Filipa Barros

Filipa Barros has a PhD in Psychology (University of Aveiro) and is currently a collaborator member of the William James Center for Research (Social Cognition and Body Odors Team). She is also a guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal, and a researcher at the Católica Research Center for Psychological, Family and Social Wellbeing (CRC-W). Her main research interests include the study of social cognition processes, emotional processing, and visual/olfactory processing in the general population and in the autism spectrum. She has scientific publications in the areas of emotions, autism, and human olfaction.
Currently, she is also a mediator for school success in the project “Mediators for School Success”, developed by the Associação Empresários pela Inclusão Social (EPIS) and implemented in schools of Ovar through a partnership between EPIS and the Ovar municipality. Member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists since 2017, she also works as a clinical psychologist in private context.

Main publications

Gouveia, C., Soares, B., Albuquerque, D., Barros, F., Soares, S. C., Pinho, P., Vieira, J., & Brás, S. (2024). Remote emotion recognition using continuous-wave bio-radar system”. Sensors, 24(5), 1420. doi: 10.3390/s24051420
Barros, F., Figueiredo, C., Brás, S., Carvalho, J. M., & Soares, S. C. (2022). Multidimensional assessment of anxiety through the State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA): From dimensionality to response prediction across emotional contexts. PLOS ONE, 17(1), e0262960. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262960
Barros, F., Soares, S. C., Rocha, M., Bem, P., Samuel, H., & Lundqvist, D. (2022). The angry versus happy recognition advantage: the role of emotional and physical properties. Psychological Research. doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01648-0
Barros, F., Figueiredo, C., Costa, A., & Soares, S. C. (2021). Sensory Processing in the Autism Spectrum: The Role of Attention to Detail and Somatic Trait Anxiety in the Olfactory Perception of the General Population. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51, 2338-2353. doi: 10.1007/s10803-020-04711-0
Barros, F., & Soares, S. C. (2020). Giving meaning to the social world in autism spectrum disorders: Olfaction as a missing piece of the puzzle? Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 116, 239-250. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.06.008

Contacts

Email: fmbarros@ua.pt
CiênciaVitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/D11A-9085-2A62
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4195-7805
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Filipa_Barros3