What is a habit and how should we measure it? In a webinar, @massimokoester.bsky.social from our Research Training Group "Breaking Expectations" joined Dr. Gjalt-Jorn Peters & Prof. Benjamin Gardner to discuss long-debated questions around habit conceptualization, measurement, & related challenges.

🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 PLEASE RT! 🚨 7 four-year PhD positions (75%) in DFG-funded Research Training Group “Flexibility and Balance as Characteristics of Adaptive Self-Regulation” in Saarbrucken, Germany. Starting date October 01, 2026. Official job ad: tinyurl.com/3v8b4chm (1/3)

🚨 Permanent position! theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de is looking for a managing director of our new outreach hub. This is an unlimited time position at an E13 paygrade (~postdoc level) Apply by May 31st 👉 www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt... Please share widely 🙏

Our members are sharing their research far and wide! 🤗 And this summer we are hosting a stand at the @unimarburg.bsky.social Summer Fest to bring our work to the public. 📅 July 17th Come visit us to learn more about breaking expectations!

📢 @laraorphal.bsky.social has presented her poster at the Workshop for Decision Making and Information Processing in Complex Settings, Lucca, Italy. Congrats Lara! 🎉

📢 New Publication from RTG 2271

Meta-Psychology owns April 1st with the "Inaugural Editorial of Questionable Research Ideas and OtherPeculiarities: The QRAP section": open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

The French embassy in Germany will finance research stays of up to 3 months for early carreer researchers employed in German academia- list of research fields& other details in their link (EN/FR/DE available). Worth sharing with PhDs~ @rtg2271.bsky.social www.science-allemagne.fr/appels-actue...

I'm looking for a post-doc to help organize Bayesian Data Analysis course avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A... (200 students) and to do research on Bayesian workflow users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... at Aalto www.aalto.fi/en, Finland. Background in Bayes needed. Up to five year contract possible.

📣Job Alert: In unserem Team ist ab Sommer eine 🎓PhD-Stelle zu vergeben. 👉Thema: Stress in der Elternschaft, soziale Berührung und Oxytocin. Methoden fMRT und Ecologically Momentary Assessment 🤳🧠🫂👨‍👧. Infos hier: karriere.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?ac...

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unsere AG! Das Stipendium bietet die Möglichkeit, Promotion und Psychotherapieausbildung zu verbinden, mit Forschungsschwerpunkt auf Expressed Emotion/Partnerschaft. Gerne teilen!

Am Samstag in Marburg 👏🏼

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

🚨Last week to apply for a 3 year postdoc with me and @dominikdeffner.bsky.social, embedded in theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de Focus is on developing innovative experiments and computational models to understand social & cultural learning. Deadline is March 30th 👉 hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni...

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

💭 Come work with me, Mark Hoogendoorn, and Dimitris Rizopoulos! We are offering a 3 year PostDoc to do research on the intersection of machine learning (ML) and statistics. 🔢 💫 You will be part of the Stress in Action consortium: stress-in-action.nl/science-of-s... Vacancy: lnkd.in/ewN5T6AA

📢 RTG is at #TeaP2026! Fabian Parth has presented his poster today. Congrats Fabi 🎉

Our new study shows that observational fear learning of interoceptive threat promotes generalized avoidance: participants avoided both threat (CS+) and safety (CS-) cues despite never experiencing threat themselves, suggesting a precautionary “better safe than sorry” strategy doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

Last week to apply for a 3yr postdoc with @tsawallis.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and myself. Deadline is March 15th hmc-lab.com/TAMPostdoc.h...

📢 Our ViolEx 2.0 paper reached 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ citations 🥳 🎉 Congratulations to all RTG members! 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

📢 New Publication from RTG 2271 🎉 Congratulations to Oliver Schmidt and @danielheck.bsky.social

Yesterday during lunch break I heard that my RTG is on bluesky now // follow @rtg2271.bsky.social 🥳 and, don't ask me how my brain works, but this made me want to make magic the gathering cards based on RTG researchers (there are magic card generators online) I volunteer myself as an example

📢 New Publication from RTG 2271! 🎉 Congratulations to Sophie Kievernagel, Yannik Bendel, Christian Schulz-Quach and Pia von Blanckenburg 📖 Expectations in the Communication About Death and Dying From a Caregiver's Perspective (Journal of Death and Dying) 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0030...

📢 New Publication from RTG 2271! 🎉 Congratulations to Anton Fischer, Li-Ching Chuang, @niau.bsky.social, Pia von Blanckenburg and @erikmueller.bsky.social 📖 Trait Neuroticism and the Nocebo Effect: The Mediating Role of Side-Effect Expectations (Journal of Personality) 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jopy...

New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉 We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4 Main conclusion: "GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”

Hi BlueSky! Here you'll get updates about our ongoing research on the psychological mechanisms underlying the persistence or changeability of expectancies in the face of adverse evidence. You can find information about our research training group here: www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb04/rtg-...