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Barbara Oberbauer
@barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social
PhD student @cmdn-lab.bsky.social (PI: @sgluth.bsky.social‬) at the University of Hamburg modeling dietary and sustainable decision-making - ScieCom enthusiast - all about soccer, rowing, and books 📚
Github: https://github.com/barbaraoberbauer
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Excited to share joint work with Ulf Hahnel and @sgluth.bsky.social on investigating how attribute translations - a widely implemented behavior intervention - lead to more ecological consumer choices. Main results are below, but check out our preprint 👇
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Computational Mechanisms of Attribute Translations
Attribute translations, a choice architecture intervention technique aiming to promote behavior change by translating decision-relevant information into more comprehensible and meaningful units for la...
www.researchsquare.com
Reposted by Barbara Oberbauer
New article in Cognitive Psychology with @thorstenpachur.bsky.social and Veronika Zilker: “How sampling strategies shape experience-based risky choice.”

We present a computational framework for information search and choice in decisions from experience. 1/4
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
December 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Reposted by Barbara Oberbauer
A "Nutri-Score", but for the lab 😁

We uploaded a preprint with our thoughts on optimal lab technology for complex questions. We hope it's as much fun to read as was writing it:

Wolff, W., Gluth, S., & Keyser, J. (2025, December 6). Considerations for setting up an S-tier behavioral and brain […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reposted by Barbara Oberbauer
Very happy to see this out now in Psychology of Sport & Exercise 🤓

If you’re interested in how the explore–exploit framework helps us study decision-making in sports and exercise, check it out!

w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The explore-exploit trade-off in sports and exercise: a primer on empirical and computational approaches
Sports and exercise require constant on-the-fly decision-making from professional athletes and recreational exercisers alike. In the final minutes of …
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December 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Reposted by Barbara Oberbauer
Excited to share that the main work of my PhD has been published!

We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC.

You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X
Controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations
Nature Communications - Control over pain changes how intense it is perceived. Here, the authors show that this effect results from increased expectation precision with control, which changes...
rdcu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Reposted by Barbara Oberbauer
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Very happy to share our latest work on metacognition with M. Rouault, A. McWilliams, F. Chartier, @kndiaye.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social where we identify contributors to self-performance estimates across memory and perception domains 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Reposted by Barbara Oberbauer
Feeling *gitty* about this fall with two exciting workshops on Version Control with Git for Scientists coming up @mpib-berlin.bsky.social and @rtg2660.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de! ✨

Sounds interesting? Check out my website, where I share course materials: lennartwittkuhn.com 💫

#OpenScience #Git
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lennartwittkuhn.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Barbara Oberbauer
For all who use Bayesian hierarchical models, have a look at our new preprint, out now together with @linushof.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social and @thorstenpachur.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io
September 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excited to share joint work with Ulf Hahnel and @sgluth.bsky.social on investigating how attribute translations - a widely implemented behavior intervention - lead to more ecological consumer choices. Main results are below, but check out our preprint 👇
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Computational Mechanisms of Attribute Translations
Attribute translations, a choice architecture intervention technique aiming to promote behavior change by translating decision-relevant information into more comprehensible and meaningful units for la...
www.researchsquare.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM