We are pleased to welcome two new student assistants to our team:

Sebastian Böckenhauer is in his fourth semester of the Master’s program in Clinical...

We are happy to welcome Mengchen Hu, PhD Student at the University of Aarhus, in our lab. 

Mengchen joins our research team as a visiting scholar...

New study published in Psychological Review by Sebastian, Jordan, and our collaborator Jörg Rieskamp.

In this study, we present a new theory ("MASC"...

We are looking forward to participating in the 2026 Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP) in Tübingen and presenting our research there.

Our...

We are happy to welcome Muhammad Hashim Satti as a new postdoc in our lab. 

Hashim has a background in engineering and computational neuroscience...

New collaborative study published in Nature Communications co-authored by Rasmus Bruckner. 

This study demonstrates that human preferences are not...

The NDR TV show "DAS! Rote Sofa" reports about popular topics from Northern Germany.

In the episode from January 17, 2026 the hosts also talk about...

A new international study, coauthored by Sebastian Gluth, sheds light on how people consume and evaluate conflicting narratives about climate change.

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We are excited to receive new assistance in our lab.

Mario De Giorgi (from CIMeC, University of Trento) will support Mrugsen Nagsen Gopnarayan as an...

We are delighted to be joined by two visiting researchers, Veronika Wendler and Amir Hosein Hadian Rasanan.

Amir is a PhD student at the Center for...

We have a postdoc position available for the project “Integration of dynamic belief updating across contexts and psychopathology”.

The most important...

Hunger drives humans to seek calorie-dense foods. This tendency has been evolutionary adaptive as it ensured survival under conditions of scarcity...

As humans, we have remarkable abilities to adjust our behavior to new challenges and situations. For example, we often need to master new technologies...

In this paper, we show that increasing the value of an inferior option makes two superior ones look less valuable. Interestingly we show that this...

How do we learn to make good decisions in an uncertain world? This paper explores how the brain updates beliefs based on incoming information—what...

We welcome Eva-Charlotte Trost, who started working with us as a student assistant at the beginning of January.

Additionally, we look forward to the...

To provide a mechanistic explanation for observed behaviours, increasingly more psychologists rely on cognitive computational models which map the...

Our doctoral candidate, Barbara Oberbauer has received a DAAD-Scholarship for a research stay at the University of California, Berkeley.

Next year...

The department led by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gluth has undergone a name change:

The previous title "General Psychology" has been changed to "Cognitive...