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Yannik Bendel has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Expectations and Expectation Violation in End-of-Life Communication: Assessment, Interventions and Predictors of Coping" supervised by Dr. Pia von Blanckenburg and Prof. Dr. Martin Pinquart. Congratulations, Yannik!🥳.

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A new paper from the @rtg2271 written by @enaalcan, Benke, C., & Melzig, C. A. and published in "Behaviour Research and Therapy"📢.It´s about learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others:.

Welcome at the RTG! 🥳.

Today, the "Marburg Conference on Expectations and their Violations" of the research training group @rtg2271 begins. Looking forward to exciting presentations and discussions at #UniMarburg at the Department of Psychology

Matthias Sperl, former PhD student of the RTG 2271 received the 2. prize in the competition for this year's dissertation award of the General & Cognitive Psychology group of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). Congratulations!🏆🎉.

RT @mellr_erek: 14 PhD positions in our DFG-funded research training group on expectations @rtg2271 in @Uni_MR Marburg, Germany. Apply for….

Yesterday, we had @HansABochum here at the @Uni_MR psychology department colloquium to give a talk about the cognitive-ecological challenge of diversity, invited by the RTG. Thank you for the interesting talk and insightful discussions!

RT @tuennermann: 📢Today 🕓16:15 we will have @HansABochum, @ruhrunibochum in our Psych Dpt colloquium @Uni_MR with a talk on "The Cognitive….

You can now also find us on Mastodon:. #TwitterMigration.

RT @MFJSperl: Violate your expectations! ⬇️.Our review is now online as open-access article and in its final-edited….

RT @MFJSperl: 📢ONLINE: How can expectation violation models be used to improve psychotherapeutic treatments? Check out our new review publi….

New paper from the @rtg2271 published in „Clinical Psychology Review”📢.It's about how the expectation violation models can improve psychological treatments:.

RT @tuennermann: Happy to announce this terms Colloquium of the Psych Dept. @Uni_MR \w exiting talks by @JoyJGeng, W.Greve, T.Kaiser, @jpsn….

📢 New paper alert! 📢. A new study by @AnnaSeewald and @WRief1 analyzes whether the psychotherapist’s warmth and competence influence the likelihood of changing negative outcome expectations:. #expectationviolation #clinicalpsychology.

The GK Best Paper Award is awarded for the best publication in cognitive science by a young investigator whose PhD has been awarded 2018 or later or who is still a student or PhD candidate. Congratulation, Marcel!.

Binz, M., Gershman, S. J., Schulz, E., & Endres, D. (in press). Heuristics from bounded meta-learned inference. Psychological Review.

Dr. Marcel Binz (former PhD student of the GRK 2271) received the “Best Publication Award 2022” of the Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (i.e., the German Cognitive Science Society) for his paper:.

There were only positive expectation violations at this year's RTG retreat in Kleinwalsertal!.

RT @MarkusWohr: How do rats respond to expectancy violations? Great poster presentation by @mathangi_mg at the @rtg2271 retreat. Thanks to….

Also at #escon2022milano, @kiara_roth presented some studies about the contextualization of stereotype-incongruent behavior and the motivational/intergroup effects behind this for the case of political stereotypes!.