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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · 7d

Our team held yesterday’s lab meeting at Travemünde beach, enjoying the Baltic Sea and Hamburg’s maritime spirit as the ‘Gateway to the World.’ 🌊

A picture of our team in front of the Baltic sea

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · 15d

We are excited to welcome our new student researcher, Selina Taheri! 🎉

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · 16d

New #DHPRLab paper by @senaozayotgonbayar.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social together with @corimartarelli.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social & @jamesdanckert.bsky.social 💪🥳

Check out the post below, in case you're interested!⬇️

Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 23d

📢 Now accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🤩

Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

TL;DR: Check 🧵 below

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 17d

What a cool format! 🎓

I had a great time as the opponent at Thekla Müller-Boysen’s PhD defense @au.dk. It was a strong defense and made for a fun discussion on boredom & its interpersonal consequences.

Huge thanks to @stepf.bsky.social & team for the invite 🙏

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Lukas Hack @lukas-hack.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks again for the invitation and the great get-together 😎 That was truly fun talking about research methods, getting carreer advice, and ofc getting to know the typical local food "Frankfurter Grüne Soße" and "Handkäse" - can recommend 😜

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · 22d

Two inspiring days in Frankfurt! 🇩🇪 Many thanks to Prof. Chris Englert & his team at Goethe University for inviting us and organizing a great program. We had an excellent scientific exchange, shared projects & enjoyed the city’s landmarks.

Looking forward to hosting them in Hamburg next year! 🌍🤝

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · Aug 29

#DHPRL in the media 🥳

Interested? Then check out Wanja's post below ⬇️

Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Aug 25

Such a pleasure to welcome Yannick Ramsel from @ZEIT.de to @dhprlab.bsky.social!

He volunteered to take part in some of our upcoming experimental setups & we had great chats about boredom and DHPRL research in general.

Full-length feature article now in ZEIT (🇩🇪): www.zeit.de/2025/32/lang...

Langeweile: Gähn.

Menschen, die sich oft langweilen, sterben früher, zeigen Studien. Aber was ist Langeweile eigentlich? Der Sportpsychologe Wanja Wolff will sie endlich verstehen.

www.zeit.de

Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · Jul 21

#DHPRLab in the media 🥳

Check out Wanja's post & link to the inteview, in case you are interested ⬇️

Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Jul 17

Had the pleasure of speaking with Gabriele Kuhn from Kurier (@kurier.at.web.brid.gy) about boredom—what it is, how it shapes our behavior, and why it matters (in 🇩🇪).

Cool to see the still growing appreciation for this often-overlooked everyday experience 😁

kurier.at/wissen/gesun...

Experte: Was das Gefühl der Langeweile wirklich bedeutet

Was tun, wenn nichts passiert? Der deutsche Sportpsychologe Wanja Wolff über die spezielle Bedeutung der Langeweile.

kurier.at

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚀The DocDays are over!📚
Our lab joined forces to write standard operating procedures for our instruments.Biggest win of writing together: Deciding together what-goes-where, with much less hesitation and frustration.🕒💨
Feel free to share what works (or doesn't) for you to make lab docs more useful!💡

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · Jul 14

It was such a pleasure to host the 2nd DHPRL Garden Party, a chance to celebrate a full and beautiful semester of research and teaching!
Thanks to everyone who made it such a fun and memorable evening. We’re already looking forward to next year! 😊

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Jul 1

Such a pleasure to welcome @artefr.bsky.social to @dhprlab.bsky.social 🤩

We‬ talked about boredom & how it shapes our behavior. With cool insights from S. Kraus, @thomasandrillon.bsky.social & @jamesdanckert.bsky.social (who even reveals his boredom coping strategy 🎸)

📺 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Sollten wir uns öfter langweilen? - 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Langeweile hat einen schlechten Ruf. Und löst ein unerträglich dumpfes Gefühl aus. Dem wollen wir um jeden Preis entkommen! Wir greifen zu Alkohol und Drogen, werden aggressiv oder sogar gewalttätig. ...

www.arte.tv

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Jun 27

Had a blast chairing today's session on movement and cognition at the Sports, Medicine and Health Summit in Hamburg. #SMHS

Very cool experience to contribute to such an interdisciplinary event in such a pretty city 😁

www.sports-medicine-health-summit.de/en

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · Jun 27

New #DHPRLab paper💪🥳

Check out Wanja's post below, in case you're interested!

Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Jun 3

📢 New Publication 📢

Effort differentially shapes behavior before, during & after an action. w/ @bcheval.bsky.social, Silvio & Florent, we explore stage-specific effects of physical effort & how these dynamically modulate each other.

Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🤩🤩

Curious? ⬇️

Trends in Cognitive Sciences @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · May 29

Online Now: Unpacking the dynamic role of physical effort in shaping behavior

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Jun 26

Great experience to present the #boredombook today w @corimartarelli.bsky.social at the boredom conference🤩
Thanks to @jamesdanckert.bsky.social for chairing, to the audience for the great discussion & to Josefa Ros for putting it all together 🙏

www.boredomsociety.com/6th-boredom-...

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · Jun 26

This week we had another great guest in our #DHPRLab meeting. 🥳

@sgluth.bsky.social from @cmdn-lab.bsky.social took the time to tell us all about computational modeling of decision making. It was a pleasure having you, thank you so much for visiting. ☺️

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Lukas Hack @lukas-hack.bsky.social · Jun 5

Was hyped to share some insights into how to navigate through the complex #effort maze @ ASP Conference in Bochum.
Thanks for all the interesting discussions and talks, this was effortful but truly rewarding at the same time!

w/ @wanjawolff.bsky.social & @israelhalperin.bsky.social

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · Jun 16

We had an awesome guest in our #DHPRLab meeting: @nicoschuck.bsky.social.

Nico told us all about the neural and algorithmic mechanisms of learning, which was both interesting and informative.
Thank you for taking the time! 🙏

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · May 31

Had a great time presenting our ideas on the utility of studying explore-exploit trade-offs in #sports at the ASP Conference in Bochum!

I appreciate the nice turnout - especially for such an early morning session after the social evening 😜🙏

lead: @katjarewitz.bsky.social w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · May 22

New paper from the lab. 💪🥳

Check out below, if you're interested!

Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · May 19

Very cool to see this published in
@qjep.bsky.social 🤩

Registered report on effect of boredom on recognition memory & the pupil old/new effect 👀

- Brilliantly led by @alapteva.bsky.social 💪
- w/ Schnyder @corimartarelli.bsky.social

Interested? Check out Alexandras post & link to the paper ⬇️

Alexandra Lapteva @alapteva.bsky.social · Apr 28

I am happy to announce that our article "𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞 (𝐧𝐨𝐭): 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐥𝐝/𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭" has been published in QJEP.

To access the article: doi.org/10.1177/1747...

#CognitivePsychology #RecognitionMemory #Mindwandering #Boredom #FernUniSchweiz #UniBe

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · May 21

Great news for our lab! Together with our friends from Konstanz, @mbieleke.bsky.social & Julia Schüler, we will investigate how people tackle mental & physical effort in freshly funded @dfg.de project! 💪🧠

Maik Bieleke @mbieleke.bsky.social · May 19

What a great start to the week 🤩

Thrilled to share that a @dfg.de grant proposal with Julia Schüler & @wanjawolff.bsky.social got funded!

This gives us time and resources to explore the interplay of cognitive and physical effort. 🎉

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Katja Rewitz @katjarewitz.bsky.social · May 5

🎉 First preprint from my PhD! #excited

We suggest that sport & exercise psych should adopt formal decision models to study how high-stakes contexts and self-regulatory demands shape the explore-exploit trade-off.

w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social @wanjawolff.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf...

OSF

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · May 5

Alina Boden, who interned with us last year, has just started a PhD at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg! She’ll study embodied cognitive reserve using behavioral training, advanced MRI, and multivariate analysis. All the best on this exciting path!

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · May 2

Our colleague @elenasmeenk.bsky.social is moving on to new challenges at the Medical School Hamburg! Elena will be joining a Parkinson’s research project and starting her PhD in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. Wishing her all the best on this exciting journey!

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks @cmdn-lab.bsky.social for inviting me to chat about our research @dhprlab.bsky.social on the dynamics of human performance regulation 🙏

I greatly appreciate the exchange of ideas & look forward to more table soccer tournaments in the future 🤩

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Dynamics of Human Performance Regulation Lab @dhprlab.bsky.social · Apr 1

Workshop Time! Since we plan to work more with Git in the future, our colleague Dr. Johannes Keyser held a workshop and introduced us to the functions and how to use it best.

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