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Call for Research Programme Supervisors 2023-2024
EFPSA Research Programme is happy to announce the call for the Research Programme Supervisors of 2023/2024. Who: professors, PhDs or PostDoc researchers in psychology! What: Supervisor at EFPSA’s Research Programme – The end product of the programme is a cross-cultural research project on a theme of your choice When & Where: dates & location for Research Summer School to be announced Application Deadline: 28.02.2023, 23:59 (CET)Are you a PhD or PostDoc researcher in psychology who would like to be a Supervisor for an international group of six motivated and dedicated students working on a research project? Do you want to help us contribute to the development of the academic community by…
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When Life Gives You Trolleys Add a Foreign Language – The Foreign Language Effect
The majority of students living in a dorm can relate to the feeling of how one cup of coffee with a roommate poses a serious threat to your academic productivity. At some point, the conversation becomes so engaging that at the end, the five-minute break between study sessions becomes a two-hour-long discussion. I am no exception, as it happened to me not too long ago, when my roomie, a foreigner, and I engaged in an interesting debate about mental processing in native and foreign languages. So, curiosity killed the cat and I decided to dig up more information, to see if using other languages influences our decision-making. The foreign language…
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The World’s Rapidly Growing Need for Mental Health Professionals
The World’s Rapidly Growing Need for Mental Health Professionals The demand for mental health workers is rapidly increasing all over the world. The types of assistance many people need start at the survival level. As defined by the first two (which organizes needs into levels of importance with physiological needs on the bottom and self-actualization needs on the top), these are physiological needs and safety needs. Mental health workers can use their skills to help guide clients in meeting these as a foundation for further treatment. The advocacy organization United for Global Mental Health speaks about rapidly increasing awareness of mental health’s importance on a global basis, but with a…
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Call for Research Programme Student Researchers 2022-2023
The Call for EFPSA Research Programme 2022 Participants is now open! Are you a motivated European Bachelor or Master-level psychology student? And are you interested in conducting a one-year cross-cultural research project together with students from all over Europe? Do you want to gain experience in every aspect of research, from designing the study to data collection to communicating the results? If your answer is yes, apply to become a student researcher in the EFPSA Research Programme! Who: European Bachelor’s and Master-level students in psychology! What: Research Programme Deadline: 10th of June, 23:59 CEST What is EFPSA Research Programme? The EFPSA Research Programme (EFPSA RP) is an EFPSA Service, consisting…
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EFPSA Research Programme 2021-2022 Research Projects
We are excited to introduce the Research Teams of the Research Programme 2021 – 2022! Below you can read the information on the Research Projects: 1) Gabriela Pop – An e-mental health programme targeting anger regulation Dysregulated anger is associated with both physical and psychological problems. It has also been recognized as a significant predictor of violent behavior which is further related to social and economic problems. It is necessary to investigate the long-term efficiency of specific emotion regulation strategies in reducing anger and to develop tools based on these. Despite little evidence on the long-term effect of reappraisal on anger, there is a negative association between anger and reappraisal…
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The Research Programme Blog
Have you been in a position to convince someone that they should read a book that changed all your perspective or to inform your friends about the efficacy of a specific type of psychotherapy but you couldn’t let go of the scientific language? I am sure that a major part of you encountered similar situations so we are inviting you to be part of the Research Programme Blog. You heard that right! We aim to offer a broader set of possibilities for students to involve in promoting scientific content that can easily be understood by everyone. Besides that, we are encouraging students from around the world to strengthen their writing…
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Call for Research Programme Student Researchers 2022-2023
The Call for EFPSA Research Programme 2022 Participants is now open! Are you a motivated European Bachelor or Master-level psychology student? And are you interested in conducting a one-year cross-cultural research project together with students from all over Europe? Do you want to gain experience in every aspect of research, from designing the study to data collection to communicating the results? If your answer is yes, apply to become a student researcher in the EFPSA Research Programme! Who: European Bachelor’s and Master-level students in psychology! What: Research Programme Deadline: 10th of June, 23:59 CEST What is EFPSA Research Programme? The EFPSA Research Programme (EFPSA RP) is an EFPSA Service, consisting…
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Psychedelics as a Scientific Tool for Mental Health
An Interview with Marvin Däumichen, MA, co-founder of the MIND Foundation Psychedelic drugs might become the next big therapeutic tool to fight depression and other psychiatric disorders as “changes in self-experience, emotional processing and social cognition may contribute to the potential therapeutic effects” (Vollenweider & Preller, 2020). Classical psychedelics like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or psilocybin (magic mushrooms) that are administered with appropriate guidance and in a controlled therapeutic setting that includes preparation and reflexion upon the experience were shown to enhance mental health (Walton & Liknaitzky, 2020). We talked to Marvin Däumichen who is a co-founder of the MIND Foundation about the history and potential of psychedelics as a…
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How to Score a Perfect PhD
Finding a perfect PhD is somewhat like dating: there is no such thing as a soulmate-PhD, but some are still better than others; the number of options seems overwhelming at first, but most of them crumble once inspected carefully; and, of course, once committed, the choice will significantly influence the rest of your life. To make it even more challenging, the soulmate-PhD problem is also expected to be dealt with at the most vulnerable point in the lifetime of a student—as if by Murphy’s law, the deadlines usually land somewhere between the final in the sequence of many exams and the Masters thesis defense. Under such conditions, even the most…
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Open Science in Times of Corona
How research has changed through the pandemic Let’s talk about the movement towards connected and open science that has happened and is still happening right now due to the pandemic that the corona virus brought upon us. You may have noticed as well that research has started to stretch its boundaries remarkably in the presence of the virus. Facing death, the fear of losing people close to your heart and the threat of our very own existential foundations has turned not only our personal but the economic and scientific world upside down. Open Science in times of Corona It is evident that the more data researchers can access, the more…
