A5039447828- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Media Influence and Health
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
University of Graz
2016-2025
BioTechMed-Graz
2015-2024
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2024
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
2001-2013
Medical University of Graz
2011
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology
2010
Giessen School of Theology
2005
Universität Trier
2005
fMRI studies have shown that the perception of facial disgust expressions specifically activates insula. The present study investigated whether this structure is also involved in processing visual stimuli depicting non-mimic elicitors compared to fear-inducing and neutral scenes. Twelve female subjects were scanned while viewing alternating blocks 40 disgust-inducing, affectively pictures, for 1.5 s each. Afterwards, affective ratings assessed. rated as highly repulsive, induced activation...
We examined whether males and females differ in the intensity laterality of their hemodynamic responses towards visual disgust fear stimuli. Forty-one female, 51 male subjects viewed disgust-inducing, fear-inducing neutral pictures an fMRI block design. Self-report data indicated that target emotions had been elicited successfully with women responding stronger than men. While viewing pictures, which depicted attacks by humans or animals, men exhibited greater activation bilateral amygdala...
Abstract. The main goal of this study was to estimate the correlation between various psychophysiological variables and self-reported disgust during a picture perception paradigm. We further studied sensitivity (DS) as possible moderator variable for relationship. Forty-seven subjects (23 females) were presented with total 36 pictures different intensities. Each shown 8s which physiological parameters registered: heart rate (HR), skin conductance response (SCR), electromyographic activity...
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bislang existierte noch kein Fragebogen zur Erfassung der Ekelempfindlichkeit in deutscher Sprache. Fragestellung: Entwicklung eines solchen Instrumentes. Methode: Ein vorläufiger wurde an 235 Probanden vergeben. Mit den Daten eine Hauptachsenanalyse mit obliquer Rotation gerechnet. Die Überprüfung Faktorenstruktur erfolgte mittels konfirmatorischer Faktorenanalyse (n = 501). Ergebnisse: Der (FEE) besteht aus 37 Items, die fünf Skalen bilden: Tod,...
Phobic responses are strong emotional reactions towards phobic objects, which can be described as a deficit in the automatic regulation of emotions. Difficulties voluntary cognitive control these emotions suggest further phobia-specific effortful emotion mechanisms. The actual study is based on this conceptualization specific phobias. aim to investigate neural correlates two deficits spider phobics. Sixteen females participated functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) they were asked...
This study addresses how visual food cues are encoded in reward related brain areas and whether this encoding might provide information to differentiate between patients suffering from eating disorders [binge-eating disorder (BED) bulimia nervosa (BN)], overweight controls (C-OW), normal-weight (C-NW). Participants passively viewed pictures of stimuli neutral a cue reactivity design. Two classification analyses were conducted. First, we used multivariate pattern recognition techniques decode...
The current study evaluates the factor structure of Disgust Scale—Revised (DS-R) in eight countries: Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, and United States ( N = 2,606). Confirmatory analysis is used to compare two different models DS-R investigate invariance across countries gender. A three-factor solution consisting three but interrelated disgust factors (a 12-item core factor, an 8-item animal-reminder a 5-item contamination factor) best accounted for data all...
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bislang existierte noch kein Fragebogen zur Erfassung der Ekelempfindlichkeit in deutscher Sprache. Fragestellung: Entwicklung eines solchen Instrumentes. Methode: Ein vorläufiger wurde an 235 Probanden vergeben. Mit den Daten eine Hauptachsenanalyse mit obliquer Rotation gerechnet. Die Überprüfung Faktorenstruktur erfolgte mittels konfirmatorischer Faktorenanalyse (n = 501). Ergebnisse: Der (FEE) besteht aus 37 Items, die fünf Skalen bilden: Tod,...