Our research paper “Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line” has attracted some press coverage and stirred some new collaborations. The publication was featured in Forschung & Lehre, the influential Wiarda-Blog, Der Spiegel, Der Tagesspiegel, Laborjournal or mentioned in the Deutschlandfunk.
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CRC “Circadian medicine” started! With great enthusiasm and passion, the CRC “Circadian medicine” started into the first founding round. Led by Achim Kramer (Berlin) and Henrik Oster (Lübeck), the CRC involves more than thirty scientists from the fields of immunology, metabolism as well as brain & behavior. Our group’s project is a collaboration with Ines Wilhelm-Groch
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Year’s end party of the Social Neuroscience Lab! Again, as every year in Leo’s Juice & Burgers, we celebrated a great year with all SNL team members. This year, instead of a Kicker-tournament, we had two sessions of Hitster:-)
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Abstract Research funding is a key determinant of scientific progress. However, current allocation procedures for third-party funding are criticized due to high costs and biases in the selection. Here, we present data from a large German funding organization on an implementation of a lottery-first approach followed by peer review to allocate funding. We examine the
🚀 New publication on a fairer and more economic way to distribute research funding! Our new paper in Nature Communications presents survey data for a “lottery-first” approach to science funding — where an initial lottery determines who enters the competition, followed by traditional peer review. 🔗 Read it here: OA-Link: https://lnkd.in/eDma7jmb We originally proposed
Lottery before peer-review? New meta-science paper out in Nature Communications! Read More »
New preprint by Annalina Mayer, team members and in collaboration with Tobias Kube! In this study, the lab’s Learning-of-own-performance (LOOP) task (Müller-Pinzler et al., 2019) has been adapted to examine how people attribute self-related feedback and whether attributing failures to external and successes to internal causes is linked to self-esteem and depressive symptomatology. Check out the
New publication in Translational Psychiatry by Annalina Mayer and team members! In this study we examined whether baseline plasma oxytocin levels are associated with stress responses in early-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compared them to healthy controls. While oxytocin concentrations did not differ between groups, their associations with affective stress responses diverged:
New publication in Translational Psychiatry by Annalina Mayer and team members! In this study we examined whether baseline plasma oxytocin levels are associated with stress responses in early-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compared them to healthy controls. While oxytocin concentrations did not differ between groups, their associations with affective stress responses diverged:
Another long journey comes to a successful end with this publication! Congratulations to Alexander Schröder for this great collaborative effort, which brings together Susanne Diekelmann (as part of the DFG-funded Research Group “Information abstraction during sleep”), Christoph Korn (University of Heidelberg; expert in computational modeling and belief updating), Lei Zhang (our group’s teacher and advisor
Affected beliefs in interpersonal dynamics The target article “Interpersonal Dynamics” presents the centrality of interpersonal processes in the formation and maintenance of psychological dysfunction, as well as in therapeutic change. The authors emphasize that interpersonal patterns are not static traits but should rather be viewed and understood as dynamic, reciprocal processes shaped by past
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