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Overview

Rui Filipe Oliveira is affiliated with the International Sleep Products Association in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on psychology with an emphasis on social psychology and aspects of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their scholarly contributions include work in several subfields such as social psychology, cell biology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and ecology. These subfields complement Oliveira's primary focus on psychology and expand into biological and behavioral sciences.

The main topics of Oliveira's research encompass neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, zebrafish biomedical research applications, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, marine animal studies, primate behavior and ecology, and the physiological stress responses involving cortisol.

Oliveira's frequent publication venues demonstrate a diverse scholarly engagement. Key journals and platforms where they have published multiple works include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • INTERFERENCE A JOURNAL OF AUDIO CULTURE
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • Biology Letters

Their recent papers show involvement in cutting-edge research on social and neuroendocrine processes, primarily using zebrafish and other aquatic models. Notable recent publications include:

  • Evolutionarily conserved role of oxytocin in social fear contagion in zebrafish (2023, Science)
  • Perceptual mechanisms of social affiliation in zebrafish (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Brain morphology predicts social intelligence in wild cleaner fish (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Oxytocin receptor signalling modulates novelty recognition but not social preference in zebrafish (2020, Journal of Neuroendocrinology)
  • Cognitive appraisal in fish: stressor predictability modulates the physiological and neurobehavioural stress response in sea bass (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)

Oliveira collaborates frequently with a group of researchers, showing repeated co-authorship that likely supports ongoing projects in related disciplines. Common co-authors include:

  • Magda C. Teles
  • Kyriacos Kareklas
  • Gil Levkowitz
  • Ana Rita Nunes
  • Susana A. M. Varela

Best Publications

  • Alternative Reproductive Tactics: An Integrative Approach

    Rui F. Oliveira;Michael Taborsky;H. Jane Brockmann

  • Social competence: an evolutionary approach

    Barbara Taborsky;Rui F. Oliveira

  • Alternative Reproductive Tactics: Index of species

    Rui F. Oliveira;Michael Taborsky;H. Jane Brockmann

  • Social modulation of androgens in male vertebrates: Meta-analyses of the challenge hypothesis

    Katharina Hirschenhauser;Rui Filipe Oliveira

  • Know thine enemy: fighting fish gather information from observing conspecific interactions

    Rui F. Oliveira;Peter K. McGregor;Claire Latruffe

  • The evolution of alternative reproductive tactics: concepts and questions

    Michael Taborsky;Rui F. Oliveira;H. Jane Brockmann

  • Social behavior in context: Hormonal modulation of behavioral plasticity and social competence

    Rui Filipe Oliveira

  • Social modulation of androgen levels in male teleost fish.

    Rui Filipe Oliveira;Katharina Hirschenhauser;Luís Alberto Carneiro;Adelino V. M. Canário

  • Watching fights raises fish hormone levels.

    Rui Filipe Oliveira;Marco Lopes;Luís Alberto Carneiro;Adelino V. M. Canário

  • Why do winners keep winning? Androgen mediation of winner but not loser effects in cichlid fish

    Rui Filipe Oliveira;Ana Silva;Adelino V. M. Canário

  • Social modulation of sex steroid concentrations in the urine of male cichlid fish Oreochromis mossambicus.

    Rui Filipe Oliveira;Vítor Carvalho Almada;Adelino V. M. Canário

  • Fighting zebrafish: characterization of aggressive behavior and winner-loser effects.

    Rui F. Oliveira;Joana F. Silva;José M. Simões

  • Social Modulation of Androgens in Vertebrates: Mechanisms and Function

    Rui F. Oliveira

  • The effect of an audience on intrasexual communication in male Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens

    Claire Doutrelant;Peter K. McGregor;Rui F. Oliveira

  • Mind the fish: zebrafish as a model in cognitive social neuroscience

    Rui Filipe Oliveira;Rui Filipe Oliveira

  • Testosterone responsiveness to winning and losing experiences in female soccer players

    Tânia Sofia Ferreira de Oliveira;Maria João Pinheiro Morais Gouveia;Rui Filipe Oliveira

  • Hormonal mechanisms of cooperative behaviour

    Marta C. Soares;Redouan Bshary;Leonida Fusani;Wolfgang Goymann

  • A test of the ‘challenge hypothesis’ in cichlid fish: simulated partner and territory intruder experiments

    K. Hirschenhauser;M. Taborsky;T. Oliveira;Adelino V. M. Canario

  • Tactile stimulation lowers stress in fish

    Marta C. Soares;Rui Filipe Oliveira;Rui Filipe Oliveira;Albert F. H. Ros;Alexandra S. Grutter

  • Behavioural endocrinology: No hormonal response in tied fights

    Rui Filipe Oliveira;Luís Alberto Carneiro;Adelino V. M. Canário

  • Comparative analysis of male androgen responsiveness to social environment in birds: the effects of mating system and paternal incubation.

    Katharina Hirschenhauser;Hans Winkler;Rui Filipe Oliveira

Frequent Co-Authors

Adelino V.M. Canario
Adelino V.M. Canario University of Algarve
Vítor Carvalho Almada
Vítor Carvalho Almada International Sleep Products Association
Redouan Bshary
Redouan Bshary University of Neuchâtel
Emanuel João Gonçalves
Emanuel João Gonçalves International Sleep Products Association
Peter K. McGregor
Peter K. McGregor Cornwall College
Ricardo S. Santos
Ricardo S. Santos University of the Azores
Michael Taborsky
Michael Taborsky University of Bern
H. Jane Brockmann
H. Jane Brockmann University of Florida
Ingo Schlupp
Ingo Schlupp University of Oklahoma
Alexandra S. Grutter
Alexandra S. Grutter University of Queensland

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