Our lab is growing!

Last year, a number of new people joined our lab! Antonia Düfeld started her PhD in summer, and Laura Maffongelli joined us as a postdoc. Since November, Robin Nehler is also working on his PhD project in our lab. We…

How do children and adults ascribe authority?

The results from our first study with preschoolers are out! We went to several preschools in Lübeck and asked 3-to-6 -year-olds to watch short video clips of two people interacting. Afterwards, we asked them who of the two people is…

Professorship!

We already mentioned it in our last post, but now it’s official: Sarah Jessen has been appointed as a professor at the University of Lübeck! This means our work here will continue and we are looking forward to many exciting…

Heisenberg grant

Sarah Jessen has been awarded a Heisenberg grant by the German Research Foundation. More infos on what this means for our research here to come soon!

New article on social exclusion

In her new study, Pauline Petereit from the Cognitive Neuroscience Group is looking at how adults respond to social rejection. You can find all the details here: Petereit, P., Jessen, S., Goregliad Fjaellingsdal, T., & Krämer, U.M. (2022). Social Context…

Annual Teaching Award of the University of Lübeck

We not only do lots of exciting baby research – the second big part of our job is teaching at the University of Lübeck. For her course in Social Psychology, Sarah Jessen has just won the annual teaching award of…

Using neural tracking to analyze infant EEG data

In our newest publication, we discuss and describe how a recent approach to data analysis, namely neural tracking, can be applied to infant EEG data. In most of our studies, we use a different approach called event-related potentials (ERPs), which…

What’s the brain connectivity behind reward and executive control?

Our PhD student Bernadette Hippmann published a new article in Human Brain Mapping. In the study, she tested adult participants in an fMRI paradigm, investigating the neural connectivity behind executive control and the influence of reward vs. punishment. The full…

New Commentary in Psychological Science

Measurements and testing in the Babylab still aren’t back to normal due to the impact of the pandemic, but we are nevertheless busy writing and analyzing data. Have a look at the commentary that just came out in Psychological Science,…

How does maternal odor impact infants’ responses to emotional faces?

First results from our project on the impact of maternal odor on emotion processing in infancy are out! Testing 7-month-olds in an EEG paradigm, we found that infants at this age show a reduced fear response when they can smell…