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.
Dr. Claude Fischler
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
Why Nutrition is (should be) a Social Science
In his presentation “Why Nutrition is (should be) a Social Science” Dr. Fischler shows that eating is both the primary biological function and the primary determinant for early social organisation. Nutrition needs to be interdisciplinary to take this into account: It should integrate socio-anthropological, psychological and nutritional approaches.
Prof. Dr. Paul Rozin
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
The Modern Food World: Meat, Morality, Technology and Sustainability
Dr. Laura König received the Stiftung Schmieder award 2018 for her doctoral dissertation. The award ceremony took place during the Dies academicus. Learn more about her work in this video.
In der Arbeitsgruppe Psychologische Diagnostik und Gesundheitspsychologie besteht die Möglichkeit, ein Forschungspraktikum ab Oktober 2018 oder später für einen Zeitraum von 3-6 Monaten zu absolvieren. Das Praktikum richtet sich an Studierende der Psychologie, Ernährungs- oder Sportwissenschaften sowie verwandter Disziplinen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der Ausschreibung.
A new paper was accepted for publication:
Klusmann, V., Sproesser, G., Wolff, J., & Renner, B. (in press). Positive self-perceptions of aging promote healthy eating behavior across the lifespan via social-cognitive processes. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.
New paper
'Healthy food choices are happy food choices: Evidence from a real life sample using smartphone based assessments' published in Scientific Reports. The study is part of the BMBF-project SMARTACT.
Using a new visualization tool and combining field and experimental designs, the paper in Science of the Total Environment suggests that although bottled and tap water consumer groups differ greatly in their beliefs, perceived health risks and taste, these differences seem to reflect illusionary beliefs rather than actual experiences or product characteristics.
