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September 20, 2016
Gamers, who are you?
When it comes to the players of video games, preconceptions abound. They’re often disturbing stereotypes: the isolated youth with eyes for nothing but his computer, tablet or smartphone. Olivier Servais, a researcher at UCL’s Laboratory for Prospective Anthropology, decided to penetrate a...
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August 11, 2016
How emotional intelligence can make you healthier
Being able to identify, understand, express, manage and use our emotions helps us in so many facets of our lives. According to a recent UCL study, emotional intelligence (EI) can even improve your health.
Joy, enthusiasm, pride, shame, jealousy, stress, irritation, anger, fear,...
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June 28, 2016
Adolescent depression: Can mindfulness prevent it?
Adolescents are of course not immune to feeling blue or even depressed. Researchers are betting on mindfulness as a means of prevention, especially at UCL, a pioneer of child mindfulness. Prof. Pierre Philippot, a researcher at the Psychological Sciences Research Institute, is one of them....
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June 28, 2016
Flanders-Wallonia: Is youth the answer?
The sometimes tense relations between the two main communities of Belgium is a subject of great interest to Bernard Rimé, a professor emeritus, a researcher at the UCL Psychological Sciences Research Institute and a specialist in the study of emotions. Viewing the situation through a prism of...
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June 28, 2016
Better big data analysis for better epidemic management
Using big data to precisely and easily predict an epidemic’s course or a virus’s spread—that’s the seemingly incredible goal of Jean-Charles Delvenne, a researcher at the Mathematical Engineering Centre of UCL’s Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied...
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