Urte Scholz, Universidad de Zurich, y Gertraud (Turu) Stadler, Universidad de Aberdeen El apoyo social parece algo exclusivamente positivo. ¿Qué puede tener de malo un poco de ayuda? ¿Acaso no es bueno tener a alguien que cocina comidas saludables cuando se intenta comer mejor, o sentirse reconfortado cuando te sientes deprimido porque tu intento […]
By Stephen Sutton, University of Cambridge, England Large-scale problems require large-scale solutions. Tackling the ‘Big 4’ behaviours (physical inactivity, tobacco use, excessive consumption of food and alcohol) requires scalable interventions that can reach large numbers of people to achieve a significant public health impact. One promising approach is to use brief interventions delivered by practitioners […]
Martin S. Hagger, Curtin University, Australia and University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Dominic Conroy, Birkbeck University of London, UK What is mental imagery? People are usually quite good at imagining things. For example, people often act out future actions or scenarios in their mind, or daydream about fanciful possibilities. These imagined situations are often unstructured […]
Rik Crutzen, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Nowadays, people use the Internet all the time and for a wide range of activities: from buying groceries to showing a funny cat-picture to a friend on the other side of the world. It is all possible. Also, the Internet is used more and more within the domain of health […]