Joana Dias is a PhD student at the Department of Education and Psychology at the University of Aveiro, under an FCT scholarship ("Assessing the effects of action videogame playing on cognition: How videogames shape emotional and social aspects.", 2020.06677.BD).

Her research interests focus on the cognitive, emotional, and social effects of action video games on the young adult population. Through behavioral and psychophysiological measures, she aims to explore, in particular, emotional processing in attentional tasks in the video gamer population and the potential of video games as a tool for socialization and emotional self-regulation.

Joana Dias completed her degree in Psychology in 2015 and her master's degree in Health Psychology and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in 2017, both at the University of Aveiro. Since 2020 she has been a member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists.

Supervisor: Sandra C. Soares

Co-Supervisor: Samuel Silva (University of Aveiro) and Swann Pichon (Research Institute of the University of Health of Geneva).

Main publications

Dias, J., Silva, F., Silva, S., Bem-Haja, P., Silva, C. F., & Soares, S. C. (2018, April). Conscious and unconscious attentional processing to conflict in videogame players. 13th National Meeting of the APPE, Braga, Portugal.

Silva, F., Dias, J., Silva, S., Bem-Haja, P., Silva, C. F., & Soares, S. C. (2018). Unconscious influence over executive control: Absence of conflict detection and adaptation. Consciousness and Cognition, 63, 110-122.