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Web-based application to foster pro-environmental behavior via empathy

Forests are disappearing at a faster pace than ever. As the problem stems not only from business interests but also from consumer’s lack of knowledge and weak motivation, we put Emotion Psychology into practice, creating a web page that addresses the problems and solutions for the world’s great forests through gamification—to motivate people across the world to make a difference, raising their awareness and emp...

Fibrosis of Peritoneal Membrane, Molecular Indicators of Aging and Frailty Unve...

Peritoneal membrane status, clinical data and aging-related molecules were investigated as predictors of long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD) outcomes. A 5-year prospective study was conducted with the following endpoints: (a) PD failure and time until PD failure, (b) major cardiovascular event (MACE) and time until MACE. A total of 58 incident patients with peritoneal biopsy at study baseline were included. Peri...

Empathy development from adolescence to adulthood and its consistency across ta...

This research was conducted with two main goals—to contribute to knowledge on the development of empathy from early adolescence to adulthood, including its contribution to decoding emotion expression, and to improve the understanding of the nature of empathy by simultaneously assessing empathy toward two different targets—humans and animals. It unfolded into two cross-sectional studies: One (S1) obtaining measu...

Choosing who to work with from facial expression and clothing color

Empatia e moral – que relação na trança da evolução biológica e da evolução cul...

CARDIAC SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH DIALYSIS-DEPENDENT END STAGE RENAL FAILURE: SI...

Background: Patients under dialysis have a high cardiovascular risk and they are at increased risk when submitted to cardiac surgery. Aim of the study: to evaluate morbidity, early and late mortality, and predictive factors of mortality in patients under dialysis who underwent cardiac surgery. Methods: A retrospective observational study was performed including all dialysis dependent patients who underwent card...

The sun is no fun without rain: physical environments affect how we feel about ...

Across cultures, people associate colours with emotions. Here, we test the hypothesis that one driver of this cross-modal correspondence is the physical environment we live in. We focus on a prime example – the association of yellow with joy, – which conceivably arises because yellow is reminiscent of life-sustaining sunshine and pleasant weather. If so, this association should be especially strong in countries...

Ethical and scientific pitfalls concerning laboratory research with non-human p...

Basic and applied laboratory research, whenever intrusive or invasive, presents substantial ethical challenges for ethical committees, be it with human beings or with non-human animals. In this paper we discuss the use of non-human primates (NHPs), mostly as animal models, in laboratory based research. We examine the two ethical frameworks that support current legislation and guidelines: deontology and utilitar...

Preditores da empatia dirigida a humanos e outros animais em portugueses e angl...

A relação entre empatia dirigida a humanos e empatia dirigida a outros animais tem sido reportada como fraca, sendo pou coconhecidos os fatores que predizem a segunda. Neste estudo, examinaram-se potenciais variáveis preditoras de cada uma destas duas formas de empatia e compararam-se participantes lusófonos e anglo-saxónicos, inspecionando possíveis especificidades culturais. Foi conduzido um inquérito na web ...

Capital psicológico, valores profissionais e satisfação no trabalho: um estudo ...

Este estudo pretende averiguar o impacto dos líderes nos membros das suas equipas, prevendo-se que o capital psicológico (constituído pelas dimensões de esperança, otimismo, resiliência e eficácia) e os valores profissionais dos líderes influenciem o capital psicológico, os valores, e a satisfação com o trabalho dos membros das equipas que coordenam. Apesar de diversos estudos terem já demonstrado que estas var...