About Lisa

For my PhD project I study how individuals update their beliefs about their interaction partners during repeated social interactions by combining paradigms from experimental economics and social neuroscience. Specifically I aim for a deeper understanding of the neurophysiological and neurochemical mechanisms underlying trust behaviour during those interactions.

Background

I did my bachelor in Social Psychology, and my master in Social and Health Psychology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. During my studies I did multiple internships at Prof Dr Jack van Honk´s lab. After 5 happy years in the Netherlands, I moved to South Africa for a year, where I worked as a research assistant for Prof Dr Jack van Honk and Dr Susan Malcolm-Smith at the Psychology department at the University of Cape Town. In the autumn of 2014 I moved to Vienna to start my PhD at the NBU.

Publications

Rosenberger LA, Naef M, Eisenegger C, Lamm, C. Interpersonal distance adjustments after interactions with a generous and selfish trustee during a repeated trust game. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2020: 90. PDF

Rosenberger LA, Pfabigan D, Lehner B, Keckeis K, Seidel E, Eisenegger C, Lamm, C. Fairness norm violations in anti-social psychopathic offenders in a repeated trust game. Translational Psychiatry, 2019: 9, 266. PDF

Rosenberger LA, Eisenegger C, Naef M, Terburg D, Fourie J, Stein DJ, van Honk J. The Human Basolateral Amygdala Is Indispensable for Social Experiential Learning. Current Biology, 2019: 29, 1 - 6. PDF

Rosenberger LA, Ree A, Eisenegger C, Sailer U. Slow touch targeting CT-fibres does not increase prosocial behaviour in economic laboratory tasks. Scientific reports, 2018: 8(1), 7700. PDF

Terburg D, Syal S, Rosenberger LA, Heany SJ, Stein DJ, van Honk J. Testosterone abolishes implicit subordination in social anxiety.Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2016: 72:205-211.
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Montoya ER, Bos PA, Terburg D, Rosenberger LA, van Honk J. Cortisol administration induces global down-regulation of the brain’s reward circuitry. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2014; 47:31-42.

Terburg D, Syal S, Rosenberger LA, Heany S, Phillips N, Gericke N, Stein DJ,van Honk J. Acute effects of Sceletium tortuosum (Zembrin), a dual 5-HT reuptake and PDE4 inhibitor, in the human amygdala and its connection to the hypothalamus. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013; 38(13):2708-2716.

Data availability

The data and analyses scripts for the affective touch SciRep paper, the BLA-damage Current Biology paper, and the psychopathy Translational Psychiatry paper are publicly available on the OSF.

Funding

Marietta-Blau grant (18 000 Euro, OEAD & BMWFW): international cooperation with Prof. Jack van Honk at University of Cape Town, South Africa. 2018

CoBeNe Seed Grant (10 000 Euro, Vienna Doctorate School CoBeNe): interdisciplinary project together with J. Goller & M. Stocker, on "Effects of Free Partner Choice and Facial Attractiveness on Cooperation and Testosterone Reactivity". 2017

Media Coverage

Deutschland Funk interviewed me about our affective touch SciRep paper for their radio show Nova.
The Austrian Science blog Schrödingers Katze wrote a blog about the affective touch study.
The press release to the affective touch paper got picked up by several national media outlets: die Presse, APA Science Medizin & Biotech, APA Science Kultur & Gesellschaft,ORF Science, der Standard, Salzburg 24, and also by two international media outlets: the deccan chronicle, as well as Asian Age.