Paula Castro
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology
Office AA1.17
Locker 115-A
Telephone 217650225
(ext:)
220099
Research Fields
political psychology
CV
Paula
Castro is
Full
Professor of
Psychology
at
ISCTE-IUL
&
a
researcher
at
CIS-iscte.
She
holds
a PhD
in
social
and
environmental
psychology (ISCTE,
2000),
and
a
degree
in
psychology
(Univ-Lisboa,1987). Her
research
looks
at
the
processes
of
meaning-making
and
communication
involved
in
the
reception
of
new
laws
and
public
policies
-
mainly environmental
ones
- developing
a
social
psychology
of
legal
innovation.
She
has
mainly
investigated
how
new
laws
and
regulations
governing
climate
action,
biodiversity
conservation,
public
participation
or
urban
regeneration are
received by
the
public
(e.g.,
contested,
accepted,
negotiated)
and
the
implications
of
this
reception
for
social
change.
The
studies,
both
quantitative
and
qualitative,
often
focus
on
(the
asymmetric)
relations
between
public
and
scientific
experts/decision
makers.
Other
areas
of
interest
are
people-place
relations,
local
knowledge,
social
memory
and
the
history
of
social
psychological
theories. She
coordinated
and
participated
in
several
financed
projects (FCT,
EU)
and supervised
various
PhD
and
Pos-Doc
projects,
with
the
resulting
work
published
in
international
journals
of
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