Another amazing year at the SCAN unit with:
30+ papers🗞️
Many new faces 🤓
Long train rides 🚂
Rejections, resubmissions 📝
Tomatoes 🍅
A lot of science 🧠
And even more teamwork and shared moments 🫶

Thanks 2025 - looking forward to 2026 ✨

Nature exposure reduces self-reported pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Nature Mental Health The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies, including more than 4,400 participants across 21 countries, to investigate the effects of nature exposure on self-reported pa...

Our preregistered systematic review & meta-analysis published in Nature Mental Health shows that nature exposure is linked to small-to-moderate reductions in self-reported pain (SMD = .53; N = 4,439). But high heterogeneity and moderate-to-high risk of bias call for a cautious interpretation (1/5)

Nature exposure may be a promising adjunct non-pharmacological pain treatment strategy, but more work is needed. Big thanks to @jonasnitschke.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social, Mat White, the reviewers/editors at Nature Mental Health, and @fwf-at.bsky.social for making this project possible (5/5)

With @todorova.bsky.social, @jonasnitschke.bsky.social, @katerinamichalaki.bsky.social, @linakoppel.bsky.social, @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social, @toddvogel.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social, @danielvastfjall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social, @brainapps.bsky.social & @thepsychologist.bsky.social

@lei-zhang.bsky.social
@sabinepahl.bsky.social
@jonasnitschke.bsky.social
@kimdoell.bsky.social
@lukaslengersdorff.bsky.social

Huge thanks to my fantastic co-authors for this collaboration! @clauslamm.bsky.social @sabinepahl.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social @lukaslengersdorff.bsky.social @jonasnitschke.bsky.social @kimdoell.bsky.social
6/6

BIG thanks to the coauthors: Lukas Lengersdorff,
@shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social,
@todorova.bsky.social,
@jonasnitschke.bsky.social, Jamie Druckman,
@madalina.bsky.social, The Many Labs Climate Consortium (i.e., the academic expert forecasters),
@clauslamm.bsky.social, and @jayvanbavel.bsky.social

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
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We are a bit late for this, but happy new year from the SCAN unit! 🎈
We are thankful for the productive and joyful times together and looking forward to another year of exciting research! 🤩
Here is our 2024 in review 👇

We created a starter pack for all current and former members of the SCAN unit @univie.ac.at

Topics: social, cognitive, affective, and environmental neuroscience and psychology 🧠🤗

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🌍 Thrilled to share our new preprint and the first part of my thesis! Using machine learning, we analyzed data from 55 countries to uncover key individual and nation-level predictors of climate change beliefs & behaviors. Let's dive in! 🧵 1/12

Come work with us - SIX yr. postdoc in Environmental Social Neuroscience 🧠🏞️ @univie (@ScanUnit, @clauslamm). Develop own research line, transition towards junior group leader, excellent research infrastructure, supportive work environment 🥳 & 🏆mentoring
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In case someone hasn't realized it yet from this list: the people
@ScanUnit
are the coolest, kindest, and smartest collaborators I could ever have wished for :) Thanks so much for letting me live my dream - do great science, satisfy my curiosity, and having fun w/ others doing it

Link to the preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 5/5

We argue that establishing the effects of acute stress on the separate processes involved in delay discounting, such as reward valuation and prospection, will help to resolve the inconsistencies in the field. 4/5

We find no evidence that stress changes delay discounting compared to control.

We also find no systematic evidence of moderating factors, such as type of stressor or gender/sex of participant, or incentivized and hypothetical decisions. 3/5

We (Forbes, Nitschke, Hochmeister, Kalenscher, & Lamm) did a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting on the effects of acute stress on monetary delay discounting. 💸 2/5

Interested in the effects of stress on delay discounting (preference for instant smaller vs delayed greater rewards)? We have a new preprint available! 1/5

Happy new year from us! 🥳😊
Following with our tradition we present to you our year in figures and wish you all the best for 2024!