Organisation: Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences

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    PAINFLEX – Flexibility in attention for pain over changing contexts and its impact upon poor pain outcomes: An experimental investigation and training approch

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    PAINFLEX – Flexibility in attention for pain over changing contexts and its impact upon poor pain outcomes: An experimental investigation and training approch

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    BETHAB – Understanding the neurobiology of gambling addiction in the age of online betting

    The goal of this review is to provide new insights as to how and why functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research on gambling cue reactivity can contribute to significant progress toward the understanding of gambling disorder.

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    BETHAB – Understanding the neurobiology of gambling addiction in the age of online betting

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    PANDEMIC – Pandora’s box: The demographic, economic, social and psychological impact of COVID19

    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world. The experiences we have had since the onset of the pandemic have affected us in many ways. The pandemic killed, but has also had a profound impact on the organization of employment and work, our behaviour, social dynamics and mental health. These effects have not been equal, being…

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    PANDEMIC – Pandora’s box: The demographic, economic, social and psychological impact of COVID19

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    WorkYP – Working and yet poor

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    DSEWELL- Data science and the economics of wellbeing

    We propose to bring together machine learning approaches, physics-inspired descriptors, and the economics of wellbeing to address questions broadly related to predicting life satisfaction and health of individuals in a data-driven manner.

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    DSEWELL- Data science and the economics of wellbeing

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    ALAC – Age acceleration and the life course

    We propose an interdisciplinary approach to consider the effects of socio-economic factors and life events on ageing, where economics, sociology and health psychology meet biology and epigenetics. We focus on the most accurate age biomarker, the epigenetic clock, based on a key concept in epigenetics, DNA methylation, and how this methylation changes with age. We…

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