Nuno Busch

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New paper from our lab!🤝🏻 @linushof.bsky.social demonstrates how different strategies of searching for information when making decisions based on experience can shape choice patterns, such as deviations from "optimal" choices (maximizing expected value).

Interested in studying Neurocognitive Psychology? The application period for this excellent Master's program at LMU Munich is starting NOW! Apply here: www.lmu.de/psy/de/studi...

For all who use Bayesian hierarchical models, have a look at our new preprint, out now together with @linushof.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social and @thorstenpachur.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

(5/5) Also tried out a cool tool for the first time: Listen to this 5-min AI-generated podcast here if you want to learn more about the key findings! notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d6b...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library Standing posture restores and even enhances the well-known benefits of contextual cueing—where repeated arrangements speed visual search—under challenging conditions. This study advances our understa...

(4/n) In a second study published in Psychophysiology journal @therealspr.bsky.social we extend on the posture effects on spatial conflict processing by showing how context-guided visual target search is improved in upright posture.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

(3/n) The key takeaway: Standing seems to improve spatial conflict processing (Navon performance) through increased physiological arousal, whereas feature-based (Stroop) control seems largely unaffected.

Withstand control: standing posture differentially affects space-based and feature-based cognitive control through enhanced physiological arousal - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Withstand control: standing posture differentially affects space-based and feature-based cognitive control through enhanced physiological arousal

(2/n) In one article now published in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific reports, we demonstrate how postural demands differentially affect task-specific cognitive control functions:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you using height-adjustable workdesks?

Recent research has suggested that cognitive functioning might be enhanced when standing up compared to sitting down.

In two works from my master's, we tested these claims to show how different attentional functions are affected by standing posture: (1/n)

News from a different field today👩‍🔬: To power a greener future, we need better batteries. My sister published her BSc thesis, where she explored how to improve lithium-sulfur batteries - a promising battery type that could outperform conventional ones in cost & capacity🔋Cool work & promising impact!

Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization Measuring affective polarization, defined as the liking for one's political ingroup and the dislike for political outgroups, poses methodological challenges in multiparty systems: evaluations of seve...

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First paper of my dissertation now out in EJPR with @bnbakker.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social

Can we measure affective polarization in systems with 6, 10, or even more parties without overburdening respondents or compromising validity? We show how.

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Congratulations to @linushof.bsky.social from our lab @tum.de for being the runner-up at this year’s #teap2025 poster competition! His research shows that people search adaptively in decisions from experience.

New year, new research: In our latest paper published in JEP:LMC, my co-authors Thorsten Pachur, Wolfgang Gaissmaier and I answer the question: “Is there a description–experience gap in choices between a described and an experienced option?” (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...)

New paper just dropped 😎

Congratulations to Maué Pantoja (https://cbdr-lab.net/pantoja/) for the 2nd place of the student poster award (Society for Judgment & Decision Making #SJDM / New York) 🚀🚀 🚀 #CBDR

Olivia presenting at #psynom24

Exciting news from cbdr-lab.net: Olivia Fischer presented her recent project aimed at better understanding to what extent the risky choices behavioral scientists study reflect the choices people actually make in real life - and if not, to what extent it matters.
#psynom2024 @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social

EJ and František explaining the findings on stage of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. František has a large coin to demonstrate the physics behind the effect.

We won the IgNobel Prize in Probability for 350,757 coin flips.

František Bartoš and EJ Wagenmakers received the prize yesterday on behalf the 50-author team.

Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started on (probability = 50.8%).

🧪 #StatsSky #PsychSciSky

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