Interdisciplinary Workshop on Biases

Thursday 3rd December

13.30 Cristina Mendonça (WJCR – Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal): Cognitive biases in the social transmission of information

14.30 Elena Popa (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain): Scientific objectivity: From values, to biases, to context

15.30 Simone Lackner (Independent researcher, Portugal): AI and objective Truth – the myth of the rational agent

Friday 4th December

9.00 Filipa Madeira (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal): When does race capture attention? Resource scarcity in a healthcare context

10.00 Marina Trakas (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal): Mnemonic biases

11.00 Francisco Cruz (WJCR – Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Portugal): Putting the biased in bias: Cognitive and motivational bases in distorted social judgments

  This activity is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the project UID/00310/2025, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/00310/2025).