In the last couple of years, I and my team have been intensively working on a new research program in  Positive Technology : Transformative Experience Design. In short, the goal of this project is to  understand how virtual reality, brain-based technologies and the language of arts can support transformative experiences , that is, emotional experiences that promote deep personal change. About Transformative Experience Design As noted by  Miller and C’de Baca , there are experiences in life that are able to generate profound and long-lasting shifts in core beliefs and...

Over €4 million worth of EU funding has been awarded to the international network ‘ ENTWINE informal care ’, led by Prof. Mariët Hagedoorn and Prof. Robbert Sanderman from the department of Health Psychology at the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG). The grant will be used to train 15 novice researchers to study and solve questions relating to sustainable ways of providing informal...

Awe is a complex emotion composed of an appraisal of vastness and a need for accommodation. The purpose of this study was to develop a robust state measure of awe, the Awe Experience Scale...

In the last months, there has been a growing interest about  blockchain technology , the open and distributed ledger that is at the heart of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This technology is...

We are very excited to present this new Frontiers research topic on Positive Technology Frontiers in Psychology is the #1 largest and the #2 most cited psychology journal in the world....

I have created a new project in ResearchGate for those of you who are interested to get the latest updates in PT research (including full-text access to most of our papers):...

If 2016 has been a golden year for virtual reality, there is reason to believe that the coming year may be even better. According to a recent market forecast by International Data Corporation...

The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken giant steps during the last decade, to the point that for many experts, including the world-renowned astrophysics Stephen Hawking and...

Developed by Omron Corporation, FORPHEUS (Future Omron Robotics Technology for Exploring Possibility of Harmonized aUtomation with Sinic Theoretics) has officially been given the Guinness World...

Alice Chirico, David B. Yaden, Giuseppe Riva and Andrea Gaggioli Front. Psychol. , 09 November 2016 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01766 Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università...