Publications of Nikolaus Steinbeis

Grosse Wiesmann, C., Friederici, A. D., Singer, T., & Steinbeis, N. (2020). Two systems for thinking about others' thoughts in the developing brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, 6928–6935.

Grosse Wiesmann, C., Friederici, A. D., Disla, D., Steinbeis, N., & Singer, T. (2018). Longitudinal evidence for 4-year-olds’ but not 2- and 3-year-olds’ false belief-related action anticipation. Cognitive Development, 46, 58–68.

Steinbeis, N. (2018). Taxing behavioral control diminishes sharing and costly punishment in childhood. Developmental Science, 21. doi:10.1111/desc.12492

Mendes, N., Steinbeis, N., Bueno-Guerra, N., Call, J., & Singer, T. (2017). Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 45–51.

Grosse Wiesmann, C., Friederici, A. D., Singer, T., & Steinbeis, N. (2017). Implicit and explicit false belief development in preschool children. Developmental Science, 20. doi:10.1111/desc.12445

Grosse Wiesmann, C., Schreiber, J., Singer, T., Steinbeis, N., & Friederici, A. D. (2017). White matter maturation is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood. Nature Communications, 8. doi:10.1038/ncomms14692

McAuliffe, K., Blake, P. R., Steinbeis, N., & Warneken, F. (2017). The developmental foundations of human fairness. Nature Human Behaviour, 1. doi:10.1038/s41562-016-0042

Steinbeis, N., & Margulies, D. S. (2016). Opportunities and challenges for current developmental neuroscience. Theory and Psychology, 26, 620–631.

Steinbeis, N., & Crone, E. A. (2016). The link between cognitive control and decision-making across child and adolescent development. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 10, 28–32.

Hoffmann, F., Köhne, S., Steinbeis, N., Dziobek, I., & Singer, T. (2016). Preserved self-other distinction during empathy in autism is linked to network integrity of right supramarginal gyrus. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 637–648.

Steinbeis, N. (2016). The role of self–other distinction in understanding others' mental and emotional states: Neurocognitive mechanisms in children and adults. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 371. doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0074

Steinbeis, N., Haushofer, J., Fehr, E., & Singer, T. (2016). Development of behavioural control and associated vmPFC-DLPFC connectivity explains children’s increased resistance to temptation in intertemporal choice. Cerebral Cortex, 26, 32–42.

Steinbeis, N., Engert, V., Linz, R., & Singer, T. (2015). The effects of stress and affiliation on social decision-making: Investigating the tend-and-befriend pattern. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 62, 138–148.

Hoffmann, F., Singer, T., & Steinbeis, N. (2015). Children's increased emotional egocentricity compared to adults is mediated by age-related differences in conflict processing. Child Development, 86, 765–780.

Steinbeis, N., Bernhardt, B. C., & Singer, T. (2015). Age-related differences in function and structure of rSMG and reduced functional connectivity with DLPFC explains heightened emotional egocentricity bias in childhood. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 302–310.

McCall, C., Steinbeis, N., Ricard, M., & Singer, T. (2014). Compassion meditators show less anger, less punishment, and more compensation of victims in response to fairness violations. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00424

Steinbeis, N., & Singer, T. (2014). Projecting my envy onto you: Neurocognitive mechanisms of offline emotional egocentricity bias. NeuroImage, 102, 370–380.

Bernhardt, B. C., Smallwood, J., Tusche, A., Ruby, F. J. M., Engen, H. G., Steinbeis, N., & Singer, T. (2014). Medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortical thickness predicts shared individual differences in self-generated thought and temporal discounting. NeuroImage, 90, 290–297.

Steinbeis, N., & Singer, T. (2013). 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. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115, 198–209.

Steinbeis, N. (2013). Die Reifung des sozialen Gehirns. Retrieved from https://www.mpg.de/7828408/mpi_cbs_jb_20131?c=11659628