Dr. Antonio Olivera La Rosa

CURRICULUM VITAE

EVOCOG - Human Evolution & Cognition                                                      

Universitat de les Illes Balears                                                                                     

Edificio Guillem Cifre Colonya                                                                                            

Carr. Valldemossa 7,5 Km                                                                                                     

07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain  

 acensulay@yahoo.es        

+(34) 67-7188967  

EDUCATION

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

PhD, Summa Cum Laude, 2012. Human Evolution and Cognition

General Examination Field:  Experimental Cognitive Psychology

Dissertation:  ’Effects of the time course of negative affective priming on moral judgment: the shorter the SOA, the lesser the severity’

Thesis directors: Dr. Camilo Jose Cela-Conde/Dr. Jaume Rosselló Mir

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Master of Science, 2012. Human Evolution and Cognition

General Examination Field:  Experimental Cognitive Psychology

Academic file average qualification: 9,20

University of Applied Sciences - UPC, Lima, Perú

Laureate International Universities Member

Honours Degree, Magna Cum Laude, 2007. Communication Science with major in Advertising

Dissertation: Memetics as basis for the development of a successful selling line"

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 

Doctoral National Research and Academic Award

Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain, 2011-2012

Grant for twelve months of Dissertation Research in USA

Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain, 2010

Host Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Haidt, University of Virginia

Pre-doctoral National Scholarship for Training of Researchers and Academics

Ministry of Education and Culture, Spain, 2008-2009

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE   

Human Cognition and Evolution Research Group (EVOCOG), Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Doctoral Fellow at Cognitive Psychology Lab. with Dr. Jaume Rosselló Mir, 2008 - present

Line: Cognitive Psychology, Moral Psychology, Emotion, Persuasion

Project:  Effects of suboptimal affective priming on moral judgment

−        Design and run a systematic experimental program with more than 350 participants.

−        Pilot Study: tested dilemmas’ scoring without priming.

−        Study 1: tested whether contextual disgust induced through affective priming exerts a domain-specific a influence in moral judgments.

−        Study 2: manipulated the SOA´s of our prime to test whether a superquick time of exposure and a quick time of exposure influence the effect of the disgusting induction in a different direction.

−        Study 3: tested if moral dilemmas differ from non moral dilemmas in the dimensions of valence and activation.

−        Study4: tested the way different affective primes (disgust and fear/horror pictures), previously matched in valence and arousal, modify participants’ moral judgments.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Doctoral Fellow, Social Psychology at Dr. Jonathan Haidt Laboratory, Jan to Dec 2010

Line: Cognitive Psychology, Moral Psychology, Emotion, Persuasion.                                     
Project: A possible distinction among the nature of disgusting responses toward “sex-disgust” items.  

Laboratory rotation project and on-line surveys:

−      Analyze the validity of sex disgust as a single disgust domain.

−      Test how AR (creatureliness prime) influences disgust ratings toward a selected set of sex disgust items.

−      Demonstrate a "double dissociation": that AR raises some but not other items, whereas manipulation X raises the ones that didn't go up for AR, but not the ones that did (e.g., a

TECHNIQUES AND SPECIALITIES

Affective priming

Direct RT

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Faculty of Psychology, Fall 2012

“Motivation and Emotion”.

Condition: Staff Full-time. First cycle teaching

PUBLICATIONS

Book Publications

Olivera La Rosa, A. & Rosselló Mir, J. (2012) Shocking moral judgments. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-659-28695-7

Olivera La Rosa, A., Rosselló Mir, J., Caamaño Barreiro, B. & Munar Roca, E. (2012). Suboptimal affective priming by disgust and horror pictures reduces the severity of moral judgments. In: Aportaciones recientes al estudio de la motivación y las emociones (pp. 110-115). SEVILLA (SPAIN): Fénix Editora. ISBN: 978-84-940056-0-2

Olivera La Rosa, A., Rosselló Mir, J., Caamaño Barreiro, B., Munar Roca, E. & Caamaño Barreiro, B. (2012). Effects of the time course of disgust priming in the severity of moral judgments: less severity at the shortest SOA. In: Aportaciones recientes al estudio de la motivación y las emociones  (92-97). SEVILLA (SPAIN): Fénix Editora. ISBN: 978-84-940056-0-2

Publications

Olivera La Rosa, A. & Rosselló Mir, J. (in press). On the relationship between disgust and morality: a critical review. Psicothema

Olivera La Rosa A, Rosselló Mir J and Munar Roca E (2011). Contextual disgust induced through affective priming influences moral judgments by making them less severe. Front. Hum. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI). doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00152

Nadal, M., Barceló-Coblijn, L., Olivera, A., Christensen, J.F., Rincón-Ruíz, C., Cela-Conde, C. (2009).

Darwin’s Legacy: A comparative approach to the evolution of human derived cognitive traits. Journal: 202670 - Ludus Vitalis, Volume XVII.  Pages 145-172. MEXICO. ISSN: 1133-5165

http://www.ludusvitalis.org

Cela-Conde, C.J., Burges, L., Nadal, M. & Olivera, A. (2009). Altruism and fairness: Unnatural selection? Journal: 912694 - Comptes Rendus Palevol.  In Paleontology: 26 de 41. FRANCE. ISSN: 1631-0683

Nadal, M.; Flexas, A.; Christensen, J.F.; Barceló-Coblijn, Ll.; Olivera, A.; Bustos, P; Rosselló Mir, J. (2009). L’evolució de l’ésser humà. Journal: 202622 - Pissarra. Revista d’ensenyament de les Illes.

Pages 16-20. SPAIN

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

Olivera La Rosa, A., Rossello-Mir, J., Munar, E. & Galvez, A. (2012). Priming by Disgust Pictures Reduces the Severity of Moral judgments. Poster WPA Convention Presentation Notification Western Psychological Association (WPA) 2012 Convention. San Francisco, USA

Olivera La Rosa, A.; Rosselló Mir, J.; Caamaño Barreiro, B.; Munar Roca, E. (2012). Suboptimal Affective Priming by Disgust and Horror Pictures Reduces the Severity of Moral Judgements

Presentation of a paper VII Simposio Internacional de la Asociación de Motivación y Emoción (AME). Cádiz, SPAIN

Rosselló Mir, J., Olivera La Rosa, A., Gálvez Pol, A. & Homar Covas, C. (2012). Reaction time to discriminate facial expressions after anger and sadness induction depends on the congruence

of the approach-withdrawal dimension. Poster VII Simposio Internacional de la Asociación de Motivación y Emoción (AME). Cádiz, SPAIN

Olivera La Rosa, A., Rosselló Mir, J. & Munar Roca, E. (2011). Contextual disgust induced through affective priming influences moral judgments by making them less severe. Poster XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI). Palma de Mallorca, SPAIN.

Nadal, M.; Christensen, J.F., Gut, N.K., Olivera, A. & Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2009). Empathy: empathic and antipathic emotion induction - A new experimental paradigm. Poster 117th Convention of the American Psychological Association. Toronto, CANADA