Wanja Wolff

#DHPRLab in the ISSP 16th World Congress in Hong Kong!

Curious about our talks? Stay tuned 🙌🏼😌
@wanjawolff.bsky.social @senaozayotgonbayar.bsky.social @katjarewitz.bsky.social @lukas-hack.bsky.social

Together w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social, and Darias Holgado.

New #DHPRLab paper by @katjarewitz.bsky.social and @wanjawolff.bsky.social together with @nicoschuck.bsky.social 💪🥳

Check out the post below, in case you're interested! ⬇️

Check out our new preprint, led by Romy Froemer and in collaboration with Chih-Chung Ting and Sebastian Gluth:
“Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making”.
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New #DHPRLab paper by @wanjawolff.bsky.social and @katjarewitz.bsky.social together with @corimartarelli.bsky.social 💪🥳

Check out the post below, in case you're interested!⬇️

Some more media news from #DHPRL! 📺📢

Curious what we’ve been up to? Check out Wanja’s post below ⬇️

The explore-exploit trade-off in sports and exercise: a primer on empirical and computational approaches Sports and exercise require constant on-the-fly decision-making from professional athletes and recreational exercisers alike. In the final minutes of …

Very happy to see this out now in Psychology of Sport & Exercise 🤓

If you’re interested in how the explore–exploit framework helps us study decision-making in sports and exercise, check it out!

w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New #DHPRLab paper by @wanjawolff.bsky.social together with @corimartarelli.bsky.social and Vanessa Radtke 💪🥳

Check out the post below, in case you're interested!⬇️

Last week we had another amazing guest in our #DHPRLab meeting:

Prof. Dr. Martin Behrens told us about psychometric measures and neurophysiological approaches towards fatigue in his “Updated Fatigue Framework” talk.
Thank you for taking the time and really nice discussions! 🙏

One week left to apply to the Max Planck School of Cognition! I have worked with several grad students from the programme and it's an impressive group of people. Deadline Dec 1st.

Postdoc (and PhD) opportunity in my lab. www.linkedin.com/posts/matthi...

Want to delve into how LLM's shape how we write? Embark on the journey below 🙃⬇️

The boredom trap: How LLMs are draining entropy from the way we communicate: https://osf.io/wzveh

The Real Reason the Last Decade of Our Life Seems to Fly By Our new study shows why time feels like it speeds up with age. The good news: Older adults cherish and recall their meaningful experiences more vividly than the younger do.

The Real Reason the Last Decade of Our Life Seems to Fly By. My Psychology Today blog on our latest empirical discovery with Alice Teghil as to why time speeds up as we grow older. It is not related to autobiographical memory but to cognitve decline. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sens...

Die Kraft der Langeweile: Warum Nichtstun uns voranbringt Psychologe Prof. Wanja Wolff von der Uni Hamburg erklärt, warum Langeweile wie Schmerz wirkt: ein Signal, Kurs zu ändern.

📺 A TV team from NDR visited our @dhprlab.bsky.social to learn about our current research & why boredom plays a powerful role in human behavior.

You can spend three (German, but hopefully not boring) minutes watching it here: www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se...

P.S. Thumbnail is not footage from our lab 😁

An analysis of the associations between boredom, effort value, and exercise behavior Insufficient physical activity poses significant health risks, making it essential to understand psychological aspects influencing exercise engagement…

📢 New paper 🤩

w/ @katjarewitz.bsky.social & @corimartarelli.bsky.social, we used Bayesian network analyses to study the relationship between exercise boredom, effort value & self-reported exercise behavior.

TL;DR: high boredom & low value -> less exercise

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Was geht an der Universität Hamburg? 🤳Ab sofort findet ihr bei Bluesky das UHH-Startpaket. Hier bündeln wir für euch die Profile von Forschenden und Einrichtungen der Uni Hamburg. Ihr seid noch nicht dabei? Kommentiert oder schreibt uns eine DM! 💬

The Publications and Communications Board of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Science of Motivation has opened nominations for the editorship of Motivation Science, a multidisciplinary journal that publishes significant contributions to the study of motivation.

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

Task-related effort - distinguishing boredom- and difficulty-related effort via electrodermal activity Exerting effort is central to human performance, with the sources of effort varying across tasks. While traditionally linked to task difficulty, effor…

Very cool to see this one out now in Physiology & Behavior 🤩

- We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity

Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Truly enjoyed this talk held by Dr. Johannes Seiler 🎉

Interesting to discuss boredom as a signal that feels aversive but also secures us from stagnation 🙌🏼

Thanks for taking your time 👍🏼

Great pleasure to host Dr. Johannes Seiler in our #DHPRLab meeting!

He gave a fascinating talk on how boredom drives exploration and information-seeking, and how neural entropy underlies this process across species.

Thank you for sharing your time and insights 🙏

This week we had another awesome guest in our #DHPRLab meeting:

Prof. Dr. Erin Gerlach told us about the empirical educational research perspective and how it connects to practice through inspiring projects.
Thank you for taking the time! 🙏

Ausschreibung

🚨Job Alert🚨

2 unbefristete Stellen (je 75%, E13) bei uns am Institut für Bewegungswissenschaften

- Fokus: Insb. Sozialwissenschaften des Sports/Sportsoziologie & qualitative Methoden

Über Verbreitung freue ich mich sehr, Rückfragen gern per DM an mich 🙏

👉 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Jenkes neues Selbst-Experiment: Würdest du drei Stunden quälende Langeweile überstehen? Was passiert, wenn die ständige Reizüberflutung durch das Smartphone wegfällt? Jenke von Wilmsdorff und Kameramann Jan haben genau das in einem radikalen Selbst-Experiment ausprobiert: Drei Stunden ab...

📺 In the German primetime TV show JENKE Experiment, participants endured three hours of boredom - with a few theory-driven curveballs 😁

A vivid reminder that doing “nothing” can be tough & that boredom really matters.

Very excited to have contributed to this project.

www.joyn.de/bts/serien/j...

Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and punishment on cognitive control Human motivation is fundamentally shaped by one's expectations of the reward they could earn for good performance or the punishment they would avoid for poor performance. However, the extent to which ...

Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠

Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

(S+) Radeln und Joggen finden Sie öde? Das hilft gegen Langeweile beim Sport Kilometersammeln zu Fuß oder per Rad, Hantelwuchten, Kachelzählen beim Schwimmen – das kann zäh und öde sein. Sportpsychologe Wanja Wolff sagt dagegen: Langeweile kann zum Motivationsboost für Hobbysp...

📰 Mit Anne Paulsen von @spiegel.de habe ich über unser @dhprlab.bsky.social, unsere verschiedenen Messmethoden & insbesondere unsere aktuelle #Forschung zu #Langeweile im #Sport gesprochen.

Vielleicht sind ja ein paar hilfreiche Tipps dabei 😁 ⬇️
www.spiegel.de/fitness/fitn...

📣 #moeffortmoproblems

“Just try harder and the success will follow” does does not always apply.

Check out our latest preprint to learn more about this effort performance (de)coupling across domains and contexts 😎

Postdoc Position: Workplace Communication and Employee Wellbeing | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Postdoc: Workplace Communication and Employee Wellbeing at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

2-year postdoc in our team, supervised by Laura Fruhen and Tirza van Noorden.

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

How the body and brain process time Recent evidence from two independent meta-analyses reveals that subjective time is processed in the insular cortex alongside the supplementary motor a…

The two main hubs in the brain for the processing of human time perception have been identified: SMA and Insula. Here Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università di Roma and I provide the conceptual background in our review on 'How the body and brain process time'. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...