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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our colleague @maxsteininger.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation last week and has now officially earned his PhD 🎉🎓 His dissertation examined how nature exposure🌲affects acute stress 🤯 and pain ⚡. Here's an overview of the studies he published on this topic during his PhD:

Max Steininger standing in the middle with his supervisors Claus Lamm (left) and Mathew White (right) next to him after his defense.

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To celebrate Julia and Boryana’s visit from their international fellowships, we took the opportunity to tee off with a round of mini‑golf ⛳. @clauslamm.bsky.social took the lead at the final hole with a spectacular hole-in-one - congrats and thanks to everybody that joined 🥇🤝

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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can loneliness affect how we learn whom to trust as we age? In our new fMRI study, we looked at how people learn to play the repeated trust game. We think there is a link between age, loneliness & dopamine function that impairs social learning - a vicious circle maybe? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am so proud and honored that our paper received this award. @scanunit.bsky.social :)

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Another week another job posting 🤓 We are currently offering a fully-funded 6-years post-doc position in the domain of environmental neuroscience 🌳🧠 Applications are open until 20.09.2026 Details can be found under: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨 New paper from our group: Across 164 participants, we find that virtual nature is retrospectively perceived as helpful in dealing with an acute stressor, but does not change immediate psychological, autonomic, or hormonal responses to it, suggesting a disconnect in recalled and immediate reactions

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wir suchen Teilnehmende! (Wien und Wien Umgebung) Email an decode.psychologie@univie.ac.at @scanunit.bsky.social please RT

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Laura V. Cuaya @lauveri.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you live with dogs, you probably already know that they pay close attention to our emotions. 🐶  But what happens in their brains when they look at our faces? 🧠 Our paper on how dogs' brains represent human emotional faces is out today in @cp-iscience.bsky.social  🌼 doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ever wondered how the current heatwave might be affecting you 🥵? Our PI @clauslamm.bsky.social starred in a research spotlight by @univie.ac.at on that exact topic, discussing how heat affects our 🧠 and our 🧍. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEt2... Article: rudolphina.univie.ac.at/vom-umgang-m...

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🥵Was Hitze mit Gehirn und Körper macht | Expert*innen erklären | Universität Wien

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

New preprint! Riečanský*, I., Pronizius*, E., Marko, M., Mitka, M., de Lorenzo, A., & @clauslamm.bsky.social (2026). EEG and self-report reveal intact cognitive appraisal of others' pain but reduced affective and sensorimotor resonance in adults with autism spectrum disorder. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Congratulations to our colleague @epronizius.bsky.social and our PI @clauslamm.bsky.social for being short-listed for the teaching award of our faculty 🏅 And obviously to the other recipients as well. Happy to have so many great lecturers among us 🤓

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We had a great time at #ESCAN2026 last week and met a lot of amazing people. Here is our recap 🤓 - 1 symposium organized 👩‍🏫 - 7 talks held 🎙️ - 7 posters presented 🖼️ - group night train ride to Rome 🚂 - social gatherings each night🍻 - joining the first session with too little sleep 🥲

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Our former colleague @magdalenaboch.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc for her new comparative neuroscience lab at @univie.ac.at. Highly recommended position 🤓

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

How will three groups of psychologists perform in an escape room? By assessing each other's arousal or debating whether frustration is a state or a trait? We recently conducted this bold introspective case study. Preliminary results suggest all groups did great. Thanks to everyone who joined 🤓

This image shows the group of people in our lab that participated in the escape room game.

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨 Psyched to share our first paper in JEnvPsy, led by the brillliant @jonasnitschke.bsky.social! We find that trust in science + climate-specific worry (not general worry) together predict support for climate policies. So don’t just worry, worry specifically and take action 🤓

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The Long Night of Research #LNF was an exciting and intense experience for our team! A. Gaiswinkler, @thomaskarner.bsky.social, @sude1001.bsky.social, @annakulesza.bsky.social, Kathi Maichanitsch, Nino Sidar, @emmalwood.bsky.social, @epronizius.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

New paper🎈: Lessons Learned from Big Team Science Projects in Cognitive Science in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... We share practical, experience-based strategies for running large-scale collaborations - from project structure to ethics, funding, & AI use.

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The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned From Cognitive Science

The credibility revolution in psychology and related sciences contributed to the adoption of large-scale research initiatives known as Big Team Science (BTS). BTS has made significant advances in addr...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Here's our résumé of the ÖGP-Tagung in Salzburg last week: - 4 great talks 🤓 - 3 beautiful posters 🖼️ - First place at the poster award - congrats @lauragschw.bsky.social 🥳🥇 - Met many amazing people 🤝 - Gorgeous snowy mountain peaks 🏔️ - Left mountain hikes for next time tho 🥾

A snowy mountain peak as seen from the Salzburg University main building

Group picture of several of our collegues at the Audimax

Claus Lamm's talk on environmental neuroscience

Group photo of our collegues on their way to the group dinner

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Besuchen Sie unsere Station, um Antworten auf diese & andere Fragen gemeinsam zu finden: Wo zieht unser Gehirn die Grenze zwischen mir und dir? Wie kann Empathie auch auf die Natur & die Umwelt übertragen werden? langenachtderforschung.at/station/5657 Wir freuen uns auf Sie! @scanunit.bsky.social

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Wo zieht unser Gehirn die Grenze zwischen mir und dir? - #LNF26 Lange Nacht der Forschung

Die vorgestellten Forschungsthemen behandeln Wahrnehmung, Empathie und soziale Interaktion. Besucher:innen entdecken spielerisch, wie das Gehirn eigene und fremde Gefühle unterscheidet, Emotionen erke...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Never easy to say g'bye to the "veterans" 🥲 One of our most loyal and awesome lab members @markusruetgen.bsky.social sails to new shores (as psychotherapist). Good luck Markus, thanks for everything, "you'll never walk alone" 🍀🫶

The image shows our lab-head Claus Lamm and our dear colleague Markus Rütgen holding a shirt we designed for him as a farewell present.

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Another year, another ice-skating event for our lab ⛸️ Thanks to our colleague Ece Kurnaz for organizing ❤️

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We finally tackled our lab cleanup - turns out 15+ years of research leave a trail: - Folders of printed papers 🗞️ - Old study materials & consent forms 📁 - Cables, phones, and chunky monitors 🖥️ - Lots of dust 🧼 Thanks to our team for the joint effort - we promise to keep it tidier now 🤞

Some colleagues looking through old study materials and documents while cleaning out a shelf

Our lab head Claus Lamm with a shopping cart full of old vials and some other trash ready to be disposed

Our colleague Katja Pronizius posing with her cleaning detergents

Our floor with some of the materials we cleaned out

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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · 13/01/2026

It's about time somebody did this ⤵️ We systematically reviewed 50/2060 screened studies that looked at how changing someone's own pain experience also affects how people feel and respond to others’ emotions and pain. ⚡ Read it now in @painthejournal.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A new meta-analysis lead by our member @maxsteininger.bsky.social was just published, showing that nature exposure is linked to pain reductions 🤕🌳➡️🙂 See his thread below for details 👇

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Another amazing year at the SCAN unit with: 30+ papers🗞️ Many new faces 🤓 Long train rides 🚂 Rejections, resubmissions 📝 Tomatoes 🍅 A lot of science 🧠 And even more teamwork and shared moments 🫶 Thanks 2025 - looking forward to 2026 ✨

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StressLab UniVienna @stresslabvienna.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We are glad to see this paper out by @markusforamitti.bsky.social in collaboration with @mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social and @scanunit.bsky.social! 🧠🫀🎵Read more about the shift toward music with more negative, stressful, and simpler lyrics over the past 50 years below.

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🚨 New paper from the lab! Using computational modeling we showed how people discount time and effort for self-benefitting vs pro-environmental outcomes and that the rate of discounting relates to their willignness to support costly climate policies 👇🏼

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Last weekend’s lab hike came with maximum fog and minimum views of Vienna 😶‍🌫️. The company more than made up for it though 🫶

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🎉 New paper alert! In this collaboration across 6 countries 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇳🇬🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 (n = 3,055), we developed a new pro-environmental behavior task and tested which psychological interventions actually make people more willing to put in real effort for mitigating climate change. Fully OA: tinyurl.com/2s46fppb

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Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change - Communications Psychology

Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climat...

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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 30/10/2025

Wer von euch hat schon Mal ein Hundegehirn gesehen? Hier mal ein strukturelles MRT aus einem meiner Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... (Guran et al., 2024) Dieses Modell basiert auf einem sogenannten Hirnatlas. Unsere funktionellen Daten sehen meist ganz anders aus ...

3D Modell eines Hundegehirns - Somatosensorischer Kortex farblich markiert. Aus Guran et al., 2024 (Brain Structure and Function)

Bildunterschrift: Location of SI in green, SII in light blue. Dark green = Postcruciate gyri. Light green = rostral suprasylvian gyri. Light Blue = rostral ectosylvian gyri (Czeibert et al. 2019).

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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 27/10/2025

Habt ihr schon mal einen Hund in einem MRT Scanner gesehen? Darf ich vorstellen, das ist Toffee, einer unserer 4-pfotigen Freiwilligen.

Bild zeigt die Aufnahme einer MRT-Frontkamera (Eyetrackingkamera). Ist aber keine gewöhnliche MRT Aufzeichnung, hier wird ein Hund gescannt, und zwar Toffee! (Labrador, hell)

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Our colleague @rinaguran.bsky.social is giving insights in her life as PostDoc this week. Check out @realscientists.de if you are interested in animal research or just want to see what everyday life looks like for a scientist 🤓

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

See below to read a short story from our member @lauragschw.bsky.social describing her research - really cool way to communicate science!

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 10/10/2025

Happy #worlddogday! 🐶 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 In this video, you will discover how dogs support us in our research at the University of Vienna and what we can learn from dogs about our own social behavior. 🧠 ⤵️

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🐕 How Dog Brains Help Us Understand Ourselves | University of Vienna

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Congratulations to @madalina.bsky.social, our former member @kimdoell.bsky.social and all of the 256(!) other collaborators for winning SPSP's Robert Cialdini prize for their manylabs project on how behavioral interventions can help address climate change 🎉

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Check out our new publication led by former member @clamassaccesi.bsky.social showing that individuals are equally motivated to incur effort costs to reduce pain to themselves and others 🤝

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action! When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT Where? Online - register here: planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...

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Next Gen Speaker Series - Boryana Todorova - Planetary Health Alliance

Boryana Todorova is a Visiting Researcher at the Net Zero Observatory, University of Queensland, and a member of the Neuro Climate Working Group. Her research examines the two-way relationship between...

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New tutorial alert! Crowdsourcing multiverse analyses to explore the impact of different data-processing & analysis decisions published in Psychological Methods. Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social

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Claus Lamm @clauslamm.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Another highlight in my mentoring career- tinyurl.com/lukelikely 's stellar defense; Lukas provided plenty of evidence to radically update our priors and call him DOKTA Luke from now on. Shout-out also to great co-supervisors @predragpetrovic.bsky.social & Isa Wagner & all @scanunit.bsky.social

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henrykbukowski.bsky.social @henrykbukowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Our 2-day social cognition workshop "From Self-knowledge to knowing others" in Brussels on Dec1-2 now welcomes registration and abstracts for poster/talk ! Go www.self-knowing-others.org @selfknowingothers.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A new study by our colleagues from Bern was covered as research highlight in @natclimate.nature.com: 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... They show how structural neuroscience data can be used to better understand interindividual differences in pro-environmental behavior 🧠🌳

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Neural traits of pro-environmental behaviour - Nature Climate Change

Nature Climate Change - Neural traits of pro-environmental behaviour

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Check our new preprint! Our systematic review of 206 reversal learning studies shows that behavioural flexibility research is heavily biased towards birds, rodents, and humans, with most animal diversity virtually untested. #Manymanys #BigTeamScience #ComparativeCognition

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🚨A new multi-lab study with contributions from our head @clauslamm.bsky.social & others in our group got published in Nature Climate Change 🎉 It's about how support for climate change policies is shaped by extreme weather events: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2 ‪

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Monika Bargmann @librarymistress.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Save the date: Nach Hannover, Köln und Mainz findet das nächste Open Science Festival im deutschsprachigen Raum erstmals in Österreich statt – und zwar am 8. und 9. September am Campus der Universität Wien @univie.ac.at. osfestival2025.univie.ac.at #osfestival2025 #openscience #opensciencefestival

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Save the Date: Open Science Festival 2025

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Closing Rreflection. This June, I chaired #SIPS2025 in Budapest 🇭🇺, celebrating 10y of @improvingpsych.org. It was a vibrant & inspiring meeting. We hosted workshops, hackathons, lightning talks, & unconferences on topics from AI & theory building to radical transparency, detecting data fabrication.

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

One week left to apply for our open phd position 👇

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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Proud of our new PhD student @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social for delivering a great talk at #ICEP2025 on work he did during his master’s 👏

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Achiel Fenneman @achielfenneman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New paper! When encountering a novel and unfamiliar situation, what mechanisms underly our ability to search and retrieve relevant past experiences? We answer this question by taking first-principles approach – allowing us to bridge between a wide range of previous models (1/16)

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