Joana Quarenta (4D1D-E642-1F44)

Curriculum Vitae

Joana Quarenta

Joana Quarenta is a collaborator at the Research Center for Psychological Science (CICPSI). She earned her PhD degree from FPUL with the highest distinction, "approved with distinction and honors." Joana was awarded a Fellowship for Doctoral Research by the Portuguese National Science and Technology Foundation (FCT; SFRH/BD/144744/2019) and conducted her doctoral research at FPUL (Portugal) and CU Boulder (USA), with her thesis titled "The Role of Social Information on the Cross-Race Recognition Deficit." She has published four articles (two as first author) and presented her work at both national (e.g., APPE) and international conferences (e.g., SPSP, MPA). Additionally, she co-organized a symposium at the 95th Annual Meeting of the MPA titled "Cross-Race Faces: Inquiries on Typicality, Encoding, and Individuation." Joana was also the lead contributor to the translation of PsychoPy into Portuguese, making it more accessible to researchers and students across nine Portuguese-speaking countries. Her research interests focus on group biases, person memory, and the cross-race recognition deficit.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Joana Quarenta

Citation names

Quarenta, Joana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 4D1D-E642-1F44
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7160-9081

Websites

osf.io/yvcs3 (Professional)

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)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2019/11/01 - 2024/06/21 Concluded	Psicologia (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal "The role of social information on the cross-race recognition deficit" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved with distinction and honors
2022/03/13 - 2022/03/20 Concluded	Higher Education Learning Platform for Quantitative Thinking (QHELP, Erasmus+) (Outros) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen, Belgium
2016/07/04 Concluded	Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia Social e das Organizações (Mestrado integrado) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal "The Magical Contagion of Guilt: The role of cleansing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/11 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2018/01/26 - 2018/10/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal

2017/05/10 - 2017/12/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal

2016/10/01 - 2017/01/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

2016/01/04 - 2016/05/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/11/01 - Current	Investigating the Role of Stereotypic Beliefs, Racial Prototypicality, and Learning on the Own-Race Bias in Face Recognition SFRH/BD/144744/2019 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/12/31 - 2021/01/01	Investigating the Contribution of Stereotypic Beliefs to the Own-Race Bias in Face Recognition. EASP ¿Seedcorn¿ Research Grant Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Portugal	European Association of Social Psychology Ongoing
2019/12 - 2021/01	Investigating the Contribution of Stereotypic Beliefs to the Own-Race Bias in Face Recognition. EASP ¿Seedcorn¿ Research Grant	European Association of Social Psychology

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Quarenta, Joana; Palma, T.A.; Santos, A. S.. "Exploring the role of stereotypic information in the cross-race recognition deficit [Poster]". Paper presented in 2023 SPSP Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA, USA., 2023. Quarenta, Joana; Tomás A Palma; Santos, A. S.; Correll, Joshua. "Investigating the role of stereotypic information on the cross-race recognition deficit [Poster].". Paper presented in 2023 SPSP Social Cognition Preconference, Atlanta, GA, USA., 2023. Pimenta, F.; Leal, I.; Marôco, J. P.; Leitão, M.; Pereira, S.; Quarenta, Joana. "A Predictive Model of Weight Variation around Menopause". Paper presented in European Health Psychology Conference, 2012.
Journal article	Joana Quarenta; Tomás A. Palma; Joshua Correll; Ana Sofia Santos; Balbir Singh; Quarenta, Joana; Palma, Tomás A.; et al. Corresponding author: Palma, A. T.. "Examining the Impact of Social and Perceptual Encoding Strategies on the Cross-Race Recognition Deficit". European Journal of Social Psychology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3115. Submitted • 10.1002/ejsp.3115 Quarenta, Joana; Palma, A. T.; Santos, A. S.; Correll, Joshua; Joana Quarenta; Tomás A. Palma; Ana Sofia Santos; Joshua Correll. "Behavioral descriptions pretested for racial stereotypicality and valence: Data from an American and a Portuguese sample.". Análise Psicológica 41 1 (2023): 105-126. https://doi.org/10.14417/ap.1960. Published • 10.14417/ap.1960 Baldassari , M. J.; Moore, K. N.; Hyman, I. E. Jr.; Hope, L.; Mah, E. Y.; Lindsay, D. S.; Mansour, J.; et al. Corresponding author: Moore, K. N.. "The effect of pre-event instructions on eyewitness identification". Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 8 12 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-023-00471-4. Open access • Published
Thesis / Dissertation	Quarenta, Joana Filipa Xarez. "The magical contagion of guilt: The role of cleansing". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/5082.
Working paper	Palma, A. T.; Quarenta, Joana; Carvalho, M; Ma, D.; Correll, J.. Corresponding author: Palma, A. T.. 2024. "Can the own-race bias be reduced by shifting attention to the lower half of faces? A pre-registered replication of Hills & Lewis (2011)".

Other

Other output

Translation of Psychopy to Portuguese Languague. Role: Lead contributor. Details: I translated the PsychoPy software into Portuguese, enhancing its accessibility for researchers and students across nine Portuguese-speaking countries.. 2024. Quarenta, Joana. https://www.psychopy.org/changelog.html.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/04/23	Effects of Perceptual and Conceptual Judgments in Cross-Race Face Memory	Ninety-fifth Annual Meeting Midwestern Psychological Association Midwestern Psychological Association (Chicago, United States)
2023/02/23	Exploring the role of stereotypic information in the cross-race recognition deficit	SPSP 2023 - Annual Convention Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Atlanta, United States)
2023/02/23	Investigating the role of stereotypic information on the cross-race recognition deficit	2023 SPSP Social Cognition Preconference Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Atlanta, United States)
2022/03/24	Investigating the role of perceptual and conceptual judgments on face recognition	Jornadas de Jovens Investigadores na Faculdade de Psicologia Faculdade Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/11/04	Examining the role of perceptual and conceptual encoding strategies in the Cross-Race Recognition Deficit	2nd Annual Meeting Psychonomic Society Psychonomic Society (online conference)
2021/07/01	Exploring the role of perceptual and conceptual information on same- and cross-race face recognition	No Name Face Perception Conference University of Colorado Boulder (online conference, United States)
2021/06/01	Can the own-race bias be reduced by shifting attention to the lower half of faces?	5th LiSP Annual Meeting Lisbon PhD in Social Psychology (online conference, Portugal)
2021/05/21	Investigating the role of perceptual and conceptual judgments on face recognition	XVI PhD Meeting in Psychology Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (online conference, Portugal)
2021/04/09	Investigating the role of stereotypic information on the cross-race effect in face recognition	XV Encontro Nacional da APPE Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental (online conference, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/04/20 - 2023/04/22	Organization of a smposium at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA. Organizers: Anjana J. Lakshmi (University of Chicago), Joana Quarenta (University of Lisbon), Emil Bansemer (University of Colorado) (2023/04/20 - 2023/04/22) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Midwestern Psychological Association, United States

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/01/05 - 2022/01/05	Cognição Social	Mestrado em Psicologia Cognitiva e Social (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal