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Journal Article (37)
2022
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Empathy and correct mental state inferences both promote prosociality. Scientific Reports 12 (1), 16979 (2022)
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Don’t look at me like that: Integration of gaze direction and facial expression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 48 (10), pp. 1083 - 1098 (2022)
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Longitudinal evidence for differential plasticity of cognitive functions: Mindfulness-based mental training enhances working memory, but not perceptual discrimination, response inhibition, and metacognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 151 (7), pp. 1573 - 1590 (2022)
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Soundtrack to the social world: Emotional music enhances empathy, compassion, and prosocial decisions but not theory of mind. Emotion 22 (1), pp. 19 - 29 (2022)
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From eye to arrow: Attention capture by direct gaze requires more than just the eyes. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics 84 (1), pp. 64 - 75 (2022)
2021
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A revised instrument for the assessment of empathy and Theory of Mind in adolescents: Introducing the EmpaToM-Y. Behavior Research Methods 53 (6), pp. 2487 - 2501 (2021)
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Look away to listen: The interplay of emotional context and eye contact in video conversations. Visual Cognition 29 (5), pp. 277 - 287 (2021)
2020
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind. Human Brain Mapping 41 (10), pp. 2611 - 2628 (2020)
2019
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Why we share our cookies: Prosocial behavior from a psychological perspective. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 76 (3), pp. 181 - 194 (2019)
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Revisiting intersubjective action-effect binding: No evidence for social moderators. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics 81 (6), pp. 1991 - 2002 (2019)
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Low numbers from a low head? Effects of observed head orientation on numerical cognition. Psychological Research 84 (8), pp. 2361 - 2374 (2019)
2018
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Distinct mental trainings differentially affect altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behaviour. Scientific Reports 8, 13560 (2018)
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The structure of human prosociality revisited: Corrigendum and addendum to Böckler, Tusche, and Singer (2016). Social Psychological and Personality Science 9 (6), pp. 754 - 759 (2018)
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Change in emotional self-concept following socio-cognitive training relates to structural plasticity of the prefrontal cortex. Brain and Behavior 8 (4), e00940 (2018)
2017
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Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Science Advances 3 (10), e1700489 (2017)
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Who am I? Differential effects of three contemplative mental trainings on emotional word use in self-descriptions. Self and Identity 16 (5), pp. 607 - 628 (2017)
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Know thy selves: Learning to understand oneself increases the ability to understand others. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 1 (2), pp. 197 - 209 (2017)
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Socio-cognitive phenotypes differentially modulate large-scale structural covariance networks. Cerebral Cortex 27 (2), pp. 1358 - 1368 (2017)
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Social decision making in narcissism: Reduced generosity and increased retaliation are driven by alterations in perspective-taking and anger. Personality and Individual Differences 104, pp. 1 - 7 (2017)
2016
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Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: A large scale fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11 (12), pp. 1942 - 1951 (2016)
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Substrates of metacognition on perception and metacognition on higher-order cognition relate to different subsystems of the mentalizing network. Human Brain Mapping 37 (10), pp. 3388 - 3399 (2016)
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Helping from the heart: Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability predicts altruistic behavior. Biological Psychology 119, pp. 54 - 63 (2016)
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Are strong empathizers better mentalizers?: Evidence for independence and interaction between the routes of social cognition. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11 (9), pp. 1382 - 1392 (2016)
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The structure of human prosociality: Differentiating altruistically motivated, norm motivated, strategically motivated and self-reported prosocial behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science 7 (6), pp. 530 - 541 (2016)
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Decoding the charitable brain: Empathy, perspective taking and attention shifts differentially predict altruistic giving. The Journal of Neuroscience 36 (17), pp. 4719 - 4732 (2016)
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(How) observed eye-contact modulates gaze following: An fMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience 7 (1-4 ), pp. 55 - 66 (2016)
2015
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Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind. NeuroImage 122, pp. 6 - 19 (2015)
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Eyes only? Perceiving eye contact is neither sufficient nor necessary for attentional capture by face direction. Acta Psychologica 160, pp. 134 - 140 (2015)
2014
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Effects of observing eye contact on gaze following in high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 44 (7), pp. 1651 - 1658 (2014)
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Invisible man: Exclusion from shared attention affects gaze behavior and self-reports. Social Psychological and Personality Science 5 (2), pp. 140 - 148 (2014)
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Catching eyes: Effects of social and nonsocial cues on attention capture. Psychological Science 25 (3), pp. 720 - 727 (2014)
2013
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Influences of spontaneous perspective taking on spatial and identity processing of faces. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 8 (7), pp. 735 - 740 (2013)
2012
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Effects of a coactor’s focus of attention on task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 38 (6), pp. 1404 - 1415 (2012)
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A co-actor’s focus of attention affects attention allocation and stimulus processing: An EEG study. Social Neuroscience 7 (6), pp. 565 - 577 (2012)
2011
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Accessory stimuli affect prerequisites of conflict, not conflict control: A Simon-task ERP study. Experimental Psychology 58 (2), pp. 102 - 109 (2011)
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Observing shared attention modulates gaze following. Cognition 120 (2), pp. 292 - 298 (2011)
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Giving a helping hand: Effects of joint attention on mental rotation of body parts. Experimental Brain Research 211 (3-4), pp. 531 - 545 (2011)
Book Chapter (3)
2017
Book Chapter
Models, mechanisms and moderators dissociating empathy and theory of mind. In: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences – Social Behavior from Rodents to Humans: Neural Foundations and Clinical Implications., Vol. 30, pp. 193 - 206 (Eds. Wöhr, M.; Krach, S.). Springer, Berlin (2017)
2013
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Linking joint attention and joint action. In: Agency and joint attention., pp. 206 - 215 (Eds. Terrace, H. S.; Metcalfe, J.). Oxford University Press, New York (2013)
2010
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Socializing Cognition. In: Perspectives on Thinking. (Eds. Glatzeder, B.; Goel, V.; Mueller, A.). Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Talk (10)
2016
Talk
Dissociating and embedding socio-affective and –cognitive processes in large-scale neural networks. First MLE Hub Meeting of the European Neurophenomenology, Contemplative, and Embodied Cognition Network (ENCECON), Château de la Bourlie, Urval, France (2016)
2015
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Changing for the better? Effects of meditation based trainings on different sub-components of prosociality. Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE), Geneva, Switzerland (2015)
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Changing for the better? Effects of meditation based trainings on different sub-components of prosociality. Joint Action Meeting (JAM), Budapest, Hungary (2015)
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Training compassion and theory of mind separately: Differential mental training effects on socio-affective and socio-cognitive abilities. Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE), Geneva, Switzerland (2015)
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Eyes only? Effects of observing shared attention on gaze following. Psychologie & Gehirn, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015)
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Affective and cognitive understanding of others: Distinct neural networks and their differential plasticity. Workshop Congress in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, TU Dresden, Germany (2015)
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Changing for the better: Differential effects of meditation based trainings on sub-components of prosocial behavior. Lecture, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2015)
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Understanding others in social interaction. Lecture, University of Würzburg, Germany (2015)
2014
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First findings from the ReSource Project: Training mind and heart. International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS) of the Mind & Life Institute, Boston, MA, USA (2014)
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Changing for the better: Effects of specific training modules on different sub-components of prosociality. International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS) of the Mind & Life Institute, Boston, MA, USA (2014)