Docente
Sofia Francisco

Resume

Sofia Mateus Francisco holds a PhD in Educational Psychology (2022) from the Universities of Lisbon and Coimbra, with her research primarily focusing on the role of moral disengagement and online empathy in cyberbullying. She is an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University, where she teaches in the Psychology Bachelor's program and the Erasmus Mundus Master in Cyberspace Behavior and E-therapy. As a researcher at HEI-Lab (Digital Human-Environment Interaction Labs), her work explores the evolving relationship between psychology and technology. She is deeply interested in understanding school violence—specifically bullying and cyberbullying—and how to promote student well-being and coexistence. Her research goes beyond traditional analysis by examining how socio-emotional skills can be strengthened across diverse cultural and educational settings. Currently, she is focused on developing novel intervention methodologies that leverage Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and physiological data to better understand and mitigate the impact of cyberbullying in our digital age.

Graus

• Mestrado integrado
  Master of Psychology - Educational Psychology
• Pós-Graduação
  Postgraduate Degree in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy in Childhood and Adolescence
• Diploma de especialização
  Certification in Pedagogical Competencies (License n.º F60179/2013)
• Pós-Graduação
  Postgraduate Degree in Behavioral, Cognitive, and Integrative Therapies, with a focus on Children/Adolescents (Postgraduate)
• Pós-Graduação
  Postgraduate Degree in Behavioral, Cognitive, and Integrative Therapies, with a focus on Adults (Postgraduate)
• Doutoramento
  PhD in Psychology with specialization in Educational Psychology
• Outros
  Initial Pedagogical Training of Instructors
• Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)
  Advanced Psychology Training Course
• Outros
  Certified trainer (CCPFC/RFO-34031/13)

Publicações

Artigo em revista (magazine)

• 2019-05-25, O fenómeno do cyberbullying e a sua incidência em Portugal, Revista Pontos de Vista

Artigo em revista

• 2024-05, Measuring and characterizing cyberbullying among Chilean university students, Current Psychology
• 2024-03-21, Moral disengagement and empathy in cyberbullying: how they are related in reflection activities about a serious game, BMC Psychology
• 2024, Towards Cyberbullying Detection: Building, Benchmarking and Longitudinal Analysis of Aggressiveness and Conflicts/Attacks Datasets from Twitter, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
• 2023-04-27, Measuring empathy online and moral disengagement in cyberbullying, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2022-07-06, Behind the scenes of cyberbullying: personal and normative beliefs across profiles and moral disengagement mechanisms, International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
• 2018, Cyberbullying: Shaping the use of verbal aggression through normative moral beliefs and self-efficacy, New Media & Society
• 2017-12-15, Família e escola: Perspetivas sobre a utilização de meios tecnológicos e segurança, Revista de Estudios e Investigación en Psicología y Educación
• 2017, Family and school: Perspectives on the use of technology and security, Revista de Estudios e investigacíon em psicología e educacíon
• 2016, Student bystander behavior and cultural issues in cyberbullying: When actions speak louder than words, Computers in Human Behavior
• 2016, O cyberbullying em contexto universitário do Brasil e Portugal: vitimização, emoções associadas e estratégias de enfrentamento, Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação
• 2015, Cyberbullying: The hidden side of college students, Computers in Human Behavior
• 2014, Cyberbullying: incidência, consequências e contributos para o diagnóstico no ensino superior., Revista @mbienteeducação

Livro

• 2024, Com@Viver without (cyber)bullying: A guide to work with children and youth [Com@Viver sem (cyber)bullying: Um guia para trabalhar com crianças e jovens]], Ana Margarida Veiga Simão; Nádia Salgado Pereira; Paula Costa Ferreira; Francisco, Sofia; Oliveira, Sofia, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon

Capítulo de livro

• 2024, O papel do descomprometimento moral no cyberbullying, Psicologia Educacional : Investigação e Intervenção em Portugal, II, Universidade de Lisboa
• 2024, Moral Disengagement in Cyberbullying Through Serious Games in Neurodiverse Children, Springer Nature
• 2024, MORAL DISENGAGEMENT IN CYBERBULLYING THROUGH SERIOUS GAMES IN CHILDREN WITH NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
• 2023, Pro(f)Social: A Serious Game to Counter Cyberbullying, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Nature Switzerland

Invenção

• 2024, Construction of a training and intervention framework for primary and secondary education teachers with the purpose of promoting pro-sociality and living without cyberbullying within the scope of the Te@ch4SocialGood project: promoting pro-sociality in schools to prevent cyberbullying" (PTDC /PSI-GER/1918/2020) DOI 10.54499/PTDC/PSI-GER/1918/2020 (http://doi.org/10.54499/PTDC/PSI-GER/1918/2020).