Cognitive, social and affective neuroscience for understanding human interaction

• Grant number: 17/12752-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2017
• End date: July 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Physiological Psychology
• Agreement: Natura
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Sérgio Boggio
• Grantee: William Edgar Machado Comfort
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM). Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/50282-5 - Positive psychology and neuroscience: translational research to promote well-being and emotional regulation, AP.PCPE

Abstract

The main goal of this project is to comprehend the underlying mechanisms of human attractiveness. Specifically, we are going to investigate this topic by the use of implicit tasks creating an approach-avoidance bias index. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

COMFORT, WILLIAM EDGAR; DE ANDRADE, BIANCA NUNES; WINGENBACH, TANJA S. H.; CAUSEUR, DAVID; BOGGIO, PAULO SERGIO. Implicit Responses in the Judgment of Attractiveness in Faces With Differing Levels of Makeup. PSYCHOLOGY OF AESTHETICS CREATIVITY AND THE ARTS, SEP 2021. (17/12752-8, 19/16717-8, 17/00738-0, 14/50282-5)

MANFREDI, MIRELLA; PROVERBIO, ALICE MADO; DE PINHO, PAMELLA SANCHEZ MELLO; RIBEIRO, BEATRIZ; COMFORT, WILLIAM EDGAR; MURRINS MARQUES, LUCAS; BOGGIO, PAULO SERGIO. Electrophysiological indexes of ToM and non-ToM humor in healthy adults. Experimental Brain Research, v. 238, n. 4, FEB 2020. (15/00553-5, 17/12752-8, 17/06136-2)

LAPENTA, OLIVIA M.; MARQUES, LUCAS M.; REGO, GABRIEL G.; COMFORT, WILLIAM E.; BOGGIO, PAULO S.. tDCS in Addiction and Impulse Control Disorders. JOURNAL OF ECT, v. 34, n. 3, p. 182-192, SEP 2018. (17/06136-2, 15/18713-9, 17/12752-8)