Francisco Cruz is a doctoral student in social psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, under the supervision of Prof. André Mata (University of Lisbon) and Prof. Tania Lombrozo (Princeton University). His project explores why people are sceptical of psychology as a science, as well as how to increase trust in psychological science.
His research interests include lay beliefs about science (i.e., what people believe that science can or cannot explain and why), motivated beliefs in science (i.e., the contexts in which people are more prone to accepting scientific explanations), representation of social groups (i.e., how people integrate information to provide judgments on shared homogeneity vs. heterogeneity across group members), epistemic trespassing (i.e., when people provide judgments on domains beyond those in which they are experts), intuitive mind-body dualism (i.e., a natural tendency to see the world as split in material and immaterial portions), and face perception (i.e., features driving the advantage in recall for own- vs. other-race faces).
He is a Student Affiliate at the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, an Editor at the Journal of European Psychology Students, and an Opinion Editor at Cruamente.
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PhD in Social Psychology, Ongoing
Faculty of Psychology - University of Lisbon
PgDip in Data Analysis in Social Sciences, 2022
School of Sociology and Public Policy - Iscte
MSc in Applied Social Cognition, 2021
Faculty of Psychology - University of Lisbon
ERASMUS+ Programme in Psychology, 2018
Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences - University of Groningen
BSc in Psychology, 2018
Faculty of Psychology - University of Lisbon