialization in Social Cognition) Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa Faculty of Psychology University of Lisbon Licenciatura em Ciências Psicológicas (equivalent to Bachelor in Psychological Sciences) Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon High School Studies: Natural/Scientific Area Escola Secundária de Santo André, Barreiro (Portugal). Academic Experience Sept 2015 Present Invited Assistant Professor Faculty of Psychology University of Lisbon. Sept 2015 Present Invited Assistant Professor Faculty of Human Sciences Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon. Oct 2014 Dec 2014 Visiting scholar New York University. Department of Psychology. Trope s Lab. Under supervision of Yaacov Trope. Apr 2014 Present Scientific Secretary for Psicologia Journal of the Portuguese Psychological Association (APP). Sep 2012 Jul 2013 Visiting scholar Indiana University, Bloomington. Department of psychology and brain sciences. Sherman s Social Cognition Lab. Under supervision of Steven J. Sherman. Mar - Nov 2010 Research Assistant ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon) Project: Proposal of a Dual-Process Architecture for Social Cognition, financed by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) (PTDC/PSI/66864/2006). Applications & Grants Jan 2015 application as principal Investigator for the project call FCT I&D 2015 with the project: How far can intuition go?: Mapping the effects of psychological distance on decision heuristics and intuitive reasoning. Project ref: PTDC/MHCPCN/1603/2014. Collaborators: André Mata, Yaakov Trope, Steven Sherman, & Sofia Jacinto. PhD grant SFRH/BD/73378/2010 from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology) - FCT (Portugal) 4 years fellowship.

2 PUBLICATIONS Peer Review Publications Braga, J., Mata, A., Sherman, S. J., & Ferreira, M. B. (2015) Motivated reasoning in the prediction of sports outcomes and the belief in the hot hand. (Manuscript submitted) Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., Sherman, S. J., & Mata, A. (2015). What s Next? Disentangling Availability from Representativeness. (invited for resubmission on Journal of Experimental Social Psychology) Jacinto, S., Lewis, C., Braga, J., & Scott, K. (2015). An interdisciplinary approach to understanding clinical judgments. (invited for resubmission on Psychotherapy Research) Braga, J., Sherman, S. J., & Ferreira, M. B. (2015). The effects of construal level on heuristic reasoning: The case of representativeness and availability. Decision. 2(3), DOI: /dec Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (2013). Disentangling Availability from Representativeness: Gambler s Fallacy under pressure. In C. Andrade, J. Garcia, S. Fernandes, T. Palma, V. H. Silva, P. Castro (Eds.), Research Directions in Social and Organizational Psychology, (pp ). Lisboa: Edições Sílabo. Braga, J., Garcia-Marques, L., & Ferreira, M. B. (2012). Cognição social fora do laboratório não é peixe fora de água: O caso do efeito de ancoragem. Psicologia. Lisboa Social cognition out of the lab is not a fish out of the water: The case of anchoring effect. Ongoing research projects Orghian, D., Garcia-Marques, L. & Braga, J. (in prep). May be you can forget, but you cannot prevent from learning: Implicit learning in direct forgetting paradigm. Orghian, D., Braga, J., & Garcia-Marques, L. (in prep). How solving disfluent tasks lead to positive evaluation and hedonic experience. Braga, J. (invited paper in prep). The psychology behind fraudulent risk decision. Anatomia do Crime. Braga, J. (in prep). The effect of psychological distance in the perception of randomness. (Manuscript in preparation) Braga, J., & Ferreira, M. (in prep.). Counterfactuals under time-pressure: the role of availability and representativeness. Braga, J., Orghian, D., Jacinto, S. & Uleman, J. (in prep.). Temporal asymmetry when forming impressions about others. Sutton, R., Braga, J., Lange, J., & Van der Wal, R. (in prep.). The causal reasoning of conspiracy theories believers. Braga, J., Harvey, A., Lange, J., & Van der Wal, R. (in prep.). The belief in a just world: Motivational effect or a cognitive bias?

3 Jacinto, S., Ferreira, M. B., & Braga, J., (in prep.). Clinical Gut: Backward and forward inferences in psychotherapy. Braga, J., & Ferreira, M. (in prep.). Not all streaks feel the same: Hot-hand and sensitivity to base-rates. Braga, J., & Ferreira, M. (in prep.). Rolling the dice: Reasoning about complex random mechanisms. Thesis Braga, J. (2015). Disentangling the representativeness heuristic from the availability heuristic. (Doctoral dissertation). Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon. Braga, J. (2010). O Processo de Ancoragem enquanto activação-monitorização: Ancoragem sob pressão. (Tese de Mestrado não publicada). Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa. The Anchoring effect as activation-monitoring: Anchoring under pressure. (Unpublished Master Thesis). Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon. Oral Communications Garcia-Marques, L., Orghian, D., & Braga, J. (2015, November) Maybe you can forget, but you can t prevent from learning: Implicit Learning in the Directed Forgetting Paradigm. Psychonomic Society s 56th Annual Meeting Chicago, USA Braga, J., Mata, A., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2015, August). Motivated reasoning in the prediction of sports outcomes and the belief in the hot hand. 17th European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Bensheim, Germany. Braga, J. (2015, June). Invited Comment on O dolo nas decisões de risco (Matos Viana, 2015). Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2014, May). Predicting complex random events: The effects of construal level on the predicted outcome of a rolling die. X Encontro de Investigação em Psicologia Social e das Organizações. ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal. Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2014, April). Disentangling availability from representativeness. 9º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Covilhã, Portugal. Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2013, August). When availability, when representativeness: The role of construal levels. 15th European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Vilnius,Lithuania. Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2013, August). What's Next? Disentangling availability from representativeness. Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making Conference, Barcelona, Spain. Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2013, April). Disentangling Classic Heuristics: How Availability why Representativeness? Biennial Meeting of the Social Psychologists of Indiana, Bloomington, IN. Braga, J., Ferreira, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2013, February). What's Next? Disentangling availability from representativeness. Social Seminar, Department of

4 Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (May, 2012). Dissociando Disponibilidade e Representatividade. Lab Seminar (Prof. Leonel Garcia-Marques), Faculdade de Psicologia Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon. Dissociating availability from representativeness. Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (Apr, 2012). Disentangling Availability from Representativeness: Gambler s Fallacy under pressure. Lab Seminar (Prof. David Lagnado), University College of London, London. Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (Feb, 2012). Quando representatividade, quando disponibilidade? A falácia do jogador sob pressão. I Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa. When Availability, when Representativeness: Gambler s Fallacy under pressure. Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (May, 2011). Disentangling Availability from Representativeness: Gambler s Fallacy under pressure. IV PhD Meeting in Social and Organizational Psychology, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon. Braga, J., & Ferreira, M. B. (Oct, 2010). (Re) distinguir as heurísticas da representatividade e da disponibilidade: Quando representatividade, quando disponibilidade? I Jornadas de Iniciação à Investigação em Psicologia, Coimbra. (Re) distinguishing representativeness and availability heuristics: When availability, when representativeness? Braga, J., & Palma-Oliveira, J. M. (Oct, 2010). O processo de sobreendividamento: Uma abordagem socio-cognitiva. I Jornadas de Iniciação à Investigação em Psicologia, Coimbra. A social-cognitive approach to the over-indebtedness process. Braga, J., Soro, J.C., Jesus, L., & Palma-Oliveira; J.M. (Feb, 2010). Longe da vista, Longe do Coração : A teoria dos níveis de construção e a relação entre percepção de distância, identidade social e entitatividade. VII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, Braga. Far from the view, far from the heart: Construal Level theory and its relation with distance perception, social identity and entitativity. Posters in Conferences Braga, J., Mata, A., Sherman, S. J., Ferreira, M., Zhang, L., Jacinto, S. (2013, May) Gambler s Fallacy or Hot-hand? Motivation in predictions of binary events. Society for the Study of Motivation Conference, Washington, D.C. Braga, J., Ferreira, M. B., & Sherman, S. J. (December, 2010). Quando representatividade, quando disponibilidade? A falácia do jogador sob pressão. I Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa. When Availability, when Representativeness: Gambler s Fallacy under pressure. Braga, J., & Garcia-Marques, L. (December, 2010). O efeito de ancoragem enquanto activação-monitorização: Ancoragem sob pressão. I Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa. The anchoring effect as activation-monitoring: Anchoring under pressure. Teaching Experience

5 Introduction to Statistics undergraduate program, Lic. in Psychology at Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon Social Psychology undergraduate program, Lic. in Psychology at Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon Judgment and Decision Making graduate program, Masters in Social Cognition at Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon Seminars/Conferences/Workshops 2014 Aug Summer-school of the European Association of Social Psychology. Workshop on Social Justice. Lisbon May - Demonstrations and training with ERPs. (Prof. Bruce Bartholow) ISCTE- IUL. Lisbon 2011 Feb - Interdisciplinary Winter School: Research Methods in Cognitive Studies (REMICS). Zakopane, Poland Nov - 7º European Congress of Community Psychology. Paris, France Jan - X Congress of Environmental Psychology Human Behaviour and Global Changes. Lisbon, Portugal June - Conference Climatic Changes and International Security Gulbenkian Environmental Program. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Apr International Seminar: The government of major enterprises, regulation and consumer interests. Culturgest Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. Non-academic Experience Dec Mar 2010 Internship at Michael Page (Lisbon) Human resources consultant. Sep Jun 2009 Academic Traineeship - Consultant in Applied, Environmental and Consumer Psychology DECO Portuguese Association for Consumer Defence (Lisbon) Marketing and Communication Consultant Tentações do Gosto, Jacibil Lda (Lisbon). Experience with Behavioral Studies software E-Prime, Qualtrics, Opensesame. Experience with Statistical Analysis software SPSS, Statistica, Excell High proficiency in written and spoken English