Science

🚀 New publication on a fairer and more economic way to distribute research funding!   Our new paper in Nature Communications presents survey data for a “lottery-first” approach to science funding — where an initial lottery determines who enters the competition, followed by traditional peer review. 🔗 Read it here: OA-Link: https://lnkd.in/eDma7jmb We originally proposed […]

New preprint by Annalina Mayer, team members and in collaboration with Tobias Kube!  In this study, the lab’s Learning-of-own-performance (LOOP) task (Müller-Pinzler et al., 2019) has been adapted to examine how people attribute self-related feedback and whether attributing failures to external and successes to internal causes is linked to self-esteem and depressive symptomatology. Check out the

New publication in Translational Psychiatry by Annalina Mayer and team members! In this study we examined whether baseline plasma oxytocin levels are associated with stress responses in early-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compared them to healthy controls. While oxytocin concentrations did not differ between groups, their associations with affective stress responses diverged:

Another long journey comes to a successful end with this publication!  Congratulations to Alexander Schröder for this great collaborative effort, which brings together Susanne Diekelmann (as part of the DFG-funded Research Group “Information abstraction during sleep”), Christoph Korn (University of Heidelberg; expert in computational modeling and belief updating), Lei Zhang (our group’s teacher and advisor

New smartphone-based application for research launched!  After almost 1.5 years of development, together with with genius programmer Karol Lassota (https://www.beyond-the-bit.de/) and with great support by the UniversitätsTransferKlinik (Martin Leucker), we are extremely proud to have launched our first SNL research application (now available in iOS and Android stores).  Video produced by Yaryna Bitkovska