Luisa Faria

Luísa Faria is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. She has been based there since 1986, and lectures in the field of Motivational Psychology. She is the director of the Integrated Master Course in Psychology, and she was the leader of a Research & Development Project (supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the Portuguese Ministry of Education, and European Union) on pupils’ personal conceptions of competence and achievement, and schools’ collective efficacy. She is the author of numerous books, chapters, reports and articles, in national and international journals, on Motivation, Intelligence and Psychological Evaluation.