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Is It Easy to Synchronize Our Minds When We Are Forced to Cooperate?
2019
There is increasing scientific interest in elucidating the biological mechanisms underlying cooperative behaviors. Humans have developed a high degree of complexity in their cooperativity, which has been defined as hyper-cooperativity. An interesting biological marker to study how two individuals are emotionally linked when they cooperate is their psychophysiological synchronization (the overlapping of signals as indicators of Autonomous Nervous System activation). Hence, the main aim of this study was to explore participants&rsquo
Stress, Professional Lifestyle, and Telomere Biology in Elite Athletes: A Growing Trend in Psychophysiology of Sport
2020
Professional lifestyle and championship period often put a great deal of pressure on athletes, who usually experience highly stressful periods during training for competitions. Recently, biomarkers of cellular aging, telomere length (TL) and telomerase activity (TA), have been considered to investigate the effects of stress and lifestyle factors. Studies in non-athletic populations have shown that stress and poor lifestyle decrease TL and TA. On the other hand, it has been shown that in general, exercise increases TL and its activity, although the underlying mechanisms remained largely unexplored. TL and TA outcomes in elite athletes remain inconclusive and mainly affected by confounding fa…
Behavioural Cardiology at the Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
2008
Abstract. We provide a short overview of the research in Behavioural Cardiology at the Department of Psychology at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz focussing on two lines of research: Studies of psychosocial variables that might enhance or attenuate cardiovascular risk in healthy individuals and studies of psychosocial variables and health behaviours that might impact the health status of patients listed for heart transplantation. Our studies so far suggest that psychosocial factors like anxiety and repressive coping impact information processing and cardiovascular responses to stress. Moreover, we examine the impact of health-protective resource variables including self-efficacy an…
Neuropsychological and psychophysiological profile of intimate partner violence perpetrators men: the role of alcohol
2018
La violencia contra la mujer en las relaciones de pareja hombre-mujer, representa un grave problema de salud pública a nivel mundial. En los últimos años, una mayor evidencia científica sustenta la relación entre la violencia contra la mujer y el consumo de alcohol. Sin embargo, existe un vacío en la literatura sobre los efectos que ejerce el consumo de alcohol sobre las variables neuropsicológicas y psicofisiológicas en los hombres que han cometido violencia contra la mujer. El consumo de alcohol podría predisponer a los agresores a presentar alteraciones cognitivas que afecten a su regulación emocional y comportamental y, por tanto, predisponer a conductas violentas en situaciones estresa…