HeinLab
@hein-lab.bsky.social
We study how social interactions shape human motivation, learning, and behavior. Translational Social Neuroscience Lab, led by Prof. Grit Hein at the University Hospital Würzburg, Germany.
Congrats to Jasper!
🥳 Super excited that today the first paper of my PhD has been published in @royalsociety.org: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Can learning from rewards and punishments change how people approach (or avoid) in-group vs. out-group members?
Read the thread below! 🧵 1/6
Can learning from rewards and punishments change how people approach (or avoid) in-group vs. out-group members?
Read the thread below! 🧵 1/6
Learning from financial rewards and punishments reduces the in-group bias in social approach without changing the in-group bias in impressions | Royal Society Open Science
Humans’ approach behaviour and impressions are biased towards individuals from their own group (in-group) compared with different groups (out-group). There is evidence that learning from specific interactions with in-group and out-group members can reduce ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Congrats to Jasper!
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🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
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Very happy that this is out now!
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andreas B. Eder, Matthias Gamer, et al:
Motivational control of habits: A preregistered fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Motivational control of habits: A preregistered fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
August 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Very happy that this is out now!
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This looks interesting, social science studies with LLMs are more replicable and robust, but different from results from human studies. I still need to properly read it though...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A large-scale replication of scenario-based experiments in psychology and management using large language models - Nature Computational Science
Researchers replicated 156 psychological experiments using three large language models (LLMs) instead of human participants. LLMs achieved 73–81% replication rates but showed amplified effect sizes an...
www.nature.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This looks interesting, social science studies with LLMs are more replicable and robust, but different from results from human studies. I still need to properly read it though...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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🎉 Exciting news! Our Stage 1 Registered Report on the Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning has been accepted at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the uploaded protocol here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠
Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠
July 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🎉 Exciting news! Our Stage 1 Registered Report on the Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning has been accepted at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the uploaded protocol here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠
Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠
Welcome back!!! Thank you all for this great symposium!
🙌Thank you for a great Symposium at #PuG2025 on using computational models and MRI to better understand dynamics of social learning! @hein-lab.bsky.social @jgutzeit.bsky.social Bianca Schubert and Lei Zhang! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Welcome back!!! Thank you all for this great symposium!
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#PUG2025 Drop by 116 in the first poster session this afternoon! I will present my first PhD project investigating how empathy is competed when there are multiple individuals suffering from pain.
June 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#PUG2025 Drop by 116 in the first poster session this afternoon! I will present my first PhD project investigating how empathy is competed when there are multiple individuals suffering from pain.
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Hey #PuG2025! I am excited to present my research on the role of midbrain PAG in the resolution of human approach-avoidance conflict resolution. If that sounds interesting to you, drop by my poster #79 (Room 2.007)!
June 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Hey #PuG2025! I am excited to present my research on the role of midbrain PAG in the resolution of human approach-avoidance conflict resolution. If that sounds interesting to you, drop by my poster #79 (Room 2.007)!
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The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org
PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!
www.pug2025.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org
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Please join us in Lisbon for the 2025 S4SN (@s4sn.bsky.social) meeting this year. We have a wonderful set of speakers and symposium sessions!! 👇👇
June 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Please join us in Lisbon for the 2025 S4SN (@s4sn.bsky.social) meeting this year. We have a wonderful set of speakers and symposium sessions!! 👇👇
Glad to be part of this!
June 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Glad to be part of this!
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Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨
4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠
Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W
Pls 🔁
4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠
Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W
Pls 🔁
Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE (margit.katalin.szigeti@univie.ac.at).
coe.univie.ac.at
June 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨
4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠
Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W
Pls 🔁
4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠
Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W
Pls 🔁
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Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
Postdoctoral Researcher in social/cognitive neuroscience with focus on social learning
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researcher.
shorturl.at
May 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
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Das detaillierte Programm der Psychologie und Gehirn 2025 Tagung in Würzburg #PuG2025 @pug2025.bsky.social ist jetzt online und hier zu sehen: www.pug2025.org/de/programm
Programm | PuG2025
www.pug2025.org
May 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Das detaillierte Programm der Psychologie und Gehirn 2025 Tagung in Würzburg #PuG2025 @pug2025.bsky.social ist jetzt online und hier zu sehen: www.pug2025.org/de/programm
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Psyched & honored to deliver 1st keynote on this virtual free event on the neurobiology of empathy organized by NAS USA tinyurl.com/empNAS join me & stellar speakers e.g. @moeneuro.bsky.social @valeriagazzola.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @torwager.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social
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May 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Psyched & honored to deliver 1st keynote on this virtual free event on the neurobiology of empathy organized by NAS USA tinyurl.com/empNAS join me & stellar speakers e.g. @moeneuro.bsky.social @valeriagazzola.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @torwager.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social
A great week in Beijing before Easter! Great thanks for Shihui, Yuqing @yuqingzhou.bsky.social and all the lovely guys!
April 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A great week in Beijing before Easter! Great thanks for Shihui, Yuqing @yuqingzhou.bsky.social and all the lovely guys!
Congrats to Anne!
🎉 New paper out in #ScientificReports! We studied how younger & older adults integrate self- and other-related values during decisions. Huge thanks to the amazing team! 🙌 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #prosocial #aging #DDM @anrei.bsky.social
Adult age differences in the integration of values for self and other - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Adult age differences in the integration of values for self and other
www.nature.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Congrats to Anne!
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Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified
shorturl.at
April 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪!
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution.
🧠 Behavioral + computational work
🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven
Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
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Only few days left to apply for a PhD position in my group @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
🚨 PhD position (65%, 3 years) 🚨
We are currently looking for a PhD candidate within the @rtg2660.bsky.social on the neural mechanisms of approach and avoidance behavior. Please share widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/06...
We are currently looking for a PhD candidate within the @rtg2660.bsky.social on the neural mechanisms of approach and avoidance behavior. Please share widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/06...
April 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Only few days left to apply for a PhD position in my group @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
One week to apply!
‼️Job alert 4-year PhD or postdoc position‼️
In this project we use ultra-high field 7T functional neuroimaging and computational modeling to investigate the effects of learning and social influence on chronic and acute pain. Applications for a PhD or a postdoc position are welcome.
In this project we use ultra-high field 7T functional neuroimaging and computational modeling to investigate the effects of learning and social influence on chronic and acute pain. Applications for a PhD or a postdoc position are welcome.
March 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
One week to apply!
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One week left to submit individual contributions for this year's 50th Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference in Würzburg. We look forward to receiving abstract submissions for accepted symposia as well as poster contributions www.pug2025.org
PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!
www.pug2025.org
March 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
One week left to submit individual contributions for this year's 50th Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference in Würzburg. We look forward to receiving abstract submissions for accepted symposia as well as poster contributions www.pug2025.org
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So proud of my friend and colleague @maxsteininger.bsky.social for his amazing work, showing how nature exposure reduces not just subjective pain reports but even people’s neural response to pain 🧠🤩
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...
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...
doi.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
So proud of my friend and colleague @maxsteininger.bsky.social for his amazing work, showing how nature exposure reduces not just subjective pain reports but even people’s neural response to pain 🧠🤩
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Yes! We are already busy as bees🐝🐝🐝 preparing and look forward to welcoming you in Würzburg! with @gamerlab.bsky.social @hein-lab.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social @martinweiss.bsky.social @mjherrmann.bsky.social Katja Bertsch Johannes Hewig Andrea Kübler Johannes Rodriguez
Poster abstract submission for #PuG2025 in Würzburg are open until end of March! Time to start thinking about what to present 🤔 www.pug2025.org/submission
Submission | PuG2025
www.pug2025.org
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Yes! We are already busy as bees🐝🐝🐝 preparing and look forward to welcoming you in Würzburg! with @gamerlab.bsky.social @hein-lab.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social @martinweiss.bsky.social @mjherrmann.bsky.social Katja Bertsch Johannes Hewig Andrea Kübler Johannes Rodriguez
‼️Job alert 4-year PhD or postdoc position‼️
In this project we use ultra-high field 7T functional neuroimaging and computational modeling to investigate the effects of learning and social influence on chronic and acute pain. Applications for a PhD or a postdoc position are welcome.
In this project we use ultra-high field 7T functional neuroimaging and computational modeling to investigate the effects of learning and social influence on chronic and acute pain. Applications for a PhD or a postdoc position are welcome.
February 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
‼️Job alert 4-year PhD or postdoc position‼️
In this project we use ultra-high field 7T functional neuroimaging and computational modeling to investigate the effects of learning and social influence on chronic and acute pain. Applications for a PhD or a postdoc position are welcome.
In this project we use ultra-high field 7T functional neuroimaging and computational modeling to investigate the effects of learning and social influence on chronic and acute pain. Applications for a PhD or a postdoc position are welcome.