News from the University of Potsdam
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Together Against Anxiety – Florian Weck researches excessive fear of disease and how to train good therapists
When does psychotherapy work and when does it not? What makes a good therapist? And how can their competencies be measured? These questions are on... more
The Risk Inside – Psychologists examine which traits promote critical development.
The first data was collected in 2005. By now about 3,000 children and adolescents have participated in the PIER (Potsdamer intrapersonale... more
Literature As Nourishment – Research on a New Spatial Understanding of the Holocaust
Trauma and space – literary scholar and philosopher Judith Kasper brings these two terms together in a research project funded by the DFG about the... more
Learning How to Lose Weight
Psychologists in Potsdam have developed a training program for obese young people They’ve just grown out of children’s shoes and are already too fat. Unfortunately this no longer a rare situation. Pathological obesity at an early... more
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Why human working memory performance differs among people Working memory is the intermediate storage device for the human brain. Its capacity is limited, even more so for people with learning disabilities... more
At the Limits of Resilience
Workplace-Related Anxieties and How They Can Be Treated It breathes down your neck: it chokes you. There is pressure on your chest. It sends chills down your spine. Anxiety has many faces. A briefly flare... more
Why Love Hurts
About the Relativity of Pain Pain is a reaction of the body to an objectively measurable stimulus. How we sense pain subjectively, whether we rate it as merely unpleasant or as... more