Our Mission
1. aspire toward ground-breaking research and its applications;
2. integrate with researchers in other Portuguese universities and expand expertise in psychological science;
3. bring together fundamental research and its applications; and
4. maintain a highly visible presence in the scientific community and the public eye.
The Director
Professor Manuela Veríssimo is currently Professor of Psychology at ISPA – Instituto Universitário and the Scientific Coordinator of the William James Center for Research at the same institution in Lisbon, Portugal.
External Advisory Committee
& Ombudsman
Aldert Vrij, University of Portsmouth (U.K.) | External Advisory Committee
Alex Kacelnik, University of Oxford (U.K.) | External Advisory Committee
Antony Manstead, Cardiff University (U.K.) | External Advisory Committee
Carlo Schuengel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) | External Advisory Committee
Nicholas Emler, University of Surrey (U.K.) | External Advisory Committee
Fritz Strack, Universität Würzburg (Germany) | Ombudsman
Funding
The WJCR is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia/ The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) via the program “Strategic funding for R&D Units”, with reference UID/04810.




