Docente
Rita Pasion

Resume

Back in 2013, I had the chance to integrate the Lab.Neuropsychophysiology (U.Porto) to conduct my master's studies on the etiology of psychopathy. It planted the seed for what came next. In the next years I was a research fellow and received extensive training in EEG. In 2017, I started my PhD – awarded by FCT – at the same lab. The research plan was an extension of what I have learned from psychopathy as applied to broader mental health phenomena: that disorders are highly comorbid and clinical profiles can be heterogeneous – so we need to rethink the way we search for their neurobiological markers. As this is not a one-woman job, I immediately embraced international efforts such as Research Domain Criteria and Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Overall, my research stems from a paradigm shift: the one-to-one association hypothesis, aiming to find unique biomarkers for each disorder, will not suffice to explain the complex structure of psychopathology and its association with neurobiological mechanisms. Thus, following emerging movements, I redirected my focus to more parsimonious hypotheses aspiring to identify transdiagnostic markers underlying the risk for multiple psychiatric disorders. For example, in the last 3 years, I was first author and collaborator of relevant work aiming: 1) to dissociate components of personality structure; 2) to characterize ERP modulation, starting from the basic building blocks of the psychopathological structure (e.g., symptom) and proceeding to its highest level of generality (i.e., latent factors); 3) to rethink how self-report data need to be cross-validated with other modalities of assessment (e.g., ERP indicators) to define unidimensional biobehavioral constructs; 4) to propose a new approach to increase phenotyping precision. My research on neurosciences is now translating into how we can develop empirically-informed psychological assessment procedures. Following the evidence, we are developing at the HiTOP consortium a tool that maps more than 100 clinical symptoms - which will likely improve access to healthcare systems and diagnostic accuracy. I’m articulating with several stakeholders and coordinating the team that is collecting normative data on HiTOP-SR so we can have (for free!) concrete referents to generate comprehensive clinical profiles and identify individuals at risk. This will further help to unveil cross-cutting mechanisms that explain comorbidity between disorders and increase disease burden; paving the path for defining intervention strategies operating to mitigate related clinical problems. At the end of my PhD, in 2021, I was invited to be an Auxiliary Professor at Lusófona University. Considering my expertise, I was assigned as a lecturer of courses in the interface between Psychology and Neurosciences. The Board also gave me the mission to develop a master’s degree in clinical Neuropsychology and to build the HEI-LAB’s facilities at Porto Campus. I’m now the director of that masters and head of the Brain.Edge – Clinical&Translational Neuroscience Lab. At this lab, I truly emphasize creating an environment that encourages a research culture based on transparency, open science, national and international collaboration, accountability, close communication, work-family balance, innovation and problem-solving, empowering students and researchers so they can take ownership of their projects and contribute with unique insights. Within a two-year time frame, this team was able to attract funding from national and international agencies for 8 research projects. Currently, I stand at top 0,13% of worldwide researchers in ERPs (#1 Portugal) and 0,92% in Personality Disorders. I published in several high-ranked journals. In recognition of my work as a young researcher, I received several distinctions from national and international institutes (e.g., Society for Psychophysiological Research, Open Science Framework, Society Personality Assessment)

Graus

• Mestrado integrado
  Psicologia [Psychology]
• Doutoramento
  Programa Doutoral em Psicologia (Psychology Doctoral Program]
• Curso médio
  Cognitive and Affective Neurophysiology Summer School: Acquisition, processing and analysis of EEG signal (FPCEUP).
• Curso médio
  Avaliação Psicológica de Ofensores [Psychological Assessment: offenders]

Publicações

Artigo em revista

• 2024-12, The development of critical thinking, team working, and communication skills in a business school–A project-based learning approach, Thinking Skills and Creativity
• 2024-05-13, Systematic review and meta-analysis of the visual mismatch negativity in schizophrenia, European Journal of Neuroscience
• 2024-03-26, Light Cannabis Use and the Adolescent Brain: An 8-years Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health, Cognition, and Reward Processing, Psychopharmacology
• 2024-02-04, Addressing the Complex Links between Psychopathy and Childhood Maltreatment, Emotion Regulation, and Aggression—A Network Analysis in Adults, Behavioral Sciences
• 2024-02, Autistic traits and event-related potentials in the general population: A scoping review and meta-analysis, Biological Psychology
• 2024-01, Mother-child reporting discrepancies of child physical abuse: Associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms, Child Abuse & Neglect
• 2023-09, Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Comorbidity in Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology: An RDoC Multimethod Assessment, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
• 2023-06-19, Velamentous cord insertion in monochorionic twin pregnancies: a step forward in screening for twin to twin transfusion syndrome and birthweight discordance?, Journal of Perinatal Medicine
• 2023-06-19, Modeling relations between event-related potential factors and broader versus narrower dimensions of externalizing psychopathology., Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
• 2023-05-19, The influence of maternal reflective functioning and parenting behavior on infant development in the context of perinatal intimate partner violence: a study protocol, BMC Psychology
• 2023-05-12, Uncertainty deconstructed: conceptual analysis and state-of-the-art review of the ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity in decision-making, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
• 2023-05-10, Precision behavioral phenotyping as a strategy for uncovering the biological correlates of psychopathology, Nature Mental Health
• 2023-02-09, Childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and mother–infant neurophysiological and behavioral co-regulation during dyadic interaction: study protocol, BMC Psychology
• 2023-01, Mini Systematic Review: Event-related Potential Correlates of Aversive Conditioning in Psychopathy, Psiquiatria, Psicologia e Justiça
• 2023, Amplitude modulation of the contingent negative variation in psychopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
• 2022-12, Neuronal underpinnings of the attentional bias toward threat in the anxiety spectrum: meta-analytical data on P3 and LPP event-related potentials., Biological Psychology
• 2022-04, Neurophysiological examination of the Affect–Integration–Motivation framework of decision-making in the aging brain: A registered report, NeuroImage
• 2022, Awareness to utilitarian responses in later life: An ERP study with moral dilemmas, Neuroscience Letters
• 2021, Refining the link between psychopathy and empathy: A meta-analytical approach across different conceptual frameworks, Clinical Psychology Review
• 2021, Psychopathic Traits, Academic Fraud, and the Mediating Role of Motivation, Opportunity, Rationalization and Perceived Capability, Journal of Individual Differences
• 2021, Boldness Personality Traits Are Associated With Reduced Risk Perceptions and Adoption of Protective Behaviors During the First COVID-19 Outbreak, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2021, Abnormal Habituation of the Auditory Event-Related Potential P2 Component in Patients With Schizophrenia, Frontiers in Psychiatry
• 2021, A dimensional approach to the neuronal correlates of anxiety, depression, and perfectionism: A transdiagnostic dissociation of error-related brain activity, Behavioural Brain Research
• 2020-12-18, Impact of COVID-19 on undergraduate business students: a longitudinal study on academic motivation, engagement and attachment to university, Accounting Research Journal
• 2020-10-16, The AGE Effect on Protective Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Sociodemographic, Perceptions and Psychological Accounts, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2020-03-13, The neurophysiological correlates of the triarchic model of psychopathy: An approach to the basic mechanisms of threat conditioning and inhibitory control, Psychophysiology
• 2020-03, Further evaluation of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure: Evidence from community adult and prisoner samples from Portugal., Psychological Assessment
• 2019-08, ERN as a transdiagnostic marker of the internalizing-externalizing spectrum: A dissociable meta-analytic effect, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
• 2019-07-22, Empirically supported interventions in psychology: contributions of Research Domain Criteria, Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
• 2019-07, Callousness and meanness traits are associated with increased N2 amplitude in a community sample of adolescents and adults, Neuroscience Letters
• 2019-06, Psychometric properties of the Impulsive/Premeditated Aggression Scale in Portuguese community and forensic samples, Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
• 2019-04-06, N2 amplitude modulation across the antisocial spectrum: a meta-analysis, Reviews in the Neurosciences
• 2019-04, Attention allocation to 2D and 3D emotion-inducing scenes: A neurophysiological study, Neuroscience Letters
• 2019-01, Age-related changes in social decision-making: An electrophysiological analysis of unfairness evaluation in the Ultimatum Game, Neuroscience Letters
• 2019, The multiple facets of psychopathy in attack and defense conflicts, The Behavioral and brain sciences
• 2019, The effect of aging on the (mis)perception of intentionality: an ERP study, Social Neuroscience
• 2019, Corrigendum to ‘Emotion identification and aging: Behavioral and neural age-related changes’ (Clinical Neurophysiology (2018) 129(5) (1020–1029), (S1388245718302372), (10.1016/j.clinph.2018.02.128)), Clinical Neurophysiology
• 2018-12, ERN modulation under sustained threat: A pre-registered report, Journal of Research in Personality
• 2018-11-05, Fostering advances to neuropsychological assessment based on the Research Domain Criteria: The bridge between cognitive functioning and physiology, The Clinical Neuropsychologist
• 2018-10-15, Age-related decline in emotional perspective-taking: Its effect on the late positive potential, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
• 2018-09-12, Dissociable Effects of Psychopathic Traits on Executive Functioning: Insights From the Triarchic Model, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2018-09, Registered Replication Report on Srull and Wyer (1979), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
• 2018-09, Registered Replication Report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
• 2018-08, Antisocial behaviour and psychopathy: Uncovering the externalizing link in the P3 modulation, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
• 2018-07-25, Effects of age on the identification of emotions in facial expressions: a meta-analysis, PeerJ
• 2018-05, Emotion identification and aging: Behavioral and neural age-related changes, Clinical Neurophysiology
• 2018-05, Age differences in neural correlates of feedback processing after economic decisions under risk, Neurobiology of Aging
• 2018-04-05, European Portuguese adaptation and validation of dilemmas used to assess moral decision-making, Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
• 2018, Psychopathy and the sacredness of moral decision-making: insights from phenotypic components. , Psiquiatria, Psicologia & Justiça
• 2017-10-11, Meta-Analytic Evidence for a Reversal Learning Effect on the Iowa Gambling Task in Older Adults, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2017, OUTCOME PROCESSING IN THE CONTEXT OF GAINS VERSUS LOSSES: THE INFLUENCE OF FEEDBACK VALENCE IN FEEDBACK-P3, Psychophysiology
• 2016-07, Assessing a novel polymer-wick based electrode for EEG neurophysiological research, Journal of Neuroscience Methods
• 2016-06, Dissociation of boldness and disinhibition psychopathic traits in ERN modulation, Personality and Individual Differences

Tese / Dissertação

• 2014, Mestrado, Variantes etiológico-fenotípicas da psicopatia: uma abordagem neuropsicofisiológica diferencial do funcionamento executivo e resposta cerebral ao erro (Ne) [Phenotypic expressions of psychopathy: a neuropsychophysiological differential approach to executive functioning and neural response to errors]

Capítulo de livro

• 2023, General Factor of Psychopathology, Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior, Springer International Publishing
• 2020, Fernandes, C., Pasion, R., Gonçalves, A. R, Ferreira-Santos, F., Martins, I. P., Barbosa, F., & Marques-Teixeira, J. Neurocognitive characterization of healthy aging, X Congreso Internacional y XV Nacional de Psicología Clínica, Asociación Española de Psicología Conductual
• 2019, Moral decision-making in psychotic and paranoid symptoms: the mediating role of theory of mind.
• 2018, Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior, Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Springer International Publishing
• 2016, Disinhibition, Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Springer International Publishing
• 2013, Analyzing homicide by two independent raters: Instrumentality vs Reactivity, Proceedings of VI International Congress of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Psychology of Justice

Relatório

• 2022, LabReport 9: A Domain-specific Risk-attitude Scale (DRaS): Translation and adaptation to European Portuguese
• 2022, LabReport 8: The Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS): Translation and adaptation to European Portuguese

Recurso online

• 2023-04-28, Predictive Processing in Autistic and Schizotypal traits: A Neurophysiological study, https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7T2KD

Artigo em conferência

• Botelho, C; et al., Registered Report: Decision-making under uncertainty – ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity processing in an economic decision-making task. In livro de atas XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva, Santiago de Compostela, 2023.

Resumo em conferência

• 2023-10-06, Prenatal mental health problems and fear of childbirth
• 2023-10-06, History of adverse obstetric experiences and prenatal mental health problems
• 2020, Error related brain activity: A dimensional approach to anxiety and depression, IJUP (13º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da Universidade do Porto)

Poster em conferência

• 2023-07, Registered Report: Decision-making under uncertainty – ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity processing in an economic decision-making task, XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva
• 2023-05, The importance of the stimuli type in ERP studies with autistic traits, Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS)
• 2023, Sempf, F., Mazer, P., Pasion, R., Macedo, I., Garcez, H., Silveira, C., Ferreira-Santos, F. (May 2023). The importance of the stimuli type in ERP studies with autistic traits. European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS), Faro, Portugal
• 2023, Mazer, P., Pasion, R., Silveira, M. C., Ferreira-Santos, F. (October 2023). Preliminary Neurophysiological Findings on Predictive Processing in Individuals with Autistic and Schizotypal Traits. International Neuroscience Conference (NEURO 2023), Tblisi, Georgia (best poster award, 3rd place)
• 2022, Macedo, I., Paiva, T., Pasion, R., Daedelow, L., Heinz, A., Magalhães, A., & Barbosa, F. (2022, July). Cannabis and the adolescent brain: a longitudinal assessment of mental health, cognition, and reward/feedback processing. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Conference (Vienna, Austria).
• 2021-12-01, Amplitude modulation of the contingent negative variation in psychopathy: A meta-analysis – Preliminary results , XVII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN)
• 2021-05-27, Systematic review of event-related potential correlates of aversive conditioning in psychopathy, IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Neuropsicología
• 2021, Prata, C., Pasion, R., Almeida, R., & Ferreira-Santos, F. (2021, May 27-29). Systematic review of event-related potential correlates of aversive conditioning in psychopathy [Poster presentation]. IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Neuropsicología,
• 2021, Prata, C., Almeida, R., Pasion, R., Barbosa, F., & Ferreira-Santos F. (2021, December 1-3). Amplitude modulation of the contingent negative variation in psychopathy: A meta-analysis – Preliminary results [Poster presentation]. XVII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN), Coimbra, Portugal.
• 2021, Pasion, R, Paiva, TO, Fernandes, C., Ferreira-Santos, F, Barbosa, F. (June, 2021). Meanness psychopathic traits predict reduced fairness sensitivity: an ERP study on the Ultimatum Game. Poster session presented at the 5th international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
• 2021, Paiva, TO; Almeida, PR; Coelho, RC; Pasion, R; Barbosa, F; Ferreira-Santos, F Bastos-Leite, A.; Marques- Teixeira, J. (June, 2021). The Triarchic Model of Psychopathy: ERP evidence. Poster session presented at the 5th international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
• 2021, Paiva, TO, Coelho, R. C, Pasion, R, Dias-Oliveira, E., De Dreu, C. K. W., Barbosa, F. (June, 2021). The neurophysiological correlates of attack and defence conflicts. Poster session presented at the 5th international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
• 2021, Fernandes, C; Gonçalves, A R.; Pasion, R; Pereira, M. R., Ferreira-Santos, Barbosa, F; Marques-Teixeira,J. (June, 2021). Processing of own and other-age faces: an ERP study. Poster session presented at the 5th international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
• 2019-05, It was not your fault!: an erp study on the aging effect on the (mis)perception of intentionality, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS)
• 2019-05, Age-related differences in neural correlates of Feedback and Fairness Processing, 12th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS)
• 2019, Pasion, R., Fernandes, C., Gonçalves, A. R., Ferreira-Santos, F., Barbosa, F. & Marques-Teixeira, J. It was not your fault!: an ERP study on the aging effect on the (mis)perception of intentionality. , Annual Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Conference, USA, Miami
• 2019, Paiva, TO; Almeida, PR; Coelho, RC; Pasion, R; Barbosa, F; Ferreira-Santos, F; Bastos-Leite, A.; Marques-Teixeira, J. The Triarchic Model of Psychopathy: ERP evidence for Trait Fearlessness and Externalizing Vulnerability, Annual Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Conference. Miami, USA
• 2019, Geraldo, A., Azeredo A., Pasion, P., Dores, A. R., Barbosa, F. Bridging neurophysiology and clinical neuropsychology through the RDoC. , 27º European Congress of Psychiatry, European Psychiatric Association, Warsaw, Poland.
• 2019, Fernandes, C; Pasion, R; Gonçalves, A R.; Barbosa, F; Ferreira-Santos, F; Martins, I.P.; Marques-Teixeira, J. Age-related differences in neural correlates of Feedback and Fairness Processing, Annual Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Conference, USA, Miami
• 2018-04, The aging social brain: neural and behavioral age-related changes in social cognition and decision-making, 12º Simpósio da Fundação Bial: Aquém e Além do Cérebro
• 2018, Martins, E. C., Pasion, R., & Barbosa, F. RDoC and Empirically-Based Psychological Interventions. , 1st ISMAI International Psychotherapy Conference. Porto, Portugal.
• 2017, Pasion, R., Gonçalves, F. & Barbosa, F. Moral decision-making in psychotic and paranoid symptoms: the mediating role of theory of mind., X Congreso Internacional y XV Nacional de Psicologia Clínica. Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• 2017, Pasion, R., & Barbosa, F. Reinterpreting Error-Related Negativity under the aegis of RDoC , XVII World Congress of Psychiatry
• 2017, Fernandes, C., Gonçalves, A. R., Pasion, R., Ferreira-Santos, F., Barbosa, F., Martins, I.P., & Marques-Teixeira, J. Outcome processing in the context of gains versus losses: the influence of feedback valence in Feedback-P3., Annual Meeting of Society for Psychophysiological Research
• 2016, Pasion, R., Cruz, A. R., & Barbosa, F. Psychopathy and antisocial behavior: insights from neuropsychology., 3rd international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
• 2015, Cruz, A., Pasion, R., & Barbosa, F. Preditores do funcionamento executivo em ofensores violentos e não violentos. [Executive functioning predictors of violent and non-violent offending], VII International Congress of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Psychology of Justice
• 2014, Cruz, A. R., Pasion, R., & Barbosa, F. Executive functions in non-violent offenders: An exploratory study. , 9th Forum of Federation of European Neurosciences Societies
• 2013, Cruz, A. R., Pasion, R., & Barbosa, F. Analyzing homicide by two independent raters: Instrumentality vs Reactivity, VI International Congress of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Psychology of Justice

Outra produção

• 2021, Feedback processing in attack and defense conflicts: A neurophysiological study