Class Biologia do Comportamento Humano

This UC aims to:

• Raise students’ awareness of the biological bases of human behavior.
• Inform about the importance of nature as a promoter of well-being and human performance.
• Present the biological bases of stress and mood, framed in organizational life.
• Reflect on the role of interpersonal relationships in the workplace.

1. Introduction to the Biology of human behavior.
2. Connections with nature: the biophilia hypothesis.
3. Sources of stress, physiological responses and how to mitigate it.
4. Sleep, circadian rhythms and regeneration.
5. Neurotransmitters and their role in regulating stress and well-being.
6. Interpersonal relationships and communication bases.

Discussion of videos and podcast content, based on scientific literature, in synchronous sessions facilitated by the teacher.

• Basu, A., Duvall, J., & Kaplan, R. (2019). Attention restoration theory: Exploring the role of soft fascination and mental bandwidth. Environment and Behavior, 51(9-10), 1055-1081.
• Hobfoll, S. E., Tirone, V., Holmgreen, L., & Gerhart, J. (2016). Conservation of resources theory applied to major stress. In Stress: Concepts, cognition, emotion, and behavior (pp. 65-71). Academic Press.
• Kavosi, Z., Ranaei Kordshouli, H., Zare Saadabadi, M., & Ghorbanian, A. (2018). The factors related to the employees’ job stress: A meta-analysis. Health Management & Information Science, 5(4), 145-151.
• Robert Sapolsky, The biology of our best and worst selves, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORthzIOEf30