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João David Ferreira Oliveira Martins is a PhD in Social Psychology, ISPA - Instituto Universitário. His research interestes are social cognition, persuasion, attitudes, as well as R programming and data analysis. Graduated his PhD Summa Cum Laude with the dissertation "From People to Places: The Role of Perceived Personality in Forming Impressions of Tourist Destinations" that focuses on how information about a personality-laden non-person target (specifically, tourist destinations) is organized in memory, making use of personality templates and other organizing principles, such as valence and informational relevante/informativity. Further interests are data-based approaches to both predict and measure the impact of public policies, particularly in the interaction of policies and the public, where social psychology is relevant.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João David Ferreira Oliveira Martins

Citation names

  • Martins, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3915-B53A-9890
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9553-9919

Email addresses

  • joaodavidmartins@gmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34, 1149-041, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09 - 2025/05/21
Concluded
 PhD in Psychology (Doutoramento)
Major in Psicologia Social
ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
"From People to Places: The Role of Perceived Personality in Forming Impressions of Tourist Destinations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa cum laude
2023/04
Concluded
 Data Science: Wrangling (Postgraduate Certificate)
HarvardX, United States
2023/03
Concluded
 Data Science: Productivity Tools (Postgraduate Certificate)
HarvardX, United States
2023 - 2023
Concluded
 Data Science: Linear Regression (Postgraduate Certificate)
HarvardX, United States
2022/08
Concluded
 Data Science: Inference and Modeling (Postgraduate Certificate)
HarvardX, United States
2022/06
Concluded
 Data Science: Probability (Postgraduate Certificate)
HarvardX, United States
2021/06/18
Attended
 Data Science: Visualization (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Data Science
HarvardX, United States
2021/04/12
Attended
 Data Science: R Basics (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Data Science
HarvardX, United States
2019/03/21 - 2019/03/22
Concluded
 Introduction to Mixed Linear Models (Outros)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/01/24 - 2019/01/31
Concluded
 Brief Introduction to R (Outros)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2013/09 - 2018/06
Concluded
 Integrated Master's in Psychology (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Psicologia Social e das Organizações
ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
"Stereotypes-as-context in visual change detection tasks" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2015/05/09 - 2015/06/27
Concluded
 Research skills development program (Outros)
ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/03/21 - 2019/12/22 Research assistant Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Psychology Lab assistant Laboratório de Psicologia (ISPA - Instituto Universitário), Portugal
2010/02 - 2010/09 Fotógrafo, operador de câmara, editor de fotografia e vídeo ONPHOTO Agency, Portugal
2008/09 - 2009/02 Operador e assistente de câmara ComSom - Produção Audiovisual, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Martins, João; Garcia-Marques, Teresa. "The role of object structure in attitude formation". Paper presented in EASP 2023 General Meeting, 2023.
  2. Martins, João. "The role of object structure in attitude formation". Paper presented in XVII Encontro Nacional da APPE - Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2023.
  3. Martins, João. "Context dependence of argument quality.". Paper presented in XI Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, 2022.
  4. Martins, João; Almeida, Leonor. "Rushing to the end: Why it may happen in your surveys". Paper presented in 13º Encontro Científico da APPE, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Martins, João; Garcia-Marques, Teresa. "High-low level features of destination personality: A four-stage validation study". Social Sciences & Humanities Open 11 (2025): 101450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101450.
    10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101450
  2. Teresa Garcia-Marques; Pedro Figueira; Alexandre Fernandes; João Martins. "Deontic signs increase control monitoring: evidence from a modified traffic flanker task". Cognitive Processing (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-023-01139-z.
    10.1007/s10339-023-01139-z
  3. Oliveira, Heloísa; Sanches, Tatiana; Martins, João. Corresponding author: Oliveira, Heloísa. "Problem-based learning in a flipped classroom: a case study for active learning in legal education in international law". The Law Teacher (2022): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2022.2040934.
    Published • 10.1080/03069400.2022.2040934
  4. Martins, João; Lavradio, Leonor. "Rushing to the end: Participants’ perceptions of demotivating aspects of online surveys". Análise Psicológica 38 2 (2020): 241-256. http://dx.doi.org/10.14417/ap.1674.
    Published • 10.14417/ap.1674
  5. Fernandes, Alexandre; Garcia-Marques, Teresa; Prada, Marília; Martins, João. "Emotional interference in isolation and in others’ presence". Current Psychology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00534-0.
    Published • 10.1007/s12144-019-00534-0
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Martins, João. "Stereotypes-as-context in visual change detection tasks". Master, ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, 2018. http://repositorio.ispa.pt/handle/10400.12/6643.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/01/28 Context dependence of argument quality. 2nd Lisbon-Madrid Meeting on Attitudes and Persuasion
Context dependence of argument quality. (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/01/01 - 2022/01/29 2nd Lisbon-Madrid Meeting on Attitudes and Persuasion (2022/01/28 - 2022/01/29)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021/03/01 - 2021/04/20 APPE's XVII National Meeting - Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology (2021/04/09 - 2021/04/10)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/02/13 - 2025/06/03 Social Psychology Social Psychology (Licenciatura) ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2025/01/23 - 2025/01/24 Research Skills Development (Desenvolvimento de Competências de Investigação) (Outros) ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/02 Research Skills Development (Desenvolvimento de Competências de Investigação) Research Skills Development (Desenvolvimento de Competências de Investigação) (Outros) ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021/09/15 - 2022/02/10 Social Psychology II Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia (Mestrado integrado) ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2022/02 - 2022/02 Research Skills Development (Desenvolvimento de Competências de Investigação) Research Skills Development (Desenvolvimento de Competências de Investigação) ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Persuasion, influence, and social change processes. Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia (Mestrado) ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021/02/15 - 2021/09/10 Social Psychology II Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia (Licenciatura) ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/02 Research Skills Development (Desenvolvimento de Competências de Investigação) Research Skills Development (Desenvolvimento de Competências de Investigação) (Pós-doutoramento) ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
Distinctions

Title

2017 Merit award
ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Other distinction

2016 Merit scholarship
ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal