#SAA2026 @saa2026.bsky.social was fantastic! So happy to see familiar faces from @stresslabvienna.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at and meet lovely new colleagues. Being poster neighbours with my dear former colleague Klara Hagspiel and learning about her exciting current research was an extra bonus! 😊

StressLab UniVienna@stresslabvienna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Poster highlight from #SAA2026 @saa2026.bsky.social: Klara Hagspiel presented "The day-to-day association between psychological factors and persistent somatic symptoms: an EMA study". A nice bonus: our Stress Lab alumna @rosamaidhof.bsky.social was her poster neighbour!

@hein-lab.bsky.social at #ESCAN2026

Claus Lamm@clauslamm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

and of we go #escan2026 in Roma, la città eterna - with our preconference on bridging the gap(s) from basic research in social neuro to real-life impact

We are glad to share our new Registered Report paper with @rosamaidhof.bsky.social and @evalabs.bsky.social on the effect of visual art and music on pain and stress. Exposure to multimodal art resulted in longer pain tolerance compared to visual art, but not compared to music doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Great news as we head into the holidays: Our project about the effect of multimodal art on pain and stress by Anna Fekete & @rosamaidhof.bsky.social with @evalabs.bsky.social won the Faculty’s Registered Report Award! 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf... Anna also won an awesome Christmas sweater prize🎄🪅

🥳 Super excited that today the first paper of my PhD has been published in @royalsociety.org: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Can learning from rewards and punishments change how people approach (or avoid) in-group vs. out-group members? Read the thread below! 🧵 1/6

Learning from financial rewards and punishments reduces the in-group bias in social approach without changing the in-group bias in impressions | Royal Society Open Science

Humans’ approach behaviour and impressions are biased towards individuals from their own group (in-group) compared with different groups (out-group). There is evidence that learning from specific interactions with in-group and out-group members can reduce ...

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Music is often used in pain management. Do music listening style or gender modulate music-based analgesia? Does it matter who selects the music? What psychological mechanisms are involved? Some answers in our new paper 👇 Thanks to the co-authors and participants! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The effect of music listening style on music-induced analgesia

Music listening may decrease pain via psychobiological mechanisms. Music listening style (MLS) influences music processing: Music empathizers (ME) focus on emotional aspects of music, whereas music...

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Maidhof et al. (2025) (@rosamaidhof.bsky.social) found self-selected music boosted pain tolerance, but women music empathizers felt more pain with their own music. Stress, not emotions, mediated this link, highlighting the need for personalized pain management. doi.org/10.1080/1025...