Cicero Roberto Pereira is a research professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). He obtained a BA in Psychology and a Master's degree in Social Psychology at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba with a dissertation on social values and human rights (UFPB, 2000). He concluded his Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology at the University Institute of Lisbon with a thesis on the relationship between prejudice and discrimination in anti-prejudice contexts (ISCTE-IUL, 2007). He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the ICS-ULisboa, where he developed the Justified Discrimination Model. In 2018, he received the Habilitation Degree in Social Psychology from the ICS-ULisboa. His education, academic career, and research projects have been financed by public agencies obtained in competitive calls, mainly from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ), and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

He was a Social Psychology and Quantitative Research Methods professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, in the Faculty of Psychology at the ULisboa, and at the Federal University of Paraíba. He has supervised Master's dissertations and doctoral theses on the social psychology of prejudice and discrimination. His studies analyse how and under which conditions social actors legitimise their attitudes and actions supporting prejudiced and discriminatory policies against minority groups in contemporary democratic societies. His research findings were published in more than a hundred journal papers, such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and European Journal of Social Psychology.

Area of Activity: Social Psychology

Keywords: Racism; Prejudice; Discrimination; Homophobia; Quantitative Methods