There is a critical need to better understand how young people are shaped by the digital world and how they navigate the intricate connections between the offline and online world, digital platforms, and their interactions with society and others in the digital context. The RPA Youth Digitality is designed to address this need by studying development of youth within various contexts related to digitality. These contexts include family, peer, and educational settings.
Amsterdam Brain and Cognition serves as a platform and community for cognitive scientists interested in a wide range of Cognitive Science topics, ranging from perception to memory, decision-making, language and logic.
The Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre for Emotion (AICE) is a virtual centre for emotion scholars in Amsterdam. We meet fortnightly to discuss emotion research and host talks by local, national, and interactional speakers.
The Centre for Urban Mental Health aims to unravel new pathways to improve urban mental health, taking into account the complexity and dynamics of mental health issues and disorders in an urban environment.
The research conducted by AMCIS focuses on inequalities in education, income, living arrangements, and political participation.