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Positive emotions not as positive as assumed

Together with a team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Amsterdam, Prof. Lukasz Kaczmarek and Dr. Maciej Behnke have published another meta-analysis on the psychophysiological functions of positive emotions. The article was published in Emotion Review.

R-loops at microRNA encoding loci promote co-transcriptional processing of pri-miRNAs in plants

Emotion norms for 6000 word meanings with a mapping to the Polish wordnet

The publication is one of the results of the project "Sentimenti - emotion analyzer for Polish texts" financed by the EU Intelligent Development Operational Program, realized with the participation of AMU employees.

Article by prof. Katarzyna Adamczyk in a prestigious magazine

On 11th July, the prestigious journal Psychology of Religion and Spiritualitypublished an article written by Katarzyna Adamczyk, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Beata Zarzycka, Ph.D. (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) and Kinga Zawada, M.A. (Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Adam ...

Do gender, genre and the gaze still matter? On a feminine road movie in women’s experimental film

Seen as historically masculine, the road movie has perpetuated its traditional patriarchal configuration and privileged the white heterosexual male. To counteract the genre’s gendered nature, some scholars have pointed to the growing need to study women’s road movies, yet never in the context of experimental filmmaking, which was institutionalized as ...

POPANE DATASET - Psychophysiology Of Positive And Negative Emotions

Changes in human physiology, for years, have been considered one of the basic components of emotions experienced by humans. In a paper published in Scientific Data, researchers responded to the interest in the physiology of emotions in various disciplines, such as computer science, by presenting a public database called Psychophysiology ...

“Dark matter” of hunter-gatherers archaeology: How many artifacts does a site lack?

Based on hunting and gathering plants, Palaeolithic communities perform tasks related to it both inside and outside the camp. During various activities, they use objects made of bones, antlers or flint materials, and these products are displaced and lost. The article aims to investigate how many artefacts are missing when ...

Does the religiosity of Chilean students influence their subjective well-being through spiritual development and hope?

The article by Marcin Wnuk, Ph.D. appeared in the Journal of Religion and Health and describes how the religious and spiritual aspects of Chilean students' functioning are related to their well-being.

Itinerant craftsmen from 3500 years ago, a study on specialized metallurgical analysis of the Dohnsen cup

The article, published in the Archaeometry journal, is the result of an interdisciplinary approach undertaken in archeology for many years. A detailed metallurgical analysis of the bronze cup from Dohnsen confirmed the thesis that it is a unique example of long-distance contacts between communities from the northern and southern ends ...

Scientists from AMU have developed a glucose sensor based on a new class of 2D materials known as MXene

In one of the latest issues of the prestigious journal titled Biosensors and Bioelectronics (Impact Factor - 10.618), which is related to the research of the new biosensors, a group of scientists from the NanoBioMedical Center (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) presented the results of their research devoted to a ...