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Sebastian Hellmann @sehellmann.bsky.social · 28d

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...

osf.io

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Barbara Oberbauer @barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

www.researchsquare.com

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Cognitive Modelling & Decision Neuroscience Lab @cmdn-lab.bsky.social · Sep 8

How can we increase eco-friendly choices? 🌱 Our new preprint with @barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social , Ulf Hahnel & @sgluth.bsky.social reveals the mechanisms through which consumer-friendly attribute displays boost ecological decisions

Barbara Oberbauer @barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

www.researchsquare.com

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our article is now fully open-access!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Universität Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de · Jul 11

Sollten wir uns öfter langweilen? 🥱 Dieser Frage geht unter anderem Sportpsychologe Prof. @wanjawolff.bsky.social von der Uni Hamburg in der @artede.bsky.social Dokumentation „42 – Die Antwort auf fast alles“ nach. Hier geht’s zum Video:

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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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Jul 5

🥐 When we’re hungry, we pay more attention to taste than health, literally.

Eye-tracking and modelling show hunger shifts our focus toward calorie-rich foods and away from nutrition info.

Hungry eyes

Humans focus less on nutritional information and more on how appetizing a food looks when deciding what to eat while hungry.

buff.ly

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Dr. Stefan Schulreich @sschulreich.bsky.social · Jul 4

Full Professorship in #PublicHealth Nutrition (joint position at University of Vienna & Medical University). Be part of our great department in one of the most liveable cities in the world!
Appl. Deadline: Sept 17

berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Jul 3

Proud to see this one out as Version of Record in #eLife
doi.org/10.7554/eLif... 🥰

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Jun 27

Lovely to have been part of this inspiring meeting #EGPROC2025
at this stunning venue @jadatascience.bsky.social

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Cognitive Modelling & Decision Neuroscience Lab @cmdn-lab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to present our research at this epic location #EGPRO2025 with @sgluth.bsky.social, @maryamtohidi.bsky.social and @jennamarch.bsky.social 🚀

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Cognitive Modelling & Decision Neuroscience Lab @cmdn-lab.bsky.social · Jun 13

Amazing sunny team event with our lab today! ☀️ We tackled an escape room aboard the historic ship Rickmer Rickmers - nothing like solving puzzles surrounded by maritime history ⚓🧩 So lovely bonding outside the lab and putting our problem-solving skills to work in completely new settings! 🤓

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Cognitive Modelling & Decision Neuroscience Lab @cmdn-lab.bsky.social · Jun 4

🧠 Job Alert: Postdoc Position Available!
We're hiring a postdoc as part of the exciting DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating 🔬
🔍 What we're looking for:
Strong quantitative skills & passion for belief updating research
📍 Location: University of Hamburg
⏰ Duration: 2 years, full-time
🔗 Link below

Sebastian Gluth @sgluth.bsky.social · Jun 4

Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...).

We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills.

Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

DFG Research Unit 5389

www.uni-hamburg.de

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · May 8

Excited to see our study on the Tagesschau 🎉
Note: We conducted a laboratory experiment, meaning that the application to real life grocery shopping is limited. Our findings shed light on the cognitive mechanisms that underly food choice under hunger. Also, we do not appeal to politics or industry.

Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · May 7

Hungrige kaufen ungesünder ein#Einkaufsverhalten

Hungrige kaufen ungesünder ein

Hungrige Menschen greifen eher zu ungesunden Lebensmitteln.

www.tagesschau.de

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Apr 24

🎉 Thrilled to share the press releases of our study 🎉
English from @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/for-the-pres...
German from @uni-hamburg.de: www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/pre...

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Maryam Tohidi @maryamtohidi.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thrilled to share my first post here with something I’m truly proud of; My PhD paper is finally out in @commspsychol.bsky.social. Thanks to amazing @ktsetsos.bsky.social for his wise insights and our reviewers for their constructive comments.
You can read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eguDX
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Mar 29

Do you find yourself more tempted by unhealthy foods the hungrier you get?

According to scientists, you’re not the only one.
buff.ly/cQp9idM

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

Huge thanks to the editor of eLife and the reviewers helpful comments, which further improved our manuscript, to my supervisor Sebastian Gluth, the amazing people from the Cognitive Modelling and Decision Neuroscience Lab @uni-hamburg.de

Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

Make sure to check out our supplementary materials in which we analyse other attributes underlying food choice (wanting, caloric content and nutritional score) and show the results of alternative decision models. Overall, these analyses provide further evidence for our conclusions.

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

Together, our findings suggest that the effect of hunger state on the cognitive processes underlying dietary decision are characterised by a nuanced interplay of attention and the importance assigned to the options' underlying attributes. Finally, we discuss important implications of our findings.

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

Extensive model comparison revealed that this model demonstrated the best quantitative and qualitative fit suggesting that hunger alters the valuation process by a) increasing the relative importance of tastiness and b) shifting how attention modulates the consideration of nutritional information.

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

To better understand the mechanisms behind these effects, we extended the recently proposed multi-attribute attentional drift diffusion model by differentiating between the parameter discounting the non-looked-upon attribute (taste and health).

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

Our eye-tracking analyses revealed that participants spent more time on the chosen option and overall more time on food images compared to nutritional score, which was even more pronounced under hunger. A mediation analysis established that attention mediated the effect of hunger on choice.

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

We manipulated hunger successfully and show that participants prefer tasty over health food items in general and particularly when hungry. Moreover, tasty choices were faster than healthy ones.

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

We conducted a within-subject eye-tracking experiment, in which 70 participants completed a multi-attribute food choice task in hungry and sated states. In both conditions, participants fasted overnight. In the sated condition, they received a protein shake matched to their daily caloric needs .

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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · Mar 25

Hunger can promote unhealthy dietary decisions which increase energy intake and weight. In the paper, we set out to shed light on the cognitive mechanisms underlying food choice, by investigating the effect of hunger on attention and valuation processes in multi-attribute dietary choice.

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