
Integrated Member
Social Cognition and Body Odors Team
Nuno Gomes is an assistant professor at ISPA – Instituto Universitário. In May 2021, he obtained a PhD degree, funded by an individual doctoral fellowship from FCT, in Social Psychology at ISPA – Instituto Universitário (Portugal), with unanimous distinction and laudation. During his PhD, he was interested in understanding the modulatory effects of emotional chemosignals (e.g., fear body odors) and the presence of conspecifics on human vigilance. He also worked on an international research project (POTION) funded by the European Commission under the H2020 program, which explores the contribution of happy and fear-related body odors in modulating several dimensions of social relations. Currently, he is interested in understanding how aggression and happiness chemosignals may modulate the establishment of social relations in healthy and anosmic people.
Main publications
Gomes, N., Benrós, M. F., Martins, J. S., & Semin, G. R. (2025). Sweating it out: the influence of sex and emotions on human sweat production. Biological Psychology, 109125. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109125
Semin, G. R., DePhillips, M., & Gomes, N. (2023). Investigating Inattentional Blindness Through the Lens of Fear Chemosignals. Psychological Science. doi: 10.1177/09567976231213572
Gomes, N., Pause, B. M., Smeets, M. A. M., & Semin, G. R. (2023). Comparing Fear and Anxiety Chemosignals: Do they modulate facial muscle activity and facilitate identifying facial expressions?. Chemical Senses. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjad016
Gomes, N. & Semin, G. R. (2021). The function of fear chemosignals: Preparing for Danger.. Chemical Senses. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjab005
Gomes, N., Silva, F., & Semin, G. R. (2020). The lasting smell of emotions: The effects of reutilizing fear sweat samples. Behavior Research Methods. doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01412-5
Contacts
Email: ngomes@ispa.pt
CiênciaVitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/6713-CA64-F3AB
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0545-607X
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nuno-Gomes-3
