Lunes, 10 de Noviembre de 2008
Patients with anxiety disorders think they have more physiological problems than they really have, according to a study
A doctoral thesis carried out at the University of Granada has proved that patients with serious anxiety disorders (panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder) think they suffer more physiological (palpitations, sweating, irregular breathing, shaking of the hands and muscular tension …) than they really have. In other words, although many patients with anxiety disorders have orally reported very intense physiological symptoms in surveys and questionaires, they are hyporeactive when real measures of such symptoms are taken through physiological tests.
This research work has been carried ...
This research work has been carried ...
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Martes, 23 de Septiembre de 2008
9 out of every 10 young people think about Africans when they hear about immigrants, according to a study
9 out of every 10 young think about natives of “North-Africa” or “Central-Africa” (Moroccan or Senegalese) when they hear about immigrant people, although more and more young people refer to “Latin-Americans” and “other Europeans” when they are asked on this matter. These are the conclusions of a study carried out by Francisco Jiménez Bautista, Professor of Anthropology and researcher of the Institute of Peace and Conflicts of the University of Granada, who has tried to elucidate who is “the other” for the young in Granada. The ...
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Martes, 15 de Julio de 2008
Children in urban areas think more poorly of the gipsy than those from rural areas, according to a UGR research
The 82.1 percent of the children aged between 11 and 14 who live in urban areas and coexist with gipsy students in the classroom think that they are “thefts and muggers”; the percentage in rural areas is four times lower (17.9%). The difference in the children’s perception of this ethnic group is considerably different if they live in the country or in the city: 65.4% of city children think that the gipsies are “bad or do bad”, a figure that falls to a 34.6% if those polled live in a village.
Those are the conclusions of a research work carried out at the <...
Those are the conclusions of a research work carried out at the <...
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Lunes, 23 de Junio de 2008
Spain is the EU country with the strongest cannabis movement, a social tendency comparable to feminism or environmentalism
The cannabis movement is a social tendency similar to feminism, environmentalism, the ‘squatter’ movement, anti-globalization or the gay and lesbian movement, and in the medium term it will achieve the normalization just as hapened with all the other currents. This is one of the conclusions of the doctoral thesis ‘Cannabis movement in Spain: a new type of social movement’, carried out by Isidro Marín Gutiérrez, researcher of the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Granada, Spain, and supervised by ...
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Martes, 06 de Mayo de 2008
Preventing AIDS is up to you, started by the Ministry of Health in 1997, has been the most striking campaign among adolescents up to date
A researcher from the University of Granada has analysed for the first time the impact of HIV/AIDS preventive advertising in the adolescent population, studying in detail the influence of the campaigns promoted by the Spanish government in the last 15 years. The work has proved that the campaign Preventing AIDS is up to you, started by the Ministry of Health in 1997, has been the most striking among the young up to date.
This pioneer work has been carried out by doctor Juana María Bretón López, ...
This pioneer work has been carried out by doctor Juana María Bretón López, ...
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Lunes, 31 de Marzo de 2008
A study lays the scientific foundations to distinguish the different human ways for paying attention
Is it possible to compensate attention problems through other attention ways? Does it produce the same effects to direct someone’s attention in a voluntary (endogenous) or in an involuntary way (exogenous)? These are the questions answered by a research work of the Department of Experimental Psychology and Behaviour Physiology of the University of Granada carried out by doctor Ana Belén Chica Martínez, and supervised by Professor Juan Lupiáñez Castillo.
The study of attentional orientation carried ...
The study of attentional orientation carried ...
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Lunes, 17 de Marzo de 2008
UGR researcher carries out the most complete study so far on the written expression of gipsy children
A researcher of the University of Granada has prepared the first study on gipsy students written expression in Spain, valuing their attitude towards writing and the difficulties they find when it comes to write a text. This is the most complete work carried out so far, as they have studied the written expression of these students combining the analysis of cognitive processes (interviews with the students) with the analysis of the students texts and the attitude and efficiency self-perception scales towards writing.
This work has been carried out by Antonio ...
This work has been carried out by Antonio ...
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Lunes, 03 de Marzo de 2008
In Andalusia, most people over 65 live in their own homes and only three out of 100 live in old people’s homes
Only 3% of the elderly in Andalusia live in old people’s homes, a fact that contradicts a well extended social belief like that of the “boom” of this type of accommodation as a consequence of the modern family’s inability to take care of their elderly. This is the conclusion of the report “Social situation of the elderly in Andalusia”, developed by Professors Juan López Doblas and Antonio Trinidad Requena, from the Department of Sociology of the
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Lunes, 04 de Febrero de 2008
Researchers from the University of Granada prove that men and women activate stereotypes of competence and sociability respectively
Are stereotypes and prejudices automatically activated when we notice someone? How do women react when they are faced with the traditional gender roles?
A group of scientists from the University of Granada has studied for the first time from a scientific point of view gender driven prejudices, proving that both stereotypes and prejudices can be modified in spite of the automaticity of stereotyping and even though they are implicit (that is to say, people do not realize them).
The study was carried out by Doctor Soledad de Lemus Martín and directed by Miguel ...
A group of scientists from the University of Granada has studied for the first time from a scientific point of view gender driven prejudices, proving that both stereotypes and prejudices can be modified in spite of the automaticity of stereotyping and even though they are implicit (that is to say, people do not realize them).
The study was carried out by Doctor Soledad de Lemus Martín and directed by Miguel ...
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Miércoles, 23 de Enero de 2008
Thanks to a new method, body identification by facial reconstruction will cost less time and money
A researcher from the Physical Anthropological Laboratory of the University of Granada has developed the most complete database today to identify human remains and bodies in advanced states of decomposition using 3D computerised techniques for facial reconstruction. This method will reduce the cost and time needed in identification processes and it will avoid the need to perform an expensive, unnecessary DNA test since facial reconstruction will provide additional information that will be used to decide whether it is advisable to carry out the DNA test or not.
Thanks to Lorena ...
Thanks to Lorena ...
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