Social Neuroscience and Social Psychology

The Division of Social Neuroscience and Social Psychology investigates general principles of human behavior and decisions in a social context.
We are in the Institute of Psychology at the University of Bern.

We consist of two research groups:

Prof. Dr. Daria Knoch (chair)
Prof. Dr. Sabine Sczesny

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New review article on EEG Microstates in Social and Affective Neuroscience

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Annika Wyss on successfully obtaining her doctoral degree for her thesis "Human Behavior and the Anthropocene - Studying the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior from an Environmental Psychological Perspective". We wish her lots of success and good luck for the future!

New paper on the path of dishonesty: an ERP study

Welcome!

A warm welcome to our new postdoctoral researcher Dr. Marina Wunderlin. She is a cognitive neuroscientist with a focus on sleep research.

New Brain Stimulation Team

An exciting experiment with non-invasive brain stimulation is starting soon - here's our great brain stimulation team!

Welcome!

A warm welcome to our four new research assistants - Basil Maly, Melanie Roth, André Minder and Nicole Heutschi!

New Paper on neural traits of distinct behavioral types in intergenerational sustainability

Welcome!

A warm welcome to our new postdoctoral researcher Dr. Dominik Moser. He is interested in investigating the neural underpinnings of socio-emotional processes using fMRI in healthy human subjects and clinical patients.

New paper: Our sleep shows how risk-seeking we are

Recent paper on when and how pro-environmental attitudes turn into behavior

Recent paper on electrical stimulation of the right TPJ increases sustainable behavior

Recent paper on reactions to warnings in the climate commons

Recent paper on neural traits of distinct behavioral types in third-party punishment

New Sleep Dream Team

Recent review paper on neuroscientific approaches to study prosociality

Recent paper on neural signatures of different behavioral types of distributional preferences

Congratulations to Katharina Koch on obtaining her doctoral degree

In her doctoral thesis, Katharina Koch studied the brain processes in social and emotional decision-making. She left our department by the end of February 2021. We wish her lots of success and happiness in her future.

Recent paper on the evolution of parochial punishment

Recent Paper on the Power of Decision Making

Recent paper on body odours and decision making

Welcome!

A warm welcome to our Sleep Dream Team!

Recent paper on neural traits of distinct behavioral types in group-based cooperation

Recent paper on the brain and everyday pro-environmental behaviour

Recent paper on neural signatures of different behavioral types in fairness norm compliance

Recent paper on cognitive resources, attitudes and green behavior

Congratulations to Benedikt Langenbach on obtaining his doctoral degree

In his doctoral thesis, Benedikt studied the brain processes involved in sustainable decision-making. He will leave our department by the end of 2019. We wish him lots of success and good luck in his new position at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE).

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