FCH launches new innovative PhD Program in Psychology

The Faculdade de Ciências Humanas at Universidade Católica Portuguesa is offering a new international PhD Program in Emotion Psychology – the PhD in Psychology: Emotion & Wellbeing, the first ever PhD Program of its kind in both the European and Worldwide landscapes, with a stronghold on conceptual framework and research in emotion and its relation to other basic processes, specific methods and a clear aim of enabling the application of findings in this domain towards the improvement of human activity in various contexts – the workplace, health domain, education, family, society and policy. 

The Program, which has been strongly commended by the Evaluation Committee, has been Accredited for 6 years (12-05-2021) and is entirely taught in English. 

Check the program here.

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