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Maja Friedemann
BSc, MPhil, MSc
DPhil Candidate
I am a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the ACC Lab supervised by Prof. Nick Yeung and Dr. Dan Bang. My DPhil is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as well as St. John's College.
My research is focused on metacognition in a social context and confidence guided information-seeking. I explore human confidence and information sampling choices by measuring behaviour (such as response times and confidence judgements) and recording brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG) during simple perceptual decision tasks.
Prior to my studies at Oxford, I acquired an MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences at UCL, an MPhil in Management at the University of Cambridge, and a BSc in Psychology at the University of Mannheim.
Key publications
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Cognitive neuroscience of metacognition
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Friedemann M. et al, (2022), The SAGE Handbook of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Volume 2: Cognitive Systems, Development and Applications
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The Readiness Potential reflects planning-based expectation, not uncertainty, in the timing of action.
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Travers E. et al, (2021), Cogn Neurosci, 12, 14 - 27
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Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk.
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Ruggeri K. et al, (2020), Nat Hum Behav, 4, 622 - 633
Recent publications
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Cognitive neuroscience of metacognition
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Friedemann M. et al, (2022), The SAGE Handbook of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Volume 2: Cognitive Systems, Development and Applications
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In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries.
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Dorison CA. et al, (2022), Affect Sci, 1 - 26
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Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Wang K. et al, (2022), Nat Hum Behav
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The globalizability of temporal discounting.
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Ruggeri K. et al, (2022), Nat Hum Behav
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A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration None., (2022), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 119