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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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    Why do people act contrary to their intentions or feel out of control? Where is the right balance between control and relaxation? What factors determine the ability to inhibit impulses, make decisions and control emotions? What goes wrong in body and mind interaction in mental and physical disorders? We investigate psychological processes which are central…

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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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    Research

    Research in our institute focuses on development across the entire life span (childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age), as well as family, school, and culture as important developmental contexts.

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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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    Research

    Our interdisciplinary approach inherent to HCI empowers us to bridge the gap between different disciplines (psychology, computer science, design, media). Together, these varied perspectives lead to a deeper understanding of human and technology, to design innovative solutions that better serve the needs of users. Our methodological process is supported by our state-of-the-art User Lab.

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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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    Research

    The research group works on questions in the areas of a) Quality of work (effects of working conditions on employee’s well-being), b) Media use (research on the who, why, how and effects of media use), c) Autism (understanding the socio-emotional abilities and challenges of autistic people) and d) School psychology (findings be used to advise…

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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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    Research

    The research of “Health and Behaviour” focus on research questions in the areas of a) self-regulation and health, b) brain-body interaction, c) economic and social-well-being, d) health promotion and aggression prevention and e) stress, pain and gene-environment interplay.

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