Interested in working with us? 🤓 We have an open 6 year post-doc position. If you are interested in social & computational neuroscience 🧠, please apply until the 10th of August 🤞 See here for details: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Ever wondered how the current heatwave might be affecting you 🥵? Our PI @clauslamm.bsky.social starred in a research spotlight by @univie.ac.at on that exact topic, discussing how heat affects our 🧠 and our 🧍. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEt2... Article: rudolphina.univie.ac.at/vom-umgang-m...

🥵Was Hitze mit Gehirn und Körper macht | Expert*innen erklären | Universität Wien

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New preprint! Riečanský*, I., Pronizius*, E., Marko, M., Mitka, M., de Lorenzo, A., & @clauslamm.bsky.social (2026). EEG and self-report reveal intact cognitive appraisal of others' pain but reduced affective and sensorimotor resonance in adults with autism spectrum disorder. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Congratulations to our colleague @epronizius.bsky.social and our PI @clauslamm.bsky.social for being short-listed for the teaching award of our faculty 🏅 And obviously to the other recipients as well. Happy to have so many great lecturers among us 🤓

We had a great time at #ESCAN2026 last week and met a lot of amazing people. Here is our recap 🤓 - 1 symposium organized 👩‍🏫 - 7 talks held 🎙️ - 7 posters presented 🖼️ - group night train ride to Rome 🚂 - social gatherings each night🍻 - joining the first session with too little sleep 🥲

Our former colleague @magdalenaboch.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc for her new comparative neuroscience lab at @univie.ac.at. Highly recommended position 🤓

Magdalena Boch 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇦🇹@magdalenaboch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(1/2) Hiring! 🤸🧠🐩 Postdoc position in my new group @univie.ac.at & Messerli Research Institute on the neuro-cognitive foundations and evolution of sociality across humans, dogs, and other carnivorans. 📍 Vienna 📅 Application deadline: 26 July 2026 ℹ️ shortifyme.co/p3NjN

How will three groups of psychologists perform in an escape room? By assessing each other's arousal or debating whether frustration is a state or a trait? We recently conducted this bold introspective case study. Preliminary results suggest all groups did great. Thanks to everyone who joined 🤓

🚨 Psyched to share our first paper in JEnvPsy, led by the brillliant @jonasnitschke.bsky.social! We find that trust in science + climate-specific worry (not general worry) together predict support for climate policies. So don’t just worry, worry specifically and take action 🤓

The Long Night of Research #LNF was an exciting and intense experience for our team! A. Gaiswinkler, @thomaskarner.bsky.social, @sude1001.bsky.social, @annakulesza.bsky.social, Kathi Maichanitsch, Nino Sidar, @emmalwood.bsky.social, @epronizius.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social

New paper🎈: Lessons Learned from Big Team Science Projects in Cognitive Science in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... We share practical, experience-based strategies for running large-scale collaborations - from project structure to ethics, funding, & AI use.

Here's our résumé of the ÖGP-Tagung in Salzburg last week: - 4 great talks 🤓 - 3 beautiful posters 🖼️ - First place at the poster award - congrats @lauragschw.bsky.social 🥳🥇 - Met many amazing people 🤝 - Gorgeous snowy mountain peaks 🏔️ - Left mountain hikes for next time tho 🥾

Besuchen Sie unsere Station, um Antworten auf diese & andere Fragen gemeinsam zu finden: Wo zieht unser Gehirn die Grenze zwischen mir und dir? Wie kann Empathie auch auf die Natur & die Umwelt übertragen werden? langenachtderforschung.at/station/5657 Wir freuen uns auf Sie! @scanunit.bsky.social

Wo zieht unser Gehirn die Grenze zwischen mir und dir? - #LNF26 Lange Nacht der Forschung

Die vorgestellten Forschungsthemen behandeln Wahrnehmung, Empathie und soziale Interaktion. Besucher:innen entdecken spielerisch, wie das Gehirn eigene und fremde Gefühle unterscheidet, Emotionen erke...

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna@univie.ac.at · 4mo ago

📣 Save the date: Lange Nacht der Forschung an der Uni Wien! 📅: 24.04.2026, 17:00 - 23:00 Uhr 📍: über 100 Stationen an 5 Standorten: Hauptgebäude, Fakultät für Chemie, Fakultät für Physik, Sternwarte & Biologiezentrum Das gesamte Programm der Uni Wien im Überblick: ⤵️ www.univie.ac.at/lange-nacht-...

Never easy to say g'bye to the "veterans" 🥲 One of our most loyal and awesome lab members @markusruetgen.bsky.social sails to new shores (as psychotherapist). Good luck Markus, thanks for everything, "you'll never walk alone" 🍀🫶

Another year, another ice-skating event for our lab ⛸️ Thanks to our colleague Ece Kurnaz for organizing ❤️

We finally tackled our lab cleanup - turns out 15+ years of research leave a trail: - Folders of printed papers 🗞️ - Old study materials & consent forms 📁 - Cables, phones, and chunky monitors 🖥️ - Lots of dust 🧼 Thanks to our team for the joint effort - we promise to keep it tidier now 🤞

It's about time somebody did this ⤵️ We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡ Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

A new meta-analysis lead by our member @maxsteininger.bsky.social was just published, showing that nature exposure is linked to pain reductions 🤕🌳➡️🙂 See his thread below for details 👇

@maxsteininger.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our preregistered systematic review & meta-analysis published in Nature Mental Health shows that nature exposure is linked to small-to-moderate reductions in self-reported pain (SMD = .53; N = 4,439). But high heterogeneity and moderate-to-high risk of bias call for a cautious interpretation (1/5)

Another amazing year at the SCAN unit with: 30+ papers🗞️ Many new faces 🤓 Long train rides 🚂 Rejections, resubmissions 📝 Tomatoes 🍅 A lot of science 🧠 And even more teamwork and shared moments 🫶 Thanks 2025 - looking forward to 2026 ✨

We are glad to see this paper out by @markusforamitti.bsky.social in collaboration with @mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social and @scanunit.bsky.social! 🧠🫀🎵Read more about the shift toward music with more negative, stressful, and simpler lyrics over the past 50 years below.

@markusforamitti.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New paper out! 🥸 Over the last 50 years, people have gravitated toward music with increasingly negative, stressful, and simpler lyrics. Societal crises like COVID-19 disrupted these long-term trends, suggesting escapist music preferences at a societal level. 🎶🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper from the lab! Using computational modeling we showed how people discount time and effort for self-benefitting vs pro-environmental outcomes and that the rate of discounting relates to their willignness to support costly climate policies 👇🏼

Boryana Todorova@todorova.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m thrilled to share that our paper “Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs. pro-environmental decisions” is now published in Communications Psychology! 🌿 OA link: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/6

Last weekend’s lab hike came with maximum fog and minimum views of Vienna 😶‍🌫️. The company more than made up for it though 🫶

🎉 New paper alert! In this collaboration across 6 countries 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇳🇬🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 (n = 3,055), we developed a new pro-environmental behavior task and tested which psychological interventions actually make people more willing to put in real effort for mitigating climate change. Fully OA: tinyurl.com/2s46fppb

Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change - Communications Psychology

Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climat...

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Wer von euch hat schon Mal ein Hundegehirn gesehen? Hier mal ein strukturelles MRT aus einem meiner Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... (Guran et al., 2024) Dieses Modell basiert auf einem sogenannten Hirnatlas. Unsere funktionellen Daten sehen meist ganz anders aus ...

Habt ihr schon mal einen Hund in einem MRT Scanner gesehen? Darf ich vorstellen, das ist Toffee, einer unserer 4-pfotigen Freiwilligen.

Our colleague @rinaguran.bsky.social is giving insights in her life as PostDoc this week. Check out @realscientists.de if you are interested in animal research or just want to see what everyday life looks like for a scientist 🤓

Pause @ Real Scientists DE@realscientists.de · 9mo ago

Guten Morgen meine Science Peeps :) Mein Name ist Alexandrina, und es ist mir eine Freude, in dieser Woche die Posts von @realscientists.de zu liefern. Worauf ihr euch freuen könnt? - Posts über Tiere 🐶🐷😼🐝🙆 und ihr Verhalten - Einblicke in den Alltag einer 4-ever-PostDoc - Hundesocken-Fotos

New global study lead by @psysciacc.bsky.social with @scanunit.bsky.social across 18 languages challenges a classic idea in psycholinguistics: when we read, we don’t always imagine objects in the same orientation as described. doi.org/10.1007/s121...

Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages - Current Psychology

Mental simulation theories of language comprehension propose that people automatically create mental representations of objects mentioned in sentences. Mental representation is often measured with the...

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See below to read a short story from our member @lauragschw.bsky.social describing her research - really cool way to communicate science!

Science & Fiction@scienceandfiction.net · 10mo ago

🎲 New #ScienceandFiction short story 🎲 This month, @lauragschw.bsky.social talks about anhedonia and how our mood may affect our gaming behavior! 🃏 Content warning: Mental health, depression, anhedonia 🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/34_i... 🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...

Happy #worlddogday! 🐶 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 In this video, you will discover how dogs support us in our research at the University of Vienna and what we can learn from dogs about our own social behavior. 🧠 ⤵️

🐕 How Dog Brains Help Us Understand Ourselves | University of Vienna

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna@univie.ac.at · 11mo ago

Dogs usually ought to stay away from scientific measuring devices – unless, of course, they are part of the #research team. We accompany psychologist & neuroscientist @magdalenaboch.bsky.social & Kalea into the lab. There, they want to identify the regions of the 🧠 that shape our social #behavior. ⤵️

Congratulations to @madalina.bsky.social, our former member @kimdoell.bsky.social and all of the 256(!) other collaborators for winning SPSP's Robert Cialdini prize for their manylabs project on how behavioral interventions can help address climate change 🎉

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"! You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our new publication led by former member @clamassaccesi.bsky.social showing that individuals are equally motivated to incur effort costs to reduce pain to themselves and others 🤝

Claudia Massaccesi@clamassaccesi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New paper out in NYAS! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We show that protecting others' from pain promotes effortful prosocial behavior 💪🧑‍🤝‍🧑🤝 w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social (thread below)