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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📢 New Publication from RTG 2271! 🎉 Congratulations to @aminjahani.bsky.social and Metin Üngör 📖 Associative changes in human learning when cues with different learning histories are trained in compound (JEP: Animal Learning and Cognition) 🔗 doi.org/10.1037/xan0000446

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Parnian Saberi @parnian-saberi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It was great fun taking part in @unimarburg.bsky.social's Sommerfest this year as part of the @dfg.de -funded @rtg2271.bsky.social Breaking Expectations, sharing our research with a general public audience. I especially enjoyed getting children curious about the brain in a simple & engaging way!

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📢 Fabian Parth has presented his poster at #CogSci2026! Congrats Fabi! 🎉

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📢 RTG is at #CogSci2026 in Rio de Janeiro! Fabian Parth @tamhak.bsky.social Dominik Endres @semihaktepe.bsky.social @danielheck.bsky.social and our alumni @marcelbinz.bsky.social are presenting their research at the conference 🎓 🎉 Congrats to all!

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@massimokoester.bsky.social presented a new exciting theoretical project of members from our Research Training Group Breaking Expectations at #EASP2026 in Strasbourg: The Antecedent-Consequent (AC) model: A parsimonious and integrative sequential process model of expectancy change and maintenance.

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

📢 New Publication from RTG 2271! 🎉 Congratulations to Lisa Hartke and Christopher Cohrs 📖 The Art of Being Wrong: A Systematic Review and Integrative Model for Promoting Intellectual Humility (Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology) 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/casp.70297

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Parnian Saberi @parnian-saberi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Today, 26 June 2026, I’m presenting a poster at the IBNS conference in Cape Town (Hall D, 11:00). I'd be more than happy to chat and hear your thoughts on my PhD work. Looking forward to seeing you there! #IBNS2026 #IBNS #IBNSConnect

Today, 26 June 2026, I’m presenting a poster at the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) conference in Cape Town (Hall D, 11:00).

If you're attending and interested in the effects of serotonin manipulation on socio-affective ultrasonic calling across emotional valences, I'd be more than happy to chat and hear your thoughts on my PhD work.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

#IBNS2026 #IBNS #IBNSConnect

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

📢 Our current members and alumni had a symposium titled Beyond Prediction Error: Learning Mechanisms Underlying Perceptual Biases And Belief Persistence #PuG2026 🎉 Congrats to @marianboor.bsky.social @aminjahani.bsky.social Saskia Leißner and David Torrents-Rodas!

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📢 We're happy to share that Roza Mejza @marianboor.bsky.social and @erikmueller.bsky.social have received a poster prize at #PuG2026 with their poster titled "Conditioned Expectations Potentiate the Perception of Anger in Ambiguous Facial Expressions". 🎉 Congrats to you all!

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

‪📢 New Publication from RTG 2271! 🎉 Congratulations to Martin Pietzsch and Martin Pinquart 📖 The Assessment of Dispositional Coping with Expectation Violations (European Journal of Psychology Open) 🔗 doi.org/10.1024/2673-8627/a000105

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aminjahani.bsky.social @aminjahani.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

On Friday, 5 June, I will present two of my PhD projects at #PuG2026 in Heidelberg. I’ll discuss how people update beliefs when their experiences contradict them.

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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de) 📅Start: 01.10.2026 |⏳3 years 🔗 Job posting: uni-marburg.de/78NrWT Thanks for sharing!

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

What is a habit and how should we measure it? In a webinar, @massimokoester.bsky.social from our Research Training Group "Breaking Expectations" joined Dr. Gjalt-Jorn Peters & Prof. Benjamin Gardner to discuss long-debated questions around habit conceptualization, measurement, & related challenges.

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Malte Friese @malfrie.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 PLEASE RT! 🚨 7 four-year PhD positions (75%) in DFG-funded Research Training Group “Flexibility and Balance as Characteristics of Adaptive Self-Regulation” in Saarbrucken, Germany. Starting date October 01, 2026. Official job ad: tinyurl.com/3v8b4chm (1/3)

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🚨 Permanent position! theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de is looking for a managing director of our new outreach hub. This is an unlimited time position at an E13 paygrade (~postdoc level) Apply by May 31st 👉 www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt... Please share widely 🙏

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Our members are sharing their research far and wide! 🤗 And this summer we are hosting a stand at the @unimarburg.bsky.social Summer Fest to bring our work to the public. 📅 July 17th Come visit us to learn more about breaking expectations!

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

📢 @laraorphal.bsky.social has presented her poster at the Workshop for Decision Making and Information Processing in Complex Settings, Lucca, Italy. Congrats Lara! 🎉

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 01/04/2026

Meta-Psychology owns April 1st with the "Inaugural Editorial of Questionable Research Ideas and OtherPeculiarities: The QRAP section": open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

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Lara Orphal @laraorphal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The French embassy in Germany will finance research stays of up to 3 months for early carreer researchers employed in German academia- list of research fields& other details in their link (EN/FR/DE available). Worth sharing with PhDs~ @rtg2271.bsky.social www.science-allemagne.fr/appels-actue...

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Technologies d'avenir 2026 : l'appel à candidature est ouvert ! (deadline: 20/05/2026) - Science Allemagne

1. Présentation et objectifs L’Ambassade de France en Allemagne (e Service pour la science et la technologie et Service de coopération et d’action culturelle) souhaite renforcer la coopération franc...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm looking for a post-doc to help organize Bayesian Data Analysis course avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A... (200 students) and to do research on Bayesian workflow users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... at Aalto www.aalto.fi/en, Finland. Background in Bayes needed. Up to five year contract possible.

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Bayesian Data Analysis course - Aalto 2025 – Bayesian Data Analysis course

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Monika Eckstein @monikaeckstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

📣Job Alert: In unserem Team ist ab Sommer eine 🎓PhD-Stelle zu vergeben. 👉Thema: Stress in der Elternschaft, soziale Berührung und Oxytocin. Methoden fMRT und Ecologically Momentary Assessment 🤳🧠🫂👨‍👧. Infos hier: karriere.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?ac...

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Doktorand*in (w/d/m)

Pflichtfelder sind mit einem (*) markiert.

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Melanie Fischer @melaniefischer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unsere AG! Das Stipendium bietet die Möglichkeit, Promotion und Psychotherapieausbildung zu verbinden, mit Forschungsschwerpunkt auf Expressed Emotion/Partnerschaft. Gerne teilen!

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Ausschreibung Promotionsstipendium

In der AG Klinische Paar- und Familienpsychologie (Leitung Prof. Dr. Melanie Fischer) in Kombination mit der Psychotherapie-Ambulanz Marburg (PAM e.V.) ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt zu vergeben ei...

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Melanie Fischer @melaniefischer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Am Samstag in Marburg 👏🏼

Ein „save the date“ Poster mit dem Schriftzug „stoppt Kürzungen in der Psychotherapie“, Demozug in Marburg am 28.03.2026 um 15 Uhr am Erwin Piscator Haus.

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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🚨Last week to apply for a 3 year postdoc with me and @dominikdeffner.bsky.social, embedded in theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de Focus is on developing innovative experiments and computational models to understand social & cultural learning. Deadline is March 30th 👉 hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni...

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Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution

Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual...

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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

💭 Come work with me, Mark Hoogendoorn, and Dimitris Rizopoulos! We are offering a 3 year PostDoc to do research on the intersection of machine learning (ML) and statistics. 🔢 💫 You will be part of the Stress in Action consortium: stress-in-action.nl/science-of-s... Vacancy: lnkd.in/ewN5T6AA

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

📢 RTG is at #TeaP2026! Fabian Parth has presented his poster today. Congrats Fabi 🎉

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Ena Alcan @enaalcan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Our new study shows that observational fear learning of interoceptive threat promotes generalized avoidance: participants avoided both threat (CS+) and safety (CS-) cues despite never experiencing threat themselves, suggesting a precautionary “better safe than sorry” strategy doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

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Better safe than sorry: Avoidance of interoceptive threat following observational fear learning

Learning through observation is often adaptive, allowing individuals to acquire important threat-related information without exposing themselves to da…

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

📢 Our ViolEx 2.0 paper reached 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ citations 🥳 🎉 Congratulations to all RTG members! 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

📢 New Publication from RTG 2271 🎉 Congratulations to Oliver Schmidt and @danielheck.bsky.social

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Lara Orphal @laraorphal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Yesterday during lunch break I heard that my RTG is on bluesky now // follow @rtg2271.bsky.social 🥳 and, don't ask me how my brain works, but this made me want to make magic the gathering cards based on RTG researchers (there are magic card generators online) I volunteer myself as an example

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢 New Publication from RTG 2271! 🎉 Congratulations to Sophie Kievernagel, Yannik Bendel, Christian Schulz-Quach and Pia von Blanckenburg 📖 Expectations in the Communication About Death and Dying From a Caregiver's Perspective (Journal of Death and Dying) 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0030...

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢 New Publication from RTG 2271! 🎉 Congratulations to Anton Fischer, Li-Ching Chuang, @niau.bsky.social, Pia von Blanckenburg and @erikmueller.bsky.social 📖 Trait Neuroticism and the Nocebo Effect: The Mediating Role of Side-Effect Expectations (Journal of Personality) 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jopy...

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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉 We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4 Main conclusion: "GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”

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RTG 2271: Breaking Expectations @rtg2271.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hi BlueSky! Here you'll get updates about our ongoing research on the psychological mechanisms underlying the persistence or changeability of expectancies in the face of adverse evidence. You can find information about our research training group here: www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb04/rtg-...

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Research Training Group (RTG) 2271

Welcome to the Research Training Group (RTG) 2271! The Research Training Group (RTG) 2271 "Maintenance vs. change of expectations in the context of expectation violations" is funded by the German Rese...

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