Congration­alions to Dr. Julia Stietz!

This week, Julia Stietz concluded her PhD journey with a fantastic thesis presentation and defense. She spent the last years researching age-dependent changes of the social brain. Her findings show that empathy seems to be stable over the life span, while ToM abilities seems to decline in older age.

Some of her work is already published:
- Stietz et al. 2021. The ageing of the social mind: replicating the preservation of socio-affective and the decline of socio-cognitive processes in old age 
- Stietz et al. 2019 Dissociating Empathy From Perspective-Taking: Evidence From Intra- and Inter-Individual Differences Research