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Congratulations to our PhD students Laura Bechtiger & Lydia Johnson-Ferguson: They renewed the R-goup’s funding from the UZH Graduate Campus!
The Zürich Learning Progress Study 2023-2035: Concept, Design and Opportunities for Collaboration
December 9, 2022, 10:15 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
The emergence of social networks between university students: Insights from the Swiss StudentLife Study
December 2, 2022, 10:15 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
The Side Effects of the Oral Contraceptive Pill
November 25, 2022, 10:15 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
On November 22, 6-8 p.m., Denis Ribeaud will give a public lecture on the Zurich Youth Survey 2021 (ZYS).
Educational impacts beyond test scores
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 16:00 – 17:30 h (CET)
Symposium will be held via Zoom.
Trends in Youth Violence, Delinquency, and Substance Use 1999-2021: Selected Findings from the Zurich Youth Surveys
November 18, 2022, 10:15 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor) / Zoom
Modelling Development as a Dynamic System
November 11, 2022, 10:15 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
Pregnancy Loss - Stress, Investment, and Subsequent Children
November 4, 2022, 10:15 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
Jeanine Grütter spoke for "Rundgang-Magazin" how children with disabilities are excluded more often than others.
Lea Mörsdorf and Mirella Manfredi are organizing the workshop How and what the brain tells us.
November 10, 2022, 14:00
UZH, Psychological Institute,
BIN-1-A.12
Prof. Lilly Shanahan (PI of the Risk and Resilience research area of the JC) recently participated in a podium discussion in honor of the 50th anniversary of the UZH/ETH Psychological Counseling Services.
Denis Ribeaud gave an input presentation on the Zurich Youth Survey (ZYS) for youth advocates and social workers of the Canton of Zurich.
Neural mechanisms of task switching in children: Age differences and training-induced plasticity
October 21, 2022, 10:15 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
A new paper by Laura Bechtiger and colleagues examines exposure to maternal depressive symptoms as a risk factor for adolescents’ unhealthy behavior.
Nora Raschle, Lea Bartsch and Susan Mérillat give inputs on lifelong learning from the perspective of the brain.
Psychological Research on Intelligence and Education: How to Unite Estranged Siblings
September 23, 2022, 10:15 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
The fourth meeting of the z-proso International Research Network (zIReN) took place from 1 to 3 September in Edinburgh.
On 6 September, Denis Ribeaud held a media conference on the report on the Zurich Youth Survey (ZYS) 2021, which was published the same day.
Jacobs Center director Prof. Dr. Moritz Daum answered what children need for the online magazine of the Office for Youth and Career Guidance - fürs Leben gut.
Jacobs Center director Prof. Dr. Moritz Daum gave an interview for the Fritz+Fränzi Magazin.
Ariane Basler and Irene Kriesi, former COCON collaborators, have published ‘The Development of Informal Competences Between the End of Compulsory Schooling and Early Adulthood’ in the Swiss Journal of Sociology.
In a new paper, Dr. Annekatrin Steinhoff, Prof. Lilly Shanahan, and the z-proso team show that early adolescents who engage in both self- and other-harm (i.e., dual-harm) have a high risk of continuing to engage in such harm over the following years.
Lydia Johnson-Ferguson, PhD student in the Risk and Resilience area of the Jacobs Center presented on June 15 a poster about the associations of psychoactive substances with steroid hormones in hair (e.g., cortisol, testosterone) at the annual Psychology and the Brain conference in Freiburg, Germany.
The Risk and Resilience group of the Jacobs Center hosted on May 30 a workshop on 3-generation cohort studies and mechanisms of intergenerational transmission.
Effort and dynamics of educational inequality: Evidence from a laboratory study among primary school children
May 20, 2022, 10:00 h
New NZZ article on z-proso, the Zurich Youth Surveys, and youth crime in Switzerland. These studies by the JC team shed light on trends and causes of youth violence and delinquency.
On 17 May 2022 the "Developmental Science Network Zurich" offers one-on-one talks with internationally renowned experts in the field of developmental science.
Changing Gender Norms: The Effect of Paternity Leave on the Next Generation
May 13, 2022, 10:00 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
Developing and Validating Digital Biomarkers for Lifecourse Research and Intervention
May 6, 2022, 10:00 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
A panel discussion on "The impact of war trauma on development" will be held on Thursday 5 May 2022, 16:00 to 17:30 organised by the "Development Science Network Zurich".
Workshop on professional networking organized by the “R” peer mentoring group of the University of Zurich.
Prof. Moritz Daum contributed to the article about social bonding in the last issue of the “UZH Magazin 1/2022” (in German)
Many congratulations to our newly entitled Dr. Réka Borbás who has successfully defended her thesis with the highest laudatio possible (summa cum laude).
Many congratulations to Prof. Nora Raschle's team for their new publication in the Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience!
Personality and the Environment
April 8, 2022, 10:00 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 4.06 (4th floor)
New paper on self-, other-, and dual-harm during adolescence by Dr. Annekatrin Steinhoff. Harm against self and others ranks among the top public health challenges facing young people in the Western world.
Processing meaning across different modalities, contexts, and populations: Evidence from neurophysiology
April 1, 2022, 10:00 h
Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, AND 3.46 (3rd floor) and via Zoom
The Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development has conducted a study to examine how external childcare influences the development of children into young adulthood.
Based on two cohorts born almost a decade apart (1991, 2000) the study examines cohort differences in the development of civic engagement during mid- to late adolescence (age 15 to 18).”
The Causal Impact of Children's Health Shocks
Monday, 14.3.22, 18:15-19:00, UZH auditorium (KOL-G-201)
Reward Anticipation and Episodic Memory in Middle Childhood
March 4, 2022, 10:00 h
"Shifting contexts: Could this be the new resilience?"
February 25, 2022, 10:00 h
New z-proso paper on polysubstance use in early adulthood! Polysubstance use is associated with serious risks for health and well-being.
Congratulations Michelle Loher who was awarded 4 years of funding by the SNSF to pursue a PhD with the Doc.CH mechanism!
Congratulations! Prof. Jeanine Grütter’s team and Prof. Marlis Buchmann published an article in Frontiers in Psychology.
Congratulations to the NMR Kids Lab team who published a new article in the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience entitled “Mother-child similarity in brain morphology: A comparison of structural characteristics of the brain’s reading network.”
Congratulations to our PhD students Laura Bechtiger & Lydia Johnson-Ferguson: They received new funding from the UZH Graduate Campus!
