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
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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,
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“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
New publication out in Biological Psychiatry: GOS! Read More »
Abstract The feedback people receive on their behavior shapes the process of belief formation and self-efficacy in mastering a given task. The neural and computational mechanisms of how the subjective value of these beliefs and corresponding affect bias the learning process are yet unclear. Here we investigate this question during learning of self-efficacy beliefs using
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Robert Glosemeyer successfully defended his medical doctor thesis today! In 2017 Robert participated as a subject in an fMRI study of our group. After scanning he openly asked whether we would supervise his medical doctor thesis as he was interested in fMRI and social cognitive processes. We agreed and Robert started with the question
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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
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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)
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