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David S Stolz
@david-s-stolz.bsky.social
Postdoc at Social Neuroscience Lab | SNL
Universität zu Lübeck, Germany

control beliefs, affective & behavioral neuroscience

he/him

www.social-neuroscience-lab.com
Preprint!

Led by Jan F Weis, we show that self-compassion predicts positive affect and self-esteem, & protects self-esteem in low performers. Also, positive affect reflects reward expectations & prediction errors, and regret, but independently from self-compassion.

#selfcompassion

bit.ly/SC_PA_SE
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Reposted by David S Stolz
New publication about funding! In this new piece in @natcomms.nature.com we present data from an evaluation of the lottery-first approach to funding: an initial lottery controlling entry, followed by peer review. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#funding #metascience #scienceofscience #peerreview
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
(Vicarious) Paper Alert for @finnluebber.bsky.social et al.

Funding schemes that run a lottery to select scientists for submission of full grant proposals can counteract gender bias and reduce societal monetary costs of research funding. Check it out:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by David S Stolz
New preprint by
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫

„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“

#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs
Healthy individuals typically attribute successes to internal causes, such as their abilities, and failures to external factors, like bad luck. In contrast, individuals with depression and low self-es...
www.biorxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by David S Stolz
Highly recommended! Great PI, great lab and great environment 👇
🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀

🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling

We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.

📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!

More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt

#CognitiveNeuroscience
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reposted by David S Stolz
New publication by @alexschroeder.bsky.social et al out at Open Mind 💫

„Initial expectations and confidence affect the formation of novel self-beliefs and their revision“

#sociallearning #affectedbeliefs

👇🏼
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Initial Expectations and Confidence Affect the Formation of Novel Self—Beliefs and Their Revision
Abstract. Human self-beliefs hinge on social feedback, but their formation and revision are not solely based on new information. Biases during learning, such as confirming initial expectations, can le...
direct.mit.edu
October 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by David S Stolz
Also today: publication by @annalinavmayer.bsky.social et al 🙌🏼 at Translational Psychiatry

„Altered association of plasmatic oxytocin with affective stress response in alcohol use disorder“

👇🏼
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Altered association of plasmatic oxytocin with affective stress response in alcohol use disorder
Translational Psychiatry - Altered association of plasmatic oxytocin with affective stress response in alcohol use disorder
rdcu.be
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reposted by David S Stolz
📣 Exciting announcement for the summer term:

Starting in May, the @ccnberlin.bsky.social seminar series by Felix Blankenburg & Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin) is co-hosted by @david-s-stolz.bsky.social David Stolz (Universtiät Lübeck) and myself.

The topic of all talks is: "CONTROL"
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Had the pleasure of presenting some of my work today to the Computational Cognition Seminar at the University of Birmingham.

Big thank you to @brainapps.bsky.social for the invitation!
November 29, 2024 at 6:29 PM