Rui Costa Lopes obtained his degree in Social and Organizational Psychology from ISCTE in 2004. In 2009, he obtained his PhD in Social Psychology from ISCTE in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Collaborates with ICS since 2004 within projects related with social norms, prejudice, intergroup relations and social attitudes and behaviors.

Between 2009 and 2015, developed post doctoral research in ICS in collaboration with the Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) on the phenomenon of implicit racial prejudice and the influence of social norms on its emergence. Other topics studied in this period focused the effects of multicultural and colorblind ideologies on attitudes towards immigrant groups.

Since February 2015, is FCT Research Fellow with a project that addresses the influence of meritocracy on socially critical decisions (moral dilemmas, medical diagnoses, shooting decisions).

He is part of the Directive Board of LiSP - Lisbon PhD in Social Psychology.

Selected Publications:

Sindic, D., Barreto, M. & Costa-Lopes, R. (2015). Power and identity. London and New York: Psychology Press; Taylor & Francis Group.

Costa-Lopes, R., Pereira, C. R., Judd, C. M. (2014). Categorisation salience and ingroup bias: The buffering role of a multicultural ideology. International Journal of Psychology. 49 (6), 508-512.

Costa-Lopes, R., Dovidio, J.F. Pereira, C. & Jost, J. T (2013). Social psychological perspectives on the legitimation of social inequality: Past, present and future. European Journal of Social Psychology. 43-4, 229-237.

Costa-Lopes, R., Vala, J, & Judd, C. (2012). Similarity and Dissimilarity in Immigration contexts: Different dimensions, different processes. International Review of Social Psychology, 1, 31-65.

 Pereira, C., Vala, J. & Costa Lopes, R. (2010). From Prejudice to Discrimination: the justifying role of perceived threat in discrimination against immigrants. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 1231 – 1250.