Reduced Frontal Cortical Tracking of Conflict between Self-Beneficial versus Prosocial Motives in Narcissistic Personality Disorder Thanks to the great collaboration with Stefan Roepke and Aline Vater at the Universitätsmedizin Charité as well as Björn Schott at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg we are happy to announce the publication of our first paper …
Self-beneficial belief updating as a coping mechanism for stress-induced negative affect. Very cool new computational modeling paper by Nora Czekalla et al. on how stress/affect are better recovered depending on the way people integrate novel information about themselves into their self-concept. With this new data we replicate and extend earlier findings of a negativity …
New publication on self-related learning processes out in Scientific Reports! Read More »
Today, Annalina V. Mayer successfully defended her PhD! Huge congratulations, Annalina! Annalina started as one of our first student assistants back in 2015. Very quickly she became a full member of our lab. At that time we were setting up a huge, multi-center (Leipzig/Lübeck) oxytocin trial on autism and were very convinced that Annalina …
In two Spektrum der Wissenschaft (Geist & Gehirn) articles research from our group on cringe and embarrassment were covered. First, in edition 06/2021 Frieder M. Paulus and Annalina Mayer explain why people experience embarrassment on behalf of (unrelated) others. Second, in edition 09/2021 there is an in-depth review of research on the emotion of (vicarious) …
We are very happy with Janine Stierand for her first publication! The first part of the study was an online evaluation of social situations as part of a clinical piloting. Suddenly, right after our first data collection, the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020 which dramatically impacted social life in general. In order to examine if …
Yeah, finally – after several rounds of submissions and rejections and a year-long lasting and exhausting review process at Scientific Reports… – we are now happy to announce that our clinical trial “Randomized clinical trial shows no substantial modulation of empathy-related neural activation by intranasal oxytocin in autism.” is published. Main thanks go to Annalina V. Mayer who …
Another superb news! Clara Weber, currently doing a research stay at Yale School of Medicine, has received the University Lübeck medicine-informatics stipend for her MD project “Microstructural White Matter Alterations in Autism Spectrum Disorder”.
Great news! Laura Müller-Pinzler has received the 2021 Best Paper Award at the NeuroPsychoEconomics conference in Amsterdam for the presentation of her latest project in the symposium “Social Neuroeconomics” (Chair: Jan Engelmann). Abstract Biases in self-related belief formation and their association with self-conscious affect During everyday interactions people constantly receive feedback on their behavior, …
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As part of the international Neuroqualia taskforce “Social” we, as team led by Paul J. Eslinger, have successfully published our review on the “Neuroscience of social feelings”. The paper summarizes recent efforts in the field of social cognitive and affective neuroscience on concepts, methods and challenges in the field of social feelings research. Check out the publication …
New review paper on “Neuroscience of social feelings” published! Read More »
Huge congratulations to David Stolz for successfully defending his PhD! Back in October 2015 David started his PhD in the Social Neuroscience Lab based on a joke about his last name (Stolz = pride). Before 2015, several of our research projects centered around the neural processes underlying the unpleasant emotion of embarrassment (see e.g. “Neural …
