Team
Current members
The team comprises university professors and researchers (mostly from FPCE-UC/Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra), PhD researchers, PhD students and external collaborators in different areas of specialisation, which mainly include Psychological Assessment, Neuropsychology, Forensic Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychogerontology, Psychometrics, Statistics, Work and Organisational Psychology and Applied Linguistics.
The implementation of systematic research programmes for the development, adaptation, psychometric and clinical validation and standardisation of assessment instruments is the common denominator of the PsyAssessmentLab team.
Teaching and professional practice in (Neuro)Psychological Assessment are also common activities for most members of the PsyAssessmentLab team.
Diretor
Mário R. Simões
Research Interests: (Neuro)Psychological Assessment: Theory, Adaptation and standardization of instruments for Portuguese population (cognitive functions, personality, symptom validity and response styles including malingering and insufficient effort). Psychological Reports.
Professors of FPCE-UC
Research Interests: Biostatistics; Psychometric analysis; Statistics applications to health and social sciences; Mathematical modeling; Structured Additive Regression (STAR) Modeling; Statistics in education.
Research Interests: Assessment instruments in learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities and reading/writing.
Research Interests: Child custody assessment; PTSD symptoms assessment; Child abuse/neglect risk assessment. Forensic Psychology.
Research Interests: Applying Rasch models to career development variables, personality and motivational variables; Applying CTT models to students’ evaluations of teaching (STE) effectiveness. Psychometrics.
Research Interests: Applying Rasch models to career development variables, personality and motivational variables; Applying CTT models to students’ evaluations of teaching (STE) effectiveness. Psychometrics.
Research Interests: Quality of life in older adults; Rehabilitation/neuropsychological rehabilitation; Projective techniques. (Neuro)Psychological assessment.
Research Interests: Assessment of executive functioning in children; Assessment instruments in learning disabilities; Creative thinking assessment.
Research Interests: Preschoolers psychological assessment instruments; Family interventions in preschool children; Efficacy of intervention programs in preschoolers.
Research Interests: Assessment in team functioning and team effectiveness; Organizational functioning and organizational effectiveness; Individual behavior and attitudes at work.
Research Interests: assessment of episodic/autobiographical memory and transient memory in working-age individuals, without and with memory deficit, and elderly individuals without and with non-normative cognitive decline. Memory distortions: interrogative suggestibility assessment..
Research Interests: Assessment in team functioning and team effectiveness; Organizational functioning and organizational effectiveness; Individual behavior and attitudes at work.
Researchers with a PhD
Research Interests: Neuropsychological assessment of children and adolescents in clinical pediatric neurology (namely, epilepsy, neurofibromatosis type I, traumatic brain injury).
Research Interests: (Neuro)Psychological Assessment; Older Adults; Assessment of Healthcare Decision-Making Capacity; Development and Validation of an Instrument for the Assessment of Healthcare Decision-Making Capacity, IACTD-CS (Instrumento de Avaliação da Capacidade de Tomada de Decisão em Cuidados de Saúde); Neurodegenerative Disorders; Cognitive Impairment; Psychological Resilience.
Research Interests: Neuropsychological Assessment. Cognitive screening. Cognitive impairment. Neurodegenerative disorders.
Research Interests: Neuropsychological and Psychological Assessments; Movement Disorders; Executive Functions.
Research Interests: Construction, adaptation and validation of neurocognitive tests, namely computer-based screening tests for young and older adults; fitness to drive assessment studies, including psychological and on-road performance.
Research Interests: Adults/older adults functional assessment and capacity assessment procedures in forensic settings; Cognitive screening; Social desirability and insufficient effort test development, validation and normalization.
Research Interests: Child's neurocognitive assessment; Psychometrics; Neurodevelopmental disorders, namely learning disabilities, attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder.
Research Interests: Construction, adaptation and validation of psychological assessment instruments; Rasch model; Personality assessment and related constructs; Individual differences.
Research Interests: Forensic Psychological Assessment, Psychometrics, Psychopathy, Delinquency, Violence Prevention; Criminal Psychology.
Research Interests: Neuropsychological Assessment. Older adults. Psychopathological disorders.
Research Interests: Neuropsychological assessment tool; Estimation of incidence of cognitive decline in Portugal; Validation studies of a cognitive training platform, risk and protective factors of cognitive aging; Metal toxicity in neurodegenerative pathogenesis.
Research Interests: Preschool assessment; Adaptation and standardization of psychological assessment instruments (PKBS-2); Assessment of social skills and behavior problems; Family interventions in preschoolers with behavior problems.
PhD Students
Research Interests: Preschoolers (neuro)psychological assessment instruments; Adaptation and standardization of (neuro)psychological assessment instruments; Executive functions; Intervention programs in preschoolers.
Research interests: (Neuro)Psychological Assessment; Aging; Cognitive Impairment; Neurodegenerative disorders; Exposure to Potentially Toxic Elements.
Research Interests: (Neuro)Psychological assessment: Older adults assessment namely, Cognitive screening, Personality, Social desirability, Successful aging, Persepectives of death.
Research Interests: Forensic clinical (neuro)psychological assessment. Malingering. Symptom Validity Tests. Adaptation, validation and standardization of assessment instruments for Portuguese population.
Research Interests: (Neuro)Psychological Assessment; Neurodevelopmental disorders, namely learning disabilities and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Research Interests: (Neuro)Psychological Assessment; Aging; Cognitive Reserve; Cognitive Impairment
Research Interests:Addictive behaviors; (Neuro)Psychological Assessment; Adaptation, validation and standardization of assessment instruments for Portuguese population; Forensic Psychology; Personality Disorders.
Research Interests: Forensic Psychological Assessment; Personality Assessment. Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI, PAI-A). Psychological Reports.
Research Interests: Forensic Psychological Assessment: Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) validation; Domestic violence; Psychological reports.
Research Interests: Neuropsychological Assessment; Ageing; Cognitive Impairment; Neurogenerative disorders;.
Research Interests: Quality of life and psychopathology. Personality assessment and related constructs. Psychological Assessment: adaptation, validation and standardization of instruments for Portuguese population. Child custody assessment and Forensic Psychological Assessment.
External Collaborators
Coimbra University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities / Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras
Research Interests: (Neuro)Psychological assessment instruments: linguistic criteria and resources; psycholinguistics.
Salamanca University, Spain. Faculty of Psychology / Universidade de Salamanca, Espanha, Faculdade de Psicologia
Research Interests: Psychometrics; Item Response Theory; Rasch Model in (neuro)psychological assessment
Research Interests: Psychometrics; Data mining; Machine learning.
Research Interests: Psychological assessment, test development, clinical and forensic neuropsychology.
Former Lab Members
Research Interests: Premorbid intelligence; Neuropsychological assessment.
Research Interests: Neuropsychological assessment; Memory; Cognitive impairment.