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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · 15h

#wuertual25 just started!
Looking forward to an interesting and inspiring 3 days ahead 🚀

Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 15h

Our Würtual Reality Conference is underway!🙌👓🤩
@isabelneumann.bsky.social @sabrinagado.bsky.social

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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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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Jun 20

I might be biased, but what an inspiring #VR symposium at #PuG25 🤩
This field still develops so fast 🚀as showcased by the integration of neurophysiology, multi-user settings and clinical application.
Thanks to @martandreatta.bsky.social, @leonkroczek.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com and Marius Rubo!

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Jun 19

You can find our pre-reg here: osf.io/e4rbd
But, of course, we now learned a lot about this new paradigm and we might recommend adjusting some things for similar studies. If you’re interested, we could have a call to discuss this 😊

OSF

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Jun 19

@jannateigeler.bsky.social opening PuG2025 symposia 🚀 presenting our gaze-based approach-avoidance task #AAT 👀
Turns out it’s actually hard to transfer traditional AAT paradigms to #eye-tracking. Attention is likely influenced by additional factors like salience and arousal🔥

Psychologie & Gehirn 2025 @pug2025.bsky.social · Jun 19

First round of symposia

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Jun 18

Excited about all #PUG25 @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social posts coming in!

Check out our symposium "The Best of Both Worlds? Bridging Behavior and Physiology Using Immersive #VirtualReality"
🗓️Friday 14:30-16:00

@sabrinagado.bsky.social
@michaelgaebler.com
Marius Rubo
@martandreatta.bsky.social

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · May 20

Happy to share that this study is now published in JEP:HPP 🎉

psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Apr 26

Our social conditioning #VR study is now published in Behavior Research Methods: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
More exiting projects with this paradigm soon to come #staytuned 😊

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Apr 10

Finally it’s my turn to say: #phdone 🙌🏻🎓
Thanks @gamerlab.bsky.social and @rtg2660.bsky.social for giving me this opportunity! It was a blast 🎊

Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Apr 10

Huge congratulations to @sabrinagado.bsky.social , who passed her PhD defense with flying colors! Great to celebrate another PhD from @rtg2660.bsky.social - there are more to come...

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Apr 7

Only few days left to apply for a PhD position in my group @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Mar 27

🚨 PhD position (65%, 3 years) 🚨
We are currently looking for a PhD candidate within the @rtg2660.bsky.social on the neural mechanisms of approach and avoidance behavior. Please share widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/06...

Job announcement for a 65% PhD position for 3 years

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Feb 26

We are also thrilled to announce our keynote speakers: Rachel McDonnell (Trinity College Dublin) and @michaelgaebler.com (MPI Leipzig) 🎉

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Feb 26

🗓️Save the date!
The Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting is back! 🙌🏻
From Oct 8-10, 2025, Würzburg will be the place-to-be to present, discuss, and try out the latest psychological VR, AR, and XR research. Stay tuned for more information! 🚀

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Nov 25

A starter pack I found missing 👓🖥️🌍🧠🩺

Immersive technologies - #VR, #AR, #XR, #spatialcomputing, #CG - for research (e.g., psychology, neuroscience) & medicine (diagnostics, therapy).

go.bsky.app/E9bhHvQ

Please let me know if you wanna be added - especially undergrad, grad, predoc researchers!

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Nov 6

In addition, we provided further evidence for a cardiovascular hyperarousal 🫀↗️ in social anxiety, which was not limited to social situations and not modulated by the pressure to adhere to social norms.

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Nov 6

Instead, we could show that social anxiety affects social exploration behavior not in a way of general avoidance 🚫, but rather in nuanced adaptations 🌈 depending on the concrete situation, perceived control, likelihood of interaction and associated socio-evaluative threat.

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Nov 6

We expected socially anxious participants to show avoidance of potentially crowded spaces 🚷, reduced visual attention on other people 👀, and heightened physiological arousal in social situations 🫀.

two men standing next to each other in a room with the words how to avoid human interaction

ALT: two men standing next to each other in a room with the words how to avoid human interaction

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Nov 6

Our pre-screened participants with varying trait social anxiety scores went for a walk on a freely chosen route 👣 and then had a staged social interaction with a confederate 👥.
We recorded the chosen route 📍, gaze behavior 👀, and autonomic responses 🫀.

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Nov 6

🎉 Very proud to share my first published PhD paper 🎊
With @gamerlab.bsky.social, @jannateigeler.bsky.social and the amazing bachelor students Kaja Kümpel and Madita Schindler, we investigated how trait social anxiety influences social attention in naturalistic situations 🌳🏡
doi.org/10.1080/1061...

The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations

This multimodal two-phase study investigated the impact of trait social anxiety on exploration, social attention, and autonomic responses in a naturalistic setting. We expected higher avoidance of ...

doi.org

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Oct 25

Next up: two further posters of the lab #2024SPR - @sabrinagado.bsky.social presenting a meta-analysis on the influence of social anxiety on subjective, physiological and hormonal measures 👇