Joana Stocker is an Assistant Professor at Zayed University (Dubai) since 2013, where she teaches courses related to counseling, psychological assessment, and research methods. Joana is a PhD holder in Psychology (College of Psychology and Sciences of Education of University of Porto – Portugal) and her research focuses, generally, on Educational Psychology, and, specifically, on motivational factors related to the learning process and academic success. Constructs related to self-theories and motivation, as self-concept, personal conceptions of intelligence, causal attributions, self-efficacy, and emotional competence, are the core of her investigation. At the moment she is involved in several research projects, for example: Computational approach to analyze eye tracking data to diagnose early Autism Spectrum Disorder in young children in UAE, and Academic self-concept and high school academic success: A study with Emirati students.

Self-theories (self-concept, self-efficacy, self-perception, theories of intelligence, causal attributions, emotional competence); motivation; academic success; parent-child relationship; autism; child development.