Psychology
Do children work better alone or when supervised by an unknown?
12.03.2025
The presence of an unfamiliar person significantly slows down the time children take to complete tests. That is the conclusion of a recent study carried out on 123 children and it is no small discovery. Rather, it stresses the importance of taking a child’s physical and social environment into account because it affects a brain function called cognitive control performance.
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Food
Inauguration of the Interfaculty Food Research and Innovation Center (FRIC)
27.09.2024
The new Interfaculty Food Research & Innovation Center (FRIC) was created in 2023 under the impulse of a working group led by Professor Stefan Salentinig. All faculties at the Univ...
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Award
Outstanding psycholinguist receives Swiss Science Prize
05.09.2024
The psycholinguist Pascal Gygax receives the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize for his excellent work on the influence of language on the perception of reality. He is the fourth r...
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Ageing
Older people are living longer and feeling younger
26.08.2024
The Swiss population is ageing. Life expectancy is rising and after retirement people can look forward to making active use of a number of years in good health. Older people believ...
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Sleep
When the digestive system affects baby's sleep
25.04.2024
Sleep rhythm and the neurological development of infants depend closely on the brain and the gut. Two researchers at the University of Fribourg, working with colleagues from ETH Zu...
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Islam and Society
Customised continuing education for imams
26.09.2022
Imams play an important role as bridge builders between the mosque and society. With its customised continuing education programs, the MOGA project aims to offer targeted support t...
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Conspiracy theory
Extreme political circles, fertile ground for conspiracy theories
17.01.2022
The results of two international surveys of more than 100,000 participants across 26 countries show a correlation between belief in conspiracies and identification with the extreme...
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Sleep
Gut bacteria linked to infant sleep patterns
21.12.2021
A study led by the universities of Fribourg and Zurich and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation shows that the link between sleep behaviour and intestinal flora is alre...
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Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy Theories - Why do we believe them?
28.04.2021
Terrorist attacks, the pandemic, natural disasters, disappearing celebrities, technological innovations? Nowadays every major event gives rise to theories which differ from the off...
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Sleep
Willpower can make sleep worse
16.11.2020
Good sleep is crucial for our physical and mental wellbeing. Researchers from Fribourg have shown that sleep can be made worse by using willpower.
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