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Natália Lisandra Fernandes' main research interests include experimental psychology, cognitive psychology and evolutionary psychology. Currently, she is working on various projects exploring the evolutionary underpinnings of cognitive functioning, particularly with respect to the behavioral immune system functioning. Specifically, she has been exploring whether human memory and attention are biased or tuned to solve fitness-relevant adaptive problems, particularly those that involve contamination and reproduction.
She finished her PhD on “The behavioral immune system: Cognitive consequences of contamination” in January 2020, at University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her project was supervised by Josefa N. S. Pandeirada (University of Aveiro, Portugal) and James S. Nairne (Purdue University, USA) and supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/109775/2015).
She was the Co-Principal Investigator of the project "Coming out of the box: Moving from traditional to virtual procedures to explore prospective memory and contamination" (EXPL/PSI-GER/1008/2021).
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EXPL/PSI-GER/1008/2021
SFRH/BD/109775/2015