Rui Costa Lopes
Rui Costa Lopes graduated in Social and Organizational Psychology from Iscte - IUL in 2004. In 2009, he obtained a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Iscte - IUL in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He has been collaborating with ICS since 2004 on projects related to norms, prejudice, intergroup relations, and social attitudes and behaviors.
Between 2009 and 2015, he conducted post-doctoral research at ICS in collaboration with Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) on the phenomenon of implicit racial prejudice and the influence of social norms on its emergence. He also conducted research on the effects of multiculturalist and colorblind ideologies on attitudes towards immigrant groups.
Since February 2015, he has been a Research Fellow with variable framework (Investigador FCT/ Lab Associado).
He is a Senior Research Fellow since December 2022.
His research focuses on intergroup relations and legitimation processes, and has been more particularly focused on socially critical decisions (e.g. medical decisions, legal decisions) towards low status groups.
He is a member of the Directive Board of LiSP - Lisbon PhD in Social Psychology.
He served as the Deputy Director of ICS from 2016 to 2018 and as President of the Portuguese Association of Psychology between 2021 and 2023.
Currently serves as President of the Outreach Committee.
Selected Publications:
Magalhães , P. C.& Costa-Lopes, R.(2023). Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti-Roma attitudes. European Journal of Political Research Vol. First published: 29 September 2023. DOI 10.1111/1475-6765.12626
Urbiola, A.McGarty, C.& Costa-Lopes, R.(2022).The AMIGAS Model: Reconciling Prejudice Reduction and Collective Action Approaches Through a Multicultural Commitment in Intergroup Relations. Review of General Psychology Vol. 26, 1, pp.68-85
Madeira, A. F., Costa-Lopes, R.Do Bú, E.Marinho, R. T.(2022)The role of stereotypical information on medical judgements for black and white patients. PloS ONE Vol. 17, 6, art. e0268888
Sindic, D., Morais, R., Costa-Lopes, R., Barreto, M., & Klein, O. (2018). Schrodinger’s Immigrant: The Political and Strategic Use of (contradictory) Stereotypical Traits about Immigrants. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 227-238.
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.
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.
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Priming Meritocracy in Socially Critical Decision-Making towards Low Status Groups | 2018 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology | 15/07/2018 |
Atitudes e recurso a meios coercivos: Contributos da Psicologia Social | Ciclo de Conferências ISCPSI - Atuação Policial: Atitudes e Recurso a Meios Coercivos | 27/04/2018 |
Thinking about meritocracy and killing low status group members | Social Psychology Seminars | 29/01/2018 |
Priming meritocracy increases implicit prejudice | XVI General Meeting of the EASP | 01/07/2011 |
Sociedades meritocráticas e Racismo | Conferência por convite da FPCE-UP | 01/11/2010 |
Symbolic predictors of opposition to immigration | 3rd EVS Workshop | 01/10/2010 |
Categorization salience and ingroup bias | British Psychological Society Conference | 01/09/2010 |
Meritocracy increases implicit prejudice | Brown Bag Seminars | 01/05/2010 |
Efeitos de normas sociais na promoção e inibição do preconceito implícito | I Encontro de Investigação do ICS | 01/03/2010 |
Normas sociais e preconceito implícito | VI Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia | 01/02/2010 |
Migrations, Identités e Valeurs | Congresso da Associação Francesa de Ciência Política | 01/05/2009 |
Social norms and Implicit Prejudice | Brown Bag Series - Radboud University Nijmegen | 01/04/2009 |
Fundamental Dimensions of Social Judgment and the Effects of Intergroup Similarity and Dissimilarity | 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology | 01/06/2008 |
Opposition to Immigration: The Roots of Threat Perception | SPSSI-EAESP Joint Meeting: International Perspectives on Immigration Immigrants and Hosts: Perceptions, Interactions, and Transformations | 01/05/2007 |
Identificação Nacional e Atitudes Face à Imigração | Simpósio: Nação, Nacionalismo e Exclusão | 01/02/2007 |
Where did the Anxiety go? | 12th Summerschool of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology | 01/06/2006 |
Percepções de Semelhança e Diferença em Contextos de Imigração | Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia | 01/01/2006 |
Formas de Discriminação: Racismo Flagrante, Racismo Subtil e Hetero-Etnicização | Colóquio Diálogos sobre Preconceito, Imigração e Integração | 01/01/2006 |
Similarity and Dissimilarity in Intergroup Relations: Different Dimensions, Different Processes | Brownbag Series | 01/10/2005 |