University of Murcia – Psychology research profile
Research areas in Psychology @ the University of Murcia:
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Developmental and Educational Psychology
Early Care
- Developmental disorders
- Psychopathology in adolescence
- Psychology and special educational needs
- Educational styles and psychological adjustment
- Bonding / attachment development
- Prenatal environment
- Distinction between physical and social goals
- Inhibition & promotion of child development and early care
Evolutionary Psychology
Research in Evolutionary Psychology:
- Psychosocial aspects of adolescence
- Cognitive and social development
- Behavioural problems at school
- Behavioural and psychophysiological traits of temper in childhood
Education, Values, Addictions and Health
Research in Education, Values, Addictions and Health:
- Attention deficit and hyperactivity
- Psychological, educational and social intervention and guidance
- Health promotion and prevention of addictions
Educational Psychology and Didactics of Language, Literature and the Arts
- Communicative competence and reading comprehension: psychoeducational variables
- Artistic expression, image and visual language
- Teaching innovation in artistic interdisciplinary methodologies
- Improving socioemotional and motivational competences in the teaching-learning processes
- Creative thinking and verbal creativity
- Critical thinking and didactics of argumentation
Basic Psychology and Methodology
Basic Psychology
- Human learning and evaluation conditioning
- Emotion, cognition and health
- Ergonomics of cognition
- Visual information processing and selective inefficiency
- Basic psychological processes and aging
Social Psychology
Research lines in Social Psychology:
- Behaviour, cohabitation and school violence
- Workplace well-being and violence in the health care setting
- Psychosocial factors, emotional well-being and academic performance
- Psychology of testimony
- Gender violence
Applied Social Psychology
Research in Applied Social Psychology:
- Social psychology of gender
- Intergroup relations and prejudice
- Social change and values
Cognitive Science
Research in Cognitive Science:
- Structure and functioning of the mental dictionary
- Normative stimulus studies for psychological experimentation
- Assessment of reading ability
- Philosophy of vegetative neurobioilogy
- Memory and aging: age-related memory loss
- Connectionist models of linguistic processing
- Cognitive neuropsychology of language
- Order of information acquisition and cognition
Sport Psychology
- Physical activity and health
- Burnout in sports
- Optimism and sport
- Psychology and sports injuries