A new research project is to deepen our understanding of boredom, for instance examining the effects of boredom on cheating behaviour and online hostility. The project will be headed by associate professor of psychology Stefan Pfattheicher and is financed by VELUX FONDEN.

Associate professor Charlotte Jonasson receives the grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) for her research project: “Learning from errors in public digitalization”.

Katherine Panattoni, part-time lecturer and PhD from the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences at Aarhus BSS, has just received a scholarship of DKK 1,607,000 for the project: “Me” or “We”. Discrepant we-stories and decline in relationship intimacy and satisfaction.

Majse Lind, PhD from the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and currently working as a postdoc in the US, has just received the Danish Psychological Association’s Junior Researcher Award.

Professor Jan Tønnesvang from Aarhus BSS is part of a new project called Sportucation. The project will help young people in eight to tenth grade at risk of not obtaining a secondary education.

Researchers Tea Trillingsgaard and Hanne Fentz from the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences at Aarhus BSS are working on a project that offers a relationship check-up to couples (the Par-tjek project). The offer has been developed and tested at Aarhus University in collaboration with the Centre for Family Development. A new central provider of research-based psychological treatment in Norway, Modum Bad, will now offer a relationship check-up to families in Norway.