Rosa Maidhof

Learning from financial rewards and punishments reduces the in-group bias in social approach without changing the in-group bias in impressions | Royal Society Open Science Humans’ approach behaviour and impressions are biased towards individuals from their own group (in-group) compared with different groups (out-group). There is evidence that learning from specific interactions with in-group and out-group members can reduce ...

🥳 Super excited that today the first paper of my PhD has been published in @royalsociety.org: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Can learning from rewards and punishments change how people approach (or avoid) in-group vs. out-group members?

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The effect of music listening style on music-induced analgesia Music listening may decrease pain via psychobiological mechanisms. Music listening style (MLS) influences music processing: Music empathizers (ME) focus on emotional aspects of music, whereas music...

Music is often used in pain management. Do music listening style or gender modulate music-based analgesia? Does it matter who selects the music? What psychological mechanisms are involved?
Some answers in our new paper 👇 Thanks to the co-authors and participants!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maidhof et al. (2025) (@rosamaidhof.bsky.social) found self-selected music boosted pain tolerance, but women music empathizers felt more pain with their own music. Stress, not emotions, mediated this link, highlighting the need for personalized pain management. doi.org/10.1080/1025...