Food decisions are inevitable, frequent, and complex decisions with a high impact on our health. Understanding the mechanisms that underly food decisions has become a multidisciplinary endeavor over the last decades, ...

Loneliness is a painful condition with detrimental effects on physical and mental health. However, it is still unclear which mechanisms hinder lonely individuals from forming new social relationships which might alleviate ...

The sex hormone estradiol and the neuropeptide oxytocin induce a variety of behavioral and neural effects, but possible underlying interactions have not been tested in a sample involving both sexes. Thus, the current thesis ...