Chapter 6: Quim Limonero

How has the Sapiens methodology influenced the understanding of psychology?

In this episode of “Connecting knowledge”, professor of Psychology Quim Limonero addresses how Sapiens has played a key role in his professional work.

From understanding the way the mind works psychologically to introducing the concept of psychocreativity, Limonero reveals how Sapiens has allowed to ask more questions and arrive at better answers.

Can you be creative under pressure? How do emotions affect our behavior? Dive into this conversation to understand how Sapiens can become an essential tool in psychology work.

This is how Quim Limonero sees the combination between creativity and working under pressure:

“On the basis of psychology, to do any activity we need a certain level of activation, which we could call the optimal level of activation. If we went beyond that optimal level of activation, we would enter a situation of anxiety and worry, in which the creative process is more difficult. Certain people, in certain environments, perform much better under a certain amount of pressure, and even more so if that pressure happens in a team, where all team members are working towards the same direction. But maintaining the pressure for a long time, a situation of sustained stress, is not the most advisable thing to do, because in the end you would reach a state of emotional and cognitive exhaustion. Situations or periods in which there’s more activation, more stress, should be combined with situations in which there’s more tranquility, to then reflect on what you have done in that stage of more tension, more emotional activation”

About Quim Limonero

Quim Limonero is a professor of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He conducts basic and applied research in the field of motivation, emotion and creativity. In particular, he analyzes the emotional effects on higher cognitive processes and their influence on thinking and creativity. He also studies the processes of human adaptation to stressful situations. He is a member of the Stress and Health Research Group (GIES) of the Faculty of Psychology of the UAB.