Participating Institutions
Berlin, Ann Arbor, Charlottesville, & Zurich
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- University of Michigan: Michigan LIFE Website
- University of Virginia: Virginia LIFE Website
- University of Zurich: Zurich LIFE Website
- Additional Partner Institutions
LIFE Berlin is supported by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science.
For further information on the institutions involved in LIFE and their research areas, see below.
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
The Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) is a multidisciplinary research establishment dedicated to the study of human development and education. Its inquiries are broadly defined, but concentrate on the evolutionary, social, historical, and institutional contexts of human development, and examin them from lifespan and life-course perspectives. The scholarly spectrum of the Institute includes researchers with backgrounds in education, psychology, history, behavioral developmental neuroscience, sociology of education, mathematics, economics, computer science, evolutionary biology, and the humanities. Research into processes of human development is conducted primarily from the theoretical vantage points offered by models of lifespan psychology, bounded rationality and adaptive behavior, life-course sociology, and conceptions of social-historical change.
The following research groups participate in LIFE:
- Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
- Center for Adaptive Rationality
- Center for Lifespan Psychology
- Max Planck Research Group "Naturalistic Social Cognition: Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives"
- Max Planck Research Group "Reading Education and Development (REaD)"
Freie Universität Berlin
Department of Education and Psychology
Main areas of research: Applied Developmental Psychology, Health Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, and Gerontology (in cooperation with the German Centre of Gerontology)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Institute of Psychology
Main areas of research: Personality Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology - Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB)
- Institute for Theoretical Biology
- Department of Social Sciences
University of Michigan
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Psychiatry
- Institute for Social Research
- Center for Human Growth and Development
- School of Public Health
- School of Natural Resources and Environment
- School of Kinesiology
- Combined Program in Education and Psychology at the School of Education
Main areas of research: Biopsychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Social Psychology
University of Virginia
- Department of Psychology
- Curry School of Education
Main areas of research: Quantitative Methodology, Behavior Genetics of Development, Infant and Child Development, Cognitive Aging Research, Social Psychology
University of Zurich
- Department of Psychology
- Center for Gerontology
- International Normal Aging and Plasticity Imaging Center (INAPIC)
Main areas of research: General and Developmental Psychology, Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, Applied Psychology: Life-Management, Neuropsychology, Gerontopsychology