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Being more educated and earning more increase romantic interest: Data from 1.8 M online daters from 24 nation

Title: Being more educated and earning more increase romantic interest: Data from 1.8 M online daters from 24 nationAuthors: Peter K. Jonason and Andrew G. ThomasDescription: In the largest, most cross-culturally diverse study on mate choice to date, this study examined patterns in how much interest

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Prof. Michel Denis's Lecture: “Space and Spatial Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Perspective”

“All living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire know ledge of this space by traversing it, listening to verbal descriptions, and looking at maps, atlases, and digital media. (…). Which mental capacities do people mobilize when confronted with space? Which brain functions

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Prof. Alain Giami's Lecture: "Transformations of sexuality: from the 1960’s sexual revolutions to #metoo"

11.03.2022

Alain Giami (PhD) is currently Emeritus Research Professor at the Inserm (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) in Paris.He is Vice President of the World Association for Sexual Health and Associate editor of the journal “Sexologies: European Journal of Sexology and sexual health.

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Emotional processing prospectively modulates the impact of anxiety on COVID-19 pandemic-related post-traumatic stress symptoms: an ERP study

Carola Dell’Acqua, Tania Moretta, Elisa Dal Bò, Simone Messerotti Benvenuti & Daniela Palomba Psychophysiology Lab, Department of General PsychologyThe negative impact of Covid-19 pandemic on mental health has been widely described. Particularly, the elevated distress provoked by the pandemic

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Michele Vicovaro

I graduated in Psychology at the University of Padova in 2009, and three years later I got a PhD in Experimental Psychology at the same university. I also got a Degree in Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy. My main research interests are in visual cognition, research methods, and psychometrics. In

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