Studies
Doctoral Program in Assessment and Measurement of Behaviour
- General Aims
- Doctorate Structure
- Lines of Research
- Doctoral Thesis Directors
- Admission
- Contact
- Departament in charge of the management of the doctoral programme
- Collaborating departments
General Aims of the Doctorate
The main aim of the doctorate is to produce doctors for high quality and advanced research. To this end, the general aims of the course are the following:
- To incorporate the students into a research group.
- To broaden their skills so that they can specialize in different aspects of the lines of research set out in the programme.
- To strengthen students' initiative in developing research projects with a methodology and scientific principles appropriate to their field of research.
- To foster general individual and team working abilities, participation in research projects, bibliographical database management, etc.
- To produce a doctoral thesis.
Structure of Doctorate
The formation period of the doctorate programme is linked to the following Master's degree introduced on the University (in order to the RD 1393/2007):
Research Lines and Directors of Doctoral Theses
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Dr. Urbano Lorenzo Seva (Dept. of Psychology)
- Development and application of quantitative technologies multichanged for the evaluation and measurement of the conduct.
Dr. Pere Joan Ferrando Piera (Dept. of Psychology)
- Development and application models and psychometric procedures for the measurement of the personality.
Dr. Andreu Vigil Colet (Dept. of Psychology)
- Evaluation of the aggressiveness and its relations with variables of personality.
- Evaluation of the impulsiveness with psychometric instruments and experimental tasks.
Dr. M. Teresa Colomina Fosch and Dr. Paloma Vicens Calderón (Dept. of Psychology)
- Neuroactive substances and conduct.
- Epidemiology of psychopathologycal disorder in the childhood age.
Dr. Jordi Miró Martínez (Dept. of Psychology), Dr. Anna Huguet Roselló (Visiting professor)
- Pain Evaluation.
- Psychology and pain.
- Pain treatment.
Dr. Eliseo Chico Libran (Dept. of Psychology)
- Study of forecasted variables of the satisfaction in life.
Dr. Josepa Canals Sans (Dept. of Psychology)
- Influence of prenatal factors about the neuro-guidance development of the child.
- Relation between nutritional factors and the cognitive development and psychological problems in the child.
- Epidemiology of psychopathologycal disorders in the chilhood and teen age.
Dr. Joan Boada Grau (Dept. of Psychology)
- Human resources and quality models in the organizations.
- Labour risks: evaluation and prevention.
Dr. José Eugenio García-Albea Ristol, Dra. Rosa Maria Sánchez-Casas Padilla, Dra. Maria Pilar Ferré Romeu and Dr. Josep Demestre Viladevall (Dept. of Psychology)
- Bilingualism and acquisition of the second languages.
- Comprehension of the language and operative memory
- Lexical Information and syntactic processing.
- Evaluation of the disorders of the language and other associate functions.
Dr. Estanislao Pastor Mallol (Dept. of Psychology)
- Advances in psychology of the education and of the development
Dr. Jordi Tous Pallarès (Dept. of Psychology)
- Occupational health and Quality of employment history in the organizations
- Tools for the Selection and Formation of the HHRR in the organizations
Dr. Fàbia Morales Vives (Dept. of Psychology)
- Study of the personality and the individual differences throughout the Life Cycle
Admission
- Maximum number of students: 20 students
- Criteria for admission and selection:
The fulfilment of the established conditions, as a requirement of admission in the 19th article and 4th addicional order of the RD 1393/2007, is necessary to be able to entry at the Doctorate Program while its research mode.
Specific criteria:
- Letter of motivation
- If coming from another university, academic records
- Curriculum Vitae
- Other merits
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Dr. Urbano Lorenzo
Department of Psychology (Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology)
977 558 079 / 977 558 450
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Collaborating departments
Department of Psychology
Further information
- Regulations for doctoral programmes
- On-line pre-registration
- Administrative procedure
- Suggestions and complaints
- Economic questions
Official Postgraduate Programme:Psychology