Another amazing year at the SCAN unit with: 30+ papers🗞️ Many new faces 🤓 Long train rides 🚂 Rejections, resubmissions 📝 Tomatoes 🍅 A lot of science 🧠 And even more teamwork and shared moments 🫶 Thanks 2025 - looking forward to 2026 ✨

We are glad to see this paper out by @markusforamitti.bsky.social in collaboration with @mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social and @scanunit.bsky.social! 🧠🫀🎵Read more about the shift toward music with more negative, stressful, and simpler lyrics over the past 50 years below.

🚨 New paper from the lab! Using computational modeling we showed how people discount time and effort for self-benefitting vs pro-environmental outcomes and that the rate of discounting relates to their willignness to support costly climate policies 👇🏼

Last weekend’s lab hike came with maximum fog and minimum views of Vienna 😶‍🌫️. The company more than made up for it though 🫶

🎉 New paper alert! In this collaboration across 6 countries 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇳🇬🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 (n = 3,055), we developed a new pro-environmental behavior task and tested which psychological interventions actually make people more willing to put in real effort for mitigating climate change. Fully OA: tinyurl.com/2s46fppb

Wer von euch hat schon Mal ein Hundegehirn gesehen? Hier mal ein strukturelles MRT aus einem meiner Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... (Guran et al., 2024) Dieses Modell basiert auf einem sogenannten Hirnatlas. Unsere funktionellen Daten sehen meist ganz anders aus ...

Habt ihr schon mal einen Hund in einem MRT Scanner gesehen? Darf ich vorstellen, das ist Toffee, einer unserer 4-pfotigen Freiwilligen.

Our colleague @rinaguran.bsky.social is giving insights in her life as PostDoc this week. Check out @realscientists.de if you are interested in animal research or just want to see what everyday life looks like for a scientist 🤓

New global study lead by @psysciacc.bsky.social with @scanunit.bsky.social across 18 languages challenges a classic idea in psycholinguistics: when we read, we don’t always imagine objects in the same orientation as described. doi.org/10.1007/s121...

See below to read a short story from our member @lauragschw.bsky.social describing her research - really cool way to communicate science!

Happy #worlddogday! 🐶 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 In this video, you will discover how dogs support us in our research at the University of Vienna and what we can learn from dogs about our own social behavior. 🧠 ⤵️

Congratulations to @madalina.bsky.social, our former member @kimdoell.bsky.social and all of the 256(!) other collaborators for winning SPSP's Robert Cialdini prize for their manylabs project on how behavioral interventions can help address climate change 🎉

Check out our new publication led by former member @clamassaccesi.bsky.social showing that individuals are equally motivated to incur effort costs to reduce pain to themselves and others 🤝

🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action! When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT Where? Online - register here: planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...

New tutorial alert! Crowdsourcing multiverse analyses to explore the impact of different data-processing & analysis decisions published in Psychological Methods. Full text: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Lead: Tom Heyman, @epronizius.bsky.social @slewis5920.bsky.social @aggieerin.bsky.social

Another highlight in my mentoring career- tinyurl.com/lukelikely 's stellar defense; Lukas provided plenty of evidence to radically update our priors and call him DOKTA Luke from now on. Shout-out also to great co-supervisors @predragpetrovic.bsky.social & Isa Wagner & all @scanunit.bsky.social

Our 2-day social cognition workshop "From Self-knowledge to knowing others" in Brussels on Dec1-2 now welcomes registration and abstracts for poster/talk ! Go www.self-knowing-others.org @selfknowingothers.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social

A new study by our colleagues from Bern was covered as research highlight in @natclimate.nature.com: 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... They show how structural neuroscience data can be used to better understand interindividual differences in pro-environmental behavior 🧠🌳

Check our new preprint! Our systematic review of 206 reversal learning studies shows that behavioural flexibility research is heavily biased towards birds, rodents, and humans, with most animal diversity virtually untested. #Manymanys #BigTeamScience #ComparativeCognition

🚨A new multi-lab study with contributions from our head @clauslamm.bsky.social & others in our group got published in Nature Climate Change 🎉 It's about how support for climate change policies is shaped by extreme weather events: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2 ‪

Save the date: Nach Hannover, Köln und Mainz findet das nächste Open Science Festival im deutschsprachigen Raum erstmals in Österreich statt – und zwar am 8. und 9. September am Campus der Universität Wien @univie.ac.at. osfestival2025.univie.ac.at #osfestival2025 #openscience #opensciencefestival

Closing Rreflection. This June, I chaired #SIPS2025 in Budapest 🇭🇺, celebrating 10y of @improvingpsych.org. It was a vibrant & inspiring meeting. We hosted workshops, hackathons, lightning talks, & unconferences on topics from AI & theory building to radical transparency, detecting data fabrication.

One week left to apply for our open phd position 👇

Proud of our new PhD student @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social for delivering a great talk at #ICEP2025 on work he did during his master’s 👏

New paper! When encountering a novel and unfamiliar situation, what mechanisms underly our ability to search and retrieve relevant past experiences? We answer this question by taking first-principles approach – allowing us to bridge between a wide range of previous models (1/16)

Check out this new preprint led by our newest lab member @lukasmayrhofer.bsky.social It's about how disruptive climate protests shaped attitudes towards moderate activists in German news media 👇

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨 4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠 Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W Pls 🔁

I am grateful to UCLouvain and H. Bukowski for supporting my research over the past year. Now, it's time to return home. In June, I will be teaching at IES Abroad and in July starting my postdoctoral position at the Universität Wien / @scanunit.bsky.social. I'm curious to see what lies ahead.

How many researchers does it take to change the cooling fluid of the heat pain stimulator? 😅 (Answer: Three who learn by doing and one taking the picture) Love our little #TeamEmpathy at the Bingellab @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social preparing two really cool new studies ❤️ #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

Check out this exciting new preprint on predicting climate change intervention success involving several current and former scannies 🤩👇🏼

🚨New paper alert! In a large collaboration, we investigated how well do 19 individual and nation-level factors predict climate change beliefs, policy support and climate-relevant behaviors 🌎 Led by our @todorova.bsky.social

📣In case you're still interesting in joining the Heat & Cognition Manylabs🔥🧠 , we are now running the task tournament. Collaborators can suggest tasks, scales, and items to be included in the project! Deadline to submit is May 11th! More info at: heatandmind.wordpress.com

Only 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠 ‼️ Deadline: May 18th

🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁

🚨 New paper from the lab! We explore how climate action can support our neurocogntive health and how neuroscience can be used to better understand and stimulate climate action 💪🏼🌍🌱 Win-win for both people & our planet 🤗

In SCAN-Unit, wir untersuchen die neuronalen Grundlagen von Empathie, Altruismus, und umweltbewusstem Verhalten. Unser Ziel ist, diese Phänomene besser zu verstehen, um sie damit gesellschaftlich breit und besser fördern zu können. 1/2 #IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien

Mentoring in Action: WEAVE Interns Lead a Guest Lecture! Anna Kulesza and Maximilian Hechl, who are doing their internship with us in the WEAVE project, gave a guest lecture to the IES exchange students. self-other.univie.ac.at/detailansich... @selfknowingothers.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten in vielen Ländern schwieriger und finsterer geworden. Hier in #Wien erforsche ich unter guten Bedingungen für Wissenschaft und Forschung die Mechanismen depressiver Symptome und ihren Zusammenhang mit Stress und Sexualhormonen. (1/2)

In unsere Forschung untersuchen wir die neuronalen Grundlagen von Empathie, Altruismus, und umweltbewusstem Verhalten. Unser Ziel ist, diese Phänomene besser zu verstehen, um sie damit gesellschaftlich breit und besser fördern zu können. 1/2 #IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien

🔎 We are looking for collaborators for our new manylabs looking at the effects of extreme heat on human cognition and well-being across the globe 🌍 See below for more information and sign up if you’re interested 👇🏼

Thrilled to share our newest paper, led by the brilliant @maxsteininger.bsky.social 🤩 We show that virtual nature exposure reduces the neural responses to pain! 🧠⚡️ See below for a 🧵

We had such a great time at the environmental psychology and neuroscience meeting with @envpsyvienna.bsky.social and our Geneva friends from the Consumer and Sustainable Behavior Lab 🌎 🧠 It was a pleasure!

Congratulations to our @todorova.bsky.social for receiving the Marietta-Blau Fellowship 🎉

We realized we took no group pictures last year 🫣… So at the first lab outing of the year we took a dozen! 😁⛸️❄️ Special thanks for our @biancaaschuster.bsky.social for organizing 🤍

Check out this new preprint from our lab 👇🏼🤩

Bussi Baba Wien, Moin Hamburg! After almost 5 years of postdoc at the @scanunit.bsky.social it is with a mixture of gratitude and excitement that I am starting my new position as a permanent researcher at the Medical School Hamburg, in a collegial and dynamic environment.

New paper by Lukas Lengersdorff and @clauslamm.bsky.social out in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS)! How should we assess the credibility of a study with low power? A closer look… doi.org/10.1177/2515... 1/19

Nita collected the opinions of experts in the field @clauslamm.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social, @silanilab.bsky.social, and @epronizius.bsky.social in an attempt to untangle the maze of mental states, question expert consensus, & explore the blurred lines of conceptual clarity! shorturl.at/iiKNA

New paper involving several scannies @epronizius.bsky.social @kimdoell.bsky.social @jonasnitschke.bsky.social and @todorova.bsky.social 😊 #teamwork On the timely topic of trust in scientists and their role in society now out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social

We are a bit late for this, but happy new year from the SCAN unit! 🎈 We are thankful for the productive and joyful times together and looking forward to another year of exciting research! 🤩 Here is our 2024 in review 👇