Lorena received her MA and PhD degrees from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is also appointed as Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Currently she is a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Ohio State funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Her research focuses on (1) metacognition, (2) identity, (3) emotion, and (4) the impact of attitudes on behavior more broadly. Her work has been published in a wide variety of top tier journals including the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the European Journal of Social Psychology.