New preprint by Annalina Mayer, team members and in collaboration with Tobias Kube! In this study, the lab’s Learning-of-own-performance (LOOP) task (Müller-Pinzler et al., 2019) has been adapted to examine how people attribute self-related feedback and whether attributing failures to external and successes to internal causes is linked to self-esteem and depressive symptomatology. Check out the […]
New publication in Translational Psychiatry by Annalina Mayer and team members! In this study we examined whether baseline plasma oxytocin levels are associated with stress responses in early-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compared them to healthy controls. While oxytocin concentrations did not differ between groups, their associations with affective stress responses diverged:
New publication in Translational Psychiatry by Annalina Mayer and team members! In this study we examined whether baseline plasma oxytocin levels are associated with stress responses in early-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compared them to healthy controls. While oxytocin concentrations did not differ between groups, their associations with affective stress responses diverged:
Another long journey comes to a successful end with this publication! Congratulations to Alexander Schröder for this great collaborative effort, which brings together Susanne Diekelmann (as part of the DFG-funded Research Group “Information abstraction during sleep”), Christoph Korn (University of Heidelberg; expert in computational modeling and belief updating), Lei Zhang (our group’s teacher and advisor
Affected beliefs in interpersonal dynamics The target article “Interpersonal Dynamics” presents the centrality of interpersonal processes in the formation and maintenance of psychological dysfunction, as well as in therapeutic change. The authors emphasize that interpersonal patterns are not static traits but should rather be viewed and understood as dynamic, reciprocal processes shaped by past
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Another long journey comes to a successful end with this publication! Congratulations to Alexander Schröder for this great collaborative effort, which brings together Susanne Diekelmann (as part of the DFG-funded Research Group “Information abstraction during sleep”), Christoph Korn (University of Heidelberg; expert in computational modeling and belief updating), Lei Zhang (our group’s teacher and advisor
Updated preprint by Nora Czekalla et al. Abstract Maladaptive self-beliefs are a core symptom of major depressive disorder. These beliefs are perpetuated by a negatively biased integration of self-related feedback. Understanding the neurocomputational mechanisms of biased belief updating may help to counteract maladaptive beliefs and the maintenance of depression. The present study uses
Affected beliefs in interpersonal dynamics The target article “Interpersonal Dynamics” presents the centrality of interpersonal processes in the formation and maintenance of psychological dysfunction, as well as in therapeutic change. The authors emphasize that interpersonal patterns are not static traits but should rather be viewed and understood as dynamic, reciprocal processes shaped by past experiences
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#Komm mal klar! … in diesen Zeiten. Kriege, Klimakrise, Rechte Gewalt und Polarisierung überall – Es gibt so vieles, womit wir als Menschen aktuell klar kommen müssen. Hadija und Max fragen sich deshalb in dieser Folge, was helfen kann? Buch schreiben ist eine Strategie, die sie selbst gerade umgesetzte haben ( erscheint im Oktober 2025!).
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Congratulations, Sara! Sara Weber, PhD student at the Social Neuroscience Lab, has given the University of Lübeck a national visibility for her engagement in the negotiations concerning the psychotherapy training (“Weiterbildung Psychotherapie”) – a topic of interest for all clinical psychology master students. Besides Saras devotion to bettering the conditions of psychology students in
Hendrik-Lehnert-Preis for student engagement for Sara Weber! Read More »
