Carmen Tabernero is Director of the Department and Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Salamanca, Spain, where she has received the ‘María de Maeztu’ Award for scientific excellence. For 14 years she has been Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Cordoba, where she was Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences. From a socio-cognitive perspective, her main research interests focus on the analysis of motivational processes at individual and collective levels (e.g. self-regulatory mechanisms, self-efficacy beliefs, emotional states, positivity) related to analytical strategies and behaviours.