A5011011821- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Ethics in medical practice
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Infant Health and Development
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Language Development and Disorders
LMU Klinikum
2022-2025
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2017-2025
University of Vienna
2017-2025
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich
2022
University of Padua
2015-2017
This research investigated whether emotional hyporeactivity affects moral judgements and choices of action in sacrificial dilemmas everyday conflict situations which harm to other's welfare is differentially involved. Twenty-six participants with high trait psychopathy (HP) 25 low (LP) were selected based on the primary scale Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale. HP more likely sacrifice one person save others pursue a personal advantage entailing another's good. While deciding these...
Social-cognitive processes, particularly Theory of Mind (ToM) reasoning, appear to differ between autistic and non-autistic individuals. This has been proposed reflect the core symptomatology communication social interaction difficulties. According predictive coding theory, individuals’ ToM reasoning difficulties arise from an attenuated use prior information about others’ mental states explain predict their behavior. reduced assumptions makes world less predictable for people, causing...
The ontogenetic origin of the self in infancy is a topic ongoing debate. Although influential developmental and neurocognitive theories propose that caregiver-infant interactions play an important role infants' self-development, little known about specific mechanisms involved. Some highlight importance caregiver sensitivity touch, while others contingency plays central role. study aimed to investigate self-perception by measuring brain activation posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS),...
Interpersonal neural synchrony is a key marker of social interactions, offering insights into the mechanisms underlying human connection and developmental outcomes. So far, hyperscanning studies have examined across diverse dyads tasks, leading to inconsistencies limiting cross-study comparability. This variability challenges establishment unified theoretical framework for synchrony. study investigated effects interpersonal closeness interactivity on using functional near-infrared...
Abstract Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been hypothesized to lead impairments in empathy. Previous cross-sectional studies did not disentangle effects of MDD itself and antidepressant treatment. In this first longitudinal neuroimaging study on empathy depression, 29 patients with participated two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) sessions before after 3 months therapy. We compared their responses an for pain task a group healthy controls ( N = 35). All participants provided...
We tested if post-decisional emotions of regret, guilt, shame, anger, and disgust can account for individuals' choices in moral dilemmas depicting the choice letting some people die (non-utilitarian option) or sacrificing one person to save them (utilitarian option). collected participants' emotional ratings each option using Footbridge-type dilemmas, which sacrifice is means more people, Trolley-type only a side effect. Moreover, we computed EEG Readiness Potential test neural activity...
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 05 December 2017Sec. Developmental Psychology Volume 8 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02089
Abstract Moral identity, or moral self, is the degree to which being important a person’s self-concept. It hypothesized be `missing link’ between judgment and action. However, its cognitive psychophysiological mechanisms are still subject debate. In this study, we used event-related potentials examine whether self-concept related how people process prosocial antisocial actions. To end, participants’ implicit explicit were assessed. We examined individual differences in identity relate early,...
Middle childhood seems to be crucial for the emergence of a moral identity, that is, an evaluative stance how important it is someone's sense self moral. This study investigates effects identity on neural processing content in 10-year-old children. Participants were presented with scenes portraying prosocial and antisocial behavior, while electroencephalographic responses collected. Analyses event-related potentials (ERPs) showed that, children strong elicited greater early posterior...
Empathic concern for others plays a central role human cooperation and is proposed to be key in moral development. Developmental theories disagree on the age of emergence empathic ontogeny factors supporting its early To assess different theoretical views, current study longitudinally assessed infants' (N = 127) reactions towards an experimenter their mothers simulating pain at 6, 10, 14, 18 months. As emotional control condition, laughing were assessed. Maternal sensitivity, children's...
Moral decision-making depends on the interaction between automatic emotional responses and rational cognitive control. A natural regulator state seems to be sleep, in particular rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. We tested impact of daytime either with or without REM, moral decision. Sixty participants were presented 12 sacrificial (6 Footbridge- 6 Trolley-type) 8 everyday-type dilemmas at 9 AM 5 PM. In dilemmas, had decide whether not kill one person save more people (utilitarian choice),...
Major depressive disorder is strongly associated with impairments and difficulties in social interactions. Deficits empathy, a vital skill for interactions, have been identified as risk factor relapse. However, research on empathy remitted states of depression scarce. We chose neuroscience approach to investigate potentially altered neural processes involved sub-components depression. expected aberrations cognitive components based previous reports regarding their role factors Employing...
The moral self-concept has been proposed as a central predictor of prosocial behaviour. In two experiments (one preregistered), we explored the nature relation between (explicit and implicit) Specifically, investigated role emotions associated with behaviour (consequential or anticipated) preference for consistency. results revealed explicit sharing was linked to anticipated consequential regarding not-sharing. Importantly, about not-sharing mediated Yet, independent implicit neither related...
Only a few studies investigated whether animal phobics exhibit attentional biases in contexts where no phobic stimuli are present. Among these, recent provided evidence for bias toward facial expressions of fear and disgust phobics. Such findings may be due to the fact that these could signal presence object surroundings. To test this hypothesis further investigate emotional faces phobics, we conducted an experiment using gaze-cuing paradigm which participants' attention was driven by...
This study aimed at investigating the neurocognitive correlates of perception and evaluation equitable inequitable distributions in five-year-old children. Children observed one character distributing toys or candies between two recipients. One recipients already possessed many resources, other just a few. We used event-related potentials to compare brain activity elicited by (the poor receives more) rich distribution. On behavioral level, children evaluated distribution as worse than...
Despite the increase in interactions between children and robots, our understanding of children's neural processing robotic movements is limited. The current study theorized that motor resonance hinges on agency an actor: its ability to perform actions volitionally. As one first studies with a cross-sectional sample preschoolers older specific focus action (rather than abstract non-human action), investigated whether perceived robot moderated for movements, this changed age. Motor was...
Social-cognitive processes, particularly Theory of Mind (ToM) reasoning, appear to differ between autistic and non-autistic individuals. This has been proposed reflect the core symptomatology communication social interaction difficulties. According predictive coding theory, individuals’ ToM reasoning difficulties arise from an attenuated use prior information about others’ mental states explain predict their behavior. reduced assumptions makes world less predictable for people, causing...