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A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty

scientific article published on 28 July 2009

Affect and Motivation Are Critical in Constructive Meditation

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Age-related differences in function and structure of rSMG and reduced functional connectivity with DLPFC explains heightened emotional egocentricity bias in childhood

scientific article

Are strong empathizers better mentalizers? Evidence for independence and interaction between the routes of social cognition

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Association of Short-term Change in Leukocyte Telomere Length With Cortical Thickness and Outcomes of Mental Training Among Healthy Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Author Correction: Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Boosting recovery rather than buffering reactivity: Higher stress-induced oxytocin secretion is associated with increased cortisol reactivity and faster vagal recovery after acute psychosocial stress

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Brain responses to the acquired moral status of faces

scientific article published in February 2004

Change in emotional self-concept following socio-cognitive training relates to structural plasticity of the prefrontal cortex.

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Children's Increased Emotional Egocentricity Compared to Adults Is Mediated by Age-Related Differences in Conflict Processing

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Classifying the wandering mind: revealing the affective content of thoughts during task-free rest periods

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Clinical trial of modulatory effects of oxytocin treatment on higher-order social cognition in autism spectrum disorder: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind and crossover trial

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Cognitive flexibility, heart rate variability, and resilience predict fine-grained regulation of arousal during prolonged threat

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Compassion meditators show less anger, less punishment, and more compensation of victims in response to fairness violations

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Compassion meditators show less anger, less punishment, and more compensation of victims in response to fairness violations

scholarly article published 11 August 2017

Compassion-based emotion regulation up-regulates experienced positive affect and associated neural networks

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Corrigendum to "Is meditation always relaxing? Investigating heart rate, heart rate variability, experienced effort and likeability during training of three types of meditation" [Int. J. Psychophysiol. 97/1 (2015) 38-45].

scientific article published on 9 March 2017

Cortisol increase in empathic stress is modulated by emotional closeness and observation modality

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Cortisol stress resonance in the laboratory is associated with inter-couple diurnal cortisol covariation in daily life

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex

scientific article published on 18 March 2016

Decoding the Charitable Brain: Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Attention Shifts Differentially Predict Altruistic Giving.

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Development of Behavioral Control and Associated vmPFC-DLPFC Connectivity Explains Children's Increased Resistance to Temptation in Intertemporal Choice

scientific article published on 6 August 2014

Differential Effects of Attention-, Compassion-, and Socio-Cognitively Based Mental Practices on Self-Reports of Mindfulness and Compassion

scientific article published on 6 April 2017

Differential benefits of mental training types for attention, compassion, and theory of mind

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Differential changes in self-reported aspects of interoceptive awareness through 3 months of contemplative training

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Differential encoding of losses and gains in the human striatum

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Differential impact of emotional task relevance on three indices of prioritised processing for fearful and angry facial expressions

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training

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Differential roles of fairness- and compassion-based motivations for cooperation, defection, and punishment

scientific article published in June 2009

Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind

scientific article

Distinct mental trainings differentially affect altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behaviour

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Distinct neural networks underlying empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch

scientific article published on 10 February 2015

Effects of Contemplative Dyads on Engagement and Perceived Social Connectedness Over 9 Months of Mental Training: A Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Effects of oxytocin and prosocial behavior on brain responses to direct and vicariously experienced pain

scientific article

Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism

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Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

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Empathy and compassion

scientific article published in September 2014

Empathy circuits

scientific article published on 05 December 2012

Empathy in depression: Egocentric and altercentric biases and the role of alexithymia

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Endogenous emotion generation ability is associated with the capacity to form multimodal internal representations

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Experiencing meditation – Evidence for differential effects of three contemplative mental practices in micro-phenomenological interviews

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Exploring the multidimensional complex systems structure of the stress response and its relation to health and sleep outcomes

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

Exploring the use of thermal infrared imaging in human stress research

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Facing off with unfair others: introducing proxemic imaging as an implicit measure of approach and avoidance during social interaction

scientific article

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Functional neural plasticity and associated changes in positive affect after compassion training

scientific article published in June 2012

Helping from the heart: Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability predicts altruistic behavior

scientific article published on 2 July 2016

How self-generated thought shapes mood--the relation between mind-wandering and mood depends on the socio-temporal content of thoughts

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I feel how you feel but not always: the empathic brain and its modulation

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Illuminating the dark matter of social neuroscience: Considering the problem of social interaction from philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific perspectives

scientific article published on 21 June 2012

Implicit and explicit false belief development in preschool children

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Impulse control and underlying functions of the left DLPFC mediate age-related and age-independent individual differences in strategic social behavior

scientific article published in March 2012

Interacting and dissociable effects of alexithymia and depression on empathy

Interacting and dissociable effects of alexithymia and depression on empathy

Interactions of momentary thought content and subjective stress predict cortisol fluctuations in a daily life experience sampling study

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Introducing the Wunderkammer as a tool for emotion research: Unconstrained gaze and movement patterns in three emotionally evocative virtual worlds

article published in 2016

Is meditation always relaxing? Investigating heart rate, heart rate variability, experienced effort and likeability during training of three types of meditation

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

Is self-generated thought a means of social problem solving?

scientific article published on 23 December 2013

It Matters What You Practice: Differential Training Effects on Subjective Experience, Behavior, Brain and Body in the ReSource Project

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Know Thy Selves: Learning to Understand Oneself Increases the Ability to Understand Others

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Learning affective values for faces is expressed in amygdala and fusiform gyrus

scientific article published on 8 February 2008

Letting go of the present: mind-wandering is associated with reduced delay discounting

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Levels of emotional awareness and autism: an fMRI study

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Longitudinal evidence for 4-year-olds' but not 2- and 3-year-olds' false belief-related action anticipation

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Longitudinal selectivity in aging populations: separating mortality-associated versus experimental components in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE).

scientific article published in November 2002

Medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortical thickness predicts shared individual differences in self-generated thought and temporal discounting.

scientific article

Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain

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Mind your thoughts: associations between self-generated thoughts and stress-induced and baseline levels of cortisol and alpha-amylase

scientific article published on 22 October 2014

Models, Mechanisms and Moderators Dissociating Empathy and Theory of Mind

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Neural Responses to Ingroup and Outgroup Members' Suffering Predict Individual Differences in Costly Helping

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Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: a large-scale fMRI study

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Neural mechanisms of affective matching across faces and scenes

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

On the interaction of social affect and cognition: empathy, compassion and theory of mind

Only vulnerable adults show change in chronic low-grade inflammation after contemplative mental training: evidence from a randomized clinical trial

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Oxytocin Attenuates Affective Evaluations of Conditioned Faces and Amygdala Activity

scientific article

Phenomenological Fingerprints of Four Meditations: Differential State Changes in Affect, Mind-Wandering, Meta-Cognition, and Interoception Before and After Daily Practice Across 9 Months of Training

scientific article published on 19 August 2016

Physiophenomenology in retrospect: Memory reliably reflects physiological arousal during a prior threatening experience

scientific article published on 31 October 2015

Plasticity of memory for new learning in very old age: a story of major loss?

scientific article published in June 2003

Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Preserved Self-other Distinction During Empathy in Autism is Linked to Network Integrity of Right Supramarginal Gyrus

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Projecting my envy onto you: neurocognitive mechanisms of an offline emotional egocentricity bias

scientific article published on 10 August 2014

Pupillary contagion: central mechanisms engaged in sadness processing

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Right supramarginal gyrus is crucial to overcome emotional egocentricity bias in social judgments.

scientific article published in September 2013

Selective disruption of sociocognitive structural brain networks in autism and alexithymia

scientific article published on 17 July 2013

Short-term compassion training increases prosocial behavior in a newly developed prosocial game

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Skin conductance response to the pain of others predicts later costly helping

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Social cognition in aggressive offenders: Impaired empathy, but intact theory of mind

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Social decision making in narcissism: Reduced generosity and increased retaliation are driven by alterations in perspective-taking and anger

Socio-Cognitive Phenotypes Differentially Modulate Large-Scale Structural Covariance Networks

scientific article published on 4 January 2016

Socioaffective versus sociocognitive mental trainings differentially affect emotion regulation strategies

scientific article published on 27 December 2018

Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training

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Stimulus-Driven Reorienting Impairs Executive Control of Attention: Evidence for a Common Bottleneck in Anterior Insula

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Structural Changes in Socio-Affective Networks: Multi-Modal MRI Findings in Long-Term Meditation Practitioners

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Structural covariance networks of the dorsal anterior insula predict females' individual differences in empathic responding

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Study protocol of the ASD-Net, the German research consortium for the study of Autism Spectrum Disorder across the lifespan: from a better etiological understanding, through valid diagnosis, to more effective health care

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Substrates of metacognition on perception and metacognition on higher-order cognition relate to different subsystems of the mentalizing network

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Taking time to feel our body: Steady increases in heartbeat perception accuracy and decreases in alexithymia over 9 months of contemplative mental training

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

The Anatomy of Suffering: Understanding the Relationship between Nociceptive and Empathic Pain

scientific article published on March 2016

The Neuroeconomics of Mind Reading and Empathy

scientific article published in May 2005

The animal and human neuroendocrinology of social cognition, motivation and behavior

scientific article published on 15 April 2012

The effects of social comparison on social emotions and behavior during childhood: the ontogeny of envy and Schadenfreude predicts developmental changes in equity-related decisions

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The effects of stress and affiliation on social decision-making: Investigating the tend-and-befriend pattern

scientific article published on 10 August 2015

The empathic brain: how, when and why?

scientific article published on September 2006

The fate of cognition in very old age: six-year longitudinal findings in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE).

scientific article published in June 2003

The neural basis of empathy ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

The neural component-process architecture of endogenously generated emotion

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The neurobiology of punishment

scientific article published on April 2007

The neuronal basis and ontogeny of empathy and mind reading: review of literature and implications for future research

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The neuronal basis of empathy and fairness.

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The painful side of empathy

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The past, present and future of social neuroscience: A European perspective ⬇️

scientific article published on January 28, 2012

The role of anterior insular cortex in social emotions

scientific article published on 29 April 2010

The role of emotions for moral judgments depends on the type of emotion and moral scenario

scientific article

The role of social cognition in decision making

scientific article (publication date: 12 December 2008)

The social neuroscience of empathy

scientific article published on March 2009

The wandering mind in borderline personality disorder: Instability in self- and other-related thoughts

scientific article published on 2 June 2016

Two systems for thinking about others' thoughts in the developing brain

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Understanding Others

Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability through biofeedback is improved by mental contemplative training.

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Where the Narcissistic Mind Wanders: Increased Self-Related Thoughts are More Positive and Future Oriented

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Where the depressed mind wanders: Self-generated thought patterns as assessed through experience sampling as a state marker of depression

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White matter maturation is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood

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You turn me cold: evidence for temperature contagion

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