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:
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
Commentary on Cropp et al. (2025) Interpersonal Dynamics Read More »
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
Great news! The collaborative research center (CRC) TRR 418 on “Circadian Medicine” was granted to a Berlin-Lübeck research consortium As part of the CRC TRR 418, Prof Ines Wilhelm-Groch and Prof Sören Krach will be studying the chronobiological foundations of how social information processing is linked to time-of-day fluctuations and chronotype. Project title:
Successful CRC application “Circadian medicine”!! Read More »
New smartphone-based application for research launched! After almost 1.5 years of development, together with with genius programmer Karol Lassota (https://www.beyond-the-bit.de/) and with great support by the UniversitätsTransferKlinik (Martin Leucker), we are extremely proud to have launched our first SNL research application (now available in iOS and Android stores). Video produced by Yaryna Bitkovska
New smartphone-based application launched! Read More »
Invited talk in Birmingham, UK. Thanks to Prof Lei Zhang, Sören Krach was invited to present research from the Social Neuroscience Lab on “Affected belief formation”. Thanks to David Stolz, the selfie was immediately adapted.
Lab visit in Birmingham on invitation by Lei Zhang! Read More »
We are announcing a new lectures series on the topic of “control” We are extremely happy to announce this new summer term lectures series on “control”, co-organized with our colleagues Felix Blankenburg and Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin). We will hear great talks from international speakers: 05.05.2025 Opening by Sören Krach und David Stolz (on-site at
CCNB-Lectures Series hosted together with the SNL! Read More »
Visit from Vienna, Austria! Today, Giorgia Silani visited the Social Neuroscience Lab and gave a presentation on “Disrupted homeostasis: is the social domain special?”
Lab visit by Giorgia Silani Read More »
