Organisation: Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences

  • Core Research Projects

    Childhood Adversity and Mental Health Project

    The CHAMP project aims to fill this knowledge gap by comprehensively examining the mental health and cognitive development of children across diverse environments, including residential care, foster care, and boarding homes in Luxembourg.

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    DACE – Daily Experiences of Aging – A Cross-Cultural Examination

    In the DACE project, we investigate the daily experience of aging and compare this experience in different countries (Germany, USA, Israel, Turkey)

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  • Core Research Projects

    DACE – Daily Experiences of Aging – A Cross-Cultural Examination

    In the DACE project, we investigate the daily experience of aging and compare this experience in different countries (Germany, USA, Israel, Turkey)

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  • Events

    Master in Border Studies Live Chat – Presentation

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  • News

    Of loneliness: how research uncovers facts and legends

    „Who feels lonely, dies early“, an old German saying tells. There is truth behind the old insight: A large meta-analysis including 70 studies around the world concluded that people who feel lonely have a 26% higher risk of dying earlier than expected.

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  • Research Groups

    xCIT

    We create digital technologies to study and improve how humans learn. Founded in June 2017 by Dr. Pedro Cardoso-Leite, xCIT is a research group where experts and students in science and design collaborate in a multidisciplinary endeavor to uncover the secrets of human learning and cognition in the digital age. We use state-of-the-art science and…

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    Stress, Pain, and Gene-Environment Interplay

    We are trying to understand how stress exposure is linked to mental health problems, with a particular focus on early-life stress and pain processing.

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    Self-Regulation and Health

    Self-regulation failures are central to most health problems that plague individuals in modern societies, for example obesity, eating disorders, and depression.

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    Institute for Lifespan Development, Family, and Culture

    We investigate how individuals develop from childhood to old age with and within different contexts, such as the family, school, and culture.

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