Organisation: Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences

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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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    Human-Computer Interaction

    We are interdisciplinary team of researchers and designers focusing on technology as an experience, embedded in everyday life products, systems and services.

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    Health promotion and aggression prevention

    Research focuses on health promotion, mental health trainings, autism, and the psychological causes and consequences of violence (in different contexts).

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    Health and Behaviour Institute

    The researchers investigate links between health and behaviour, the influence of economic, social, and genetic factors, and interventions to improve health.

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    Economic and Social Well-being

    We work on the theoretical and empirical analysis of many major challenges individuals and society face: inequality, insecurity, poverty, health and well-being

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    Cognition, learning, and educational assessment research

    We seek to explore cognitive skills, personality, and virtual environments with the use of educational technology to improve student learning and education.

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    Computational Cognitive Science and Modelling

    To capture human perception and cognition in our complex world, we build models that capture them under natural conditions and better methods to evaluate them.

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    Cognitive Science and Assessment Institute

    We are specialists in psychology, psychometrics, human-computer interaction, cognitive modelling and educational sciences.

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