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Painful laughter – Media and politics in the age of cringe
Painful laughter – Wieland Schwanebeck (TU Dresden), with support from the Volkswagen Stiftung, organized this inspiring symposium on the role of awkwardness and cringe comedy in …
The effect of REM sleep suppression on next-morning brain function during social exclusion – new publication in Scientific Reports
With strong effort and methodological expertise from David S. Stolz and Robert Glosemeyer, but also many other colleagues, we have finally managed to publish our sleep study data …
Spinach in the teeth – new publication in Cortex
We are very happy to share that our paper “Spinach in the teeth: how ego- and allocentric perspectives modulate neural correlates of embarrassment in the …
Funding by the BMEP – Biomedical Sciences Education Program granted for Clara Weber
Clara Weber, PhD student at the Social Neuroscience Lab, has been granted a scholarship to examine the microstructural and functional correlates of autism at the …
The different faces of sickness
Together with Jennifer Hundt (Lübeck), Tanja Lange (Lübeck), Harald Engler (Essen), Julie Lasselin (Stockholm) and Binka Karshikoff (Stockholm), Lena Rademacher from the Social Neuroscience Lab …
New metric in the house! The Cuckoo-index as a measure of a scientist’s efficiency and assertiveness
We are happy to announce the open-contribution publication of a new research metric: The c-index Abstract: The Cuckoo-index (c-index) is a new index that attempts …
The pursuit of pride
If people master a challenging task, they experience positive emotions. A recent study from our lab finds that the emotional response is shaped by how …
Nature portfolio: The pursuit of pride
BEHIND THE PAPER The Pursuit of Pride We show that emotional responses depend on whether we believe that events were caused by our own actions. …
The High Hopes dance and the science of cringe.
Dr Laura Müller-Pinzler among others on the “cringiest trend of the campaign season” (The Guardian). Article by Bejmanin Powers on www.popsci.com