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Archive Arts and Social Sciences 2025

Article list Arts and Social Sciences

  • Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development

    Authority or Leniency?

    Parents across the world raise their children in different ways. Researchers from UZH investigate how in the World Parenting Survey.
  • Media Research

    Social Media Can Make You Happy

    Young people spend a lot of their time on TikTok and other platforms. Yet this is no reason for parents to start panicking, according to the media researchers Sandra Cortesi and Daniel Süss.
  • Growing Up Happy

    The Neuropsychology of Happiness

    Children need stimulation and attention for the healthy development of their brains. Neglect can have serious consequences for children’s health, as well as their ability to learn and form relationships.
  • Interdisciplinary research

    Global Trust in Science Remains Strong

    Led by UZH and ETH Zurich, a team of 241 researchers conducted the largest post-pandemic study of trust in science, societal expectations and public views on research priorities.
  • Literature

    Beatings and Idolization

    Back in the 18th century, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau cast childhood in an entirely new light. His ideas inspired the thinking and writing of generations of authors. But happy childhoods are rarely encountered in literature.
  • Best-Of Media Releases 2024

    Science That Made the News

    UZH’s most successful media releases last year covered a wide range of topics – from meat consumption, Long Covid and fossils to new insights into chimpanzee culture. Each of these stories resonated internationally.
  • The Future of Work

    AI Shifts Power

    Machines are not yet capable of thinking like we do. But if artificial intelligence evolves further and does everything better than humans can, it raises questions about what that means for society and whether humans will stay in control.
  • Communication and Law

    Disinformation, Democracy and the Digital Sphere

    How should governments deal with disinformation in digital media? And what will it take to protect democracy? Media specialist Mark Eisenegger and legal scholar Florent Thouvenin set out some proposals in an interdisciplinary study.