Anna Richard, who works in Eating Behaviour Laboratory at the University of Salzburg’s Faculty of Psychology, examined the unconscious processes behind the craving for chocolate.

In July, the first PLUS Green Campus Summer School, in cooperation with the Dutch University of Groningen, took on the theme, “Psychological aspects of sustainability – how to promote pro-environmental behavior”. For Salzburg students, as well as international students the question was whether research results of environmental psychology can be applied specifically in practice.

A research project extending over many years of the Salzburg National Park Fund, in cooperation with the University of Salzburg, has now been completed with a book on lichens in the Hohe Tauern National Park.