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Adjunct Professor at the University of Maia / Polytechnic Institute of Maia - N2i, Portugal. Licensed Psychologist in Brazil (CFP) and in Portugal (OPP). PhD in Psychology (University of São Paulo, acknowledged in Portugal by the University of Minho), post-doc in Physical Education and Sport (EEFERP-USP, I3SP-Univ. Paris). Interdisciplinary-oriented approach on psychology & human movement, particularly interested in martial arts & combat sports, phenomenology, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, transcultural approach & migration, embodiment and perception-action processes. Co-editor at the Martial Arts Studies Journal. Member of the Martial Arts Studies Association (MASA), the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC) and the Portuguese Society of Sport Psychology (SPPD). Former president (2019-2021) of the Brazilian Association of Sports Psychology (ABRAPESP).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Thabata Castelo Branco Telles

Citation names

  • Telles, Thabata C.B.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
181B-987E-13ED
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9945-0209
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RdB30fQAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1
LattesiD
http://lattes.cnpq.br/7306332701033811

Email addresses

  • ttelles@ipmaia.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
German Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2019/10/01 - 2022/05/31 Postdoc (Research) Université de Paris UFR Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, France
2019/06/01 - 2022/05/31 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2025/02/10 - Current Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Maia, Portugal
2022/09/19 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico da Maia, Portugal
2014/05/01 - 2015/12/01 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil
2012/02/01 - 2014/06/30 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil
Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. T. C. B. Telles; J.A. O. Camilo; C. R. A. Barreira. PSICOLOGIA DO ESPORTE NAS LUTAS, ARTES MARCIAIS E ESPORTES DE COMBATE. Curitiba, Brazil: EDITORA CRV. 2022.
    Published • 10.24824/978652512148.2 • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Thabata Castelo Branco Telles; Cristiano Roque Antunes Barreira. "Capoeira and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Race, Movement, and Cultural Exchange in Brazilian Martial Arts". 2024.
    10.4324/9781032648620-22
Journal article
  1. Santos, Maria Gabriela dos; Santos, Yan Lazáro; Telles, Thabata Castelo Branco; Barreira, Cristiano Roque Antunes. "Navigating disruptive experiences in combat sports: perspectives of Brazilian, Portuguese, and Spanish masters on emotional control, resilience, and well-being". Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 7 (2025): https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2025.1675930.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fspor.2025.1675930
  2. Barreira, Cristiano Roque Antunes; Telles, Thabata Castelo Branco; Gutiérrez-García, Carlos; Andrieu, Bernard. "The psychological dynamics of the combat sports experience: how the phenomenological specificity of corporal fighting prevents violence and promotes the development of the practitioner". Frontiers in Psychology 16 (2025): https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1631471.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1631471
  3. Thabata C.B. Telles; Cristiano R.A. Barreira. "Karate practices in Japan and Okinawa: Describing an immersion using a phenomenological and transcultural approach". Ido Movement for Culture. Journal of Martial Arts Anthropology (2024): https://doi.org/10.14589/ido.24.3.1.
    10.14589/ido.24.3.1
  4. Mateus de Castro César; Marcelo Alberto de Oliveira; Thabata Castelo Branco Telles; Kazuo Kawano Nagamine; Victor Lage. "A prática do calejamento na perspectiva de praticantes de karatê". Lecturas: Educación Física y Deportes (2023): https://doi.org/10.46642/efd.v28i302.3706.
    10.46642/efd.v28i302.3706
  5. Thabata Castelo Branco Telles; Bernard Andrieu; Cristiano Roque Antunes Barreira. "Galhofa: the Portuguese wrestling between tradition and survival". Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas 17 1 (2022): 38-49. https://doi.org/10.18002/rama.v17i1.7111.
    10.18002/rama.v17i1.7111
  6. Thabata Castelo Branco Telles. "A criança no corpo a corpo em combate: uma discussão em perspectiva fenomenológica". Motrivivência (2022): https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8042.2022.e84062.
    10.5007/2175-8042.2022.e84062
  7. Thabata Telles; Raoni Machado. "Wrestling, boxing and pankration: introducing the 'heavy events' in Ancient Olympic Games". Olimpianos - Journal of Olympic Studies (2022): https://doi.org/10.30937/2526-6314.v6.id165.
    10.30937/2526-6314.v6.id165
  8. Telles, Thabata C.B.. "Ssireum: Approaching Korean Wrestling". Martial Arts Studies 0 10 (2020): 98-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.18573/mas.107.
    10.18573/mas.107
  9. Telles, Thabata C.B.. "Fighting and leaving no one behind: promoting engagement in combat practices through phenomenology". Journal of Martial Arts Research (2020): https://openjournals.uni-bayreuth.de/index.php/jomar/article/view/127.
    10.15495/OJS_25678221_33_127
  10. Marcelo Oliveira; Thabata Telles; Cristiano Barreira. "Brazilian women in Olympic combat sports: a discussion through life stories". Olimpianos - Journal of Olympic Studies (2020): https://doi.org/10.30937/2526-6314.v4.id108.
    10.30937/2526-6314.v4.id108
  11. Cristiano Roque Antunes Barreira; Thabata Castelo Branco Telles; Alberto Filgueiras. "Perspectivas em Psicologia do Esporte e Saúde Mental sob a Pandemia de Covid-19". Psicologia: Ciência e Profissão 40 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-3703003243726.
    10.1590/1982-3703003243726
  12. Telles, Thabata C.B.. "O fenômeno do MMA na contemporaneidade: um ensaio sobre a relação entre sua veiculação e o público infanto-juvenil". Revista Brasileira de Psicologia do Esporte (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.31501/rbpe.v9i1.10390.
    10.31501/rbpe.v9i1.10390
  13. Natali Cristofolli; Mak Alisson Borges de Moraes; Thabata Castelo Branco Telles. "A experiência vivida de surfar: um estudo fenomenológico". Psicologia Revista (2019): https://doi.org/10.23925/2594-3871.2018v27i3p633-659.
    10.23925/2594-3871.2018v27i3p633-659
  14. Thabata Castelo Branco Telles; Anu Maarit Vaittinen; Cristiano Roque Antunes Barreira. "Karate, capoeira and MMA: a phenomenological approach to the process of starting a fight". Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas 13 2 (2018): 114-114. https://doi.org/10.18002/rama.v13i2.5119.
    10.18002/rama.v13i2.5119
  15. Telles, Thabata C.B.. "A percepção estética na fenomenologia de Dufrenne: contribuições possíveis para a psicologia". Psicologia em Estudo (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.4025/psicolestud.v23i0.39000.
    10.4025/psicolestud.v23i0.39000
  16. Milhorim, T.K.; Telles, T.C.B.. "Aesthetic perception in Dufrenne's phenomenology: Possible contributions to psychology". Psicologia em Estudo 23 (2018): 137-146. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85071834139&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.4025/PSICOLESTUD.V23I0.39000
  17. Da Costa, B.A.; Telles, T.C.B.. "The process of listening in harm reduction: Rogers and Kierkegaard contributions,O Processo de Escuta na Redução de Da nos: Contribuições de Rogers e Kierkegaard". Revista da Abordagem Gestaltica 23 1 (2017): 74-83. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85018174432&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.18065/rag.2017v23n1.8
  18. Telles, Thabata C.B.. "ADESÃO E ADERÊNCIA AO EXERCÍCIO: Um Estudo Bibliográfico". Revista Brasileira de Psicologia do Esporte (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.31501/rbpe.v6i1.6725.
    10.31501/rbpe.v6i1.6725
  19. Telles, Thabata C.B.. "A Lente da Fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty para a Psicopatologia Cultural". Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-37722014000200010.
    10.1590/s0102-37722014000200010
  20. Telles, T.C.B.; Moreira, V.. "The merleau-ponty's phenomenology lens to cultural psychopathology,A lente da fenomenologia de merleau-ponty para a psicopatologia cultural". Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa 30 2 (2014): 205-212. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84904874533&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1590/S0102-37722014000200010
  21. Telles, T.C.B.; Boris, G.D.J.B.; Moreira, V.. "The actualizing tendency concept in contemporaneous humanistical psychotherapists' clinical practice,O conceito de tendência atualizante na prática clínica contemporânea de psicoterapeutas humanistas". Revista da Abordagem Gestaltica 20 1 (2014): 13-20. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84907983950&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.18065/rag.2014v20n1.2
Activities

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2026/03/13 - Current Martial Arts Studies Association - MASA
2020/10/01 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia do Desporto
2018/12/01 - Current European Federation of Sport Psychology – FEPSAC
2013/10/01 - Current Associação Brasileira de Psicologia do Esporte - ABRAPESP Vice-presidente (2019-2021); Presidente (2017-2019); Comitê de relacionamento externo (2015-2017); Conselho fiscal (2013-2015);
Distinctions

Award

2019 Young Researchers Awards
International Martial Arts & Combat Sports Scientific Society - IMACSSS, Poland

Title

2025 Supervisora - Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses
2018 Reconhecimento do título de psicóloga em França
Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l'innovation, France
2013 Especialista em Psicologia do Esporte
Conselho Federal de Psicologia , Brazil

Other distinction

2022 Reconhecimento do grau de Doutora
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020 Membro efetivo
Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Portugal
2019 Researcher of the World Martial Arts Academy
World Martial Arts Academy, South Korea