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14.10.2024
 

New paper on climate change with data collected from 63 countries
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14.10.2024
 

New paper on self-other distinction.

We've all experienced moments of assuming others share our emotions or beliefs. This ability to distinguish between self and others—self-other...
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02.08.2024
 

New paper on brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic published in Nature Human Behavior.
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21.06.2024
 

New review paper on the link between shared representations and prosocial behavior, and its relevance for clinical conditions.

How do changes in pain processing systems affect prosocial behavior in pain-related clinical conditions such as chronic pain?
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27.05.2024
 

New paper on global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic published in PNAS.
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20.04.2024
 

New paper on functional mapping of the somatosensory cortex in dogs published in Brain Structure and Function

What happens in a dog's brain when the dog is being petted?
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09.01.2024
 

Our latest paper shows the importance of effort costs when considering how prosocial behaviour changes under acute stress

How much effort is involved in helping others and our existing prosocial tendencies could be key to understanding acute stress effects on prosocial...
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15.12.2023
 

An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex

Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it's just misunderstood!
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11.12.2023
 

New Paper published: Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries

Effectively reducing climate change requires dramatic, global behavior change. Yet it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people...
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21.11.2023
 

2023 International Ferrari Soave Award for Human Biology

Lab head Claus Lamm has received the 2023 International Ferrari Soave Award for Human Biology by the Turin Academy of Sciences.
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13.11.2023
 

A new perspective paper that outlines how neuroscience can be leveraged to fight Climate Change was published in Nature Climate Change

Neuroscience can help us to understand the reciprocal relationships between a changing climate and the brain.
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02.10.2023
 

New paper on psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and non-responders published in Frontiers in Psychology

To respond or not to respond: exploring empathy-related psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and...
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20.08.2023
 

New paper on how dogs predict human action targets published in Open Mind

Dogs rely on visual cues rather than on effector-specific movement representations to predict human action targets

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11.07.2023
 

New Paper on the effect of blocking dopamine receptors on trust in males published in Nature Communications

Blocking D2/D3 dopamine receptors in male participants increases volatility of beliefs when learning to trust others
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27.06.2023
 

New paper on body- and animacy-responsive areas in dogs and humans published in Communications Biology

Functionally analogous body- and animacy-responsive areas are present in the dog (Canis familiaris) and human occipito-temporal lobe
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06.06.2023
 

New paper on age-related differences in interference control published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study

 
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03.04.2023
 

New paper on strategic prosocial behaviour published in Neuropsychopharmacology

Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior through impacting choice consistency in healthy males
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28.03.2023
 

New paper on energetic arousal during acute social isolation published in Psychological Science

Lowered energy could be part of a homeostatic response to a lack of social contact
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28.03.2023
 

New paper on aberrant uncertainty processing published in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Aberrant uncertainty processing is linked to psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits, and is reflected in pupil dilation during probabilistic...
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11.03.2023
 

New paper on social closeness and prosocial behaviour published in Scientific Reports

Only empathy-related traits, not being mimicked or endorphin release, influence social closeness and prosocial behavior
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15.02.2023
 

New paper using interleaved fMRI/TMS published in NeuroImage

Acute TMS/fMRI response explains offline TMS network effects – An interleaved TMS-fMRI study
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11.02.2023
 

New paper on COVID-19 rapid-response dataset published in Scientific Data

The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset
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31.01.2023
 

New paper on tracking others navigating through space published in Nature Communications

Entorhinal grid-like codes and time-locked network dynamics track others navigating through space
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10.01.2023
 

New paper on listening to music during COVID-19 lockdown published in JAMA Network Open

Perceptions of stress and mood associated with listening to music in daily life during the COVID-19 lockdown
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05.12.2022
 

New paper on model-based and model-free behaviour published in eLife

Effects of dopamine D2/3 and opioid receptor antagonism on the trade-off between model-based and model-free behaviour in healthy volunteers
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30.11.2022
 

New paper on stress and prosocial behaviours published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Does stress make us more—or less—prosocial? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of acute stress on prosocial behaviours using...
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30.11.2022
 

New paper on prosocial helping published in Psychological Science

Placebo analgesia reduces costly prosocial helping to lower another’s pain
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18.11.2022
 

New paper on vicarious fear learning published in PLOS ONE

The causal role of affect sharing in driving vicarious fear learning
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17.10.2022
 

New paper on stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdowns published in British Journal of Health Psychology

The effects of social interactions on momentary stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdowns
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01.10.2022
 

New paper on vicarious disgust published in NeuroImage

Effective connectivity reveals distinctive patterns in response to others’ genuine affective experience of disgust
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26.09.2022
 

New paper on COVID-19 health messaging published in Affective Science

In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries
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31.07.2022
 

New paper on attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 published in PNAS Nexus

Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning.
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25.05.2022
 

New paper on stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdown published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Diurnal dynamics of stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdown: a large multinational ecological momentary assessment study
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30.04.2022
 

New paper on human emotional egocentricity published in Neurobiology of Aging

Right supra-marginal gyrus and secondary somatosensory cortex play a role in age-related differences in human emotional egocentricity.
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20.04.2022
 

New paper on moral judgments published in Nature Human Behaviour

Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western

countries in a culturally diverse sample

 
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09.02.2022
 

New paper on stress responses published in Neuropsychopharmacology

Opioid-blunted cortisol response to stress is associated with increased negative mood and wanting of social reward.
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26.01.2022
 

Scientist of the week - interview on placebo research

Why does the placebo effect cause so many vaccine side effects?
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03.01.2022
 

Your sorrow is my sorrow? How we empathize with the emotions of others - Special

What happens in our brain when we observe how another person feels pain? Article in a special issue of In-Mind magazine
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16.05.2021
 

New paper published

Socio-cognitive training impacts emotional and perceptual self-salience but not self-other distinction
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15.05.2021
 

New paper on empathy for pain

Beyond Sharing Unpleasant Affect — Evidence for Pain-Specific Opioidergic Modulation of Empathy for Pain
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03.05.2021
 

New paper published

"The administration of the opioid buprenorphine decreases motivational error signals" published in Psychoneuroendocrinology
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06.04.2021
 

Meta-analysis featuring members of the lab

"Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data" published in Nature Communications
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24.03.2021
 

New paper on self-other distinction

Interplay of self-other distinction and cognitive control mechanisms in a social automatic imitation task: An ERP study
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16.03.2021
 

New paper published in Animal Cognition

Watching others in a positive state does not induce optimism bias in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus), but leads to behaviour indicative of...
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03.03.2021
 

New paper on durable memories

Durable memories and efficient neural coding through mnemonic training using the method of loci
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11.02.2021
 

New paper published on opioid use and empathy for pain

Chronic non‐medical prescription opioid use and empathy for pain: Does pain make the difference?
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23.01.2021
 

New paper on placebo analgesia and empathy for pain

Another's pain in my brain: No evidence that placebo analgesia affects the sensory-discriminative component in empathy for pain
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17.01.2021
 

New publication in NeuroImage

Tailored haemodynamic response function increases detection power of fMRI in awake dogs (Canis familiaris)
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13.01.2021
 

New paper on facial mimicry

The effects of self-relevance vs. reward value on facial mimicry
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04.01.2021
 

New publication in Nature Human Behavior

To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?
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17.12.2020
 

New paper on the relationship between dogs and humans

Exploring the dog–human relationship by combining fMRI, eye-tracking and behavioural measures
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20.11.2020
 

New paper published

Individualized theta-burst stimulation modulates hippocampal activity and connectivity in patients with major depressive disorder
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03.11.2020
 

New paper published in Psychophysiology

Pharmacological fMRI provides evidence for opioidergic modulation of discrimination of facial pain expressions
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25.10.2020
 

New paper on social connectedness during COVID-19

Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue
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16.09.2020
 

New publication on implicit prosociality

When Implicit Prosociality Trumps Selfishness: The Neural Valuation System Underpins More Optimal Choices When Learning to Avoid Harm to Others Than...
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16.09.2020
 

New publication on implicit prosociality

When Implicit Prosociality Trumps Selfishness: The Neural Valuation System Underpins More Optimal Choices When Learning to Avoid Harm to Others Than...
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03.08.2020
 

New paper from the lab!

Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices

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16.07.2020
 

New paper on the mechanisms of imitation

Being mimicked affects inhibitory mechanisms of imitation
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11.07.2020
 

Interview fro MEDimpressions

“Manche trifft die Corona Krise härter!” on factors influencing the risk of COVID-19

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04.06.2020
 

New paper on placebo-induced pain reduction

Placebos can reduce pain by inducing beliefs in the effectiveness of an actually inert treatment.
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26.05.2020
 

New paper on guidelines for TMS/tES research

Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic
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10.03.2020
 

Interview with Tech & Nature on climate change and protection

Claus Lamm: Der Wiener Psychologe, der eine Klimaschutz-Diät empfiehlt
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26.02.2020
 

New publication from the lab

Increasing self-other bodily overlap increases sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain
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02.01.2020
 

New paper on testosterone and status seeking

Exogenous testosterone increases status-seeking motivation in men with unstable low social status
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13.11.2019
 

New review out in Brain Topography

The Role of Sensorimotor Processes in Pain Empathy by Dr. Igor Riečanský and Prof. Lamm
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24.10.2019
 

New publication from the NBU

Fairness norm violations in anti-social psychopathic offenders in a repeated trust game
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01.10.2019
 

Exciting new preprint from the lab

Age-related changes in human emotional egocentricity: evidence from multi-level neuroimaging
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11.06.2019
 

New Review

Claus Lamm & co authors: international consensus paper on using brain stimulation in addiction research
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08.05.2019
 

Interview in uni:view Magazin on empathy and stress

Macht uns Stress sozialer oder egoistischer?
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13.02.2019
 

Interview in newspaper "Kurier" on irrational fear

Wer sich vor dem bösen Wolf fürchtet
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08.02.2019
 

New review published

The invited review is part of a Special Issue edited by Alex Shackman and Tor Wager on Functional Neuroimaging of the Emotional Brain,

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30.12.2018
 

Interview in TV broadcast "Orientierung" on ORF

"Das Teilen – Wenn aus dem Geben ein Gewinn wird"
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05.11.2018
 

New paper published

Cultural influences on the processing of social comparison feedback signals – An ERP study.
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17.10.2018
 

Interview in radio broadcast “Dimensionen" in ORF on empathy and group membership

"Dazu gehören – Fremd sein: Warum ein Miteinander oft so schwer fällt”
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15.10.2018
 

Interview in magazine "Die Wienerin"

"Wer will noch mitfühlen?"
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11.10.2018
 

Interview in Newspaper "Die Furche" on empathy and exclusion

“Das Spiel mit der Spaltung”
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07.10.2018
 

New paper on psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and non-responders published in Frontiers in Psychology

To respond or not to respond: exploring empathy-related psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and...
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25.09.2018
 

New paper published

The neural substrate of reward anticipation in health: A meta-analysis of fMRI findings in the Monetary Incentive Delay Task.
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13.09.2018
 

Interview in Kurier on Zimbardo's „Heroic Imagination Project (HIP)"

"Nach dem Gefängnis-Experiment: Jeder kann ein Held sein"

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10.09.2018
 

Interview on ORF2 "kulturMontag" on Compassion

“KulturMontag: Der Verlust des Mitgefühls”
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01.08.2018
 

New paper accepted

Rauchbauer, B.*, Pfabigan, D.*, Lamm, C. (2018). Event-related potentials of automatic imitation are modulated by ethnicity during stimulus...
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30.07.2018
 

New publication with Placebo Imaging Consortium in JAMA Neurology

"Placebo Effects on the Neurologic Pain Signature: A Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data."
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01.07.2018
 

New Editorial in "Aging"

"Empathy decline at older age?"
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16.06.2018
 

Interview in Newspaper Der Standard on Empathy

"Flüchtlingsdebatte: Empathie entsteht nicht im Vakuum"
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15.05.2018
 

New Paper Published in "Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience"

"Internal control beliefs and reference frame concurrently impact early performance monitoring ERPs."
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03.05.2018
 

New Paper published in "Chronobiology International"

"Psychometric properties of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale: A factor analysis and item-response theory approach."
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