📢 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...

Was geht an der Universität Hamburg? 🤳Ab sofort findet ihr bei Bluesky das UHH-Startpaket. Hier bündeln wir für euch die Profile von Forschenden und Einrichtungen der Uni Hamburg. Ihr seid noch nicht dabei? Kommentiert oder schreibt uns eine DM! 💬

The Publications and Communications Board of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Science of Motivation has opened nominations for the editorship of Motivation Science, a multidisciplinary journal that publishes significant contributions to the study of motivation.

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social: 🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠 Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty. Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

Very cool to see this one out now in Physiology & Behavior 🤩 - We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Truly enjoyed this talk held by Dr. Johannes Seiler 🎉 Interesting to discuss boredom as a signal that feels aversive but also secures us from stagnation 🙌🏼 Thanks for taking your time 👍🏼

Great pleasure to host Dr. Johannes Seiler in our #DHPRLab meeting! He gave a fascinating talk on how boredom drives exploration and information-seeking, and how neural entropy underlies this process across species. Thank you for sharing your time and insights 🙏

This week we had another awesome guest in our #DHPRLab meeting: Prof. Dr. Erin Gerlach told us about the empirical educational research perspective and how it connects to practice through inspiring projects. Thank you for taking the time! 🙏

🚨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...

📺 In the German primetime TV show JENKE Experiment, participants endured three hours of boredom - with a few theory-driven curveballs 😁 A vivid reminder that doing “nothing” can be tough & that boredom really matters. Very excited to have contributed to this project. www.joyn.de/bts/serien/j...

Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠 Link here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

📰 Mit Anne Paulsen von @spiegel.de habe ich über unser @dhprlab.bsky.social, unsere verschiedenen Messmethoden & insbesondere unsere aktuelle #Forschung zu #Langeweile im #Sport gesprochen. Vielleicht sind ja ein paar hilfreiche Tipps dabei 😁 ⬇️ www.spiegel.de/fitness/fitn...

📣 #moeffortmoproblems “Just try harder and the success will follow” does does not always apply. Check out our latest preprint to learn more about this effort performance (de)coupling across domains and contexts 😎

2-year postdoc in our team, supervised by Laura Fruhen and Tirza van Noorden. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

The two main hubs in the brain for the processing of human time perception have been identified: SMA and Insula. Here Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università di Roma and I provide the conceptual background in our review on 'How the body and brain process time'. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#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. 🧵

A Hitchhiker's guide to physical and cognitive effort: https://osf.io/gm7zf

When effort fails: Instances and reasons for effort-performance decoupling: https://osf.io/3uces

New #DHPRLab preprint💪🥳 Check out Lukas's post below, in case you're interested!

Effort research is booming & it’s tough to keep up with how it's defined and measured. Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)! Interested? Check it out ⬇️

📢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

We should do this more often 🤩

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

Tuning Out: Boredom, Mind-Wandering and Flow in Classical Musicians: https://osf.io/vt4h8

What a cool format! 🎓 I had a great time as the opponent at Thekla Müller-Boysen’s PhD defense @au.dk. It was a strong defense and made for a fun discussion on boredom & its interpersonal consequences. Huge thanks to @stepf.bsky.social & team for the invite 🙏

Super cool! Bud Craig - a pioneer of #interoception - also linked the insula to time perception. Intuitively this makes sense...the regular, persistent rhythms of our breathing and heart may be fractal rather than perfectly regular or precise - but they're still our internal timekeepers ❤️🫁🧠

I found this paper very boring* Effort and Boredom Shape our Experience of Time *No I didn't. And, surprise! They propose the insula as a link between boredom and perceived duration www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Boredom on many levels of inquiry: as body feelings, subjective slowing down of time, and related insular cortex activity. Review out by @wanjawolff.bsky.social and team.

Thanks again for the invitation and the great get-together 😎 That was truly fun talking about research methods, getting carreer advice, and ofc getting to know the typical local food "Frankfurter Grüne Soße" and "Handkäse" - can recommend 😜

Two inspiring days in Frankfurt! 🇩🇪 Many thanks to Prof. Chris Englert & his team at Goethe University for inviting us and organizing a great program. We had an excellent scientific exchange, shared projects & enjoyed the city’s landmarks. Looking forward to hosting them in Hamburg next year! 🌍🤝

📢 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

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

It's fun to play around with that new #stats tool by #Posit. Could be very helpful for quickly scanning your data frames 🎉

📢 Unser @dhprlab.bsky.social und unsere Forschung zur Langeweile im Sport waren Thema im Elbvertiefung-Podcast von @zeit.de 🎙️ Ich habe es mir schon angehört & fand es nicht langweilig 😁 ➡️ www.zeit.de/hamburg/2025...

Such a pleasure to welcome Yannick Ramsel from @ZEIT.de to @dhprlab.bsky.social! He volunteered to take part in some of our upcoming experimental setups & we had great chats about boredom and DHPRL research in general. Full-length feature article now in ZEIT (🇩🇪): www.zeit.de/2025/32/lang...

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

👋 Hey all, some news to update you on, plus an upcoming opportunity (please repost for this part) 💡 (Sharing full post from linkedin - key news 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 ⬇️

Langeweile? Dann haben wir einen Lese-Tipp: Die @zeit.de hat Sportpsychologe @wanjawolff.bsky.social im Labor am Institut für Bewegungswissenschaft der UHH besucht. Hier untersucht er, was Langeweile eigentlich ist. Zum ganzen Artikel (€) von Yannick Ramsel:

#Langeweile im #Sport? Langeweile als mögliche Hürde überhaupt sportlich aktiv zu sein? Über diese Fragen habe ich im Interview mit Laura Fräulin von der @faznet.bsky.social gesprochen. Vielen Dank für das angenehme Gespräch. Zum Interview geht's hier: www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

Interest in #boredom appears to be still high & I am all here for it 😁 Stay tuned

Had the pleasure of speaking with Gabriele Kuhn from Kurier (@kurier.at.web.brid.gy) about boredom—what it is, how it shapes our behavior, and why it matters (in 🇩🇪). Cool to see the still growing appreciation for this often-overlooked everyday experience 😁 kurier.at/wissen/gesun...

🚀The DocDays are over!📚 Our lab joined forces to write standard operating procedures for our instruments.Biggest win of writing together: Deciding together what-goes-where, with much less hesitation and frustration.🕒💨 Feel free to share what works (or doesn't) for you to make lab docs more useful!💡

It was such a pleasure to host the 2nd DHPRL Garden Party, a chance to celebrate a full and beautiful semester of research and teaching! Thanks to everyone who made it such a fun and memorable evening. We’re already looking forward to next year! 😊

Sollten wir uns öfter langweilen? 🥱 Dieser Frage geht unter anderem Sportpsychologe Prof. @wanjawolff.bsky.social von der Uni Hamburg in der @artede.bsky.social Dokumentation „42 – Die Antwort auf fast alles“ nach. Hier geht’s zum Video:

We are looking for a Postdoc who loves fMRI, psychophysiology and data analysis 🎉. We run studies on social cognition and related processes with a focus on schizophrenia. German skills could be beneficial, bc the position involves teaching, but not mandatory. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

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