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Joana Maria Simão Mendonça

Joana_Mendonca@iscte-iul.pt

Research Fields

Ageing; Ageism; Development of ageism across childhood; Intergenerational programs

Educational Qualifications

Licenciate In Licenciatura em Psicologia, ISCTE, In 2010

Other type of qualification In Mestrado em Psicologia Social e das Organizações, ISCTE-IUL, In 2012

PhD In Doutoramento em Psicologia, ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa - Centro de Investigacao e Intervencao Social, In 2020

Recent Publications

Scientific journal paper

Augusto, F. R., Hilário, A. P. & Mendonça, J. (2025). More than meets the eye: Understanding the importance of the materialities of care at the vaccination encounter in Portugal. Health.

Augusto, F. R., Guerreiro, C. S., Morais, R., Mendonça, J., Beja, A., Correia, T....Hilário, A. P. (2025). Addressing vaccine hesitancy in the training of healthcare professionals: Insights from the VAX-TRUST project. Public Health in Practice. 9

Pia Vuolanto, ANA NUNES ALMEIDA, Alistair Anderson, Petra Auvinen, André Beja, Piet Bracke...ALEKSANDRA WAGNER (2024). Trust matters: The addressing vaccine hesitancy in Europe study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 52 (3), 379-390

Ana Patrícia Hilário, Iorio, J., Mendonça, J. & Silva, Katielle (2024). Hesitação vacinal infantil sob o ponto de vista dos profissionais de saúde: um olhar sobre o lugar das comunidades imigrantes e minorias étnicas em Portugal. Análise Social. 2-20

Mendonça, J., Hilário, A. P. & Gouveia, L. (2024). Motivational interviewing to address vaccine hesitancy: Insights from an intervention in Portugal. Portuguese Journal of Public Health.

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Marques, S., Abrantes, Lídia & Mendonça, J. (2020). Different sides of the same coin: the acceptance of blatant and subtle forms of ageism towards older people. IV Congreso Internacional Sociedad Cientifica Espanhola Psicologia Social.

Marques, S., Mariano, J., Mendonça, J., Tavernier, W., Hess, M., Naegele, L....Martins, D. (2019). Determinants of ageism towards older adults: A systematic review of the empirical evidence. IAGG-ER 2019.

Mendonça, J., Marques, S., Abrams, D., Swift, H., Rodrigues, R. B. & Gerardo, F. (2019). Children's Attitudes toward Older People: Pattern of development of explicit and implicit ageism along childhood. IAGG-ER.

Ribeiro, Mariana, Marques, S., Rodrigues, R. B., Mendonça, J. & Gerardo, F. (2018). Sea Your Age – Programa Intergeracional de Mindfulness para a diminuição do idadismo. 12º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde: Promover e Inovar em Psicologia da Saúde.

Publication in conference proceedings

Tröger, J., Mariano, J., Marques, S., Mendonça, J., Girenko, A., Alexandersson, J....Bundgård-Jørgensen, U. (2017). Technology experience café - enabling technology - driven social innovation for an ageing society. In Zhou J., Salvendy G. (Ed.), International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. (pp. 199-210). Cham: Springer.

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