Biography

PhD in Social Psychology. Director of the Social Psychology Lab of the University of Porto. Coordinator of the Research Group “Culture, Normativity and Diversity”, from the Centre for Psychology at the University of Porto (CPUP).
Research interests: psychosocial processes associated to: 1) deviant behaviour (hate crime and economic crime); 2) extremisms (polarization and social conflict) and populism; 3) discrimination and different types of social exclusion; and 4) prosocial and pro-normative behaviour (social innovation). Isabel Pinto is involved (as PI, team member or member of the Advisory Board) in research projects about hate crime, perceived impact of corruption, inclusion vs. discrimination of refugees in EU, extremisms, populism, disinformation and conspiracy thinking, and social media misbehaviour.