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Lab visits by Boris Bernhardt & Tobias Kube

Lab visit by Boris and Tobias   On June 29th & 30th, the Social Neuroscience Lab had a double session with a fantastic talk about “gradients” by Boris Bernhardt (Montreal) and a data discussion in an ongoing collaboration project with Tobias Kube (Landau).  

Rethink funding!? New paper and Shiny App published

Rethink funding!? Every funding agency, be it the German (DFG), Swiss (SNF), British (Wellcome Trust), US American (NIH), Chinese (NSFC), or French (ANR) research foundation, has its own scheme on how to allocate research funding to the researchers. And research funding determines what is considered good science, it controls future science, and it shapes future knowledge.  However, meta-science research increasingly shows that funding allocation is inherently …

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Rethink funding by putting the lottery first

Rethink funding Researchers propose a new way to restructure grant allocation, promoting inclusivity, innovation, and cost reduction. LÜBECK UNIVERSITY, Germany – The allocation process of funding to researchers is far from optimal. A recent project of the Open Science Initiative at the University of Lübeck (Germany) has put forward a new proposal to challenge and …

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Two awesome poster prizes at the DPt-congress!

Wow!!  What a great surprise! Two poster prizes at one conference! Annalina V. Mayer and Yana Schwarze were awarded for their research posters at the 2. Deutsche Psychotherapie Kongress in Berlin. Annalina Mayer presented our recent findings on how affect is entangled in the neural processes of self-related belief updating (Poster_DPK_Mayer). Yana Schwarze presented work in …

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Veränderung – 53° nord

Veränderung Was ist Wandel? Wie macht sich Wandel bemerkbar und welche Arten von Wandel gibt es? Und was hat die psychologische Forschung hierzu zu sagen? Das Lübecker Kulturmagazin 53° nord hat diesem Thema ein komplettes Magazin gewidmet. Unser Beitrag zum Thema “Wandel” ist als hier pdf (Artikel_Wandel) abrufbar. 

Shame on you! (Die ZEIT)

Shame on you! Everyone knows it. No one likes it: shame. Why does it show itself so often again? And what role does the Internet play in this? An essay about one of the most powerful human emotions by Matthias Kreienbrink in Die ZEIT featuring research from the Social Neuroscience Lab.

New DFG-Research Unit on “Information abstraction during sleep” granted!

Reactivation and abstraction of self-related social information during sleep   In this newly granted DFG project, as part of the larger Research Unit “Information abstraction during sleep” (PI: Jan Born), we will study the functional role of reactivation during sleep for the abstraction of gist from self-related social information. Principal investigators of the project are Susanne …

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Individual differences in resilience to stress are associated with affective flexibility

Abstract Cognitive flexibility is frequently linked to resilience because of its important contribution to stress regulation. In this context, particularly affective flexibility, defined as the ability to flexibly attend and disengage from affective information, may play a significant role. In the present study, the relationship of cognitive and affective flexibility and resilience was examined in …

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