Mario Reutter

It was very insightful to see where the statistical tools that we use every day come from and why they are the way they are!

"Do one thing every day that scares you." —Mary Schmich

Last Sunday, I participated in a workshop on "The Mathematical Basics of Statistical Tests and Estimators for Psychologists" by Susanne Frick and Julien Irmer during the conference of the section "Methods & Evaluation" of the @dgps.bsky.social

We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Psychometric Considerations in Assessing Fear Generalization as a Predictor of Anxiety The ability to adaptively transfer acquired fear to novel situations is fundamental for survival in ever-changing environments and may contribute to t…

Exciting news! Our latest paper is now published 🎉
We dive into the fear generalization literature to see how individual fear gen profiles are typically quantified, extracted the most commonly used measures, and compared them using simulated and empirical data: doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library This study advances our understanding of how individuals control automatic approach and avoidance tendencies to appetitive and aversive stimuli. Merging behavioral, physiological, and oculomotor resp...

Very glad to share my first published PhD paper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli.
Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig

🧠♻️ IGOR Symposium
"Open Science Initiatives in Biopsychological Research"
🗓️ Fri, 20.06 | 🕥 10:30–12:00
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Looking forward to a great symposium! Join us on Friday at 10:30 in the Audimax! 🤩

Looking forward to this inspiring symposium with amazing speakers! I'm honored to be part of this 🥰

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Our article with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @jannateigeler.bsky.social has now been published Open Access 🔓 in Behaviour Research and Therapy🥳
doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

Die Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) e.V. und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) schreiben drei Förderpreise für #Wisskomm in der Biologischen Psychologie aus!

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Neue Errungenschaft freigeschaltet: Mein Zug hat sich verfahren 🤣

‼️Job alert 4-year PhD or postdoc position‼️
In this project we use ultra-high field 7T functional neuroimaging and computational modeling to investigate the effects of learning and social influence on chronic and acute pain. Applications for a PhD or a postdoc position are welcome.

Trump’s anti-trans Executive Order is bad BUT it technically defines everyone as female. It states:

“'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell."

Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.

Diagnostic Facial Features & Fear Generalization Hosted on the Open Science Framework

Of course, all data, analysis scripts, and further materials are openly available🔓 #openscience
osf.io/4gz7f/

Here is the histogram of social anxiety scores. Almost half of the scores are above the optimal remission cutoff by von Glischinski et al. (2018).

We also observed generalization patterns in heart rate modulation💓 and pupil size changes🥺. Notably, only individuals with high anxiety showed an acceleration component↗️ after initial fear bradycardia↘️, indicating defensive reactions🛡️ on top of orienting responses🧭.

We replicated an attentional bias towards eyes compared to mouth and nose but individuals were able to adjust towards diagnostic facial features. Interestingly, people with high anxiety looked to non-diagnostic regions more quickly (hyperscanning?).

Participants acquired fear quickly and generalized it to morphs of faces (osf.io/wgqnj/wiki/h...) in a curved fashion✅. Highly anxious individuals showed overall higher subjective threat ratings✅ but no difference in generalization patterns compared to lowly anxious ones❌.

🚨 Preprint Alert🚨
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Fear generalization😱 depends on attention 👀towards diagnostic stimulus aspects🧐 - now replicated in a sample with diverse levels of social anxiety🧑‍🤝‍🧑(N = 87). Implications for therapy🛋️!

Thx to @gamerlab.bsky.social and @jannateigeler.bsky.social !

Great talk by @fmriguy.bsky.social about health-related chances and pitfalls of social media 🤩👏.
I would love your opinion on doi.org/10.1016/j.ch..., which uses temporal networks to offer a glimpse into the causal structure of well-being and social media use. Really convincing design in my opinion🧐

Just stumbled across this. What would you conclude from this correlational structure?

Spoiler: In the peer-reviewed and published paper, there is no discussion on how to draw a valid causal inference from these observational data 🙈
Source: doi.org/10.7759/cure... (Figure 1 "B")

🚨🚨🚨Important inquiry🚨🚨🚨
Who is going to the "Psychology and the Brain" 🧠conference this year in Hamburg and can play electrical bass? Our bassist sadly had to drop out and we are looking for a replacement😳. Please PN until Apr 14 to save the "PuG Band" this year!🤞

I thought not centering continuous predictors completely changes what interactions mean. Imagine the interaction of two non-negative predictors. Without centering: low * low = very low; with centering: negative * negative = positive. I think the latter is preferable since it mirrors effect coding.

I think z-scoring is a dominant strategy for statistical testing (interpretability of slopes due to standardization + interpretability of interactions due to centering). The problem is specific to visualization since practical information of mean and standard deviation are lost. Would you agree?

@ldeserno.bsky.social & me are recruiting a new postdoc to work with us in lovely Würzburg🍷🏰🚣‍♀️🌳 on the development of internalising/externalising symptoms / their computational basis.a collaborative project with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social happy to answer any question! www.psychjob.eu/de/job/post-...

Ohja! Grandiose Wahl! Und falls es dir gefällt, empfehle ich als nächstes "Ender's Game" :)