Publications

Cognitive Control: Exploring the causal role of the rTPJ in empathy for pain mediated by contextual information

Empathy determines our emotional and social lives. Extensive research has recognised the role of the right temporo-parietal junction …
PDF Dataset DOI

Open-label placebo treatment does not enhance cognitive abilities in healthy volunteers

The use of so-called ‘smart drugs’ such as modafinil to improve cognitive performance has recently attracted considerable attention. …
PDF DOI

ARIADNE – a scientific navigator to find your way through the resource labyrinth

The use of so-called ‘smart drugs’ such as modafinil to improve cognitive performance has recently attracted considerable attention. …
PDF Code Dataset Project DOI

A pill as a quick solution: association between painkiller intake, empathy, and prosocial behavior

Previous research has demonstrated a link between the administration of analgesic drugs and the reduction of empathy levels in humans. …
PDF Project DOI

To respond or not to respond: Exploring empathy-related psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and non-responders

Placebo responsiveness is highly variable across individuals. In the domain of pain, it may range from pronounced hypoalgesia to no …
PDF Project DOI

Incorporating feminist practices into (psychological) science - the why, the what and the how

Feminism is about challenging power in all its forms. Applying a feminist lens to scientific research brings many advantages, such as …
PDF Project DOI

The physical and mental health benefits of touch interventions: A comparative systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis

Receiving touch is of critical importance for human well-being. A large number of studies have shown that touch promotes mental and …
PDF DOI

The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes

The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantiallylower than expected caused the behavioural, …
PDF Project DOI

The effectiveness of preregistration in psychology: Assessing preregistration strictness and preregistration-study consistency

Study preregistration has become increasingly popular in psychology, but itseffectivenessin restrictingpotentially biasingresearcher …
PDF Project DOI

Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, …
Madeleine Pownall, Flávio Azevedo, Laura M. König, Hannah R. Slack, Thomas Rhys Evans, Zoe Flack, Sandra Grinschgl, Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Katie A. Gilligan-Lee, Catia M. F. de Oliveira, Biljana Gjoneska, Tamara Kalandadze, Katherine Button, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Jenny Terry, Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir, Filip Děchtěrenko, Shilaan Alzahawi, Bradley J. Baker, Merle-Marie Pittelkow, Lydia Riedl, Kathleen Schmidt, Charlotte R. Pennington, John J. Shaw, Timo Lüke, Matthew C. Makel, Helena Hartmann, Mirela Zaneva, Daniel Walker, Steven Verheyen, Daniel Cox, Jennifer Mattschey, Tom Gallagher-Mitchell, Peter Branney, Yanna Weisberg, Kamil Izydorczak, Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Ann-Marie Creaven, Suzanne L. K. Stewart, Kai Krautter, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Samuel J. Westwood, Patrícia Arriaga, Meng Liu, Myriam A. Baum, Tobias Wingen, Robert M. Ross, Aoife O'Mahony, Agata Bochynska, Michelle Jamieson, Myrthe Vel Tromp, Siu Kit Yeung, Martin R. Vasilev, Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Leticia Micheli, Markus Konkol, David Moreau, James E. Bartlett, Kait Clark, Gwen Brekelmans, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Samantha L. Tyler, Jan Philipp Röer, Zlatomira G. Ilchovska, Christopher R. Madan, Olly Robertson, Bethan J. Iley, Samuel Guay, Martina Sladekova, Shanu Sadhwani, FORRT
PDF DOI

Your pain in my brain

Pain is ubiquitous in life — we feel it when we accidentally hit our elbow on the door frame while rushing to the next meeting. But we …
PDF DOI

The nocebo effect: The placebo’s “evil twin”

Treatments are designed to help people fight diseases or their symptoms, and they are supposed to make us feel better. However, some …
PDF DOI

Placebo analgesia reduces costly prosocial helping to lower another’s pain

Painkiller administration lowers pain empathy, but whether this also reduces prosocial behavior is unknown. In this preregistered …
PDF Project DOI

Bridging neurodiversity and open scholarship: How shared values can guide best practices for research integrity, social justice, and principled education

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness, and reproducibility of research, …
PDF

A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms

Open scholarship has transformed research, and introduced a host of new terms in the lexicon of researchers. The ‘Framework for Open …
Parsons, Sam, Azevedo, Flávio, Guay, Samuel, Norris, Emma, O’Mahony, Aoife, Todorovic, Ana, Garcia-Pelegrin, Elias, Lazić, Aleksandra, Robertson, Olly, Valentini, Beatrice, McCuaig, Joanne, Collins, Elizabeth, Vanek, Norbert, Kovacs, Marton, Rishi, Sonia, Jaquiery, Matt, Agostini, Valeria, Izydorczak, Kamil, Ashcroft-Jones, Sarah, Hartmann, Helena, Ingham, Madeleine, Yamada, Yuki, Dechterenko, Filip, Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan, Yang, Yu-Fang, Zaneva, Mirela, Mounce, Ross, Kalandadze, Tamara, Li, Wanyin, Xiao, Qinyu, Yeung, Siu Kit, Liu, Meng, Kekecs, Zoltan, Bret, Amélie, Ballou, Nick, Dumbalska, Tsvetomira, Arendt, Beatrix, Laverty, Catherine, Moreau, David, Reid, Graham, Garcia-Garzon, Eduardo, Verheyen, Steven, Micheli, Leticia, Bret, Brice Beffara, Szaszi, Barnabas, Weinmann, Markus, Lecuona, Oscar, Schmidt, Birgit, Mendes, Ana Barbosa, Francis, Shannon, Paul, Mariella, Grose-Hodge, Magdalena, Spitzer, Lisa, Pownall, Madeleine, Wingen, Tobias, Terry, Jenny, AlDoh, Alaa, Hart, Alexander, Feldman, Gilad, Pomareda, Christina, Krautter, Kai, Aczel, Balazs
PDF Project DOI

Emotional ego- and altercentric biases in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence

Self-other distinction is a crucial aspect of social cognition, as it allows us to differentiate our own mental and emotional states …
PDF Dataset DOI

Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT)

Dramatic changes to the transparency, rigor, reproducibility and replicability of research practices have occurred in the last decade. …
PDF DOI

Placebo analgesia does not reduce empathy for naturalistic depictions of others’ pain in a somatosensory specific way

The shared representations account postulates that sharing another’s pain recruits underlying brain functions also engaged during …
PDF Dataset Project DOI

Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers

Open Science aims to improve the rigour, robustness, and reproducibility of psychological research. Despite resistance from some …
PDF Video DOI

Neural correlates of interpersonal space permeability and flexibility in autism spectrum disorder

Interpersonal space can be defined as a safety zone immediately surrounding our body, which allows us to feel comfortable during social …
PDF Dataset Project DOI

Another's pain in my brain - No evidence that placebo analgesia affects the sensory-discriminative component in empathy for pain

The shared representations account of empathy suggests that sharing other people’s emotions relies on neural processes similar to …
PDF Dataset Project DOI