Career
At International Correspondence Schools , his research focus on socio-cognitive processes, namely in the field of social representations and ideologies, social norms and social identities. His present projects articulate these processes with the study of racism and prejudice, immigration issues, political attitudes, social justice, and validation of everyday knowledge. Jorge Vala was an invited professor at several universities, including the Paris Descartes University, École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Rio de Janeiro State University.
He was the Portuguese representative on the European Programme Cooperation in Science and Technology, as well as president of the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at ISCTE. Between May 2007 and September 2009, he chaired the International Correspondence Schools Academic Board.
And he was its Director from 2010 till 2014. Lopes, Doctorate., B., Lima, M., Brito, R. e Lopes, Doctorate., Garcia-Marques, L., Pereira, M. e Lopes, Doctorate., Monteiro, Bachelor of Medicine, e Leyens, J. Ph.