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bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · 4d

There are still some places left, don't hesitate and sign up to the Young Scientist Retreat #YSR2025 in beautiful Hamburg 🔥🔥

bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · Sep 12

🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write [email protected]

Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
⁠ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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Poster with key data for the Young Scientist Retreat 2025. Dates: October 21–24, 2025, in Hamburg, Germany. Costs: €100 for members of DGPA and bioDGPS, €150 for members of DGPA or bioDGPS, €200 for non-members. Includes: 3 nights with meals and coffee breaks at a&o Hamburg City in a 2-bed room (Spaldingstr. 160, 20097 Hamburg). Eligibility: Doctoral students, postdocs, and junior professors (up to 8 years after PhD). Registration deadline: September 29, 2025, 16:00 CET. Note: Membership can be obtained with the YSR application to benefit from discounts."

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · 4d

Have fun!

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · 4d

Such a great opportunity to work amazing colleagues and I'm very grateful for the support by a PICAIS fellowship from the University of Passau and a research leave at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

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Uni Passau Research Magazine @unipassauresearch.bsky.social · 4d

How do emotions shape our decisions? 🧠🚦

Visiting PICAIS fellow @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social (Victoria Uni NZ) & our University's Susanne Mayr’s #Psychology and Human-Machine Interaction team explore if emotions create "binding effects" in the brain:

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How do emotions shape our decisions, especially in high-stress moments?

YouTube video by Universität Passau

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Kōtui Ako VLN @kotuiakovln.bsky.social · 29d

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori has begun! To celebrate we are sharing our online resources. We hope you enjoy them and find them helpful in your reo Māori journey. Kia kaha Te Reo Māori! zurl.co/4Rijk #tereomaori #tewikiotereomaori

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori - Ake Ake Ake

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori is coming up soon! To celebrate we are sharing our online resources. We hope you enjoy them and find them helpful in your reo Māori journey. Kia kaha Te Reo Māori!

hail.to

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture:

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Sep 5

Interesting associations: antisocial facet of psychopathy with proactive gun violence but affective facet with reactive gun violence: tinyurl.com/3zddhc77

The Role of Psychopathy in Subtypes of Aggression and Gun Violence - Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

Objective This study examined the relationship between psychopathy and subtypes of aggression and firearm violence among a high-risk, community-based sample of adults. Specifically, it assessed whethe...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jul 12

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jun 28

If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful.

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.

• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety.

• Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.

• Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.

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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · Aug 23

In the age of short-form video on apps on our phones, are we now unable to focus on anything longer?

It was a pleasure to talk with eminent science journalist Robyn Williams on the ABC's "Science Show" about attention in the modern age.

Have we lost our attention span? - ABC listen

Short-form video rewards us quickly. Are we now unable to concentrate on anything longer?

www.abc.net.au

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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · Aug 22

Persistence of psychopathic traits and related offending in young people, turning points have little impact: tinyurl.com/4emmb23s

Influence of Psychopathic Traits on Desistance Factors From Criminal Behavior During Transition to Adulthood

This study examined the evolution of psychopathic traits from adolescence to adulthood over a 10-year period, focusing on their impact on delinquency. It also assessed whether psychosocial maturati...

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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · Aug 22

How are psychopathic traits and sadism related to executive functioning in a general population sample? Sadism related to enhanced functions, but Erratic Lifestyle, Callous Affect and Antisocial Behavior each related to reduced functional impairment: tinyurl.com/3k46aze6

The indirect effects of psychopathy and sadism on functional impairment through executive functioning - Current Psychology

Previous work has produced conflicting findings on psychopathy and executive functioning (EF) and had yet to consider the role of sadism with the four-factor model of psychopathy. Further, the effects...

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Aug 22

Young people with callous-unemotional traits who are easily cognitively overloaded show less prosocial behavior, but those not affected by cognitive demands don't show such reduction: tinyurl.com/ycyac5en

Callous‐Unemotional Trait Prosocial Limitations Are Moderated by Cognitive Control Impacting Theory of Mind in Adolescents

Although callous-unemotional (CU) traits are linked with antisocial behavior, affected youth still engage in some prosocial behaviors. The factors contributing to prosocial behavior in these youth ar...

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Aug 14

Great piece by our lab’s graduate Jasmin Fuller on the role of trauma assessment in correctional rehabilitation: newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/14/h...

What trauma has to do with rehabilitation

From Victoria University of Wellington – Comment: Prisoners who complete a rehabilitation programme are less likely to commit more offences, but one in three men do not complete it

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Lauren Atlas @laurenatlas.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our findings have implications for pain researchers and clinicians:
1) Predictive cues are not the same as placebo analgesia. Let's stop lumping them together in our research.
2) Pain and expectations are shaped by both info about pain-relieving treatment AND info about painful procedures. 4/4

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jul 31

In a series of approach and avoidance tasks different "socially aversive personality traits" were related to to positive or negative approach, but the pattern is mixed - what does that mean? tinyurl.com/h8yedv9s

Examining motivational profiles in the dark personality tetrad using an approach-avoidance conflict task

The present studies evaluated motives associated with the Dark Tetrad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism) using a computerized approach-avoidance conflict task (AACT). Study...

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jul 31

New review pointing to open questions about the role of oxytocin in altered facial expression decoding in psychopathy: tinyurl.com/mr3mhp52

Psychophysiology of facial emotion recognition in psychopathy dimensions and oxytocin’s role: A scoping review

Psychopathy is characterized by social impairments that hinder effective societal functioning. It comprises two main dimensions: “Interpersonal-affective” and “Lifestyle-antisocial,” each associated w...

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · Jul 25

AI could soon run a sweeping audit of all published research. It might find some outright fraud but would also show much "routine, journeyman work with garden-variety errors." @naomioreskes.bsky.social & Alexander Kaurov ask what that might do to trust in science theconversation.com/ai-will-soon...

AI will soon be able to audit all published research – what will that mean for public trust in science?

An AI audit of scientific research would likely expose some fraud and widespread inconsequential work. But we need to be careful it doesn’t discredit science in general.

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jul 26

Great discussion of two recent systematic reviews on the relationship between personality disorders and criminal behavior/recidivism by @mcseto.bsky.social - content overlap needs to be considered for antisocial personality disorder (and psychopathy): shorturl.at/DenrE

Personality disorders, violence and antisocial behaviour: updated systematic review and meta-regression analysis: commentary, Seto | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Personality disorders, violence and antisocial behaviour: updated systematic review and meta-regression analysis: commentary, Seto - Volume 227 Issue 1

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jul 25

Very interesting new paper showing reduced learning from (volatile) social information related to higher psychopathic traits and theta activity: tinyurl.com/ye2ymnad

Dissecting how psychopathic traits are linked to learning in different contexts: a multilevel computational and electrophysiological approach - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Previous studies suggest that elevated psychopathic traits, linked to social norm violations and personal gain-seeking, may be caused by impairments in associative learning. Recent advances in computa...

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jul 19

and in a Poster group on Synchrony in emotion interactions with Bernadette Denk, Sarah Boukarras, Aaron Hissey & Roydon Goldsack

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jul 19

in a symposium on Emotions in Body Motion with Johannes Keck, Nicola Hyland & Liam Crowley-de Thierry

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Jul 19

Great opportunity to share research from our afcrinlab and the wiri project at CERE 2025

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