Maurizio Sicorello
msicorello.bsky.social
Maurizio Sicorello
@msicorello.bsky.social
Working as a Postdoc on emotion (dysregulation) from a psychological, neural (fMRI), and molecular perspective at the Central Institute of Mental Health (Mannheim, Germany). I am that one person who likes both modern metal/hardcore music and Gilmore Girls.
Reposted by Maurizio Sicorello
How FAIR is shared data in psychology?

We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable!

What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice.

👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy...

@mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Reposted by Maurizio Sicorello
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If you want to come to Hamburg next week register vie email:
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🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025

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October 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Young Scientists Retreat of the bioDGPs/DGPA is open for registration again!

For early career researchers in German bio-/neuropsychology wanting to connect there is nothing better.

I'm serious, three people of my first YSR made it into my PhD thesis acknolwdgement, right next to my grandma!
🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de

Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
⁠ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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September 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
New preprint out! 🔬

We provide daily life versions for the State Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale together with a ton of insights on temporal dynamics and relations to momentary stressors and affect :)

doi.org/10.31234/osf...
September 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Something I will never understand about Bayes hardliners: If frequentist 95% CIs are basically the same as Bayesian 95% HDIs with flat priors, why are we talking so much about "incorrect CI interpretations as probabilities" with the former?
September 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
BIG PREPRINT🔬

In a newly founded consortium we show that we barely know anything about the neurobiology underlying emotion regulation capacity! (40 fmri samples, N=2175)

So, time-out for prefrontal cortex explanations!

And we also show why this might be the case 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The elusive neural signature of emotion regulation capabilities: evidence from a large-scale consortium
Cognitive reappraisal is a fundamental emotion regulation strategy for mental and physical well-being, but how its neural mechanisms relate to individual differences remains poorly understood. In a co...
www.biorxiv.org
August 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Invited comment:
We need a better taxonomy of emotional dysfunctions to understand their neurobiology; a role neither clinical categories nor hiTOP-like dimensions currently fulfill IMO.

...and more "respect" for current basic affective neuroscience

Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYd48jVtv...
August 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Are you looking for a validated version of the German "State Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale" for experimental contexts?

Besides the validation, we found there is little support for an "emotion regulation difficulties factor"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Translation, validation and extended factor models of the German State Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (S-DERS) - Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
Background Difficulties in emotion regulation are a key transdiagnostic factor in mental health disorders. While much research has focused on emotion regulation difficulties as stable, trait-like cons...
link.springer.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
After 3h of "post conference party sleep" this was more than a pleasent suprise! I am super excited to have received the IGOR award :)

In case someone wants to have a look at our related preprint on the neurobiology of negative affective traits: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Reposted by Maurizio Sicorello
Good morning! The social media team @stephannebe.bsky.social @ocklenburg.bsky.social @tdresler80.bsky.social @mariame.bsky.social and @msicorello.bsky.social behind this account hope you enjoyed the amazing @pug2025.bsky.social in Würzburg so far and are ready for the last day! #PuG2025
June 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I don’t understand Bluesky yet. I follow basically only scientists from my field, but in my feed I only see (non-sciency) pictures of flowers, football, and mediocre cat content (and that‘s hard to do).

Is there a way do improve this? 🥲
May 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Interested the neurobiology of negative affective traits?

Our new preprint included many favorites (amygdala, salience network, validated neural signatures) and a machine learning multiverse of 1200 models and 14 traits!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What did we learn?
#neuroscience #psychology
The functional neurobiology of negative affective traits across regions, networks, signatures, and a machine learning multiverse
Understanding the neural basis of negative affective traits like neuroticism remains a critical challenge across psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry. Here, we investigate which level of brain org...
www.biorxiv.org
May 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A bit serious but: Been thinking what the geopolitical crisis and budget difficulties in Germany demand from me as a psych researcher.

My answer: A long term commitment towards theoretical or practical importance of my work. Away from journal fetishism.

Probably needs permanent positions though! 🤷🏻‍♂️
March 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Hey all! I have been social media abstitent for almost 2 years now, since the twitter downfall. But I *am* back and excited about sharing some cool preprints over the next weeks, especially on the psychology/neurobiology of stress and emotion (regulation). So, the band-aid is officially off! :)
February 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM