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Mario Reutter
@mreutter.bsky.social
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Biological Psychology: Attention, Fear, Anxiety | Open Science, Measurement Precision, Reliability | R, PsychoPy, formR | (Effective) Altruist | he/him https://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/expklin/staff/mario-reutter/
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · May 4
📊Do you want to learn data analysis with R?📊
🔓Check out these free and open materials!🔓

1. Crash course (~4 hrs; part 1 only): spressi.github.io/precision_wo...
2. Full course (~20 hrs): spressi.github.io/biostats/

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R Workshop: Handling Uncertainty in your Data – Precision Workshop
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · 7d
It was very insightful to see where the statistical tools that we use every day come from and why they are the way they are!
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · 7d
"Do one thing every day that scares you." —Mary Schmich

Last Sunday, I participated in a workshop on "The Mathematical Basics of Statistical Tests and Estimators for Psychologists" by Susanne Frick and Julien Irmer during the conference of the section "Methods & Evaluation" of the @dgps.bsky.social
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Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 9d
We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
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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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Yannik Stegmann @yannikstegmann.bsky.social · Aug 5
Exciting news! Our latest paper is now published 🎉
We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
Psychometric Considerations in Assessing Fear Generalization as a Predictor of Anxiety
The ability to adaptively transfer acquired fear to novel situations is fundamental for survival in ever-changing environments and may contribute to t…
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Menghuan Chen @menghuanchen.bsky.social · Jul 4
Very glad to share my first published PhD paper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli.
Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study advances our understanding of how individuals control automatic approach and avoidance tendencies to appetitive and aversive stimuli. Merging behavioral, physiological, and oculomotor resp...
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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jun 17
🧠♻️ IGOR Symposium
"Open Science Initiatives in Biopsychological Research"
🗓️ Fri, 20.06 | 🕥 10:30–12:00
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Jun 15
Looking forward to a great symposium! Join us on Friday at 10:30 in the Audimax! 🤩
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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · Jun 14
Only about a week until @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social #PuG2025 @pug2025.bsky.social in Würzburg! So excited for our IGOR @igor-dgps.bsky.social symposium with @mreutter.bsky.social @caggursoy.bsky.social @mariame.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · May 23
Looking forward to this inspiring symposium with amazing speakers! I'm honored to be part of this 🥰
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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · May 23
IGOR Symposium
Fri, 20.06, 10:30-12:00 📍 Audimax

Topic: Open Science initiatives in biopsychological research ♻️🧠

With @ocklenburg.bsky.social C. Artemenko @mariame.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social @caggursoy.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · May 4
Navigation on the slides is done by using the arrow keys. You can also click the three horizontal lines on the bottom left to open the outline and jump to any section!
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · May 4
For your best experience, the slides are created using RMarkdown/quarto. Thus, the R code on each slide is evaluated and the result is directly shown. You can also easily copy code components from the slides into your R scripts using the copy button on the top right of each code chunk.
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · May 4
📊Do you want to learn data analysis with R?📊
🔓Check out these free and open materials!🔓

1. Crash course (~4 hrs; part 1 only): spressi.github.io/precision_wo...
2. Full course (~20 hrs): spressi.github.io/biostats/

#rstats
R Workshop: Handling Uncertainty in your Data – Precision Workshop
spressi.github.io
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Apr 29
Our article with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @jannateigeler.bsky.social has now been published Open Access 🔓 in Behaviour Research and Therapy🥳
doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · Mar 5
Die Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) e.V. und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) schreiben drei Förderpreise für #Wisskomm in der Biologischen Psychologie aus!

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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Mar 22
Neue Errungenschaft freigeschaltet: Mein Zug hat sich verfahren 🤣
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HeinLab @hein-lab.bsky.social · Feb 20
‼️Job alert 4-year PhD or postdoc position‼️
In this project we use ultra-high field 7T functional neuroimaging and computational modeling to investigate the effects of learning and social influence on chronic and acute pain. Applications for a PhD or a postdoc position are welcome.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · Jan 21
Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:

“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."

Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Aug 1
Of course, all data, analysis scripts, and further materials are openly available🔓 #openscience
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Diagnostic Facial Features & Fear Generalization
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Aug 1
Here is the histogram of social anxiety scores. Almost half of the scores are above the optimal remission cutoff by von Glischinski et al. (2018).
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Aug 1
We also observed generalization patterns in heart rate modulation💓 and pupil size changes🥺. Notably, only individuals with high anxiety showed an acceleration component↗️ after initial fear bradycardia↘️, indicating defensive reactions🛡️ on top of orienting responses🧭.
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Aug 1
We replicated an attentional bias towards eyes compared to mouth and nose but individuals were able to adjust towards diagnostic facial features. Interestingly, people with high anxiety looked to non-diagnostic regions more quickly (hyperscanning?).
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Aug 1
Participants acquired fear quickly and generalized it to morphs of faces (osf.io/wgqnj/wiki/h...) in a curved fashion✅. Highly anxious individuals showed overall higher subjective threat ratings✅ but no difference in generalization patterns compared to lowly anxious ones❌.
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Aug 1
🚨 Preprint Alert🚨
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Fear generalization😱 depends on attention 👀towards diagnostic stimulus aspects🧐 - now replicated in a sample with diverse levels of social anxiety🧑‍🤝‍🧑(N = 87). Implications for therapy🛋️!

Thx to @gamerlab.bsky.social and @jannateigeler.bsky.social !
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · May 16
Great talk by @fmriguy.bsky.social about health-related chances and pitfalls of social media 🤩👏.
I would love your opinion on doi.org/10.1016/j.ch..., which uses temporal networks to offer a glimpse into the causal structure of well-being and social media use. Really convincing design in my opinion🧐
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Mario Reutter @mreutter.bsky.social · Apr 17
Just stumbled across this. What would you conclude from this correlational structure?

Spoiler: In the peer-reviewed and published paper, there is no discussion on how to draw a valid causal inference from these observational data 🙈
Source: doi.org/10.7759/cure... (Figure 1 "B")