Welcome!

The LIP lab aims to investigate how and under what conditions basic psychological phenomena such as learning, relational behavior, and evaluation take place.

A better understanding of these phenomena can have important practical implications, for instance, for our understanding of psychopathology and consumer behavior.

Please browse the website to find out more about us and our research!

   News!

• October 2024: Marine rejoins the lab. Welcome back Marine!
• August 2024: New EOS blog by Maura on automatic imitation
  
• August 2024: New publication of Pieter & team in JPSP
• August 2024: New blog by Jan on the definition of learning
• June 2024: Follow us on our new Bluesky page.
• June 2024: Jamie Cummins takes up a position at the University of Bern but remains affiliated to the lab.
• Francesco Fedeli (Milan), Deborah Ferrante (Trento), and Reinout Wiers (Amsterdam) join the lab for a research stay.
  
• Click here for media coverage of Marine and Jan's paper on updating the attractiveness halo-effect
• January 2024: Alejandro (Alex) Macias joins the lab as a postdoc to work on learning in systems other than individual organisms.
• We've added to the website detailed information about the LIP lab policies under the "About the Liplab" tag.

Research Focus

The LIPlab focuses on the experimental study of learning and implicit (evaluative) processes. We believe that a better understanding of these phenomena can have valuable practical implications and potential societal impact.