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Interview “Being different lowers self-esteem”

3. January 2023/

Women are assumed to be socially engaged and take care of the family. Men are assumed to be dominant, strive for management positions and are very willing to take physical risks. But what if that is not the case? Marcel Zentner examines the influence of gender-nonconforming behavior on the psyche…

Musicians’ and nonmuscians’ memory skills

22. December 2022/

Background Becoming a musician requires a great and constant effort. Usually a musician has started at a very young age to learn an instrument. Learning to play an instrument involves multiple cognitive faculties and abilities, such as memory, attention, executive functions, motor coordination, all simultaneously active. It is no surprising…

Music emotions and congruency effects

22. December 2022/

Has it ever happened to you to feel an emotion while listening to a piece of music? I’m sure it did. Music is in fact known to be a powerful mean to evoke emotions. Emotions felt during listening to music can be assessed subjectively (by asking individuals to report the…

Contour Perception

21. December 2022/

When you listen to music, a salient element that helps you processing and remembering a certain music piece is the melodic contour. This can be defined as the up and down pattern that is created by the pitch change direction. For example, if the notes in the melody are increasing in…

Love in times of Covid

19. December 2022/

About the Project This project is a longitudinal study that was launched at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in April 2020 and ran for two years. Its aim is to take a closer look at romantic relationships during the pandemic, specifically to examine the trajectories of relationship and sexual satisfaction.…

Detail from The Reluctant Bride (1866) by Auguste Toulmouche. Courtesy Wikimedia

2. December 2022/

“We have at least another 100 years to wait before gender parity is achieved” Prof. Marcel Zentner Professor of Psychology Do men just go for looks? Do women just go for status? Writing for the Aeon magazine, Marcel Zentner explains why our assumptions about heterosexual dating practices need to be…

Early Detection of Temperament Risk Factors

1. December 2022/

The Integrative Child Temperament Screener (ICTS) is a nine item short version of the Integrative Child Temperament Inventory (ICTI) It captures three temperament traits (frustration, inhibition, attention) that are known as risk factors for the development of emotional and behavior problems. Our new article demonstrates the comparability of results across different…

25. November 2022/

Trajectories of Relationship and Sexual Satisafaction Over Two Years in the Covid-19 Pandemic (Preprint) About the Preprint In the second article of our project Love in Times of Covid we aimed to extend the findings from our first and second article by covering the full period of the longitudinal studies, namely two…

7. November 2022/

Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction in the First Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic About the Article In the second article of our project Love in Times of Covid we aimed to extend the findings from our first article by covering the period of one year in the pandemic. Based on the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model (Karney…

20. April 2022/

The clinical utility of the Integrative Child Temperament Screener (ICTS) was recently supported in a study comparing clinical-referred and general population children (Zentner et al., 2021). The ICTS could differentiate between these two groups and even improved the screening accuracy of much longer questionnaires for behavioral symptoms. Furthermore, Frustration and…