Claudia Massaccesi
Postdoc @LonsdorfLab | previously @ScanUnit @CSNunit & @UZH | (pro)social motivation, reward, opioids & dopamine
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- Reposted by Claudia MassaccesiApply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠 #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
- Reposted by Claudia MassaccesiI am so excited to share our newest preprint, inspired by @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, “A multiverse approach to heat-evoked skin conductance analysis: Evaluating the influence of analytic pipeline on associations between skin conductance and pain osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Claudia MassaccesiThe ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience. Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place. More news soon. #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026
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- Thanks ACNP! Excited to (virtually) attend my first ACNP meeting 🤩
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- New paper out in NYAS! nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We show that protecting others' from pain promotes effortful prosocial behavior 💪🧑🤝🧑🤝 w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social (thread below)
- New preprint from my postdoc work @scanunit.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps... “Avoiding pain to others motivates effortful prosocial behavior reducing prosocial apathy” w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claudia MassaccesiPlease RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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- Reposted by Claudia MassaccesiMajor news! Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation: Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al Thread 👇 osf.io/preprints/os...
- Reposted by Claudia MassaccesiNew in Nature MentalHealth! with Vrizzi, Najar, Lemogne, and @mael-lebreton.bsky.social We tested whether behavioural and RL-based model parameters are test-retest reliable and predict mental health traits. The result? Not really. A cautionary tale for comp. psychiatry doi.org/10.1038/s442...
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- Reposted by Claudia MassaccesiOnly 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠 ‼️ Deadline: May 18th
- 🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁
- Reposted by Claudia Massaccesistill a couple of days left to apply!
- ⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...
- Reposted by Claudia Massaccesi⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...
- Amazing opportunity to join the fantastic @scanunit.bsky.social and do cool research on prosocial behavior 🤝🧠 Apply or share widely!
- 🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁
- Reposted by Claudia Massaccesi3-year postdoc position (100% fte, TVL-E13) in human fMRI and psychopharmacology at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Applications are invited for a 3-year postdoc position in the Comparative Psychology research group
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- Reposted by Claudia Massaccesi🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology
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- New preprint from my postdoc work @scanunit.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps... “Avoiding pain to others motivates effortful prosocial behavior reducing prosocial apathy” w/ @clauslamm.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social
- Prior research suggested that when effort is required to help, individuals become prosocially apathetic. Here we adapted a well-validated prosocial effort task (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28819649/) and we examined if this is the case also for non-monetary rewards, i.e. reducing other’s pain
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- Reposted by Claudia MassaccesiWe are a bit late for this, but happy new year from the SCAN unit! 🎈 We are thankful for the productive and joyful times together and looking forward to another year of exciting research! 🤩 Here is our 2024 in review 👇
- Closing the year with a new paper from my research visit at Quednow's lab @UZH ✨ We examined associations between cumulative hair #testosterone & #cortisol and social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults w/ @lydiafjf.bsky.social and many others