Andrea Reiter
@anrei.bsky.social
prof&psychotherapist at University of Würzburg, interested in Learning | Decision-Making | Social Context, in Development | Mental Health | Psychotherapy
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New preprint with @yongling.bsky.social and @anrei.bsky.social on asymmetric social structure representation in participants with Borderline personality disorder.
A self without a "we": Individuals with Borderline personality disorder show signatures of disrupted social basis functions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.21.752665v1
What a pleasure to collaborate with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social to find reduced signatures of "we-ness", along enhanced "they-ness" in young individuals with Borderline personality disorder. Check out the preprint 👇🏻if you are interested
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Why do people devalue empathic responses believed to be edited by AI?
Because empathy is a predictive social signal: genuine human empathy updates expectations about closeness and social trust.
The signaling function of empathy collapses when it is cheaply outsourced.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Because empathy is a predictive social signal: genuine human empathy updates expectations about closeness and social trust.
The signaling function of empathy collapses when it is cheaply outsourced.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
May 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Why do people devalue empathic responses believed to be edited by AI?
Because empathy is a predictive social signal: genuine human empathy updates expectations about closeness and social trust.
The signaling function of empathy collapses when it is cheaply outsourced.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Because empathy is a predictive social signal: genuine human empathy updates expectations about closeness and social trust.
The signaling function of empathy collapses when it is cheaply outsourced.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Georg Nagel – awarded this year's medicine prize – was born in 1953.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
October 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Georg Nagel – awarded this year's medicine prize – was born in 1953.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
What a pleasure to collaborate with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social to find reduced signatures of "we-ness", along enhanced "they-ness" in young individuals with Borderline personality disorder. Check out the preprint 👇🏻if you are interested
New preprint with @yongling.bsky.social and @anrei.bsky.social on asymmetric social structure representation in participants with Borderline personality disorder.
A self without a "we": Individuals with Borderline personality disorder show signatures of disrupted social basis functions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.21.752665v1
September 29, 2026 at 6:24 AM
What a pleasure to collaborate with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social to find reduced signatures of "we-ness", along enhanced "they-ness" in young individuals with Borderline personality disorder. Check out the preprint 👇🏻if you are interested
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This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.
Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
www.nature.com
June 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.
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📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social!
Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?
In short, yes!
Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?
In short, yes!
The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory
Counterfactual thinking — considering what could have come of choosing the other path — can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 28, 2026 at 7:11 PM
📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social!
Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?
In short, yes!
Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?
In short, yes!
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🚨 JOB alert: 📢
We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
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February 23, 2026 at 7:37 AM
🚨 JOB alert: 📢
We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
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Finally listened to this lecture -- highly recommended if you've ever been confused about fixed effects vs. random effects models. Love that the framing starts from group-level confounding -- here's a problem, what could be solutions (rather than: here's a model, what are its features).
This time I try to explain group-level confounding and some ways to deal with it. Lecture B04 of Statistical Rethinking 2026 - fixed effects, Mundlak machines, latent Mundlak machines, intro to social network analysis and the social relations model. Full lecture list: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture B04 - Group-level confounding and intro to social networks
YouTube video by Richard McElreath
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Finally listened to this lecture -- highly recommended if you've ever been confused about fixed effects vs. random effects models. Love that the framing starts from group-level confounding -- here's a problem, what could be solutions (rather than: here's a model, what are its features).
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🧵 New paper in @NatureComms
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026)
Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇
rdcu.be/e0VcO
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026)
Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇
rdcu.be/e0VcO
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
Nature Communications - Normative theory predicts that feedback should not affect decisions under risk, but past findings disagree. Here, the authors show that feedback shifts risk-taking by...
rdcu.be
January 27, 2026 at 12:12 PM
🧵 New paper in @NatureComms
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026)
Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇
rdcu.be/e0VcO
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026)
Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇
rdcu.be/e0VcO
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We had a wonderful evening celebrating the official opening of the Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents!🥂🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us - we're looking forward to what's ahead!
@anrei.bsky.social @kabertsch.bsky.social
@anrei.bsky.social @kabertsch.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 AM
We had a wonderful evening celebrating the official opening of the Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents!🥂🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us - we're looking forward to what's ahead!
@anrei.bsky.social @kabertsch.bsky.social
@anrei.bsky.social @kabertsch.bsky.social
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“The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died.”
If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you.
[gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you.
[gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died.”
If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you.
[gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you.
[gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
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🥳!!NEW PREPRINT!!🥳
We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.
We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🥳!!NEW PREPRINT!!🥳
We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.
We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.
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Congrats to Katja and Andrea!🎉 Their project on mental health and social integration, which aims to advance treatment options for adolescents and young adults with social deficits, has earned a research award from the Vogel Stiftung!🏆👏 @kabertsch.bsky.social @anrei.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Congrats to Katja and Andrea!🎉 Their project on mental health and social integration, which aims to advance treatment options for adolescents and young adults with social deficits, has earned a research award from the Vogel Stiftung!🏆👏 @kabertsch.bsky.social @anrei.bsky.social
Wir suchen noch deutschsprachige Paare 🤼♀️👫 ü40, die Lust haben, uns bei dieser Studie zu unterstützen ✨ ✨
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Wir suchen noch deutschsprachige Paare 🤼♀️👫 ü40, die Lust haben, uns bei dieser Studie zu unterstützen ✨ ✨
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11 days left to apply!💼⏰ Spread the word 📣
We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
11 days left to apply!💼⏰ Spread the word 📣
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Die Finanzierung der Weiterbildung für Fachpsychotherapeut*innen ist immer noch nicht geregelt. Deshalb demonstrieren wir am 24.10. um 15 Uhr in Köln, Bochum und Marburg für gesetzliche Regelungen. Mehr dazu warum Conni die Welt nicht versteht: www.instagram.com/p/DP1fEvmCGa...
October 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Die Finanzierung der Weiterbildung für Fachpsychotherapeut*innen ist immer noch nicht geregelt. Deshalb demonstrieren wir am 24.10. um 15 Uhr in Köln, Bochum und Marburg für gesetzliche Regelungen. Mehr dazu warum Conni die Welt nicht versteht: www.instagram.com/p/DP1fEvmCGa...
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🚨 New Preprint 🚨
Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why?
🧵
We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why?
🧵
We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🚨 New Preprint 🚨
Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why?
🧵
We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why?
🧵
We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Andrea Reiter
We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
September 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃
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New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
www.nature.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I'm glad that NWO has launched a new round of the impactful Mozaïek grant, offering PhD funding funding to traditionally underrepresented minorities. Scheme call here: lnkd.in/eKVdUyqU We might be able to support an application if interests & skills overlap lifespancognitivedynamics.com (dm)
Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics Lab
lifespancognitivedynamics.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I'm glad that NWO has launched a new round of the impactful Mozaïek grant, offering PhD funding funding to traditionally underrepresented minorities. Scheme call here: lnkd.in/eKVdUyqU We might be able to support an application if interests & skills overlap lifespancognitivedynamics.com (dm)
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Our call for more efficient and informative RCTs in mental health through novel designs -- Transforming the evidence landscape in mental health with platform trials rdcu.be/ecSMq
Led by @goldlabcharite.bsky.social @blennox4.bsky.social and others
#Psychiatry #MentalHealth #academicsky
Led by @goldlabcharite.bsky.social @blennox4.bsky.social and others
#Psychiatry #MentalHealth #academicsky
Transforming the evidence landscape in mental health with platform trials
Nature Mental Health - This Perspective outlines evidence on existing platform trials in mental health and discusses key challenges and strategies to overcome barriers in order to maximize the...
rdcu.be
March 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Our call for more efficient and informative RCTs in mental health through novel designs -- Transforming the evidence landscape in mental health with platform trials rdcu.be/ecSMq
Led by @goldlabcharite.bsky.social @blennox4.bsky.social and others
#Psychiatry #MentalHealth #academicsky
Led by @goldlabcharite.bsky.social @blennox4.bsky.social and others
#Psychiatry #MentalHealth #academicsky
Yes! We are already busy as bees🐝🐝🐝 preparing and look forward to welcoming you in Würzburg! with @gamerlab.bsky.social @hein-lab.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social @martinweiss.bsky.social @mjherrmann.bsky.social Katja Bertsch Johannes Hewig Andrea Kübler Johannes Rodriguez
Poster abstract submission for #PuG2025 in Würzburg are open until end of March! Time to start thinking about what to present 🤔 www.pug2025.org/submission
Submission | PuG2025
www.pug2025.org
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Yes! We are already busy as bees🐝🐝🐝 preparing and look forward to welcoming you in Würzburg! with @gamerlab.bsky.social @hein-lab.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social @martinweiss.bsky.social @mjherrmann.bsky.social Katja Bertsch Johannes Hewig Andrea Kübler Johannes Rodriguez
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We are looking for 2 new colleagues - #professorships in
(A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
(B) Work & Organizational Psychology
Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden
- Please share -
@dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣
tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...
(A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
(B) Work & Organizational Psychology
Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden
- Please share -
@dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣
tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...
February 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We are looking for 2 new colleagues - #professorships in
(A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
(B) Work & Organizational Psychology
Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden
- Please share -
@dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣
tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...
(A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
(B) Work & Organizational Psychology
Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden
- Please share -
@dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣
tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...
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The potential of LLMs in social & behavioral science is enormous—but how can we leverage them?
Zak Hussain & I just taught a 5-day course at #GSERM Ljubljana on this. Check out our open materials (cc-by-sa) on using open LLMs with @hf.co.
github.com/Zak-Hussain/...
Zak Hussain & I just taught a 5-day course at #GSERM Ljubljana on this. Check out our open materials (cc-by-sa) on using open LLMs with @hf.co.
github.com/Zak-Hussain/...
GitHub - Zak-Hussain/LLM4BeSci_Ljubljana2025: The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social scienc...
The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social sciences. - Zak-Hussain/LLM4BeSci_Ljubljana2025
github.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The potential of LLMs in social & behavioral science is enormous—but how can we leverage them?
Zak Hussain & I just taught a 5-day course at #GSERM Ljubljana on this. Check out our open materials (cc-by-sa) on using open LLMs with @hf.co.
github.com/Zak-Hussain/...
Zak Hussain & I just taught a 5-day course at #GSERM Ljubljana on this. Check out our open materials (cc-by-sa) on using open LLMs with @hf.co.
github.com/Zak-Hussain/...