Research Archive
News archive about my projects, studies, and accomplishments over the years.
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2026
- 25.03.2026: Visit our station during the Long Night of Research on April 24. Discover how the brain draws the line between “me” and “you,” how empathy works, and whether it can extend to nature and the environment.
- 24.03.2026: New paper! "Cognitive and affective empathy as relating to binge-drinking in late adolescence", published in PLOS One.
- 04.12.2025: I gave a talk on "The State of Social Cognition Research: Challenges, Future Directions, and Efforts Toward Consensus Building" during the Workshop "From Self-Knowledge to Knowing Others," Brussels, Belgium.
- 04.12.2025: New preprint! "When Trust Is Good and Worrying Is Even Better. Trust in Science and Climate Change Specific Worries Are Linked to Policy Support and Pro-Environmental Behaviours."
- 18.11.2025: I gave a colloquium talk on "Open Reproducible Big Team Science" at the University of Alabama, United States.
- 18.11.2025: New Paper! "The Neural Foundations of Empathy in Borderline Personality Disorder" published in Persönlichkeitsstörungen (GER).
- 18.11.2025: I have been appointed to the SIPS Executive Committee and look forward to contributing to the society’s mission and initiatives.
- 07.11.2025: New paper! "Fatigue and Its Longitudinal Associations With Mood, Stress, Anxiety, and Hair Cortisol During the Lockdowns of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Cohort Study With Ecological Momentary Assessment", published in Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine.
- 22.10.2025: New Paper! "Investigating Object Orientation Effects Across 18 Languages" published in Current Psychology.
- 21.10.2025: New paper! "Public communication about science in 68 countries: Global evidence on how people encounter and engage with information about science" published in Science Communication.
- 10.10.2025: My mentees lead Themencafé on "Trust in psychological science in the age of AI" ath the OIS zam: Forum 2025 – Gemeinsam Wissen schaffen.
- 08.10.2025: Big Team Science Conference 2025! I co-lead Unconferences "BTS in a Divided World" & "Decoding the Motivations, Benefits and Barriers for Collaborators."
- 08.10.2025: Cialdini Prize 2025 for the paper "Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries".
- 24.09.2025: New Paper! "Measuring the Semantic Priming Effect across Many Languages," published in Nature Human Behaviour.
- 22.09.2025: New Paper! "Crowdsourced Multiverse Analyses: A Step-by-Step Tutorial for More Transparent Research," published in Psychological Methods.
- 10.09.2025: Open Science Festival 2025: Let's Keep Momentum Going! Join us online on October 13th, 2025 for our Festival Follow-Up for reflection.
- 10.09.2025: Our project that was featured in the faculty news!
- 18.07.2025: New paper! "Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood," published in European Journal of Social Psychology.
- 01.07.2025: New paper! "Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world," published in Nature Climate Change.
- 29.06.2025: New paper! "Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes" published in PLOS One.
- 29.06.2025: I chaired the Annual meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science in Budapest, Hungary.
- 28.05.2025: After one year at UCLouvain in Belgium, I am returning to the University of Vienna to continue my work on Big Team Science in the clinical domain.
- 24.05.2025: I chaired SIPS online — now come to Budapest so we can meet in person! Let’s work together to improve science.
- 16.02.2025: New paper! "Affective and Social Predictors of Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Lockdown" published in Biological Psychiatry.
- 20.01.2025: New paper! "Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries" published in Nature Human Behavior.
- 05.01.2025: I was interviewed by the APA Monitor on the topic "Psychology Takes a Global View."
- 23.12.2024: New paper! "How Large Must an Associational Mean Difference Be to Support a Causal Effect?," published in Methodology.
- 22.12.2024: "Challenges and Promises of Big Team Comparative Cognition," a comment published in Nature Human Behavior.
- 06.12.2024: I gave a keynote on Self-Other Distinction in borderline personality disorder at our annual Workshop, Brussels, Belgium.
- 06.12.2024: I talked about Open Big Team Science at UCLouvain, Belgium.
- 30.10.2024: New paper! RRR: A Large Multilab Cross-Cultural Conceptual Replication of "justified true belief."
- 30.10.2024: New preprint! The advantage of big team science: Lessons learned from cognitive science.
- 25.10.2024: I have been elected as the new Associate Director of the Psychological Science Accelerator.
- 25.10.2024: New preprint! Multi-region investigation of "man" as default in attitudes.
- 16.10.2024: New paper! Everyday helping during COVID-19.
- 11.10.2024: New paper! Self-Other Distinction Across Motor, Cognitive, and Affective Domains.
- 04.10.2024: (In)Alienable Worth? Stage 1 RR.
- 02.10.2024: New paper! The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: the Dataset.
- 29.09.2024: I was part of the ESSPD symposium: Impaired Self-Other Distinction across Mental Disorders.
- 22.09.2024: I gave a talk at the DGPs Congress! Empathy for Nature & Its Role in Environmentalism.
- 13.09.2024: New paper! The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of PsySci.
- 02.08.2024: Our Workshop Program is live! Some free spots are still left. Hurry :)
- 26.07.2024: New preprint! Trajectories of Fatigue & Their Influence on Stress during COVID-19.
- 01.07.2024: Stage 1 Snapshot! Students' OS attitudes.
- 12.06.2024: New job as a post-doc at the UCLouvain, Belgium!
- 12.06.2024: New preprint! Real and minimal-group biases.
- 12.06.2024: New preprint! Semantic Priming Effect Across Many Languages.
- 12.06.2024: Our RT preprocessing initiative received SIPS Commendation Award!
- 24.05.2024: Talk at ESCAN 2024
- 21.05.2024: New preprint! Bringing Big Team Science to Comparative Cognition Research.
- 17.05.2024: I pitched my idea of BTS at the LBG International forum
- 02.05.2024: New preprint! ViSe, Visual Sensitivity with R package.
- 26.04.2024: I received my Ph.D. (with distinction)
- 14.04.2024: New preprint! The Replication Database.
- 10.04.2024: New paper! Comparative cognition needs BTS
- 03.04.2024: SAVE THE DATE! Social Cognition Workshop in Brussels 27-28 Nov 2024
- 06.03.2024: Our project webpage is now live!
- 23.02.2024: I have been awarded the Postdoc Fellowship at UCLouvain, BE.
- 09.02.2024: New Paper! Addressing climate change - a mega-study.
- 09.02.2024: New preprint! Trust in Science across 67 Countries.
- 22.12.2023: New paper! New preprint! The TISP Dataset.
- 17.01.2024: Our WEAVE project received funding!
- 06.01.2024: New preprint! International Climate Psychology Collaboration Dataset.
- 29.12.2023: New paper! Reaction time data pre-processing checklist.
- 22.12.2023: I became PSA Data and Methods Assistant Director
- 22.12.2023: New paper! High Self-Selection of Ukrainian Refugees into Europe.
- 05.12.2023: I joined SIPS Conference programming committee. Call for 2024 Submissions!
- 29.11.2023: Shared own experience on lab size in nature methods
- 21.11.2023: New preprint! Climate Change Intervention Mega-Study.
- 05.11.2023: New preprint! Binge-Drinking and Empathy in Late Adolescence.
- 05.11.2023: I joined IES Abroad Austria as a lecturer.
- 01.11.2023: My first book chapter: "Covid-19 Pandemic Heroes"
- 26.10.2023: I gave a talk at the BTS23 conference: "BTS in Psychopathology"
- 22.10.2023: I gave a talk at the APA Division 34: "Empathy 4 Nature"
- 27.09.2023: New preprint! Comparative Cognition Needs BTS
- 03.09.2023: I gave a talk at the "Self-Other Workshop", Brussels, BE, 2023.
- 20.08.2023: Support Data Colada's Legal Defense
- 31.07.2023: received 10K SOLE SEED Grant (co-applicant)
- 11.06.2023: New fMRI paper! Interference control across the lifespan.
- 09.06.2023: I received Faculty Support and PhD-Seed Grants
- 22.04.2023: NASSPD Symposium "Self-other Distinction in Borderline PD Challenges & Opportunities"
- 03.04.2023: New paper! Homeostatic Regulation of Energy. Psychological Science.
- 19.02.2023: PCACR Rapid-Response Dataset published in Scientific Data!
- 11.01.2023: New paper! Stress / Mood & Music Listening during COVID. Jama.
- 01.01.2023: Preprint! Checklist for transparent reporting of RT pre-processing steps.
- New paper! Causal role of affect sharing. PlosOne
- Preprint! Affective consequences of effortful helping: EMA study.
- New paper: Social interactions during Covid-19: BJHP.
- 28.09.2022: Loss Framing during COVID-19: Affective Science.
- 16.07.2022: Self-other distinction is neither unitary nor domain-general
- I received Marietta Blau Grant from OeAD
- I became a PSA Data and Methods Committee member
- Pint of Science was featured in the Faculty News
- New preprint: PSACR COVID-19 Dataset
- New paper: Global experiment on social distancing. PSA consortium: PNAS.
- COVID-19 paper is out! Huge media-echo.
- Pint of Science was a huge success. See you in 2023!
- Ich zu Gast bei "ORF Monatsmagazin". (11-16 min)
- Vote for me in Photo Competition
- Pint of Science 2022: Das vollständige Programm ist ab jetzt online
- Moral judgments in the trolley dilemma featured in news
- New paper: Moral judgments in the trolley dilemma. Nature Human Behaviour
- Co-hosted: PINT OF SCIENCE PRE-EVENT
- New preprint: Social isolation vs fasting
- I support: Scientists and science journalists against the war with Ukraine
- New preprint: Stress, mood, and music during COVID-19
- Our project featured in faculty news!
- New preprint: COVID-19 & social interactions
- Forschungsnetzwerk Umwelt / Environmental Sciences Research Network (ESRN)
- Open Letter to Global Leaders - A Healthy Planet for Healthy People
- Unterschriftenliste zum Verzicht auf dienstliche Kurzstreckenflüge
- New preprint: COVID-19 in AT & IT (EMA study)
- New paper: Reappraisal during COVID-19. Nat Hum Behav (2021)
- Oral talk on stress and mood during COVID-19. WASAD, 20-22 September in Vienna!
- Interview: The COVID-19 impact on research in an Ambulatory Assessment Setting
- A new preprint: Global Experiment on Social Distancing
- PCR-Monitoring an österreichischen Schulen
- A new preprint - Reappraisal during COVID
- 16th PhD YSA Symposium - 17th and 18th June 2021
- Scientific confidentiality: how we gain insights into your everyday life
- PDF CV available for download
- New paper! PSA collaboration 2021
- New paper! Pronizius E. & Voracek M. (2020) #suicidality #skindisorders
- A statement by Scientists for Future concerning the protests for more climate protection
- Elected as Vice-President of Pint of Science Austria Verein
- Stimmung und Sozialverhalten während und nach der Corona-Krise - können Sie uns helfen?
- uni:docs 2019 - DoktorandInnen: Förderung für Veronika Tief und Ekaterina Pronizius.
