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Bernadette Paula Luengo-Kanacri
Paula Luengo-Kanacri is an associate professor in the School of Psychology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). Her research focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact over time to explain whether prosocial behaviours and civic engagement can reduce social inequalities and promote social cohesion. He has conducted several longitudinal and applied research projects in this field, working with schools and social organizations for more than fifteen years in Italy, the United States, Colombia and Argentina. Currently, in Chile, he developed and directs the ProCiviCo project to reduce the negative interpersonal effects of social inequalities through the exercise of prosocial citizenship in school. She completed her postdoctoral work at the Parenting Among Cultures Project, PAC (National Institute of Health, United States) and her Ph.D. in psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Contact: School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile.