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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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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 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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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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