End-of-life care after the legal introduction of advance directives (AD) in Italy

Advance care planning and advance directives (AD) play a key role in the care of life-threatening illnesses such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Professor Cipolletta from the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua (Italy) has conducted a study to explore how the introduction

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#everythingisgonnabealright; character, psychological distress and self-efficacy during Covid-19 lockdown

Which personal characteristics have helped people coping with lockdown? Character strengths are positive individual traits that have been associated to a host of mental health indicators, qualifying as protective factors against mental disorders. In the present research, we studied the association

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Numerical magnitude, rather than individual bias, explains spatial numerical association in newborn chicks

We associate small numbers with the left and large numbers with the right side of space. Recent evidence from human newborns and non-human animals has challenged the primary role assigned to culture, in determining this spatial numerical association (SNA). Nevertheless, the effect of individual

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Spatial biases in mental arithmetic are independent of reading habits: Evidence from French and Arabic speakers

06.07.2020

Nicolas Masson (PostDoc Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Université du Luxembourg, Luxemburg)

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Experimental psychopathology research in anorexia nervosa: an overview of digital interventions

22.06.2020

Valentina Cardi (Lecturer DPG & Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College London)

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