On 3rd September 2019, Prof. Dr. Britta Renner was elected vice-president of the German Nutrition Society (DGE e.V.). Read the full press release (in German).

Two papers were recetly published from the research project SMARTACT (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF):

König, L. M. & Renner, B. (2019). Boosting healthy food choices by meal colour variety: Results from two experiments and a just-in-time Ecological Momentary Intervention. BMC Public Health, 19, 975. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7306-z

Villinger, K.*, Wahl, D. R.*, Boeing, H., Schupp, H. T., & Renner, B. (2019). The effectiveness of app‐based mobile interventions on nutrition behaviours and nutrition‐related health outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Obesity Reviews, 20(10), 1465-1484. doi: doi.org/10.1111/obr.12903 * both authors contributed equally

Two papers were recently accepted for publication from Dr. Verena Klusmann's Scientific Network "Images of Aging":

Spuling, S. M., Klusmann, V., Bowen, C. E., Kornadt, A. E., & Kessler, E. M. (in press). The uniqueness of subjective ageing: Convergent and discriminant validity. European Journal of Ageing. doi: 10.1007/s10433-019-00529-7

Our article explains that and how the way you think about aging determines how you eat – and that being the case already from young adulthood on. The paper gained an Editor’s Choice of the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences including free access at: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/74/5/735/4668509

Gastvortrag von Christiane Attig (Professur für Allgemeine und Arbeitspsychologie, Technische Universität Chemnitz) am 14.5. um 17.00 Uhr in G300.

Research Shows A Healthy Diet Improves Your Mental Health.

Prof. Dr. Britta Renner will be a panelist in the "Grenzgänger Wissenschaft" event series and talk about sustainability and health.

Dr. Angela Bearth
Consumer Behavior, Institute for Environmental Decisions
ETH Zürich, Schweiz

1st Feb 2019 at 1.30 pm in G530

Perceptions and acceptance of existing and emergent technologies

The Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour is recruiting up to 25 PhD and Post-doc positions in collective behaviour, with four of these being in psychology projects.