Abstract Over the last decades, the interdisciplinary field of the affective sciences has seen proliferation rather than integration of theoretical perspectives. This is due to differences in metaphysical and mechanistic assumptions about human affective phenomena (what they are and how they work) which, shaped by academic motivations and values, have determined the affective constructs and …
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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Affected beliefs Researchers at Lübeck University show links between emotions and the formation of self-efficacy beliefs Why do some people believe that they are good at something and others not, while performing exactly similar? A recent study from Lübeck University, Germany, finds that emotional experiences are linked to the way people establish novel beliefs …
New publication with contribution by Annalina V. Mayer! Abstract This study aimed to build on the relationship of well-established self-report and behavioral assessments to the latent constructs positive (PVS) and negative valence systems (NVS), cognitive systems (CS), and social processes (SP) of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework in a large transnosological population which cuts …
Phantastic news! The first paper as part of the PhD by Johanna Voges is finally published! In this paper we assessed the link between baseline plasma levels of the cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 and neural markers of psychosocial stress. Using the Montreal Imaging Stress Task (MIST) we scanned 65 healthy individuals and found a negative association …
“Age-related topographic map of magnetic resonance diffusion metrics in neonatal brains” by Pratheek S. Bobba, Clara F. Weber et al., 2022 Very cool new publication by our PhD student Clara F. Weber! Congratulations! Bobba, P. S., Weber, C. F., Mak, A., Mozayan, A., Malhotra, A., Sheth, K. N., Taylor, S. N., Vossough, A., Grant, P. E., Scheinost, D., Constable, R. T., Ment, L. R., & Payabvash, S. (2022). Age-related …
New preprint out! In this very collaborative research project, we assessed the impact of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on determinants of motivated behavior: mental and physical exhaustion. To do so, we made use of a novel experimental paradigm (developed and extensively piloted by first author David S. Stolz), the Learn/Effort-task, to quantify these sub-facets of motivated …
The contribution of sleep to the neuroendocrine regulation of rhythms in human leukocyte traffic The first cooperative paper between the Social Neuroscience Lab and Psychoneuroimmunology (Prof. Tanja Lange; Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology) is out! In our review, we summarize how 24-h rhythms in leukocyte traffic are regulated by neuroendocrine mediators and how this is supported by …
Today, we had a spectacular visit by Geert-Jan Will from Utrecht University who presented his research on the computational mechanisms of self-esteem formation and its relevance for psychiatric conditions. Moreover, we took advantage of the situation (first real-life lab visit after 1.5 years) to discuss links between self-related belief formation, affect, subjectively perceived control, effort exertion, …
“Assessment of reward-related brain function after a single-dose of oxytocin in autism: a randomized controlled trial.” Mayer et al., 2021 A long journey comes to an end! After initial discussions at Marburg University about a potential German-wide autism research net back in 2012, with the first draft being submitted in 2013, being granted the BMBF-funded …
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