In most Western nations one in four women are at risk of suffering intimate partner violence. In Mexico, this proportion is even higher. However, intimate partner violence affects not only women but also men. But when they suffer it, both...
Josep Call, head of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) and lecturer at the University of Saint Andrews. A graduate in Psychology from the UAB, he delivered the lecture...
The increasing amount of people over 65 years in Europe has led authorities and researchers to wonder insistently how to achieve a ‛successful aging’. New assistive technologies and new discourses on aging are emerging in response to this question. The answer does not only...
The thesis Sense passar-se de la ratlla (Without Crossing the Line) describes the process of normalisation of drug consumption occurring in recent years. It also discusses how most of consumers control the most adverse effects of drugs and how it continues to be...
Has Consumerism conquered our unconscious? Have we assumed its symbols and imagery to such an extent that they even become part of our dreams? Marlon Xavier's doctoral thesis, read at the Department of Social Psychology at the UAB, has explored how night dreams represent the colonization of subjectivity by the imaginary...
