Collaborator Member
Social Development Team
Carolina Santos is a Postdoctoral researcher at WJCR, with a background in evolutionary and comparative psychology, and developmental psychology.
Her main research focuses are parent-child interactions and children’s social-emotional development, with a strong focus on behavioral and observational measures.
Carolina is currently involved in the implementation of a Video Feedback Intervention for caregivers that promotes positive parenting, sensitive discipline, and parent-child bonding (funded by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; PI: Manuela Veríssimo); a research project examining the behavioral and physiological similarities and differences between the different types of behavioral inhibition 2023.17826.ICDT; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, PI: António J. Santos); and a project exploring the interference of parental cellphone’s use on parenting and child’s emotions (2024.15654.PEX; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, PI: Eva Diniz).
Main 5 publications
Witte, A. M., Santos, C., Majdandžic, M., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. (2026). Testosterone levels, challenging parenting behavior, and protective parenting behavior: A correlational study among first-time fathers in the first year of fatherhood. Developmental Psychobiology 68(3), e70160. doi:10.1002/dev.70160
Torres, N.; Santos, C.; Monteiro, L. (2022). Parenting sensitivity, salivary oxytocin levels and children’s behavioral problems in a Portuguese sample. PSICOLOGIA 36 (2), 42-51. doi: 10.17575/psicologia.1762
Santos, C.; Monteiro, L.; Torres, N. (2022). The role of child’s age, sex, and temperament in father involvement during the pre-school years. Children 9 (9), 1327. doi: 10.3390/children9091327
Costa Martins, M.; Santos, C.; Fernandes, M.; Veríssimo, M. (2022). Attachment and the development of prosocial behavior in children and adolescents: A systematic review. Children 9 (6), 874. doi: 10.3390/children9060874
Santos, C.; Monteiro, L.; Torres, N.; Tereno, S. (2021). Paternal involvement with preschoolers: The contributions of parenting styles and child negative affect. Devenir 33 (3) 221-240. doi: 10.3917/dev.213.0221
Santos, C.; Monteiro, L.; Ribeiro, O.; Vaughn, B. E. (2020). Children’s play profiles: Contributions from child’s temperament and father’s parenting styles in a Portuguese sample. Frontiers in Psychology 11 1978. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01978
Contacts
E-mail: acsantos@ispa.pt
CiênciaVitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/FF18-E184-F681
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carolina_Santos24
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2776-8795
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAW-3704-2020
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=25948962200
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