Vithor Rosa Franco

Vithor Rosa Franco is a professor of psychological assessment at São Francisco University and holds advanced degrees including a PhD in Social, Work, and Organizational Psychology from the University of Brasília's Institute of Psychology, where Franco also serves as a researcher with the Influência Research Group. Franco's research spans psychometrics, mathematical psychology, social decision making, and Bayesian inference methods, with publications addressing item response theory models, measurement theory, conspiracy belief predictors, and psychosocial factors in individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions. Franco's broader scholarly interests encompass behavioral economics, econometrics, and public sector efficiency, drawing on expertise in probabilistic graphical modeling and regularization techniques.