About Us

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.