Social Neuroscience Lab

Welcome to the official homepage of the Social Neuroscience Lab as part of the Translational Psychiatry Unit (TPU) at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Lübeck University.

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Lab News

Media

Empathie, Intuition und die Übertragung von Gefühlen

April 1, 2021

Science

New preprint! Reduced frontal cortical tracking of conflict between selfish versus prosocial motives in Narcissistic Personality Disorder

March 5, 2021

Science

Meta-analysis of fMRI studies using the Social Incentive Delay (SID) task accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews!

January 6, 2021

Research

Belief formation, social feedback and social anxiety

One of our main research goals is to understand how people learn social information and form beliefs about themselves and others…

Self-efficacy, effort and affective consequences

We are also curious to learn about the neural systems that underlie control beliefs, self-efficacy and affectives consequences…

Team

Team of Social Neuroscience Lab

Our team is located at the Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM) at Lübeck University, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Sören Krach

His focus is on how people learn information about themselves and how these processes of social learning are represented on the level of the brain.

Prof. Dr. Frieder M. Paulus

His focus is on neuro-computational processes underlying social interactions in non-clinical and clinical populations. He is also interested in the topic of replicability of fMRI data.

Funding