Sebastian Ocklenburg

How many handednesses are there? Published in Laterality: Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Interesting: Laterality invites short commentaries (5–10 pages) addressing empirical, theoretical, methodological, and philosophical implications of expanding the concept of handedness. Submission deadline is 10th July 2026. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Left-Handers Are Better at Mirror-Writing Than Right-Handers Have you ever wondered whether left-handers are better at mirror-writing than right-handers? Several studies have investigated this question.

Left-Handers Are Better at Mirror-Writing Than Right-Handers | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Wir suchen für unsere Forschungsstation Psychose eine Leitende Psycholog:in, unbefristet und bis A14! 🎉 Voraussetzung: Approbation (VT) und Promotion. Wenn eines von beidem noch nicht komplett abgeschlossen ist, meldet euch bei Interesse trotzdem gern 🤗

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AI in, Garbage Out: Is Meta-Analysis in Danger? Psychologists often integrate research findings using meta-analysis to generate robust insights. But a rise in fake AI-generated publications threatens this important method.

AIGO is the new GIGO: AI in, Garbage Out: Is Meta-Analysis in Danger? | @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Left-Handers Are More Competitive Than Right-Handers Left-handers are better at some types of sports than right-handers. But are they also more competitive? A new study says yes.

Left-Handers Are More Competitive Than Right-Handers | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

What about Psychobiology?

Toxic People Makes Us Age Faster Toxic friends or family members can negatively affect mental health, but do they also make us age faster? A new study suggests so.

Toxic People Makes Us Age Faster | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cognitive Offloading: Using AI Reduces New Skill Formation Is cognitive offloading harmless or does it have negative effects for cognition? A new study offers interesting insights.

Cognitive Offloading: Using AI Reduces New Skill Formation | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

How Stress Hurts Heart Rate Synchronization in Couples When one partner is stressed, the other feels it too—not just emotionally, but on a biological level. New research on heart rate synchronization helps explain how.

How Stress Hurts Heart Rate Synchronization in Couples | @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Group photograph of faculty and participants of the very first Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Genetics and Neurobiology of Language in 2014, taken as the sun was going down at the Banbury Campus, Lloyd Harbor.

Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
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Women and Girls in Science Day 2026 🔬✨
„From Vision to Impact“ heißt: Gender Gap in STEM schließen. Vielfalt ist Voraussetzung für faire, innovative & zukunftsfähige Wissenschaft – gerade in Zeiten von KI & Krisen. Wir stärken Mädchen & junge Frauen in der Forschung. @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social

So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ - The Scholarly Kitchen How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?

So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s...

Haben Extremsportler:innen wirklich keine Angst? 🤔
👉 Darüber durfte ich mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung sprechen.
Jetzt online ⬇️
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How to Be an Atoxic Man Atoxic masculinity and the eight rules for being a good man.

How to Be an Atoxic Man | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

What enables human language? A biocultural framework Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

For anyone teaching/studying/researching the evolution of language, we wrote a framework paper especially for you!
It lays out how bridging diverse fields can give new insights into this most mysterious of human traits.
There's a link for free access on MPI website here:
www.mpi.nl/publications...
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I'm a Scientist Get Me Out of here. Forscher*innen für Live-Chats mit Schüler*innen gesucht. Themenrunde KI 23. bis 27. Februar 2025. Bis zum 5. Februar bewerben! Wissenschaft im Dialog Rhet AI VolkswagenStiftung Forschungsbörse

Last Call für I’m a Scientist: Als Wissenschaftler*in kannst du dich noch bis Donnerstag, den 5. Februar, für die aktuelle Themenrunde zu Künstlicher Intelligenz bewerben! Sei dabei und tausche dich vom 23. bis 27. mit Schüler*innen über deine Forschung aus!
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🧠🧠🧠 Wir haben bei unserer letzten Vorstandssitzung der @dgps.bsky.social in Jena neue Angebote und Initiativen für Jungmitglieder für das Jahr 2026 geplant – 🔜 detaillierte Informationen dazu bekommt ihr in Kürze! 🎊🎊🎊

At #PuG2026 in Heidelberg you can look forward to 3 keynote lectures by Simone Shamay-Tsoory („Inter-brain coupling during empathic interactions“), @mschoenauer.bsky.social („The role of reactivation in forming long-term memories“) and @micahgallen.com („Toward Causality in Interoception Research“)!

𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗸𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 – 𝗘𝗶𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗸𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻!

In unserem #Psychologie-Magazin bieten wir Wissenschaftler*innen die Möglichkeit, ihre Forschung einem breiten Publikum zugänglich zu machen.

Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? Today's post presents preliminary evidence that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in pap...

An interesting analysis, consistent with the idea that paper mill users pursue publication for reward and do little of the costly work of high integrity research. Open science indicators may be a useful component of meaningful integrity signaling. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/28/p...

Making Replication Count: Spring Hackathon Join us for a three-day-hackathon to create a Zotero plug-in and a preprint bot to boost the visibility of replication studies! Background In the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, replicatio...

🚀 Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person 🚀

3 days. 4 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore.

📆 4-6 May 2026 | Münster, Germany 
✈️ Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)

Apply by 16 March ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2

🧵👇 What we will build?

Have you already submitted your symposium or poster to #PuG2026? The deadline for Symposia is 28.02.2026 and the deadline for Posters and individual contributions to accepted symposia is 31.03.2026! pug2026.org/submission/

Am I Left-Handed or Mixed-Handed? Many people think there are only two forms of handedness, but there are actually three: left-handedness, right-handedness, and mixed-handedness.

Am I Left-Handed or Mixed-Handed? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Decoding the human brain during intelligence testing - Communications Biology Variations in human brain frontoparietal functional connectivity and in signal complexity during intelligence tests relate to individual test performance. Results encourage exploring human intell...

😍 Today published in Nature Communications - Biology: "Decoding the Human Brain During Intelligence Testing". 🧠 fMRI Graph Theory + EEG Signal Complexity 🧠 Collaboration with Rex Jung, Adam Chuderski & Jonas Thiele! >> 🙂Open Access: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

@forrt.bsky.social and the Münster Center for Open Science are organizing a Love Replications Week this year. Get in touch if you would like to contribute with tutorials, case studies, or discussions surrounding #reproductions and #replications! The full program will be announced soon!

Personality Genomics Recent research advances have precipitated the era of personality genomics: the study of how variation in human DNA sequence predicts individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, fee...

A very comprehensive review of the genetics of personlity led by @tedmond.bsky.social This is a great onramp for those who haven't checked into psychiatric genetics or bahviour genetics in a while. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

New paper out: Neural correlates of #social affect and social cognition as risk markers of #bipolardisorder
Big congrats to Dahna Choi et al. 🎉
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🧠🔬 Was ist eigentlich „Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie“?
Zum 🎉4️⃣0️⃣. Geburtstag unserer Fachgruppe @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social in der @dgps.bsky.social werfen wir einen Blick in die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. ⏳➡️🚀
Jetzt in der Psychologischen Rundschau: doi.org/10.1026/0033... 📖🔓🌍