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09.01.2024
 

Our latest paper shows the importance of effort costs when considering how prosocial behaviour changes under acute stress

How much effort is involved in helping others and our existing prosocial tendencies could be key to understanding acute stress effects on prosocial...

11.12.2023
 

New Paper published: Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries

Effectively reducing climate change requires dramatic, global behavior change. Yet it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people...

21.11.2023
 

2023 International Ferrari Soave Award for Human Biology

Lab head Claus Lamm has received the 2023 International Ferrari Soave Award for Human Biology by the Turin Academy of Sciences.

13.11.2023
 

Neuroscience can help us to understand the reciprocal relationships between a changing climate and the brain.

02.10.2023
 

New paper on psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and non-responders published in Frontiers in Psychology

To respond or not to respond: exploring empathy-related psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and...

20.08.2023
 

New paper on how dogs predict human action targets published in Open Mind

Dogs rely on visual cues rather than on effector-specific movement representations to predict human action targets