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Eva Pires completed a Master's degree in Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology in 2022 from the University Institute of Social and Life Psychological Sciences (ISPA) and a degree in Psychological Sciences on 2020. Attends the PhD in Develpmental Psychology by ISPA. She did an OPP Professional Internship as Research Assistant (Career) at William James Center of Research (WJCR) in ISPA and as a clinical at Clínica ISPA. Is now a Tutor at ISPA, teaching Psicologia do Desenvolvimento I and II, and a Research Assistant at WJCR. Published 3 articles in journals, organized 3 event(s) and participated in 4. Received 2 award(s) and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as a Research Fellow in 2 project(s) at WJCR, and works in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Developmental Psychology
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Eva Pires

Citation names

  • Pires, E.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
451B-C46E-950B
ORCID iD
0009-0001-2953-8117

Email addresses

  • epires@ispa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • ISPA- Instituto Universitário. 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 Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/10/01 - 2026/10/01
Ongoing
 Psicologia do Desenvolvimento (Doutoramento)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/12/13 - 2025/05/06
Ongoing
 Meta-Analysis Course (Outros)
Universidad Autónoma San Sebastián, Paraguay
2025/04/16 - 2025/04/26
Ongoing
 VIPP-SD training programme (Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline) (Outros)
Cambridge International University, Uzbekistan
2024/04/01 - 2024/07/01
Concluded
 Curso Escalas Griffiths III - 2024 - 2ª edição (Outros)
ARICD - Association for Research in Infant and Child Development, Portugal
2023/09/14 - 2023/09/16
Concluded
 WISC-III in the Context of Neuropsychological Assessment (6th ed) (Outros)
Academia Dislexia, Portugal
 19
2023/06/29
Concluded
 Professional Training in Neuropsychological Assessment with BANC - Advanced Level (Outros)
Major in Clínical
Editora Hogrefe, Lda., Portugal
2023/04/12 - 2023/04/29
Concluded
 Emotion Management (Outros)
Major in Clinic
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/03/29 - 2023/04/12
Concluded
 Training in "Psychological Intervention with Refugees and Asylum Seekers - 4th edition (Outros)
Major in Clínic
Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Portugal
 91%
2022/11/18 - 2022/12/03
Concluded
 Promotion of Socio-Emotional Skills in Children and Teenagers (Outros)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2022/04/21 - 2022/06/02
Concluded
 Children's Drawing: Developmental Perspective (Outros)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
 19
2020 - 2022
Concluded
 Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology (Mestrado)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
"The Mediating Role of Emotional Regulation in the relationship between Empathy and Attachment in school-age children. - classification of 20 values" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2020/11/02
Concluded
 Q-SORT ATTACHMENT: Introduction to assessing the quality of Childhood Attachment relationships (Outros)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2020/10/30
Concluded
 Clinical Seminar - The interview in the clinic with children and adolescents (Outros)
Major in Clínic
Grupo dos Amigos das Projetivas, Portugal
2017/09 - 2020/06/30
Concluded
 Psychological Sciences (Licenciatura)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
 18
2019 - 2020
Concluded
 Professional training in mentoring for socio-educational development (Outros)
Academia CV.pt, Portugal
 16
2014 - 2017
Concluded
 Sciences and Technologies (Ensino secundário)
Escola Secundária da Portela, Portugal
 16
2016 - 2016
Concluded
 Intensive English course (Outros)
Bath Spa University, United Kingdom
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/04/08 - Current Research Assistant (Research) Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/02/20 - Current Tutor (University Teacher) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03/01 - Current Técnico Psicologia Estagiário (Técnico Psicologia) Clínica ISPA, Portugal
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021/10 - 2022/02 Técnico Psicologia Estagiário (Técnico Psicologia) Hospital CUF Descobertas, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Técnico Psicologia Principal (Técnico Psicologia) Autismo EPE, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020 - 2020 Volunteering with children with ASD Centro ABC real, Portugal
2019 - 2019 International Volunteering in Africa with Children and Animals GASTagus, Portugal
GASTagus, Portugal
2018 - 2019 National Volunteering with training in the domains of health and education (296h) GASTagus, Portugal
GASTagus, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Volunteering: tutoring immigrant children with social and/or academic difficulties Associação Renovar a Mouraria, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/03/27 - Current Attachment, Empathy and Prosociality in Preschool
WJCR/004/BI/2023
Research Fellow
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/04/08 - 2022/10/03 ChildObesity Risk: The role of attachment, temperament and self-regulation
PTDC/PSI-GER/29636/2017
Research Fellow
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Pires, E.; Duarte, S.; Arez, S.; Morais, I.; Costa Martins, Mariana; Fernandes, M.; Fernandes, C.. "Attachment Representations and the Multidimensional Development of Empathy in Preschool Children". Paper presented in XII Congress of the European Society on Family Relations., 2025.
  2. Arez, S.; Pires, E.; Morais, I.; Costa Martins, Mariana; Mango, Anwen; Pacheco, B.; Fernandes, M.; Fernandes, C.. "Attachment Representations and Prosocial Behavior in early Childhood". Paper presented in XII Congress of the European Society on Family Relations., 2025.
  3. Pires, E.; Arez, S.; Mango, Anwen; Pacheco, B.; Fernandes, M.; Fernandes, C.; Veríssimo, M.. "The Relationships between Multidimensional Empathy and Prosocial Behaviors in Preschool-aged Children [As relações entre a empatia multidimensional e os comportamentos pró-sociais em crianças de idade pré-escolar]". Paper presented in XII - Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia - SNIP, 2025.
  4. Arez, S.; Duarte, S.; Pires, E.; Mango, Anwen; Pacheco, B.; Costa Martins, Mariana; Morais, I.; et al. "Parental Empathy' Perception and its Relationship with Prosocial Behaviors in Preschool Children[Perceção parental da empatia e sua relação com comportamentos pró-sociais em crianças pré-escolares]". 2025.
  5. Costa Martins, Mariana; Pires, Eva; Cardoso Martins, Evlyne; Fernandes, Carla; Marilia Ornelas Fernandes; Veríssimo, Manuela. ""I can feel sympathy for you": a preliminary validation of the Portuguese version of Sympathy Scale (for parents & children)". Paper presented in International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) 2024, 2024.
  6. Pires, E.; Ornelas, M.; Fernandes, C.; Veríssimo, M.. "The relationships between empathy and social behaviours in middle childhood". Paper presented in International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) 2024, 2024.
  7. Pires, E.; Ornelas, M.; Fernandes, C.; Veríssimo, M.. "Empathy in Middle Childhood: Relation to Attachment, Parent's Empathy, and Child's Emotion Regulation". Paper presented in European Conference on Developmental Psychology (ECDP) in Turku, Finland, 2023.
  8. Pires, E.; Fernandes, M.; Martins, M.; Fernandes, C.; Brito, A. ; Veríssimo, M.. "What is the relationship between attachment with father and mother in children's empathy?". Paper presented in XI Simpósito Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia (SNIP), in UTAD, 2022.
  9. Pires, E.; Fernandes, M.; Costa Martins, Mariana; Fernandes, C.; Brito, A. T.; Verissimo, M.. "Attachment relationship with Mother and Father and Child's Empathy". Paper presented in 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISBBD), 2022.
Journal article
  1. Marilia Ornelas Fernandes; Inês Morais; Carolina Santos; Maryse Gudes; Olívia Ribeiro; Carla Fernandes; Pires, Eva; et al. Corresponding author: Marilia Ornelas Fernandes. "Factorial structure, measurement invariance and reliability of the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC) in a sample of Portuguese parents". Análise Psicológica 42 2 (2025): http://publicacoes.ispa.pt/index.php/ap/article/view/2032.
  2. Costa Martins, M.; Martins Cardoso, E.; Pires, E.; Fernandes, M.; Fernandes, C.; Malti, T.; Veríssimo, M.. "Respect and sympathy in Portuguese preschoolers and middle-school children.". Análise Psicológica (2024):
  3. Pires, Eva; Fernandes, Marília; Fernandes, Carla; Veríssimo, Manuela. "The relationships between empathy and social behaviours in middle childhood". Análise Psicológica 41 2 (2024): 207-220. http://dx.doi.org/10.14417/ap.1996.
Magazine article
  1. Pires, Eva. "Anxiety and its seven heads: self-management strategies", Ímpar Público, 2023, https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/23/impar/opiniao/ansiedade-sete-cabecas-estrategias-autogestao-2057325.
  2. Pires, Eva. "I'm going to count to 10: emotional regulation strategies to deal with "tantrums"", Ímpar Público, 2022, https://www.publico.pt/2022/01/02/impar/opiniao/vou-contar-ate-10-estrategias-regulacao-emocional-lidar-birras-1988465.
Newsletter article
  1. Pires, E.. "Como falar de coisas sérias às crianças?", Montepio, 2025, https://www.montepio.org/vantagens-montepio/publicacoes/revista-montepio-digital/edicao-11/como-falar-de-coisas-serias-as-criancas/.
Online resource
  1. Pires, E.. Dia Mundial da Saúde Mental. 2023. https://clinica.ispa.pt/pt-pt/pagina/12-dia-mundial-da-saude-mental.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "The mediating role of Emotion Regulation in the Relationship bettween attachment and empathy in school-age children". Master, Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/8842.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/05/28 Relações de vinculação, simpatia e o sentimento de culpa - um estudo longitudinal na infância. XII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP) (Porto, Portugal)
2025/05/28 Symposium: Empathy and Prosocial Behavior in Preschool Children: Exploring Profiles and Sociodemographic Associations XII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP) (Porto, Portugal)
2024/02/16 The role of attachment in socioemocional development - Round Table Jornadas de Psicologia Ispianas
Instituto de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/03/05 - Current Lectured 1 Webinar on the Development of Emotional Regulation - "Let's talk about Emotions?" - for 85 parents (2024/03/05) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2023/03/21 - Current Lectured 24 Workshops on the Development of Emotional Regulation - "Let's talk about Emotions?" - for parents and kindergarten teachers. (2022/05/20)
Workshop (Other)
2022/06/14 - 2022/07/16 Participation in the organization of the IAC - International Attachment Conference - at ISPA. (2022/07/14 - 2022/07/16)
Conference (Other)
 Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/02/03 - 2022/02/04 Congress that focused on children's physical and mental knowledge and the influences of these two factors.
Congress
 10ª Reunião Pediátrica do Hospital CUF Descobertas
Hospital CUF Descobertas, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Participation in open meetings of the CADin center - focus on developmental psychopatology.
Other
 Reunião Aberta CADin
Centro de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Infantil, Portugal
2018/11/17 - 2018/11/17 Workshop by Michael J. Lambert (Brigham University, USA), at ISPA - Academy of Psychotherapists.
Workshop
 The importance of monitoring psychotherapeutic results
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2018/05/15 - 2018/05/15 Conference in the area of Gender Identity, Gender Orientation and Transsexuality.
Conference
P.O.W.E.R Consulting, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023/09/07 - Current Portuguese Psychological Association (Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses - OPP) Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09/16 - Current Psicologia do Desenvolvimento I Psicologia do Desenvolvimento I (Licenciatura) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2024/02/20 - Current Psicologia do Desenvolvimento II Psicologia do Desenvolvimento II (Licenciatura) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2023 Merit Diploma for the master's degree
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2020 Merit Scholarship for the bachelor degree
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal