Press photo of the exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft 2023, showing the ship lying on the water with the inscription "MS Wissenschaft".

Exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft tours Germany and Austria

Under the motto "A Journey through the Cosmos", the MS Wissenschaft is opening its doors again and touring Germany and Austria from 9 May to 27 September. The MPIB is represented with two exhibits this year.

bribery

Biases about bribery in certain countries facilitate corruption

For transnational bribery, the decision to offer bribes strongly depends on the national background of one’s partner. One's own nationality, on the other hand, plays only a secondary role. This is shown by a large-scale experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Cologne, the University of Amsterdam and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Plate with fruits

How to get your children to eat more fruits and vegetables

Children will eat more fruits and vegetables if families take more time to eat meals. This is the result of a new study led by researchers at the University of Mannheim and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

75 years of the Max Planck Society

75 years of the Max Planck Society

Our umbrella organization, the Max Planck Society, was founded in Göttingen in 1948 and is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Changing the Feeling Rules

Changing the Feeling Rules

How do existing social formations falter when someone challenges what is considered the norm? The research area History of Emotions addresses this question in the project "Changing the Feeling Rules" and illuminates moments of conflict in which social judgments collide and values are realigned through friction and rupture.

Research Group Leader Simone Kühn

ERC Consolidator Grant for Simone Kühn

Simone Kühn, Research Group Leader of the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Head of a working group at the Centre for Psychosocial Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), has won the 2022 ERC Consolidator Grant. Her BrainScape project receives two million euros funding by the European Research Council (ERC).

The Body Unburdened

The Body Unburdened

Drawing on research that combines an ethnography of a new group of women from popular classes in today's Turkey and a study of vigilante violence against these women, including interviews and court files, The Body Unburdened by Esra Sarioglu offers a compelling explanation for the surge of hostility against women in the global era.

Walk in the nature

How does nature nurture the brain?

After a 60-minute walk in nature, activity in brain regions involved in stress processing decreases. This is the finding of a recent study by the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, published in Molecular Psychiatry.

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Current Research Results


It shows the Book Cover The Body Unburdened written by Esra Sarioglu. The upper third displays the book title and name, in the lower two thirds is a photo of a woman standing in the midst of police officers and the proud look is led away.
Cover of the book "Jahrbuch Deutsche Einheit 2022"
Grüne fahren SUV und Joggen macht unsterblich
Feeling Political.
Zur Zukunft der Demokratie
Fluid Feelings
Klick
Sex - right!
feeling different: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Federal Republic.
Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know
The long-term proficiency of early, middle, and late starters learning English as a foreign language at school
Classification in the Wild
Mächtige Gefühle
Body, Capital, and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century
original
Tech-fear
Shared responsibility in collective decisions
Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India
Taming Uncertainty
Sequential replay of non-spatial task states in the human hippocampus
Encounters with emotions: Negotiating cultural differences since early modernity
Kapitalismus, Märkte und Moral
An Integrated Model of Action Selection: Distinct Modes of Cortical Control of Striatal Decision Making
Looking for a Different Medicine. Psychosomatic Medicine in the 20th Century.
The politics of humiliation: A modern history.
Lost dynamics and the dynamics of loss: Longitudinal compression of brain signal variability is coupled with declines in functional integration and cognitive performance

News

News

For transnational bribery, the decision to offer bribes strongly depends on the national background of one’s partner ...

Children will eat more fruits and vegetables if families take more time to eat meals. This is the result of a new ...

Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and ...

Events

Seminar: Yoshihisa Kashima

Yoshihisa Kashima, University of Melbourne
Jun 27, 2023 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin

Seminar: Interpretable Deep Generative Models for Creativity and Human-AI Collaboration

Pinar Yanardag, Bogazici University
Jun 6, 2023 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
online, Room: online

Vernissage Exhibition Michael J McInerney – Neues Licht

May 5, 2023 - Jun 23, 2023
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Room: Foyer

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