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People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for cos...

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...

Protecting others from harm is critical for societal well-being but is often effortful. We examined how individuals choose to exert physical effort to reduce their and another person's pain. Results ....

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...

Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.

Perceived marginalization of social groups has been identified as one of the main drivers of violent extremism across countries. However, most psychol…

As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...

Five studies, including experiments and experience-sampling, show effortful leisure feels more meaningful than less effortful leisure while maintaining enjoyment. Results suggest effortful leisure can...

Why Social Psychology Needs to Stop Rushing to Explain

The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...

Communities around the world are using innovative programmes like youth-led support schemes to address the mental health impacts of environmental change.

Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE (margit.katalin.szigeti@univie.ac.at).

Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

They ate the blueberry soy yoghurt right out of the dish by itself! Mad for it