Armindo Freitas-Magalhães
Encyclopedia
Armindo Freitas-Magalhães, Ph.D., (born 1966) is a Portuguese
psychologist
working on the psychology
of the human smile
in the context of emotion
and facial expression
. His research and clinical-forensic expertise includes investigative interviewing, credibility assessment, forensic assessment, facial expression of emotion and variables associated with eyewitness memory in victims and offenders of crime and trauma. He has also provided consultation and training overseas.
, Norte region, Portugal. He studied at the University of Coimbra, and he did a Ph.D. in Psychology at University Aberta, Lisbon. He is the author of the book "The Psychology of Human Smile". Since 2006 he is Professor of the Psychology of Emotions, Psychology and Law, Applied Psychology and Experimental Psychology at University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), in Porto
. He is founder and current director of the Facial Emotion Expression Lab
(FEELab) at that university. He is fellow of several international scientific societies (e.g. American Psychological Association
, Association for Psychological Science
, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
, International Society for Research on Emotions, International Brain Research Organization
, International Neuropsychological Society and European Health Psychology Society), as well as being member of several literary societies. His studies focus on the recognition from basic emotions, particularly the smile. He founded the National Front for the Defense of Culture (Lisbon, 1992) with among others José Saramago
. He lives in Porto
with his wife, Ana, and son, Gonçalo.
He is the author of more than 100 articles, empirical reports, research reviews and theorical papers, as well as attendee to conferences, and has written six books on psychology. Freitas-Magalhães is also the author of 11 novels and has published poetry. The common theme of his research and fiction is on furthering our understandings of interactions within complex systems, especially complex emotional systems. Freitas-Magalhães's theories of fiction includes the idea that novels and poetry are simulations that run not on machines but on our minds. His books have been translated into several languages.
Freitas-Magalhães is the author of FACE, a scientific project in Portugal that will allow neuropsychological mapping of the Portuguese facial expression. The FACE imaging technology will contribute to a database of facial expression available for the most diverse social applications, such as health, justice and education. He is the author of "A decade of smile in Portugal" (2003–2013). He is the author "ForensicPsy" on the assessment and measurement on emotion facial expression of offenders for the criminal investigation and judicial proceedings (2009).
Currently, he is the leader of the international scientific project "The Brain and The Face".
(2008), Scientific Contribution by “Alive Science” (2007) and “Scientist Generation”(2006) (RTP, Lisbon - Radio and Television of Portugal
) and “Portuguese par Excellence” (2003) (TSF
, Lisbon).
Besides national (Portuguese) media attention, his research has received international press attention. (e.g., in the European Herald Tribune and The Australian News).
and released to commemorate the bicentenary of Charles Darwin
´s birth.
The aim of this project is to facilitate the identification, recognition, regulation and use of emotions in various psychosocial contexts, such as schools (from kindergarten), public and private health, the host social institutions and justice organizations.
According to Freitas-Magalhães, "education assertion of emotional states, contributed, decisively, from childhood, to pursue the happiness and good practice, and therefore decreased the clinical symptoms, violence, stress, drug and alcohol abuse"
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
psychologist
Psychologist
Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
working on the psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
of the human smile
Smile
A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes . Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, joy, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known...
in the context of emotion
Emotion
Emotion is a complex psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical and environmental influences. In humans, emotion fundamentally involves "physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience." Emotion is associated with mood,...
and facial expression
Facial expression
A facial expression one or more motions or positions of the muscles in the skin. These movements convey the emotional state of the individual to observers. Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal communication. They are a primary means of conveying social information among humans, but also occur...
. His research and clinical-forensic expertise includes investigative interviewing, credibility assessment, forensic assessment, facial expression of emotion and variables associated with eyewitness memory in victims and offenders of crime and trauma. He has also provided consultation and training overseas.
Biography
Freitas-Magalhães (fɾɐjtɐʒ mɐɡɐʎɐ̃ȷ̃ʃ) (1966-) was born in FornelosFornelos
-Portugal:* Fornelos , a civil parish in the municipality of Barcelos* Fornelos , a civil parish in the municipality of Cinfães* Fornelos , a civil parish in the municipality of Fafe...
, Norte region, Portugal. He studied at the University of Coimbra, and he did a Ph.D. in Psychology at University Aberta, Lisbon. He is the author of the book "The Psychology of Human Smile". Since 2006 he is Professor of the Psychology of Emotions, Psychology and Law, Applied Psychology and Experimental Psychology at University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), in Porto
Porto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
. He is founder and current director of the Facial Emotion Expression Lab
Facial Emotion Expression Lab
The Facial Expression Emotion Lab was founded by Armindo Freitas-Magalhães in 2003 and is a unit of the College of Health Sciences at the Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal. The mission of the lab is to create new scientific knowledge about the human emotions and their forms of social...
(FEELab) at that university. He is fellow of several international scientific societies (e.g. American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 154,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. The APA...
, Association for Psychological Science
Association for Psychological Science
The Association for Psychological Science , previously the American Psychological Society, is a non-profit international organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of...
, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology is an academic society for personality and social psychologists with over 4500 members worldwide. SPSP serves as Division 8 of the American Psychological Association and publishes the journals Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and...
, International Society for Research on Emotions, International Brain Research Organization
International Brain Research Organization
The International Brain Research Organization was founded in 1961 in response to the growing demand from neuroscientists in many countries for the creation of a central organization that would cut across world boundaries and improve communication and collaboration among brain researchers...
, International Neuropsychological Society and European Health Psychology Society), as well as being member of several literary societies. His studies focus on the recognition from basic emotions, particularly the smile. He founded the National Front for the Defense of Culture (Lisbon, 1992) with among others José Saramago
José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...
. He lives in Porto
Porto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
with his wife, Ana, and son, Gonçalo.
Work
His research is devoted to understanding emotions in individuals and society. Among Freitas-Magalhães's professional interests are physiological psychology, psychology of emotions, facial emotion expression and human-computer interaction, human smile and cross-cultural nonverbal behavior. During the last twenty years his principal research has been on human emotions and the influence of smile on emotional disorders such as depression. More recently he has conducted research on the cognitive and emotional processes of reading human faces. Freitas-Magalhães is the author of several IT applications and interfaces in relation to emotions and facial expression.He is the author of more than 100 articles, empirical reports, research reviews and theorical papers, as well as attendee to conferences, and has written six books on psychology. Freitas-Magalhães is also the author of 11 novels and has published poetry. The common theme of his research and fiction is on furthering our understandings of interactions within complex systems, especially complex emotional systems. Freitas-Magalhães's theories of fiction includes the idea that novels and poetry are simulations that run not on machines but on our minds. His books have been translated into several languages.
Freitas-Magalhães is the author of FACE, a scientific project in Portugal that will allow neuropsychological mapping of the Portuguese facial expression. The FACE imaging technology will contribute to a database of facial expression available for the most diverse social applications, such as health, justice and education. He is the author of "A decade of smile in Portugal" (2003–2013). He is the author "ForensicPsy" on the assessment and measurement on emotion facial expression of offenders for the criminal investigation and judicial proceedings (2009).
Currently, he is the leader of the international scientific project "The Brain and The Face".
Awards and media attention
He was distinguished for Scientific Contribution by the UK Government within the “Global Partnership Programme” (2008), Scientific Contribution by Instituto Nokia de TecnologiaInstituto Nokia de Tecnologia
Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia , also usually referred to as INdT, is a non-profit organization aimed on research and development of mobile software and telecommunication technology. INdT was founded in Brazil by Nokia in October 2001 with incentive funds from the Brazilian Law on Information...
(2008), Scientific Contribution by “Alive Science” (2007) and “Scientist Generation”(2006) (RTP, Lisbon - Radio and Television of Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....
) and “Portuguese par Excellence” (2003) (TSF
TSF (radio)
TSF is a Portuguese radio station headquartered in Lisbon. It is a news focused radio station. It was legally founded in 1989, but its first emission was on February 29, 1988....
, Lisbon).
Besides national (Portuguese) media attention, his research has received international press attention. (e.g., in the European Herald Tribune and The Australian News).
Psychopathy
He is the author of the scientific project "Psychopathy and Emotions in Portugal" (2010) with the aim of understanding the brain processes involved in neuropsychophysiological reactions of facial expression of emotion, learn why the pattern of negative emotionality are common in the psychopathy, if there are gender and age differences and look for the organic and environmental issues involved and set a standard that allows the treatment and prophylaxis of crime. To verify and analyze the brains of psychopaths and the ratio for the facial expression will be used magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neurofunctional psychometry and IT platforms that stimulate the brain systems, particularly the limbic system.Emotional literacy
Freitas-Magalhães is the creator of the emotional literacy project called "If I Say That Sometimes The Flowers Smile" based on a verse of Fernando PessoaFernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa , was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic and translator described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.-Early years in Durban:On 13 July...
and released to commemorate the bicentenary of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
´s birth.
The aim of this project is to facilitate the identification, recognition, regulation and use of emotions in various psychosocial contexts, such as schools (from kindergarten), public and private health, the host social institutions and justice organizations.
According to Freitas-Magalhães, "education assertion of emotional states, contributed, decisively, from childhood, to pursue the happiness and good practice, and therefore decreased the clinical symptoms, violence, stress, drug and alcohol abuse"
Publications
- The Ekman Code: The Brain, Face and Emotion. University Fernando Pessoa Press, 2011. ISBN 978-989-643-067-2
- Facial Expression of Emotion: From Theory to Application. FEELab Science Books, 2011. ISBN 978-972-99700-3-0
- Facial Expression of Emotion. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-12-226920-2
- Emotional Expression: The Brain and The Face (Vol. 2). University Fernando Pessoa Press, 2010. ISBN 978-989-643-061-0.
- Emotional Expression: The Brain and The Face (Vol. 1). University Fernando Pessoa Press, 2009. ISBN 978-989-643-034-4.
- The Psychology of Emotions: The Allure of Human Face. University Fernando Pessoa Press, 2007. ISBN 972-8830-84-7 - ISBN 978-989-643-031-3 (2nd Ed., 2009).
- The Psychology of Human Smile. University Fernando Pessoa Press, 2006. ISBN 972-8830-59-9 - ISBN 978-989-643-035-1 (2nd Ed., 2009).
External links
- UFP Faculty Official site
- Complete bibliography
- Presentation of the book "Emotional Expression: The Brain and The Face" by James Bray, Ph.D., President of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Professor at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), on November 23, 2009
- Video of Freitas-Magalhaes´s 2008 Ceremony of Doctorate Honoris Causa to Paul Ekman, "The Ekman Code or the Eulogy to the Human Face"
- Media
- University Fernando Pessoa
- Facial Emotion Expression Lab
- Academia | Oxford University
- freitas.socialpsychology.org