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We study the neural basis of human social interaction. Learn more about us: 🔗 www.soz.psy.unibe.ch

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Exciting Associate Professor opportunity in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, with access to state-of-the-art neuroimaging and stimulation at OHBA/OxCIN: MEG, OPM, 3T/7T MRI, TUS, TMS & more. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSQ831/a...
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Associate Professorship of Experimental Psychology at University of Oxford
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Associate Professorship of Experimental Psychology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance @prcalliance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Join us for the “Publish, Review, Curate (PRC): Shaping the future of scholarly publishing” launch event, where Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Scientific Director, Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, will give a keynote talk.
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Sebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Coupled Minds Lab is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027. Our lab studies how conversations shape the way people connect, change their minds, and learn, using fMRI hyperscanning, NLP, and computational modeling. The deadline is December 1, 2026. More info here: coupled-minds.github.io
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Coupled Minds Lab
Coupled Minds Lab — social neuroscience of conversation, negotiation, and human–AI interaction.
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Doeller Lab @doellerlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us at @mpicbs.bsky.social as a fully funded 3-year PostDoc (m/f/d). Your project will focus on how cognitive maps shape learning, memory, and decision-making. Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by September 30: postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/58460
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The role of cognitive maps in learning, memory and decision making | Max Planck Postdoc Program
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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our department at UC San Diego is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Open area, research addressing foundational issues in cogsci using modern computational methods. I love my department, and you will too. Apply!! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633 #cogscisci #cogsci #DevPsyc #PsychSciSky
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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 17/09/2026
Protecting the planet is a shared mission. From daily choices to global initiatives, UNEP gives you ways to get involved and invest in a better future. Explore how you, too, can make a difference #ForPeopleForPlanet: www.unep.org/get-involved
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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I expect to recruit a PhD student this cycle! The Control and Decision Making Lab at WashU studies control, effort, and decision making, combining behavioral experiments with modeling and neuroimaging. If that sounds cool, check out our work: cdmlab.wustl.edu. How to apply: psych.washu.edu/apply
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Control and Decision Making Lab
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Future generations hold the lowest moral standing, even below present-day marginalized human and nonhuman outgroups journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 07/09/2026
The math isn't mathing.  The world spends more than three times as much on fossil fuel subsidies as it would cost to transition to clean economies for a safe climate and air.  The solutions are ready and the money is there. What’s needed now is action at scale: bit.ly/3UFnsYq #CleanAirDay 
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Tony Cunningham @tonycunningham.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How long after learning can sleep still reshape a memory? A pre-print from Moyano et al. suggests that targeted memory reactivation during NREM sleep reduced forgetting even when the memories had been learned 24 hours earlier. Exciting news for building learning over time! doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#PsychJobs We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psychology here at Rice! This is such an exciting and supportive place, especially for exploring ways to bridge basic science with real-world impact. Please spread the word! @ricesocsci.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/192080
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 20/07/2026
Insights from climate psychology for misinformation research
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Insights from climate psychology for misinformation research
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02530-4Climate change and misinformation are interconnected global crises shaped by tensions between individual, collective and vested interests. Drawing on climate psychology, we distil six insights for misinformation research to strengthen policy relevance, systems thinking and resilience to attacks.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com
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RelaScale - Psychological Measures and Constructs
RelaScale is a searchable database of psychological measures and constructs for relationship researchers.
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Additional behavioral data can lead to the same improvement in the precision of inferences more cheaply and easily than collecting additional data from subjects in a neuroimaging study." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Neural Control & Computation Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the neural basis of learning, flexible neural computation, and skilled movement control using large-scale electrophysiology from single-neuron populations in non-human primates 🧠🐒 www.ncclab.ca/join-the-lab
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Join the Lab — neural control & computation lab
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Social Neuroscience Bern @socialneurobern.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Great to see our work at ESCAN 2026! Thanks to all who attended the symposium and contributed to the discussion, where @alessandro-valvo.bsky.social presented our findings. 🧠🌍
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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🧠 ESCAN 2026 begins this week in Rome! June 3–6: almost 900 researchers gather at Sapienza University of Rome for the 8th ESCAN Meeting. Highlights: 🔹 Keynotes: Tallon-Baudry, Sandi & Knapska 🔹 Pre-conference events 🔹 General Assembly 🔹 750+ contributions escan2026.eu #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience
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Home - ESCAN 2026
ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Preprint alert! 🧠 Using movie-watching fMRI and NLP, we show that prior social impressions shape how new social information is processed and updated over time, while moments of sudden insight ("aha"!) accompany transient shifts in brain activity that predict impression updates. (1/10)
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Charlotte A. Kukowski @charlotte-kukowski.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚨Fed up with the "individual vs. system change" debate?🚨 We've got you covered. 🙌 In our new paper in Nature Climate Change, we endeavour to move beyond that binary by introducing the agency frame (a-frame), a practical lens for identifying and intervening on high-impact climate behaviours. (1/n)
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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📣 Postdoc position Build 🤖 LLM-based behavioral clones for economic games together with Pınar Uğurlar and me. The position (up to 3 years) is based in Pınar's lab at Özyeğin in Istanbul, with regular visits to my lab. Please share / reach out if interested. 🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1ftqi...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Actions that support cooperation, such as indirect fitness, reciprocity, partner choice, or punishment, also perpetuate social division Group cooperation enforces boundaries and paves the way for intergroup conflict, while free-rider narratives can lead to polarization and identity-based conflicts.
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
#POLITKOLUMNE: It’s not so much what people think that has changed, but what has become *publicly sayable*. The fear of social stigma when voting for the radical right has declined. Very glad to have been able to cover @valentimvicente.bsky.social ’s seminal research www.derbund.ch/radikale-rec...
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New in #eNeuro from Snipes et al: Sleep and age influence aperiodic and oscillatory measures from awake EEG recordings, supporting previous EEG work on sleeping participants. doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0384-25.2026
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Jennifer March @jennamarch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Now published at Scientific Reports 🚀 If you ever wondered whether and how hunger affects your decision-making beyond food choices, make sure to check out our paper! 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵below
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Domain-specific effects of hunger on attention and choice - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Domain-specific effects of hunger on attention and choice
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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · 15/04/2026
❗🐟 Fast die Hälfte der europäischen #Süsswasserfische ist vom Aussterben bedroht. 📉 Weitere 18% gelten als potenziell gefährdet. 📝Dies zeigt die neue Rote Liste der #IUCN, an der auch @oleseehausen.bsky.social #unibern & @eawag.bsky.social beteiligt ist. ▶️ Hier geht es zum Bericht 👇 sohub.io/nvoz
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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🥁🎉The Psychosis Collective proudly presents our first preprint 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬-𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝘈 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 starring Le He & Harriet Feldman www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We wanted to understand how antipsychotics work. Thread🧵
Graphical abstract showing that NMDAR immunisation drives psychosis-like behaviour in mice, while clozapine reverses this. Upper panel: arrows show NMDAR immunisation producing a mouse exhibiting psychosis-like behaviour, with clozapine reversing this effect. Lower panels: anti-NMDAR antibodies bind neuronal NMDA receptors, which are then eliminated by microglia via phagocytosis, leading to psychosis. Clozapine restores NMDA receptor levels by reducing anti-NMDAR antibody levels, consistent with an immunomodulatory mechanism of action.
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Nature @nature.com · 01/04/2026
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests go.nature.com/4bYvpgl
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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Kate Nautiyal @katenautiyal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Nice to wake up to the news that our paper on the ESDist R package for calculating effect size distributions has been accepted for publication 🎉 Since our initial 2023 (!?) preprint we’ve made lots of improvements to the package based on feedback
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Dr Samuel Finnerty @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
How do scientists balance science with protest? My new piece for @theconversation.com, explores how scientists transition into activism and sustain their engagement. This is based on my recently published ethnographic paper journals.plos.org/climate/arti... theconversation.com/how-climate-...
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How climate scientists balance the tension between research and public protest – new study
Researchers said they tried to manage how their activism was perceived by clarifying their expertise and acting alongside other scientists.
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BPS Environmental Psychology Section @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Job opportunity! @cast-centre.bsky.social are seeking a Research Fellow to lead a programme of quantitative behavioural research to advance understanding of climate-relevant behaviour change and life choices. 48 month fixed-term full-time see: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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ED13421 Research Fellow - Jobs at Bath
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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1
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Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · 05/02/2026
Menschliches Verhalten treibt den #Klimawandel voran – doch wie kommen umweltrelevante Entscheidungen zustande? Daria Knoch & Annika Wyss zeigen in @natrevneuro.nature.com, warum der Blick ins Gehirn den Klimaschutz wirksamer machen könnte. Mehr in uniAKTUELL: www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2026/mit_bli...
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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · 05/02/2026
Knoch, D., Wyss, A.M. Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Climate change is driven by individual behaviour, yet little is known about how people make environmental choices. Environmental decision neuroscience examines the neural processes behind consequentia...
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Krajbich Lab @krajbichlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Excited to be participating in the workshop on Decision Making and Information Processing in Complex Settings in Lucca (Italy) April 27-28. There's a great lineup, with Giorgio Coricelli, Susann Fiedler, Andreas Glöckner, and Carlos Alós-Ferrer. Join us! decisionmaking.imtlucca.it
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Decision Making and Information Processing in Complex Settings
This two-day workshop brings together leading scholars working on decision-making in interactive and complex environments, with a focus on theoretical, experimental, and methodological approaches. To...
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Kristian Roed Nielsen @roednielsen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📢 Postdoc opportunity | Consumer Behaviour & Sustainability (CBS) 🔬 The role Experimental consumer research Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments 📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible) ⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable) 🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026 Feel free to share with anyone 🌱
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Postdoc in Consumer Behaviour and Sustainability at the Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
MSC is looking for a Postdoc interested in experimental consumer research to join an international project on sustainable food consumption.
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 29/01/2026
In this Comment, Yao et al. proposes an age-sensitive climate adaptation framework that emphasizes non-digital communication, financial assistance, and community-based strategies to support them.
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Climate change adaptation must consider older people - Nature Human Behaviour
Older adults face higher risks from climate change. We propose an age-sensitive climate adaptation framework, which emphasizes non-digital communication, financial assistance and community-based strategies for older populations.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Altered theta distribution and coherence during set-shifting in older age www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Social Neuroscience Bern @socialneurobern.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Honoured to see our Comment on environmental decision neuroscience shared by @natrevneuro.nature.com ✨
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Social Neuroscience Bern @socialneurobern.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
✨We are thrilled to see our Comment on “Environmental Decision Neuroscience” published in @natrevneuro.nature.com 🌱🧠 Check it out ➡️ 📄 rdcu.be/e0oLM #EnvironmentalNeuroscience
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Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Climate change is driven by individual behaviour, yet little is known about how people make environmental choices. Environmental decision neuroscience examines the...
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
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Tobia Spampatti, PhD @tspampatti.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Very cool work alert! It’s concerning that the most influential comms strategies did not nudge proenv beh, when we have found climate disinfo *decreases* proenv beh, even against some of the “successful” comms strategies www.nature.com/articles/s41... We still have room & need for improvement!
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Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
Spampatti et al. examined the efficacy of six psychological inoculation strategies and discovered that these strategies had close to no protective effects against climate disinformation across 12 diff...
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Max Steininger @maxsteininger.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Can nature relieve pain 🌳🧠⚡️? Our latest preregistered neuroimaging study, now out in Nature Communications, suggests it can. We find that virtual nature exposure reduces both subjective and neural pain responses, even when compared to matched control environments. A 🧵 1/6 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Nature exposure induces analgesic effects by acting on nociception-related neural processing - Nature Communications
Virtual nature exposure reduces self-reported pain and is associated with decreased brain responses linked to somatosensory and nociceptive processing, providing new insights into the underlying mecha...
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
What better way to end 2025 than getting our paper published in Global Environmental Change 🥳💚 We studied perceptions of the feasibility of climate-relevant behavior change and how these perceptions connect to income differences and climate policy support. Let me tell you all about it🧵👇
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 28/12/2025
Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, important and downright strange discoveries about how the human brain, one of the most complex objects in the known universe, works, and 2025 didn’t disappoint. Here are 10 of the most fascinating brain discoveries of this year: #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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The 10 Most Mind-Blowing Discoveries About the Brain in 2025
From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025
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Peter Kirsch @cherrydoc.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming “Psychology and the Brain” conference, which will take place in Heidelberg from June 3 to 6, 2026. Conference registration and submission of contributions are now open. Visit us at pug2026.org #pug2026 #biopsychology #psychophysioloy #neuroscience
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