EASP 2026, STRASBOURG

The Social Neuroscience Lab had a strong presence at the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) Annual Meeting, with six members presenting research.

Zhiwei Zhou delivered a presentation on his recently published work examining blunted neural sensitivity to reward in narcissism. Ye Yao presented findings on evidence of schadenfreude towards AI agents, and Emily Penney presented evidence that attachment avoidance shapes the neural time course of social reward processing. Esther Robins presented a side project from her PhD exploring links between narcissism and childhood trauma. In the same week Esther also received a revise and resubmit on the first paper from her PhD!

Nick Kelley and Marie Levorsen took part in an exciting symposium on the social neuroscience of the self. Marie presented research focused on how self-relevant information is organised in the medial prefrontal cortex. Nick presented neural evidence across four experiments showing that authenticity extends beyond self-enhancement. He also hit 3000 citations!

Congratulations to the whole team for such an impressive set of presentations and for representing the lab so brilliantly at EASP 2026!