π Bottom line: more is not always better. A wider negative emotional repertoire may reflect dysregulation rather than richness and it predicts worse mental health and social functioning. Emotional bandwidth could be a promising tool for capturing this in daily life. 5/5
π Bandwidth didn't predict loneliness directly, the path ran through depression: wider negative emotional landscape β more depressive symptoms β more loneliness. Worth noting: only negative, and not positive emotional metrics carried weight for psychosocial outcomes. 4/5
π We found that higher negative bandwidth linked with more depressive symptoms, even controlling for mean affect, instability, variability & granularity. Not just feeling worse, but moving through a wider range of negative states, which may reflect a kind of dispersed emotional dysregulation. 3/5
Two 3D scatter plots comparing emotional state complexity. Left ("Low Bandwidth"): sparse cluster of ~15 blue dots, mostly bunched in one corner, entropy H=4.43 bits across 46 unique states -- suggesting a narrow, repetitive emotional range. Right ("High Bandwidth"): dense cloud of ~200 red-to-dark-red dots spread throughout the space, H=7.62 bits across 198 unique states -- suggesting rich, varied emotional experience. Both plots map three negative affect dimensions on their axes: Irritable, Low (mood), and Worried, each rated 1-7. Dot size encodes frequency; color encodes intensity. The contrast illustrates that high emotional bandwidth means occupying far more of the possible affective state space.
π Emotional bandwidth = how much of your possible emotional state space you visit each day. Every moment you feel a combo of angry, sad, worried, etc. That's a point in state space. Bandwidth measures how many distinct points you visit over time. Not just intensity or instability, but diversity. 2/5
π New preprint out! With @toninfrc.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com & Ε. Okruszek: "Lost in Emotional Space". We introduce emotional bandwidth, a new way to measure how people navigate their emotional landscape in daily life, and link it to depression and loneliness using experience sampling 𧡠1/5
Also, if in Berlin and interested in open science and physiological data, this one is definitely for you π«
Hello sunny Berlin πβοΈ
The #MindBrainBody Symposium kicks off today and weβre excited to dive into three days of engaging discussion and new ideas!
Our MBE group is bringing several posters & talks this year: come find us and chat about our research! π¬
See below to know where to spot us π
#MBBS26
If youβre in Berlin today, come say hi and learn why more is not always better when it comes to emotions!
Trying to build an experiment in Unity and slowly losing your patience?
Spoiler: thatβs completely normal!
Meet EDIA - a modular framework for building studies in Unity.
𧩠Reusable modules
π Data sync
πΆοΈ Multi-headset support
And yes, a βFind Waldoβ demo is included - because science should be fun!
In some way, it's trivial:
The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.
Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...
π’Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! π²πΉοΈπ
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.
π§ π« New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:
Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer π₯ & the brain as the singer π€ keeping the body's band in tune!
Read here (for ages 8β15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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Please consider donating to this initiative or any other - it's the least we can do
We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.
Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
I'm very honored and happy to share that our project "Science Streets" received the Science Communication award from the @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social!
Together with Laura Mayer, we will officially kick 𦡠off with the preparations!
More exciting news about Science Streets will follow soon!
Thatβs a wrap for the MBE group at #PuG2025!
@martager.bsky.social closed things out with a deep dive into how cardio-respiratory phase biases in voluntary action initiation might shape our sense of agency differently for actions vs. outcomes π«π«π§
See you next year in Heidelberg!
Day 2 of #PuG2025 was closed off by @michaelgaebler.com, diving into the advances and challenges of increasing the neurocognitive realism of virtual faces, from behavioural to EEG to VR studies π€π§ π
@agatapatyczek.bsky.social has a gift for science communication. If you happen to be in Leipzig, donβt miss the Long Night of Science tonight at @mpicbs.bsky.social from 21:00 to midnight
A cool experience of how our internal bodily signals can shape sounds and visuals π«π«π§
Next on the IGOR Symposium at #PuG2025 is @martager.bsky.social in lieu of @alinakoppold.bsky.social presenting latest results on what and how data transformation practices are used with psychophysiological data, and how these impact effect sizes and reliability π§
Preregistration: osf.io/tjax9/
Our next MBE group event for today is a poster presentation by @alexandroskas.bsky.social during Poster Session B, on how to improve eyewitness accuracy using 3D interactive lineups in VR ποΈπ΅οΈββοΈ
ποΈ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
π2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
#PuG2025
Donβt miss our MBE group events today! We start with Poster Session B with @flxklotz.bsky.socialβs poster B208, introducing EDIA as a tool to design VR experiments in Unity with ease π§ π
ποΈ Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
π2.XXX Z6 (second floor)
Next week at this time, @pug2025.bsky.social will be in full swing.
My fellow @mbe-lab.bsky.social colleagues and I are very much looking forward to it!
@martager.bsky.social
@flxklotz.bsky.social
@aleksanpi.bsky.social
@alexandroskas.bsky.social in person, the rest through our reports.
We continued the Neurology retreat with a workshop session "How to do science in the 21st century", co-led by @michaelgaebler.com @martager.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social & Jenny Mutu, inspired by the materials of @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social
This morning we started our Neurology retreat with a kickoff talk by @clarekelly.bsky.social on rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. Many thought-provoking insights that will help us identify some concrete actions to take in our department in the following workshop part π
Attending #PuG2025 in WΓΌrzburg this year? Check out the detailed program and see if you can spot our own Mind-Body-Emotion contributions including @michaelgaebler.com @flxklotz.bsky.social @aleksanpi.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @alexandroskas.bsky.social π
More details soon!
We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
We are coming to Psychologie und Gihirn 2024 (PUG) in Hamburg! Come chat with us! See the some teezers in the comments π¬ #PuG2024