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Postdoc @univie.ac.at / scanunit.bsky.social, collab 🇦🇹 & 🇧🇪 Lecturer @IESabroad Ass. Dir. Data & Methods @psysciacc.bsky.social Programm committee @improvingpsych.bsky.social NO 2 WAR! https://www.pronizius.com

Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius

First and foremost, I would like to sincerely thank Jennifer Ebner-Daigle for guiding me through my first steps in teaching. I am also deeply grateful to IES Abroad Vienna, which provided me with a platform to grow as a teacher and supported the transition of the course into a new setting.

I’m truly grateful to be ranked among the Top 3 for the Faculty Teaching Award in “Motivation Promotion – Beyond the Classroom” for my course Proseminar Biological Psychology & Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience at the @univie.ac.at / @scanunit.bsky.social.

I am especially thankful to all current & former students, who have not only learned from me but have also expanded the boundaries of my knowledge through their curiosity and engagement. Your enthusiasm and motivation to learn continue to inspire me. Stay curious and keep learning 💙

The way forward involves consensus-building efforts, adversarial collaborations, & Big Team Science approaches, along with open science practices guided by intellectual humility & epistemic courage. Interested? Join the community and help shape the future of SC: manysocialminds.univie.ac.at

Social cognition field is hampered by conceptual fragmentation and methodological shortcomings, which slow progress and translational impact. Core theoretical problems: a) the absence of shared definitions or consensus on the boundaries of SC, b) overlapping labels (the “jingle-jangle” fallacy).

Laboratory tasks lack ecological validity: passive & non-interactive, failing to capture real-world reciprocity --> shift toward second-person paradigms, VR, & mobile-based measures. Computational modeling can help open the “black box” by testing which mechanisms best explain tasks behavior.

🤩PREPRINT ALERT🤩: "State of Social Cognition Research: Challenges, Future Directions, and Efforts Toward Consensus Building" osf.io/preprints/ps... Authored by the ManySocialMinds Community and presented at @escaneu.bsky.social in Rome, Italy.

The cool peeps behind the project: @niklasbuergi.bsky.social, A.Cantiani, B.Catoira, I.Gori, M.Gautier, @annikakonrad.bsky.social , @laramaliske.bsky.social, @annabelnijhof.bsky.social, A.Pabst, and myself. Funded by @univie.ac.at and @fwf-at.bsky.social pls RT: @scanunit.bsky.social

Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius

How will three groups of psychologists perform in an escape room? By assessing each other's arousal or debating whether frustration is a state or a trait? We recently conducted this bold introspective case study. Preliminary results suggest all groups did great. Thanks to everyone who joined 🤓

Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius