1 Dogs are known for their ability to cooperate with humans and read our social cues. But are these skills biologically prepared? To find out, we tested 375 puppies at 8.5 weeks on 4 social cognition tasks (task descriptions: bit.ly/3bPL7wO) #AnimBehav2021 #Cognition

Really excited to share our preprint "investigating adult age differences in real-life empathy, prosociality, and well-being using experience sampling" - work with Julia Stietz, Greg Depow, Michael Inzlicht, Philipp Kanske, Shu-Chen Li, and Andrea Reiter! Preprint: osf.io/3f78n/.

Very excited to share our replication "The ageing of the social mind: replicating the preservation of socio-affective and the decline of socio-cognitive processes in old age" - just published today! One milestone further on the way to a PhD :) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

🚨Wimi/Promotionsstelle Stelle an der KJPP/ Deutsches Zentrum für Präventionsforschung und Psychische Gesundheit Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg: Prävention bei Kindern- und Jugendlichen&Mitarbeit bei der Leitlinie für Angstbehandlung im Kindes- und Jugendalter👧👦💪tinyurl.com/pmcjswp7 YouCAP³

🚨🚨 We are looking for a PhD student in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience/Computational Psychiatry - come&join us at Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg within the fabulous RTG Approach/Avoidance @[email protected] to work on the development of approach/avoidance in kids with and without mental health problems tinyurl.com/cd4kbfhd

We extended our application deadline! Our lab is offering a position as a PhD student / Postdoc for a 3 year period. Application deadline: March 31, 2022. Join us to study perceptual, cognitive, and motivational development across the lifespan! 👇 tu-dresden.de/mn/psychologie…

"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at others woe" - Homer ~700BCE. I love this quote. It shows #empathy has a short history as a word, but a long past as a concept. Was Homer right that we are taught by time to empathize? #scicomm 1/2

🙋‍♀️Wir suchen noch deutschsprachige Teilnehmer*innen zwischen 9 und 40 Jahren für unsere Studie (bequem am Smartphone und online von zu Hause) für unsere Studie zu sozialen Interaktionen. 👫👬👭🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Alle Infos ⏬⏬⏬

adolescents have a reputation of being moody - it was fun to think with Klara Gregorova Eran Eldar and Lorenz Deserno about how mood swings in adolescence might be explained with reinforcement learning -- new preprint here: psyarxiv.com/u62vr/ happy about any feedback!!

Check out our new preprint investigating value integration for self and other in older versus younger adult 🧐🚀