‘In order to reach happiness or well-being, it is necessary to make a proactive and continuous effort to favour positive emotions’, assured Marisa Salanova, chair professor of Social Psychology at the Universitat Jaume I and director of the research group WONT, during the summer course ‘Be positive: develop your happiness and strengths’, which took place [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Psychology’
Salanova claims that achieving a welfare state requires continuous effort
February 15th, 2013
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January 27th, 2013
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The widespread belief that dopamine regulates pleasure may pass into history with the latest scientific advances about the function of this neurotransmitter, which demonstrate that, in fact, it regulates motivation, leading individuals to get going and persevere in order to achieve something, either positive or negative. The journal of neuroscience ‘Neuron’ publishes an article written [...]
2012, Year of Neuroscience at the UJI
November 21st, 2012
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The Universitat Jaume I joins to the celebration of 2012 as the Year of Neuroscience in Spain. This video provides a tour around the various campus laboratories from different perspectives, which address science from different perspectives, a science that tells us about the foundation of our feelings, thoughts and emotions, our social behaviour, our creativity [...]
A study in which takes part the UJI predicts an increase of workaholics in the coming years
November 16th, 2012
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The percentage of workaholics in Spain is now 4.6%, and in less than three years, December 2015, this figure could reach 11.8% of workers. This emerges from a study by researchers at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Universitat Jaume I and the University of the Basque Country. By applying a mathematical model of equations in [...]
Developed software that can detect and prevent depression during and after pregnancy
November 16th, 2012
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Despite occur in a high percentage of 6 to 8% in Spain, depression during and after pregnancy has few effective tools for early detection and treatment. Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I and the University of Zaragoza, in collaboration with professionals from different health centres in Spain, are working on developing a psychological on-line assessment [...]
Amparo Carpi: ‘In order to prevent a mourning for too long a period, it is necessary to educate since elementary school’
October 16th, 2012
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Mourning is caused by a grief, and it is the natural response to the breaking-off of an affective bond. Therefore, in order to prevent a mourning for too long a period, it is necessary to give information and education since elementary school, to facilitate the emotional expression of people who are suffering from it, to [...]
Optimi allows predictions of risk of depression with 85% reliability
September 10th, 2012
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The computing tool, developed by researchers and investigators at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, the Universidad Politécnica of Valencia and the Universidad de Valencia, along with professionals from the company everis, is able to predict if a person with a high-stress level is at risk of becoming depressed, based on the study along with [...]
Ávila: “The brain is initially unprepared to use more than one language”
July 30th, 2012
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“The brain is initially unprepared to use more than one language”. With this premise, César Ávila, lecturer from the research group ofNeuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging at Universitat Jaume I, started the conference about “Brain keys to understand language learning”, where he talked about how the brain organises itself in order to implement the command of [...]
Virtual reality for the welfare of cancer patients
April 19th, 2012
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Researchers of the LabPsitec Laboratory of the Universitat Jaume I are working on the program Psychooncology which consists in applying virtual reality techniques to contribute to the emotional well-being in hospitalized adult cancer patients who are in advanced stage of the disease. It already has an application that exposes patients to two different environments: Joy [...]
Awarded the project OPTIMI for early detection of depression
April 19th, 2012
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The project Online Predictive Tools for Intervention in Mental Illness (OPTIMI) for early detection of depression through new technologies has earned the Award of Actualidad Económica for the 100 best ideas of the year in the category of health. In the European project take part, at the national level, the Universitat Jaume I together with [...]
