It's this time of the year again: Applications for the winter cohort of our MSc program @uni-konstanz.de open March 15. Interested in studying sport science and health in one of Germany’s most beautiful locations? Hope to welcome you to Konstanz soon. 📍 tinyurl.com/apply-ss4h ⏳ March 15 - April 15

New preprint 📢 w/ @wanjawolff.bsky.social & @mbieleke.bsky.social we tracked boredom during a cycling task. Perceived effort generally increased over time – boredom didn't. Boredom varied strongly across individuals, and its dynamics predicted persistence beyond effort 📖 osf.io/preprints/ps...

AI and LLMs trend towards sameness of expression - it might just make us all more boring! www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...

#DHPRLab in the ISSP 16th World Congress in Hong Kong! Curious about our talks? Stay tuned 🙌🏼😌 @wanjawolff.bsky.social @senaozayotgonbayar.bsky.social @katjarewitz.bsky.social @lukas-hack.bsky.social Together w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social, and Darias Holgado.

Truly enjoyed sharing some empirical data on one of our key points at #ISSP in Hong Kong: People minimize effort & especially time costs for their exercise goals, even when they know it’s not the most effective way! w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social, and @wanjawolff.bsky.social

Here we delve into... Read this phrase before? When everything you read starts to blur toghether, blame the LLM 😜 With @wanjawolff.bsky.social , we discuss why this happens, how it increases boredom at scale, and why it becomes increasingly hard to escape. Interested? Delve into it below ⬇️

📢 New paper 🤩 w/ @katjarewitz.bsky.social & @corimartarelli.bsky.social, we used Bayesian network analyses to study the relationship between exercise boredom, effort value & self-reported exercise behavior. TL;DR: high boredom & low value -> less exercise www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Job Alert🚨 2 unbefristete Stellen (je 75%, E13) bei uns am Institut für Bewegungswissenschaften - Fokus: Insb. Sozialwissenschaften des Sports/Sportsoziologie & qualitative Methoden Über Verbreitung freue ich mich sehr, Rückfragen gern per DM an mich 🙏 👉 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

My awesome PhD student (graduated now) Baaba just got our Pong study up kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... We show that when you disrupt agency, frustration ensues and boredom is not far behind!

#preprint 📢 Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps... TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures. 🧵

Exciting milestone, my first PhD preprint is out! 🎉 Together w/ @israelhalperin.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social, we put together A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Effort 🪐 If you’ve ever asked “what is effort, and how to measure it?”, this one's for you 😎 🚀 read it here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy to share our fMRI paper on the effect of a HIT training on executive functions and emotion regulation 🎉 We found no improvements in a sample of young adults and discuss the possibility that short-term benefits might be restricted to sedentary, older, or patient samples. doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

📢Preprint Excited to share our new work on a three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions in sport & exercise. To assess them, we developed the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire - Sport & Exercise (AEQ-SE). Curious?⬇️ osf.io/mc6wj_v1 w/ T Götz, R Pekrun, J Schüler & @wanjawolff.bsky.social

📢 Now accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🤩 Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TL;DR: Check 🧵 below

🚨 New Publication 🚨 Excited that our Perspective is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com 🤩 We take a complex-systems look at physical activity and derive actionable insights for understanding and changing it. Fantastic interdiciplinary teamwork led by Julia Schüler ⬇️

While our official job ad is on the way, we are seeking PhD students to join @neuromadlab.bsky.social for projects running in Bonn. The candidate will lead projects on body-brain interactions using brain stimulation to improve core symptoms of depression: www.neuromadlab.org/jobs #neurojobs

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question. Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

Do you enjoy a good, sweaty training session now and then? Then you’ll score high on our Value of Physical Effort (VoPE) scale—just out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social Curious or want to use it? doi.org/10.1525/coll... w/ J Staehler, @wanjawolff.bsky.social & J Schueler

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

Motivation and Emotion is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief! 4-year term starting Jan 2025. Looking for someone with vision, experience in motivation/emotion research, and editorial chops. Deadline: Aug 1. Ready to shape the field? Details: [email protected]

Such a pleasure to welcome @artefr.bsky.social to @dhprlab.bsky.social 🤩 We‬ talked about boredom & how it shapes our behavior. With cool insights from S. Kraus, @thomasandrillon.bsky.social & @jamesdanckert.bsky.social (who even reveals his boredom coping strategy 🎸) 📺 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

It’s that time of year again: Tomorrow our 2-day symposium Current Research in Sport Science kicks off. A highlight of our Master’s program at @uni-konstanz.de, with six keynotes covering the full spectrum of sport science 🤩 Curious? Here's this year's program: mbieleke.github.io/SPO-14545_Cu...

Was hyped to share some insights into how to navigate through the complex #effort maze @ ASP Conference in Bochum. Thanks for all the interesting discussions and talks, this was effortful but truly rewarding at the same time! w/ @wanjawolff.bsky.social & @israelhalperin.bsky.social

Had a great time presenting our ideas on the utility of studying explore-exploit trade-offs in #sports at the ASP Conference in Bochum! I appreciate the nice turnout - especially for such an early morning session after the social evening 😜🙏 lead: @katjarewitz.bsky.social w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social

📢 New Publication 📢 Effort differentially shapes behavior before, during & after an action. w/ @bcheval.bsky.social, Silvio & Florent, we explore stage-specific effects of physical effort & how these dynamically modulate each other. Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🤩🤩 Curious? ⬇️

Just gave my first scientific conference talk at the asp in Bochum – presenting our new Pegboard System! Truly grateful for the interest and inspiring discussion around this tool. 🖨️Preprint: doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.23574.46401 w/ @mbieleke.bsky.social, @wanjawolff.bsky.social, Fischer & Schüler

Great news for our lab! Together with our friends from Konstanz, @mbieleke.bsky.social & Julia Schüler, we will investigate how people tackle mental & physical effort in freshly funded @dfg.de project! 💪🧠

What a great start to the week 🤩 Thrilled to share that a @dfg.de grant proposal with Julia Schüler & @wanjawolff.bsky.social got funded! This gives us time and resources to explore the interplay of cognitive and physical effort. 🎉

Science question: we believe we have identified a mechanism for sensory integration in balance. We predicted distortions, tested and confirmed them. Reviewer: "..it is difficult to accept that these distortions provide additional support to the proposed model given there may be other sources." 🧪🧠📈

May I introduce you to... a tool to simultaneously yet independently manipulate cognitive and physical effort—within one motor task. It’s here to help investigate their often-overlooked interplay. 🖨️Preprint: doi.org/10.13140/RG.... w/ @mbieleke.bsky.social, @wanjawolff.bsky.social, Fischer & Schüler

Ever felt bored on a long run or ride? You're not alone. Our new paper shows boredom is common—even among pros. Using control-value theory, we unpack why it happens, what it does, and how to manage it 🔽 doi.org/10.1016/j.ps... w/ @wanjawolff.bsky.social, C Cremer, F Kaisinger, & T Goetz

On our lab account, we post conference attendences, preprints/publications and whatever else is happening in our group at the lake Constance :-) You may want to follow for updates on mainly social cognition, fMRI research, psychosis and forensic psychology. @sobralab.bsky.social

Interested in studying #sports, #science, & #health in a stunning location? Then check out the @uni-konstanz.de international Master of Sport Science for Health: www.sportwissenschaft.uni-konstanz.de/en/study/mas... 11 days left to apply—deadline: April 15!

Very happy to see this one out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Lead by bluesky-less Johanna Stähler (w/ @mbieleke.bsky.social, @wanjawolff.bsky.social, & Julia Schüler), we looked at the value of physical effort with respect to sports and exercise.

Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We invite submissions for a SI on "Affective Processes in Sport & Exercise Psychology" in Performance Enhancement & Health. Eds: J Fritsch, M Bieleke, C Englert 📅 Due: Oct 31, 2025 🔗 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Looking forward to your contributions—please share!

Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N

#preprint 📢 Writing this was time-consuming, effortful, but never boring 🤩 w/ @senaozayotgonbayar.bsky.social, @jamesdanckert.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social & @corimartarelli.bsky.social, we explored how boredom and effort dynamically shape our experience of time: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

New peer-reviewed preprint by Corcoran H. & @jamessteeleii.bsky.social: Cumulative evidence synthesis and consideration of "research waste" using Bayesian methods. Recommended by @wanjawolff.bsky.social & Gaveau J. for @pci-hms.bsky.social. Reviews by @mbieleke.bsky.social. doi.org/10.24072/pci...

I created a starter pack for sports and exercise research! Please share and do let me know if you would like to be added 🙏 go.bsky.app/4hjz2Q6

📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢 Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩 ➡️ www.nature.com/collections/... pls share liberally 🙏

I created a starter pack for Boredom Research! Please share and let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/LhdAdzG

#BoredomBook: V Tze, P Parker & L Daniels highlight the need for academic boredom interventions. Combining cognitive-behavioral & emotion-regulation approaches with control-value theory, they offer recommendations & early empirical evidence. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: A Brielmann & P Dayan study boredom through the lens of a computational theory of aesthetic value. They show that boredom signals inadequate sensory experience, ensuring long-term processing efficiency by prompting search for new stimulation. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Carrie Anne Marshall draws attention to boredom among people experiencing homelessness. Building on empirical & conceptual work, she unveils boredom's impact on psychosocial wellbeing and health and calls practitioners and policy makers to action. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

🚨Do you study close relationships, intimate partner violence, or their intersection? 📣We want your input on setting a shared research agenda at one of our upcoming workshops: July 6 @ 9am: @IARRofficial July 14 @ 1pm: Violence Prevention Research Conference Virtual Event: Zoom, TBA

JOB ALERT📢 PostDoc-Stelle (A13, 100%) am Lehrstuhl Sozialpsychologie der LMU München ab 01.10.2024. Gerne bis 05.07. bewerben!! Mehr Info hier: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

#BoredomBook: @wanjawolff.bsky.social, Christian Weich & Ursula Fischer review research on boredom in physical education, recreational exercise & performance-oriented sport. They show that boredom can deter some from exercising while others exercise to avoid boredom. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: A Erdemli & Geraldine Coppin investigate links between boredom & food intake. Unpacking how boredom influences eating behavior, they highlight its impact on physical & mental well-being and the need to mitigate maladaptive eating behaviors. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: E Weybright & L Caldwell explore leisure & boredom in youth, stressing the importance of positive leisure contexts & parental involvement. They offer a roadmap and interventions for fostering healthy leisure experiences & coping with boredom. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...