Studies on well-being and its possible determinants are rare in the international literature, and almost non-existent in Brazil, particularly among youth. The present study focused on the epidemiology of well-being among adolescents belonging to a birth cohort. Well-being was measured using face-to-face interviews, with a question whose answer was based on a graphic scale of faces. 4,452 adoles...

In his letter to the editor, Dr Schräder poses the rhetorical question of whether the results of our study are ‘true’. To substantiate his doubts, he points out that different non-ionic contrast media (CM) were used in our study and calls for a subgroup analysis. In addition, he refers to the data obtained during the COURT trial. I am very happy to be given this opportunity to discuss the inter...

The present study aimed to explore the modulation of frequency bands (alpha, beta, theta) underlying the positive facial expressions classification advantage within different post-stimulus time intervals (100-200 ms, 200-300 ms, 300-400 ms). For this purpose, we recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) activity during an emotion discrimination task for happy, sad and neutral faces. The correlation b...

We investigated the effects of cortisol administration on approach and avoidance tendencies in 20 patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD). Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were measured during a reaction time task, in which patients evaluated the emotional expression of photographs of happy and angry faces by making an approaching (flexion) or avoiding (extension) arm movement. Patient...

The computation by which our brain elaborates fast responses to emotional expressions is currently an active field of brain studies. Previous studies have focused on stimuli taken from everyday life. Here, we investigated event-related potentials in response to happy vs neutral stimuli of human and non-humanoid robots. At the behavioural level, emotion shortened reaction times similarly for rob...

I am very happy to write my opinion regarding Dr. Oostrom’s paper. First of all, I agree with Dr. Oostrom’s shortened BRCA counselling protocol. Actually, in my clinical practice, I have already adopted the shortened protocol and usually two sessions are enough for non-mutation carriers. Although my experience in genetic counselling is not that long, I hardly encounter patients with psychologic...

This book contains valuable information and commonsense ideas for anyone who is involved with the upbringing of children. It is clearly written and very readable. Dr. de Kok has the happy knack of being able to translate highly complicated psychological theories into everyday language. Here is a book written by an expert which the average parent can read easily without the "mumbo jumbo" of psyc...

Abstract This paper examines factors affecting happiness using panel data concerning 58 countries during 2003-2011. Happiness data come in the form of answers to questions such as "How happy are you as a whole in your life?" and the answers range from 1 to 5transformed to obtain a 1-10 scale. Macroeconomics data are from MIT and World Bank 2012 tables. Including 215 total pool observations indi...

Although the role of positive emotions is important in sales, personal happiness remains understudied selling context. Grounded broaden-and-build theory, this study aims to examine relationships among happiness, job involvement, satisfaction and salesperson flourishing. For salespeople, new demands a connected world have largely blurred boundaries between their life work life. It has allowed fr...

Graphical Abstract „A key experience in my education and career was when I faced rejection failure, because it built up resilience. Even hurt, taught me a lot about myself … In five years, hope to be happy, healthy, (still) sane, hopefully also an independent young professor …“ Find out more Sona Krajcovicova her Introducing Profile.