Highlights
Interview
Stress and freedom, by Ernesto Castro
Article
Examining the trade-offs of car-sharing in cities: mobility alternatives, congestion, and pollution
call
Call on the social impact of Climate Change (FS23-2B)
Article
Do Spanish and Portuguese young people use their mobile phones differently?
Article
Detection of workplace bullying and its negative impact on psychological well-being
11.2% of the population present a high probability of suffering a situation of harassment in their workplace and may develop generalised anxiety disorder. How can possible cases of psychological harassment be detected?
Interview
Going Viral, by Ester Lázaro
Ester Lázaro, a researcher at the Centre for Astrobiology and an expert on viruses, speaks about the parallels between biology and sociology on a topic that touches us all: going viral.
Latest publications
Article
Do Internet usage and education play a role in health inequalities? A study of the Spanish population aged 50-79
Can the Internet help us to maintain good health? According to this study, improving the health literacy of the population and providing them with access to the internet could help reduce health inequalities.
Article
Attachment Style: emotional bonds condition mobile use among young people and their relational satisfaction
Young people who have established secure affective and emotional connections primarily use their phones to communicate and socialise. But what about those who use them to escape reality?
Article
Young people’s social interactions: prominently face to face, with friends and family members, and involving little use of mobile phones
We seem to have accepted that young people interact via their phones. However, this study shows that two out of three of their social interactions are face-to-face. How and why do young people interact?
Seminars
Activity
Imaginaries in transition in today’s democracy
How are our imaginaries, our shared concepts, regarding economics, the environment, and culture changing? We analyse this issue in this series of seminars organised jointly with the Fundación Ernest Lluch.
Activity
Breaking the silence: talking about grief
All of us experience at some point in our lives grief for the loss of someone or something. This series of seminars, co-organised with the AFIN Research Group from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, contributes to raising the visibility of this solitary and silent process.
Activity
Technology, business, and new cities
What effect is the digital transformation having on the business and social fabric of cities? This series of seminars, co-organised with the KIMbcn Foundation, will explore the difficult balance between technological development and city life to guarantee an ethical and sustainable implementation of technology.
