Her thesis explore how the affective mechanisms of reward processing measured in the laboratory translate into real-world food intake and sedentary behavior in daily life.

Lavinia’s thesis “Characterisation of individual differences in affective learning”, co-supervised by Eva and Prof David Sander, was examined by Prof. Mäel Lebreton Paris School of Economics and Prof. Giorgia Silani University of Vienna.

His thesis aims to better understand the affective and neural mechanisms of reward processing underlying food intake and sedentariness.

Her thesis aims at better understanding the role of affect in individual sensitivities to social reward and will co-suspervised of Dr. Nicolas Burras and Eva.

Lavinia awarded 2025 subside tremplin

Congratulations to Lavinia, who has been awarded a 2025 subside tremplin!

Lavinia is presenting our work on habit, affect and mental health at the Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion at Queen's University Belfast

You can find our code, stimuli and (some) data on our Github page.

We are happy to announce we are joining the Departement of Psychology and the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences.