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We are glad to share our new Registered Report paper with @rosamaidhof.bsky.social and @evalabs.bsky.social on the effect of visual art and music on pain and stress. Exposure to multimodal art resulted in longer pain tolerance compared to visual art, but not compared to music doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Great news as we head into the holidays: Our project about the effect of multimodal art on pain and stress by Anna Fekete & @rosamaidhof.bsky.social with @evalabs.bsky.social won the Faculty’s Registered Report Award! 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf... Anna also won an awesome Christmas sweater prize🎄🪅

🥳 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

Music is often used in pain management. Do music listening style or gender modulate music-based analgesia? Does it matter who selects the music? What psychological mechanisms are involved? Some answers in our new paper 👇 Thanks to the co-authors and participants! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maidhof et al. (2025) (@rosamaidhof.bsky.social) found self-selected music boosted pain tolerance, but women music empathizers felt more pain with their own music. Stress, not emotions, mediated this link, highlighting the need for personalized pain management. doi.org/10.1080/1025...