This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does? In short, yes!

🚨 JOB alert: 📢 We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia! If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Finally listened to this lecture -- highly recommended if you've ever been confused about fixed effects vs. random effects models. Love that the framing starts from group-level confounding -- here's a problem, what could be solutions (rather than: here's a model, what are its features).

🧵 New paper in @NatureComms Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026) Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇 rdcu.be/e0VcO

We had a wonderful evening celebrating the official opening of the Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents!🥂🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us - we're looking forward to what's ahead! @anrei.bsky.social @kabertsch.bsky.social

“The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died.” If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you. [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

🥳!!NEW PREPRINT!!🥳 We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence. osf.io/preprints/ps... I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.

Congrats to Katja and Andrea!🎉 Their project on mental health and social integration, which aims to advance treatment options for adolescents and young adults with social deficits, has earned a research award from the Vogel Stiftung!🏆👏 @kabertsch.bsky.social @anrei.bsky.social

Wir suchen noch deutschsprachige Paare 🤼‍♀️👫 ü40, die Lust haben, uns bei dieser Studie zu unterstützen ✨ ✨

11 days left to apply!💼⏰ Spread the word 📣

Die Finanzierung der Weiterbildung für Fachpsychotherapeut*innen ist immer noch nicht geregelt. Deshalb demonstrieren wir am 24.10. um 15 Uhr in Köln, Bochum und Marburg für gesetzliche Regelungen. Mehr dazu warum Conni die Welt nicht versteht: www.instagram.com/p/DP1fEvmCGa...

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why? 🧵 We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

#bluesky and summer vibes🌞🍒👒 in Würzburg for the start of #PuG2025. We are so excited to welcome you all here. Have a good trip and we hope to see you at the welcome reception tonight!

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I'm glad that NWO has launched a new round of the impactful Mozaïek grant, offering PhD funding funding to traditionally underrepresented minorities. Scheme call here: lnkd.in/eKVdUyqU We might be able to support an application if interests & skills overlap lifespancognitivedynamics.com (dm)

Our call for more efficient and informative RCTs in mental health through novel designs -- Transforming the evidence landscape in mental health with platform trials rdcu.be/ecSMq Led by @goldlabcharite.bsky.social @blennox4.bsky.social and others #Psychiatry #MentalHealth #academicsky

Yes! We are already busy as bees🐝🐝🐝 preparing and look forward to welcoming you in Würzburg! with @gamerlab.bsky.social @hein-lab.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social @martinweiss.bsky.social @mjherrmann.bsky.social Katja Bertsch Johannes Hewig Andrea Kübler Johannes Rodriguez

We are looking for 2 new colleagues - #professorships in (A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy (B) Work & Organizational Psychology Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden - Please share - @dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣 tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...

The potential of LLMs in social & behavioral science is enormous—but how can we leverage them? Zak Hussain & I just taught a 5-day course at #GSERM Ljubljana on this. Check out our open materials (cc-by-sa) on using open LLMs with @hf.co. github.com/Zak-Hussain/...

Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨ tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk

I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...

This is a really interesting point, and there are parallels with parenting adolescents too. It's easy to say adolescents need to be able to take risks (they do), but of course there are occasional very bad outcomes from doing so, and probably a more complex list than with children

🚀 post-doc position with the fantastic @ldeserno.bsky.social : Ecological Momentary assessment and digital interventions in #psychiatry #psychotherapy (40 months) - apply, apply apply☺️ and join us in lovely #Würzburg for fun science #PsychSciSky #MentalHealthSky #statssky

I am SO pleased @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social has written this @theguardian.com article, and so beautifully - it means the world. So much of it I could have written myself. Happily married for two decades, yes. But I'm still shaped by a teenage relationship too. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

🚨New paper alert!🚨 -- Registered report style! A "blue-print"! Some people seem born to explore: breaking new ground, traveling to new places. Others seem perfectly content to enjoy familiar comforts. This explore/exploit tradeoff is well-known, and varies across people and situations (1/6)

A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder So pleased to have contributed to this work led by the brilliant Giles Story (we'll get him over here eventually) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Although it is frequently discussed, AfD support appears only weakly correlated with objective economic conditions. The unemployment rate or the disposable income per capita of a municipality correlate only weakly with the AfD's vote share and its gains compared to 2019.

📢 Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025: symposium abstract submission now open. 📢 We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025. We are now accepting symposium submissions!

📣 New paper alert! Together with @jannateigeler.bsky.social, Arash Mirifar, @akeil1927.bsky.social, and @gamerlab.bsky.social we looked at correlates of attentive immobility during the anticipation of avoidable vs unavoidable threats in two samples from Germany and the US. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

A reminder: we currently have an open call for our AAAI workshop on Theory of Mind 🔥 We encourage submissions from cog sci, CS, and psychiatry - we want to bring together several fields, work together, and understand ToM 🧠🤖 sites.google.com/view/theory-...

New work led by Michael Moutoussis! When evaluating others' motives, people first make a rough good/bad judgement and then (if all goes well) refine their views. Serotonin may help us learn beyond the good/bad impression: academic.oup.com/scan/advance... #neuroskyence #psychscisky

The final version of the publication "Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis" is out now! Go check it out! Paper with Lena P., David R., @kanske.bsky.social, Shu-Chen L., and @anrei.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Could you improve social cognition via theater-based interventions? New overview article out by the wonderful Brennan McDonald with @anrei.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social t.co/WIQR4ykQy9

We had another great Dinner Meeting yesterday!🍽️ Once a month we invite a guest speaker in the field of Approach-Avoidance and go to dinner afterwards! Join our RTG and take advantage of this and other great opportunities! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/grk2660/join... Huge Thank you to @clauslamm.bsky.social!

Join us in lovely Würzburg🌳🏰🍷🚣‍♀️♥️ -- There are projects on development/psychopathology in our lab, but also other very interesting projects on approach and avoidance in mice🐭and humans👯‍♂️within the fantastic research environment the RTG offers

Unglaublich. Neuen Zahlen zufolge pendeln in Paris zum 1. Mal mehr Fahrradfahrer von den Außenbezirken ins Zentrum als Autofahrer. Der Grund: Anne Hidalgo hat hunderte km neue Radwege gebaut. Das zeigt: "Build it and they will come" wurde erneut eindrucksvoll bewiesen😊 www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

@ldeserno.bsky.social & me are recruiting a new postdoc to work with us in lovely Würzburg🍷🏰🚣‍♀️🌳 on the development of internalising/externalising symptoms / their computational basis.a collaborative project with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social happy to answer any question! www.psychjob.eu/de/job/post-...

We are recruiting a new PhD student to work on an exciting new area in our lab - developing passive smartphone 📱proxies for cognition and symptoms with lots of cool data science methods and a clinical focus on psychotic like experiences in the gen. pop. gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/

How does our ability to #trust others change during adolescence Is this shaped by earlier parenting experiences? Is trust related to the development of friendships in adolescence? Our study is out in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Further evidence that universal school-based mindfulness lessons are not effective for improving adolescents' mental health (in this case anhedonia and emotional distress) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Throughout 2023, Mike Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social and I worked on a theory article on Neural Mechanisms of Domain-General Inhibitory Control, now out in TiCS. I've admired Mike's work forever. It's been an honor & pleasure to work on this with him. See here:

To kick of posting some science to #PsychSciSky: Our newest paper on cognitive variability led by Nick Judd, showing much weaker correlations between cognitive variability than for mean performance across 11 tasks, N=2608 and >7 million trials nhttps://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/b29rn/

We had an awesome summerschool with our Research Training Group 2660. Thanks to our guests Stéphane Ciocchi, Karin Roelofs and Neil McNaughton and to everyone involved! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/grk2660/news...

best reason for my *first* post here: new preprint co-led by fantastic PhD student Lena Pollerhoff (still on the other side ;))&amazing @annesaulin.bsky.social asking how older&younger adults combine values for self&others to make (potentially) prosocial decisions #devpsyc #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

As a lover of science podcasts like ScienceVS & Invisibilia, it’s very exciting to be featured on Minds Matter❣️I explain how I see integrating #neurodiversity & #disability perspectives into #CogPsych, how brain stimulation increases willingness to exert effort & much more 👩🏻‍🔬 🧠🩺 #cpsy 🧪 #AffectSci 🧠🟦

New paper out in psychology and aging! With Ulrike Ehrlich, Alan J. Gow, @nadiyakelle.bsky.social and Graciela Muniz-Terrera, we looked at the longitudinal association of volunteering, family care, and grandparenting with cognitive performance (N = 6,915, age 40–85) psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...