Humans tend to divide their social world into “us” and “them”. In addition, we often believe that “we” are better than “them”. Such perceptions can lead to prejudices, intolerance or even conflict.

DigiPatch investigates the interaction between psychological needs and digital media use in the social sphere and processes of identity formation and protection.

The current project "Ethnical discrimination in the legal context: The role of interviewees’ native language for accuracy and suggestibility in investigative interviews" examines how a persons language (native vs. non-native) affects their accuracy and susceptibility to suggestions in investigative interviews.

The purpose of the project is to investigate the older adult’s autobiographical memories (that is, the memory of personally related events).

The main objective of this ambitious cross-disciplinary program is to investigate the nature and causes of knowledge resistance, the tendency not to accept available knowledge. This represents the first concerted effort to provide a unified framework within which to investigate knowledge resistance, going beyond the state of the art on several levels.

With a focus on inter individual distances; does the public know how actual exposure to an airborne virus varies with, e.g, variation of face to face distance and length of a conversation?

A common type of crime among female perpetrators is arson. This doctoral project will investigate factors at the time of crime, psychosocial background, and risk factors for crime recidivism for women who commit arson, in comparison with men who commit arson, and based on the knowledge formulate the women's clinical needs.