New Preprint Alert! With @jasonleng.bsky.social @ashenhav.bsky.social @shenhavlab.bsky.social “Characterizing the causes, dynamics, and consequences of choice deferral” osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🧵🧵
Barbara Oberbauer
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PhD student @cmdn-lab.bsky.social (PI: @sgluth.bsky.social) at the University of Hamburg modeling dietary and sustainable decision-making - ScieCom enthusiast - all about soccer, rowing, and books 📚 Github: https://github.com/barbaraoberbauer
Check out our newest preprint, led by @sheensu.bsky.social and with @jasonleng.bsky.social, on when and why people choose to put off choosing! ⚖️🗓️ osf.io/preprints/ps... Sheen summarizes the excellent work in the 🧵 below:
New Preprint Alert! With @jasonleng.bsky.social @ashenhav.bsky.social @shenhavlab.bsky.social “Characterizing the causes, dynamics, and consequences of choice deferral” osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🧵🧵
✨I am excited to share that I have joined the @tum.de School of Management, where I will be continue researching the mechanisms underlying dietary decision-making together with @thorstenpachur.bsky.social and his team ✨
🚨 New preprint with @sgluth.bsky.social on social learning and EEG! 🧠 We've recently found out that, to learn about others' preferences, humans don't just look at WHAT they choose, but also HOW FAST they make a decision. How does the brain actually process this? 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...
We’re looking forward to seeing you at one (or, for the true enthusiasts, all 😉) of our IGOR events during #PUG2026 in Heidelberg!
It's that time of the year: IGOR is going to #PuG2026 in Heidelberg! 🧠 Interested in open and reproducible science? Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved. 🧵 Check the thread below for all our events #PuG2026 #IGOR [1/6]
Very excited to return to my old student city for this year's #PuG2026 conference 🧠 In our symposium on decisions under uncertainty on Saturday, 11-12:30 in HS13, chaired by @franziskaknolle.bsky.social, I'll present new computational findings on how experience drives loss aversion in risky choice.
Biopsych Community, we are ready and can‘t wait to welcome you to Heidelberg! #PUG2026
Looking very much forward to #PUG2026 in beautiful Heidelberg! Interested in the features and bugs of computational psychiatry 💻🧠? Join our symposium: 🕞Thursday 15:30 - 17:00 in HS 13. W\ Isabel Berwian @lilweb.bsky.social @hashimsat.bsky.social @ondrejzika.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
Biopsych Community, we are ready and can‘t wait to welcome you to Heidelberg! #PUG2026
Now published at Scientific Reports 🚀 If you ever wondered whether and how hunger affects your decision-making beyond food choices, make sure to check out our paper! 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵below
Domain-specific effects of hunger on attention and choice - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Domain-specific effects of hunger on attention and choice
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🚨New preprint alert🚨 Does hunger affect your decisions beyond food? We tested whether being hungry affects attention & choice across food, intertemporal and social domains. Spoiler: the effects of hunger state on attention and choice are more limited than you might think🧵👇
🚨New preprint alert🚨 Does hunger affect your decisions beyond food? We tested whether being hungry affects attention & choice across food, intertemporal and social domains. Spoiler: the effects of hunger state on attention and choice are more limited than you might think🧵👇
How do people search for information to make efficient decisions? Our new theory, now out in Psychological Review, suggests that an efficient search rule is (at the core of) the answer. And eye-tracking data support our theory. Check out here (it's open access): psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Curious about how context influences decision-making? 👀🧠 Make sure to check out our symposium on Wednesday 11:00-12:30 at Room N2 #TeaP2026 Featuring✨ @tiborstoe.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social @dmding.bsky.social @barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social
Excited to share my first PhD paper with @ashenhav.bsky.social @shenhavlab.bsky.social “Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting - Nature Communications
When people dislike their options for candidates, they tend to refrain from voting rather than voting for the candidate they like best. Here, the authors show that this tendency to opt out of lose-los...
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Is your lab doing code reviews? I'd like to hear about your experiences and practices! In our teams, we'd like to establish internal peer-reviews of our research software. Our focus is on the correctness of our "one-off" analysis scripts underlying manuscripts. Because of that, the usual […]
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I had such a great time on this episode! 🤩 I really enjoyed taking the explore-exploit trade-off beyond theory and discussing its relevance for athletes, coaches, and performance in real sport settings. 🏀🏌️♀️🏃♀️ Thanks so much for having me @danabrahamspsych.bsky.social
New episode of The Sport Psych Show! On this week's episode "Exploit or Explore: Decision Making in Sport" I speak with University of Hamburg PhD student Katja Rewitz. Katja's research focuses on human sensations and their influence on decision-making and performance behaviour
New episode of The Sport Psych Show! On this week's episode "Exploit or Explore: Decision Making in Sport" I speak with University of Hamburg PhD student Katja Rewitz. Katja's research focuses on human sensations and their influence on decision-making and performance behaviour
🎉 New paper in Nature Communications 🎉 rdcu.be/e24jT Does our environment influence how likely we are to help others?
Humans are more prosocial in poor foraging environments
Nature Communications - People constantly decide whether to stop what they are doing to do something else. Here, the authors show that the quality of available options has a greater influence on...
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Wir zeichnen ganz bald die neue Staffel MAITHINK X für euch auf und wollen dieses Mal über das sehr wichtige Thema ME/CFS sprechen. Hier ein Aufruf, dem ihr gerne folgen könnt, wenn ihr das mögt. Oder markiert einfach Personen, von denen ihr wisst, dass sie etwas dazu zu sagen haben. Danke euch! 🙏
Inspiring talk at our research colloquium yesterday! 🧠 Using very cool games (🦀🎰🐷🃏), @sebraem.bsky.social showed when and how individuals flexibly adapt their learning across different environments. We enjoyed a day packed of valuable discussions and delicious food!
New article in Cognitive Psychology with @thorstenpachur.bsky.social and Veronika Zilker: “How sampling strategies shape experience-based risky choice.” We present a computational framework for information search and choice in decisions from experience. 1/4 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
A "Nutri-Score", but for the lab 😁 We uploaded a preprint with our thoughts on optimal lab technology for complex questions. We hope it's as much fun to read as was writing it: Wolff, W., Gluth, S., & Keyser, J. (2025, December 6). Considerations for setting up an S-tier behavioral and brain […]
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Very happy to see this out now in Psychology of Sport & Exercise 🤓 If you’re interested in how the explore–exploit framework helps us study decision-making in sports and exercise, check it out! w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The explore-exploit trade-off in sports and exercise: a primer on empirical and computational approaches
Sports and exercise require constant on-the-fly decision-making from professional athletes and recreational exercisers alike. In the final minutes of …
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Excited to share that the main work of my PhD has been published! We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC. You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X
Controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations
Nature Communications - Control over pain changes how intense it is perceived. Here, the authors show that this effect results from increased expectation precision with control, which changes...
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Very happy to share our latest work on metacognition with M. Rouault, A. McWilliams, F. Chartier, @kndiaye.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social where we identify contributors to self-performance estimates across memory and perception domains 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Feeling *gitty* about this fall with two exciting workshops on Version Control with Git for Scientists coming up @mpib-berlin.bsky.social and @rtg2660.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de! ✨ Sounds interesting? Check out my website, where I share course materials: lennartwittkuhn.com 💫 #OpenScience #Git
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For all who use Bayesian hierarchical models, have a look at our new preprint, out now together with @linushof.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social and @thorstenpachur.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Excited to share joint work with Ulf Hahnel and @sgluth.bsky.social on investigating how attribute translations - a widely implemented behavior intervention - lead to more ecological consumer choices. Main results are below, but check out our preprint 👇 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Computational Mechanisms of Attribute Translations
Attribute translations, a choice architecture intervention technique aiming to promote behavior change by translating decision-relevant information into more comprehensible and meaningful units for la...
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