Izabela Sorić, PhD
Department of Psychology, University of Zadar (Croatia)

She works at the Department of Psychology at the University of Zadar since 1989., where she is currently at position of full professor with tenure (since 2015). She obtained her MS degree in 1995 and  PhD degree in 1998 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.

Her research interests range from self-regulated learning and teaching, emotions in the learning and teaching process, motivation to learn, causal attributions, intelligence and creativity. She was leader/researcher at the several research projects funded by Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia and Croatian Science Foundation.

On several occasions, she was a member/president of the Organizing and/or Program Committee of the international scientific-professional conference the Psychology days in Zadar, a member of the Program Committee of the Annual Conference of Croatian Psychologists and a member of the organizing committee of the 19th European Conference on Personality.

Several times she has been the editor-in-chief/member of the editorial board of the proceedings of the scientific conference Psychology days in Zadar, and a member of the editorial board and councils in various psychological journals/publications. She has reviewed numerous papers published in domestic and foreign journals, as well as manuals for psychological measuring instruments, proceedings of scientific-professional conferences, university textbooks, manuals and scientific monographs. She was also a reviewer of scientific research projects, study programs, experimental curricula, etc.

At the Department of Psychology at the University of Zadar, she teaches courses from the field of educational and cognitive psychology and participates in the pedagogical and psychological education of teachers at all levels of education (primary, secondary and higher education). She was engaged in doctoral studies in psychology at the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and Rijeka, and was a member of the Council for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Zadar. She was a mentor in the preparation of about forty graduate and final theses, two master thesis and four doctoral theses.

She was the head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Zadar for four terms. In one term, she was a member of the Senate of the University of Zadar, a member of the Council of the University of Zadar, a member of the Commission for Publishing of the University of Zadar, and president of the Committee for Monitoring the Quality of Work at the University of Zadar. She was a member of the Scientific field committee (Parent Committee) for the field of psychology in one term, president in the second term, and is currently vice president of this committee.

She received the reward of the Croatian Psychological Society Award for a particularly valuable psychological book Self-regulation of learning - can we learn to learn (publisher Naklada Slap, 2015) and the award of the Department of Psychology at the University of Zadar for outstanding contribution to the Department (2015).

She is a member of the Croatian Psychological Society, the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction and the European Personality Psychology Association.

A full list of her publications can be found here.