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...