This line aims to improve our knowledge of specific learning disorders and their comorbidities throughout life, as well as the design and analysis of the effectiveness of evidence-based prevention and intervention programmes.

The study of perception, attention and choice of responses in driving.

Background, moderators and consequences of marketing and market orientation on the competitiveness of cluster companies.

To assess neurocognition and social cognition in schizophrenia, including attention, episodic memory, executive functions, emotional perception, theory of mind, attributional style and social perception.

Research in emotional education focuses on the knowledge and skills (competences), which children and adolescents have and which allow them to identify their own and other people's emotions, as well as to express and regulate pleasant and unpleasant emotions.

Study of the most appropriate methods for the assessment and selection of drivers who aspire to obtain their driving licence.

Misunderstanding of the statistical inference process. Study of the impact of statistical reform among researchers, teachers, practitioners and students of Psychology and Education. Evidence-Based Practice. Systematic reviews, meta-analyses and network meta-analyses. Validity of results. Replication. Degrees of freedom of the researcher. Integrity and ethics of the scientist.

In this line, technological products for research, assessment and teaching in text-based learning environments (standardised texts, intelligent tutors and research tools) are developed. The conditions of the task environment, such as question format or task interface, that influence learning are also investigated. 

The international entrepreneur. Strategic effectiveness in new companies. Organisational alternatives in bankruptcy environments. Business reorganisation and restructuring. Decline, crisis and turnaround. Second Chance Policies.

A study of the relationship between knowledge production and political action based on the different theoretical developments in the field of feminist studies that question the epistemic privilege of scientific knowledge based on the assumptions of objectivity, universality and neutrality.

Proposal of a psychobiological model of General Personality Factor (GPF). Creation of an instrument for measuring the GPF.

The main goal of this line of research is to analyse the characteristics of teenage lifestyles, exploring their psychosocial correlates, with the purpose of promoting healthy behaviours.

Study of the functioning of the semantic memory network to specifically identify both deficits and preserved functions in schizophrenia in order to develop personalised rehabilitation plans.

Development of abbreviated versions of the classic tests used in intellectual assessment, with the aim of facilitating the assessment of intellectual functioning and the screening of patients with severe mental disorders.

Methodological issues linked to the area of psychological and social aspects that are related to migrations, human mobility and sexual diversity. Analysis of prejudice and rejection of members of minority groups (such as immigrants, people with a homosexual sexual orientation and transgender people). Analysis of variables related to internalised homophobia and micro-aggressions in everyday life. Minority stress.

The goal is to study the relationships between the motivational processes that occur in school and sport contexts and the performance, well-being and health behaviours of adolescents, in order to optimise these processes and their effects by promoting positive environments.

Study of the biological bases of violent and criminal behaviour, with its applications at diagnosis, prevention and intervention levels in violence.

Use of new technologies and open education. Teaching innovation in subjects linked to the area of research methodology (use of film, humour, portfolios, problem-based learning, collaborative learning, active student learning). Analysis of the emotional aspects related to learning the content of research methodology subjects (academic anxiety, self-efficacy, statistical anxiety).

Implementation and evaluation studies of the Parent-Child Psychological Support Programme (PAPMI) and the Parent-Child Psychological Support Programme (PCPS).

Study of the adaptation to the disease of both the patient and the family environment - at different times or in different areas that include not only the process of diagnosis and treatment, but also other phases such as the prevention of the disease or its survival. It also deals with different aspects related to the performance of the healthcare professional in oncology (e.g. burnout, communication skills and management of crisis and stressful situations in the interaction with the patient).

The variables involved in prosocial versus aggressive behaviour are investigated, analysing the different contexts involved in these behaviours: family, school and peer groups, fundamentally around family and the different types of family, related to family cohesion and conflict, child-to-parent violence, the hierarchy of values, prosocial development and agressive behaviour in children and adolescents and their integration in an intercultural context. Based mainly on how, in recent years, different forms of violence have increased in adolescence, such as peer violence (bullying and cyberbullying), child-to-parent violence and gender-based violence (between couples), with important consequences in the personal, family, school and social spheres. Emotions and their lack of self-regulation, lack of empathy, coping mechanisms, peer preassure, the socialisation process and the values that society transmits are factors that may be behind these behaviours. In particular, we focus our research on the protective factors that favour and strengthen prosocial behaviour in adolescence: factors of protection and vulnerability to aggression, taking into account personal, family, school and peer relationship variables. Types of family: given their importance in the psychosocial development of children, the variables are analysed considering the different types of family and aggressiveness/prosociality of children (discrimination between single-parent families, family structure, biological or adoptive family). Adolescence: analysis of emotional competences in adolescence (11-18 years old), as well as of parenting practices and styles, school failure and risk behaviours in adolescents, such as alcohol abuse. Other variables to be analysed: anxiety, depression, stress, coping mechanisms and the relationship with peers, prosocial peers-aggressive peers.

To evaluate the effectiveness of different programmes (e.g. IPT, EMT, INT) in improving neurocognition, social cognition and social functioning in people with mental disorders.

Focused on the specific field of addictive behaviours, this research line develops intervention PROGRAMMES for young people who have been fined for the consumption or possession of addictive substances on the street, with an important aspect being the adaptation of the action to the characteristics of each of the groups to be intervened, adjusting to the many differences found among young people from different cultures and races. On the other hand, this research line is also aimed at the ADAPTATION of tools, given that in recent years intensive alcohol consumption has become consolidated among Spanish minors, often leading to alcohol intoxication and in which the incorporation of female teenagers between 14 and 15 years of age is increasingly notorious and worrying (Cortés, Giménez y Motos, 2012; Cortés, 2012; OED, 2013). The consequences of this pattern of consumption on brain development and the effects it has on attention, processing and retention of new information, emotional control, etc., are known with considerable accuracy (López et al.,, 2013; Crego et al. 2009; Guerri, 2010; Tapert, 2007), but there is not the same level of knowledge about to what extent and in what way it is interfering in the development of each of the social and personal skills that are acquired at this age and which, like the deterioration in brain structure, will also have consequences on the optimal development of these young people. It has become evident that in this aspect it is not possible to use tools adapted from other countries, since the pattern of consumption differs markedly (OED, 2013).

Basic research into processes involved in gambling addiction. Development of gambling addiction (Ludens) and technological addictions (AdiTec) prevention programmes. Development of evidence-based gambling addiction treatment protocols. Development of regulation proposals.

Study of the main risk factors causing traffic accidents (speed, alcohol, drugs, medicines, illnesses...) and the vulnerable groups most involved in them.

Promotion of sexual health in different groups such as male sex workers, ASD or ID with different objectives such as affective-sexual education to prevent abuse, prevention of risky sexual practices and other behaviours such as sexting or cybersex.

Development and validation of new attitude measures towards gender-based violence; changing attitudes towards gender-based violence in abusers.

Corresponding to its complexity and wide range, it focuses on studies and developments concerning strategy (including tactical and operational levels) and all the components involved in the decision-making process, based on normative or descriptive models (mathematical versus psychological), as well as at the individual and group level.

Analysis of the intrapsychic effects derived from the belief system surrounding the sexed condition of human beings. Analysis of body images and normative criteria of beauty and their impact on social well-being and health. Study of the internalisation of gender roles that justify the asymmetries of power between the sexes.

The topics of research and development are very broad and include epidemiological studies, accident research, causes of accidents, risk factors, risk groups, vulnerable users, driver behaviour, basic psychological processes, attitudes, motivations and values underlying behaviour, the special case of offenders and repeat offenders, as well as autonomous driving.

In addition to the human factor, the subject of study includes the roads (with special attention to black spots and accident hotspots, as well as signage, which is particularly variable), vehicles, and the condition of all of them.

Analysis of intercultural differences in the use of discipline practices; development of implicit measures of attitudes towards aggression in parent-child relationships; attitudes towards corporal punishment and child maltreatment risk.