Lavinia Wuensch

Lavinia Wuensch
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences
Campus Biotech
Chemin des Mines 9
1202 Geneva
Switzerland
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I graduated from the University of Geneva in February 2020 with a master’s degree in clinical and affective psychology. My master’s thesis was supervised by Prof. David Rudrauf and looked at the influence of uncertainty and perspective-taking in a virtual reality navigation task.
During my studies, I worked at the University of Geneva as an undergraduate teaching and research assistant in the Methodology and Data Analysis research group as well as in the Laboratory for the study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression, where I assisted Prof. Eva R. Pool in data management and processing on a project studying the psychological mechanisms linked to obesity.
Currently, I am doing a PhD in psychology under the supervision of Prof. Eva R. Pool and Prof. David Sander, with the aim of better understanding the links between individual differences in emotional learning and vulnerabilities to compulsive reward-seeking behaviors.
PUBLICATIONS
Scientific Articles
2025, in press, and preprints
- Wuensch, L., Stussi, Y., Vernede, T., Murray, R. J., Sander, D., Péron, J., & Pool, E. R. (2025). Differential influence of habit components on compulsive and problematic reward-seeking behavior. PLOS Mental Health, 2(5), Article 0000323. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmen.0000323
2023
- Coppin, G., Muñoz Tord, D., Pool, E. R., Locatelli, L., Achaibou A., Erdemli, A., León Pérez, L., Wuensch, L., Cereghetti, D., Golay, A., Sander, D., & Pataky Z. (2023). A randomized controlled trial investigating the effect of liraglutide on self-reported liking and neural responses to food stimuli in participants with obesity. International Journal of Obesity, 47, 1224-1231. doi: 10.1038/s41366-023-01370-w
2021
- Wuensch, L., Pool, E. R., & Sander, D. (2021). Individual differences in learning positive affective value. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 39, 19-26. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.11.001