08.04.2025
The TIMED Project has published a new article in Scientific Reports on digital deprivation and time perception!
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04.03.2025
With the appointment of Dr. Leah Gilbert, our Department begins a partnership with the FRIC (Food Research and Innovation Center). As a result of this collaboration, an interdisciplinary course will be…
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Publication
Youth, the New Adolescence: A Challenge and a Window of Opportunity for Early Mental Health Interventions
04.03.2025
Our attention is focused on youth, particularly those between the ages
of 12 and 25 (Insel & Fenton, 2005), a period often referred to as the "new adolescence"
(Sawyer et al., 2018). While there is…
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Article
The predictive value of emotion regulation difficulties and negative mood on short and long‐term treatment outcomes in an online guided self‐help program for adults with binge‐eating disorder
29.10.2024
Online guided self-help programs are efficacious in the treatment of binge-eating disorder in adults. However, little is known about the predictors of treatment success in online guided self-help. In the…
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Article
Breathing and heartbeat influence perception
17.09.2024
A study funded by the SNSF highlights previously unknown links between the body and the brain. The findings of this research carried out at the University of Fribourg show how our bodily rhythms affect…
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06.09.2024
With an endowment of CHF 250,000, the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize is considered to be the Swiss equivalent of the Nobel Prize. This year's prizewinner is Pascal Gygax, scientist for experimental…
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Nomination
Prof. Chantal Martin Soelch has been elected President of the EACLIPT
21.08.2024
Prof. Chantal Martin Soelch has been elected President of the European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment (EACLIPT) in February 2024.
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Article
Psychological correlates of body dissatisfaction in Swiss youth over a one-year study-period
09.01.2024
The first publication of the i-BEAT study was published on 8 January 2023 in Frontiers Psychology on the topic of "Psychological correlates of body dissatisfaction in Swiss adolescents".
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New project
The role of working memory capacity and emotion regulation on binge eating in individuals with a binge eating disorder (BED)
19.09.2023
A key criterion for the diagnosis of a binge eating disorder (BED) is recurring binge eating. Due to these binges, individuals affected by BED are strongly impaired and experience, besides health-related…
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