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Lese-Rechtschreibstörung und Rechenschwäche – Psychologen testen Trainingsprogramme

Kinder, die gefährdet sind, eine Lese-Rechtschreibstörung (LRS) zu entwickeln, profitieren kurzfristig von einem Programm zur Förderung der …

Veranstaltungshinweise vom 7. bis 12. September

Wir möchten Sie auf folgende Veranstaltungen der Universität Potsdam in den kommenden Tagen aufmerksam machen. Weitere Hinweise finden Sie im …

Sprache und Kognition im Kindesalter – Neue DFG-Forschergruppe an der Uni Potsdam

Wie lernen Kinder sprechen und denken? Und wie lernen sie, Handlungen anderer Personen oder Ereignisse zu verstehen? Diesen Fragen widmet sich eine …
Since 2005 researchers have been continuously examining the development of children and adolescents in the PIER study. Picture: Karla Fritze

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 …

Veranstaltungshinweise vom 18. bis 23. Januar

Wir möchten Sie auf folgende Veranstaltungen der Universität Potsdam in den kommenden Tagen aufmerksam machen. Weitere Hinweise finden Sie im …
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Picture: Karla Fritze

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 …
Picture: Karla Fritze

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 …
Children of different age groups solved memory update tasks in a research project. Photo: Anna Trapp

Interferences

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 …
Pic.: Hannelore Gensel

Reading

Pleasure for Some, Torment for Others

 

For the eyes, reading is a fine motor skill, jumping in quick jerks from one word to the next in just fractions of a second. Depending on one’s …
Picture: Karla Fritze

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 …