Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)

Interested in finding out more about the topics of #treatmentexpectation and #placebo/#nocebo effects? 🤔

🔊 We collected all podcasts episodes featuring members of our CRC! 🎤

Browse all episodes here ➡️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2no...

Es war mir eine Freude, über so viele wirklich kreative #WissKomm Projekte zu lesen und wirklich schwer, die besten unter den besten auszusuchen ✨

Need a birthday present for someone? 🎂

Read this review by @spektrum.de Gehirn und Geist to find out whether our book is the right one: www.spektrum.de/rezension/bu...

Are you passionate about teaching #statistics? Would like to have a permant #job in #academia? Are you fluent in #English and #German? Do you want to become a senior lecturer @uni-graz.at?
Apply!: jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/3cb1...

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Shhhhh it doesn't matter where they come from haha

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I know we shouldn't focus too much on quantitative metrics like h-factor and citations in research, but it is nice to know that my work has been cited over 1000 times by now 💗

🫜 New #ScienceandFiction short story 🥦

This time, @benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social writes about a future where eating meat is a part of the past. Want to know why?

🇬🇧 scienceandfiction.net/stories/38_a...
🇩🇪 scienceandfiction.net/de/stories/3...

#scicomm #wisskomm #comic

New work from A01!

PI @helenahartmann.com investigated nocebo, deceptive placebo and open-label placebo effects on sustained visual attention together with her colleague @jonaspotthoff.bsky.social from @uni-graz.at! 🤩

What did they do exactly? 🤔

@unidue.bsky.social @neurologieessen.bsky.social

Here is a short interview with me on why I do research: www.uni-due.de/2023-08-10-h...

Ok researchers rise and shine, it's groundhog day - what better way to get you up to date with what has been going on at the FORRT Replication Hub? forrt.org/replication-...

Huh, I'll have a look!

Thanks! From my research so far, I've been wondering if it is, in its simplest form, just a correlation between two signals.

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Does anyone have experience with heart rate synchrony analysis of dyads doing something together?

Any practical tips and literature for newbies appreciated!

Day 2 is all about how we learn, how we teach, and what makes a good workshop! ♥️

So happy to finally be at one of the @nawik.de trainer days! 💙

➡️ Meeting many new and old great people 👥
➡️ Updates and future plans for the NaWik
➡️ Discussing about how to best teach science communication 💪

Introducing CORTRE: a reporting guideline for reproducibility efforts 👉 cortre.github.io

We are excited to officially announce CORTRE: COmplete Reporting for Transparent Reproducibility Efforts 🎯

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It's an oxheart or bull’s heart tomato! 🍅

Yes we recently discussed this study, absolutely fabulous research haha especially check out the picture of the haunted house situation in the paper!

I'm finally in southern Germany since a loooong time and can order a Colaweizen without a weird look (it's wheat beer and coca cola) 🍺

And also I had the best, lightly caramelized Kaiserschmarrn 😍

Best start to the two upcoming @nawik.de trainer days starting tomorrow! ✨

Right? They made us get through looong scanner data collection nights 😅

Of course the scanned fruit and vegetables from my time in Vienna @scanunit.bsky.social moved to the new place with me and found a fitting place in the kitchen ✨

Can you guess all of them? 😁

Shout-out to @lukaslengersdorff.bsky.social, my PhD-partner-in-crime 🧠🧲

Thanks to everyone who was there!

It really is fantastic to know that 70(!) people are interested in storytelling to explain science! 💙 😱

Missed the talk? Don't worry, I recorded it (in German): youtu.be/hUY098T9p-k

Thanks to @psycomm.bsky.social for allowing me to be one of the first talks! ✨

Don't miss this #scicomm talk by @helenahartmann.com talking about @scienceandfiction.net tomorrow! ✨

➡️ Register with @psycomm.bsky.social at psycomm@dgps.de!

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I love those pedestrian traffic lights that immediately switch to green upon one button press. All this power to make all the cars stop 🚦

Currently reviewing some new "In a nutshell" videos for our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social YouTube channel! 🤩

Some cool videos coming up feat. @janhaaker.bsky.social, @jlaferton.bsky.social and Christine Knaevelsrud! 🤯

For now, stay tuned and subscribe: youtube.com/@sfb-trr_289...

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This was a joint effort of @markusruetgen.bsky.social (@ki.se and @scanunit.bsky.social), @ulrikebingel.bsky.social, Philipp Dahmen (a talented medical doctoral student), and me! 💪

The work was funded by the @dfg.de (@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social) and @fwf-at.bsky.social! 🙏

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However, the studies were very different from each other, often had small sample sizes, and investigated very specific outcomes ...

So, as science often concludes: It's a start, but there's lots more to do to understand how our own pain influences social emotions and behavior.

What did we find? Mainly mixed and inconsistent effects, meaning some types of pain modulation sometimes increased or decreased social cognition abilities, with the most consistent and replicated result being that placebo analgesia reduces empathy for others’ pain.

The paper also features an absolutely insane table of all the different ways researchers have operationalized social emotions and behaviors in these studies - from emotional face processing over empathy to prosocial behavior! 😱

We hope this overview is helpful to many social cognition researchers!

What manipulations did we investigate? 🤔

Previous studies used substances like opioids, acetaminophen, cannabinoids, placebos, alcohol, or hypnosis to directly or indirectly change participants' pain processing and then look at its social consequences.