Cristina Mendonça has a Master’s in Social Cognition and a PhD from the Lisbon PhD in Social Psychology doctoral program (LiSP). Her previous work has involved topics such as how communication in society may amplify our cognitive biases, how motivation may enhance or hinder our reasoning abilities, and how knowing specific details about people (e.g., name, age, physical aspect) influences our moral judgments. She teaches at Católica Business School and is a post-doctoral research fellow at Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP) in a project about how individual biases lead to fake news susceptibility and sharing.