Scientific Watchdog – Monitoring Report

Tracking Research at the Crossroads of Mental Health, Digital Environments, and Economic Codes

This page presents the latest update of the EU Laboratory's Watchdog, a manual and critical scientific surveillance system designed to monitor recent publications that intersect with contemporary transformations in mental health, digital behavior, and the economic unconscious.

The monitoring is based on a curated selection of academic and preprint articles, focusing on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of clinical psychology, computational environments, and socioeconomic structures.

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Keywords Monitored

The articles collected respond to a set of strategic keywords, chosen to reflect the transversal themes at the heart of the EU Laboratory's epistemological and political concerns. These keywords include:

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• Psychological and clinical markers:
  Mental health, Psychiatry, Psychology, Stress, Technostress, Addiction, Self-esteem, Dissociation, Cognitive load, Neuroplasticity, Beliefs, Cognitive bias, Psychological effects

• Neuroscientific and behavioral frameworks:
  Neuroscience, Consumer Neuroscience, Neuroeconomics, Reward system, Attention capture, Decision-making, Computational

• Socioeconomic logics:
  Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Productivity, Performance, Success, Consumer Psychology, Data colonialism

• Digital and visual environments:
  Social media, Screen time, Generative AI, Deepfakes, Gamification, Digital behavior, Visual culture, Neurovision, Virtual environments, Digital virality, Cyberpsychology

• Social forces and identity dynamics:
  Social pressure, Social influence, Identity, Contamination, Epigenetics

• Epistemological axes:
  Epidemiology, Critical studies

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