Ana Cláudia Magalhães is a PhD student at the Department of Education and Psychology at the University of Aveiro, under an FCT scholarship (SFRH/BD/137993/2018).

Her research interests are based on the relationship between evolutionary theory and disease avoidance. In particular, she studies the mechanisms underlying the socio-emotional processing of illness/disgust signaling stimuli in their affective, cognitive and behavioral components. Ana C. Magalhães completed her degree in Psychology in 2015 and her master's degree in Health Psychology and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in 2017, both at the University of Aveiro. Since 2021 she has been a member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists.

Supervisor: Sandra C. Soares

Main publications

Magalhães, A. C., Pandeirada, J. N., & Soares, S. C. (2021). Perceiving others’ faces: The impact of Covid-19 concerns. Poster at the XV Encounter of the Portuguese Experimental Psychology Association (APPE), Lisboa, Portugal, April 2021.

Magalhães, A. C., Pandeirada, J. N., Fernandes, N. L., & Soares, S. C. (2018). Exogenous attention and memory for faces following contextual behavioral immune system activation. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 59(6), 586-593.

Soares, S. C., Magalhães, A. C., Oliveira, A. F., Silva, B., Dias, J., Godinho, M., Xavier, S., Pereira, A., & Ferreira, J. (2016). Automatic attentional processing of faces with disease cues. 24th European Congress of Psychiatry/European Psychiatry, 33, S224. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.552