Universidade Lusófona do Porto

Portuguese coaches’ and scouts’ perspectives on scouting processes in soccer: Psychological attributes and observation practices

Talent identification and development in soccer is a multifaceted process that requires the evaluation of players across a range of attributes. This study compared the perspectives of Portuguese coaches and scouts regarding scouting practices and examined their observation and ev...

Systematic Review of the Global Patterns and Determinants of International Student Mobility

ABSTRACT This systematic literature review synthesizes and analyses a corpus of 140 studies on the size and flows of international student mobility (ISM), as well as its determinants. The review confirms a consistent global increase in international students, albeit experienced d...

Event-related potentials reveal enhanced processing of social media over monetary rewards

Since the first online social media platform, using social media has emerged as one of the defining behaviors of the new millennium. For most users such behavior is recreational. However, for some individuals, the use of social media may develop to problematic, compromising their...