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| Psychology Day 2019, European Institutions |
We are Europeans and citizens living on planet earth, lucky for having a legacy called peace in our land and the responsibility to pass it to the next Generations. If we try to solve people psychological needs and major societal challenges just in our country, we can’t solve it, not even in our country. That’s why we need to share, to meet and discuss here at the European Level.
Psychology insights can contribute to address society complex problems.
Laws, procedures and politics have everything to do with human behaviour, that’s why we need psychological science to design better public policy and to mobilize citizens to comply and help to promote behavioral and perceptions changes, in order to achieve a more sustainable environment, more social cohesion and well-being in Europe and World.
We need psychology to know the behavioural causes of social phenomena and to prepare people to cope with consequences of such behaviours or some scenarios.
Psychology is a behavioural science, dealing with the human being across all the life span in every society context, developing since the 19th century and giving birth to 2 Economy and 1 Medicine (for two psychologists in a 3 person team) Nobel prize winners in the last 20 years, with 3 hundreds thousands professionals in Europe and evidence based data critical to understand who we are, how we behave, how we motivate, how we make decisions, learn, think, lead or express our emotions. We have to deliver our knowledge and skills to society and decision makers have to listen and use our contributions to better building and implementing policies and to be effective on their roles in the benefit of all of us.
It's with this major purpose and to offer our contributions that Portuguese Psychologists Association’s with other national Psychology Associations promote this event. For citizens. For Europe.
Thank you all for being here, particularly to Sofia Ribeiro and Paulo Nascimento Cabral for the contributions for this day and I hope that this first Psychology Day here, gives the floor for a psychology in all days at European Institutions.
Francisco Miranda Rodrigues, Opening Speech
European Institutions Psychology Day
Brussels, 30.01.2019
