PSYCHOLOGY-RELATED PROGRAM

On-site interactive exhibition “Psychology in Berlin and Potsdam”
During the congress, there will be a permanent exhibition area devoted to “Psychology in Berlin and Potsdam” featuring an integrative presentation of the following psychology institutions:

Humboldt University Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Technical University Berlin
University of Potsdam
Max Planck Insitute for Human Development

Each institution will be presented in a brochure which is available for visitors. The exhibition area will be subdivided in thematic sections presenting collaborations between the five institutions in various fields such as (neuro-) cognitive psychology, methods and diagnostics, health and developmental psychology, work and educational psychology as well as brain-machine-interfaces. In addition to these demonstrations, there will be computer terminals giving access to various online projects and tests.

The exhibition area will also serve as a starting point and reservation office for scientific visits in and around Berlin. A map will be provided to visualize the various participating psychology institutions and collaborating centers. Two mobile research labs will be featured in the open air section of the congress venue.

Please download following information about each institution involved:

Humboldt University Berlin
Frei Universität Berlin
Technical University Berlin
University of Potsdam
Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Off-site scientific visits
ICP 2008 will take advantage of the rich academic infrastructure in and around Berlin. We will be able to offer a wide range of scientific visits to institutes and research labs. Example visits include:

Psychology and Sanssouci – A trip to Potsdam
Reinhold Kliegl will offer a tour of his Experimental Psychology Lab featuring state-of-theart eye tracking facilities. Günter Esser will prepare a visit to the Academy of Psychotherapy and Intervention Research. The tour will start on Wednesday, 23 July, 10.00 h from the ICC Berlin. Meeting point is the exhibition booth of Psychology in Berlin and Brandenburg. Each group is limited to 20 participants. The scientific visits will be combined with a trip to Sanssouci Castle and other sights of Potsdam.
Participants will have to pay a fee to cover for the public transportation to Potsdam.
More information:
Visit of the Charité
Guided tours of the Charité will be offered during the congress. The tours feature clinicalpsychological projects related to psychiatry, psychosomatics, and psychotherapy of childhood and youth (Tuesday, 22 July, afternoon) and of adulthood (Thursday, 24 July, afternoon). On both afternoons, four time slots for the respective visits will be available. On Tuesday afternoon, the group size is limited to 8 persons, on Thursday afternoon a maximum of 12 persons can be accepted.

Freie Universität
Norman Foster’s beautiful new Languages and Literature Library and the Neurocognitive Labs featuring pupillometric, electrodermal and electrophysiological techniques for investigating mental processes.