Participating Institutions
Berlin, Ann Arbor, Charlottesville, & Zurich
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Technische Universität Berlin
- University of Michigan: Michigan LIFE Website
- University of Virginia
- 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 multi-disciplinary research institute dedicated to the study of human development. The institute sees itself as a laboratory that conceptualizes successful human development in future societies and environments. The MPIB is the place where future settings of successful human development are being explored. Researchers of various disciplines—including computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and psychology—work together on interdisciplinary projects. The research questions they examine include how people are influenced by the environment and how they modify this environment through their behavior; how people learn to make good decisions; how they succeed in acting and living in a self-determined way in interaction with artificial agents; how people of all ages and backgrounds can realize their personal potential; what environments promote health, well-being, and cognitive performance; and how the plasticity of our brains contributes to our individuality.
The following centers and research groups participate in LIFE:
- Center for Adaptive Rationality
- Center for Environmental Neuroscience
- Center for Humans and Machines
- Center for Lifespan Psychology
- Max Planck Research Group Biology, Social Disparities, and Development | Biosocial
- Emmy Noether Group RAVEN | Real-world Applications of Variability in Episodic memory and Neurodevelopment
Freie Universität Berlin
Department of Education and Psychology
Main areas of research: Methods, affective neuroscience, neuroeconomics, cognitive psychology, applied developmental psychology, health psychology, and economics of education, and gerontology (in cooperation with the German Centre of Gerontology)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Main areas of research: Personality, cognitive psychology, lifespan development, educational
psychology, and developmental methods
Technische Universität Berlin
- “Science of Intelligence” Cluster of Excellence
- Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD)
- Language and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems
University of Michigan
- Department of Psychology
Program Areas in Psychology: Biopsychology, Clinical Science, Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Personality & Social Contexts, Social Psychology - Institute for Social Research
- Center for Human Growth and Development
- Joint Programs: Combined Program in Education and Psychology, Social Work and Psychology , Women's Studies and Psychology
University of Virginia
- Department of Psychology
- School of Education and Human Development
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