Does your dog have social skills?

A study suggests that viewing the owner’s face works as a positive social reinforcement for dogs. Learn more about this and other surprising results about “man’s best friend”.

Does mood impact our confidence?

“Spontaneous fluctuations of mood and confidence in decision making are independent in the healthy adult population” was one of the main highlights of the study “Mood and implicit confidence independently fluctuate at different time scales” published in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, and carried out in the scope of the research project 117/18 – The neuronal basis of biases, led by Rubén Moreno Bote and supported by the BIAL Foundation.

Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarship 2022: applications are open

Applications are now open for the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarship 2022, worth €25,000. Candidates must, at the time of application submission, be enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences at ICBAS. The applications are open until January 20, 2023.

Do mediums differ from non-mediums on personality, cognitive, and quality of life outcomes?

“Are the psychological characteristics and well-being of individuals experiencing religious possession significantly different from those attending the same religious rituals, but not experiencing possession?” was one of the research questions addressed in the paper The mind possessed: well-being, personality, and cognitive characteristics of individuals regularly experiencing religious possession published in the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry. Miguel Farias, principal investigator of the research project 346/16 - The mind possessed project: Mapping the varieties of possession experiences concluded that no differences were found between groups, except for anxiety, where the non-mediums showed higher scores.