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Emotions

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20. August 2024
Summer City Trip

The art of urban well-being

Urban greenery benefits our well-being in the city. But what about art in public space? To find the answer, we take a relaxing stroll with behavioural biologist Elisabeth Oberzaucher through her "urban laboratory".
22. May 2024
Presenting...social scientist Jula Lühring

Misinformation and Emotions on Social Media

In social media, misinformation is often difficult to distinguish from facts. In her research, Jula Lühring, doctoral candidate at the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences, investigates whether emotions make us fall for misinformation or help us to recognize it. In the video, she explains what role AI plays in this.
4. July 2022
Unraveling Anhedonia

How ketamine can work against depression

When aesthetic pharmacology merges with clinical imaging: Julia Crone from the University of Vienna and her team in collaboration with Rupert Lanzenberger from the Medical University of Vienna are investigating how psychedelic drugs can help people who are not able to feel joy and excitement.
28. June 2022
Ancient History

Antique PR tools: The making of the Church

Vladimir Ivanovici analyses how a Christian elite – the bishops – used emotions to promote the Church, change society and gain more power. The bishops offered Christian alternatives to polytheistic practices and promoted them with methods not so different from the ones used on social media today.
16. May 2022
Autism research

Every brain is different

Our society has clear ideas about how pro-social behaviour and empathy are to be expressed. But the research of neuroscientist Giorgia Silani shows that people with certain personality traits, such as autism or alexithymia, understand different forms of expression.