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“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”
Life of Pi

NEWS


Two newly funded projects to study the effect of Mental Health Literacy Training in Schools (COMET 4 Kids) and
the neurochemistry of reward processing


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Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Massaccesi for achieving this important milestone! 
Opioid-blunted cortisol response to stress is associated with increased negative mood and wanting of social reward

New paper out in Neuropsychopharmacology
Neural Correlates of Interpersonal Space Permeability and Flexibility in Autism Spectrum Disorder

New paper out in Cerebral Cortex
Two newly funded projects to study the effect of Music Therapy in Autism (M4A) and
Reward Processing in Anorexia Nervosa
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​Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
University of Vienna
Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna.



PAST NEWS

01.06.2021
Effects of Appetitive and Aversive Motivational States on Wanting and Liking of Interpersonal Touch. New paper in Neuroscience

01.10.2020
Reduced shared emotional representations toward women revealing more skin. New paper in Cognition and Emotion

13.10.2020
Dopaminergic and opioidergic regulation during anticipation and consumption of social and nonsocial rewards. New paper in eLife

01.07.2020
Welcome to Melanie Michna among the PhD students in Vienna! Good luck for your new adventure!

01.12.2019
Welcome to Katharina Stiehl among the PhD students in Vienna! Good luck for your new adventure!

25.11.2019
Newly funded project from the FWF
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07.09.2019
Facial reactions to social and non social rewards. New paper in Cognition

05.05.2019
Social support modulates feelings of social esclusion. Out in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

15.11.2018
Welcome to Ana Stijovic among the PhD students in Vienna! Good luck for your new adventure!

12.04.2018
"Understanding the mechanisms behind the sexualized-body inversion hypothesis: the role of asymmetry and attention biases" : new paper out in PlosOne

12.02.2018
Empathy across the life span: new paper in Neurobiology of Aging:  "Age-related differences in the neural correlates of empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch in a female sample"

08.12.2017
When the dress counts more than you think. New paper in Cortex: "Reduced empathic responses for sexually objectified women: an fMRI investigation"

10.10.2017
New paper on how to operationalize empathy.  Out in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

21.07.2017
Congratulation to Claudia Massaccesi for your new adventure...welcome among the PhD students in Vienna!
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12.07.2017
More empathic people are less likely to forgive people who accidentally hurt someone. New paper out in Scientific Reports

06.04.2017
New paper out from our team
Neuroanatomical correlates of forgiving unintentional harms


23.02.2017
New paper out from our team
Neuroanatomical bases of concern-based altruism in virtual environment


16.11.2016
Great description of our project on UNI:VIEW Magazine
http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/forschung/detailansicht/artikel/wie-belohnungen-unser-verhalten-steuern/


27.06.2016
Newly funded project from the FWF
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26.04.2016
Emotional Egocentricity Bias across the life-span- new paper out
in Frontiers of Aging Neuroscience

29.03.2016
Autistic and non autistic people make similar moral judgments- new paper out
in Scientific Reports
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24.02.2016
Newly funded project from the WWTF

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