Publications of Tania Singer

Linz, R., Puhlmann, L. M., Apostolakou, F., Mantzou, E., Papassotiriou, I., Chrousos, G. P., … Singer, T. (2019). Acute psychosocial stress increases serum BDNF levels: An antagonistic relation to cortisol but no group differences after mental training. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44, 1797–1804.

Singer, T., & Engert, V. (2019). It matters what you practice: Differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28, 151–158.

Przyrembel, M., Vrticka, P., Engert, V., & Singer, T. (2019). Loving-kindness meditation - A queen of hearts?: A physio-phenomenological investigation on the variety of experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26, 95–129.

Bornemann, B., Kovacs, P., & Singer, T. (2019). Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability through biofeedback is improved by mental contemplative training. Scientific Reports, 9. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-44201-7

Preckel, K., Trautwein, F.-M., Paulus, F. M., Kirsch, P., Krach, S., Singer, T., & Kanske, P. (2019). Neural mechanisms of affective matching across faces and scenes. Scientific Reports, 9. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-37163-9

Banzhaf, C., Hoffmann, F., Kanske, P., Fan, Y., Walter, H., Spengler, S., … Bermpohl, F. (2018). Interacting and dissociable effects of alexithymia and depression on empathy. Psychiatry Research, 270, 631–638.

Linz, R., Singer, T., & Engert, V. (2018). Interactions of momentary thought content and subjective stress predict cortisol fluctuations in a daily life experience sampling study. Scientific Reports, 8. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-33708-0

Engert, V., Kok, B. E., Puhlmann, L. M., Stalder, T., Kirschbaum, C., Papanastasopoulou, C., … Singer, T. (2018). Exploring the multidimensional complex systems structure of the stress response and its relation to health and sleep outcomes. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 73, 390–402.

Böckler, A., Tusche, A., Schmidt, P., & Singer, T. (2018). Distinct mental trainings differentially affect altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behaviour. Scientific Reports, 8. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-31813-8

Böckler, A., Tusche, A., & Singer, T. (2018). The structure of human prosociality revisited: Corrigendum and addendum to Böckler, Tusche, and Singer (2016). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 754–759.

Engen, H. G., Bernhardt, B. C., Skottnik, L., Ricard, M., & Singer, T. (2018). Structural changes in socio-affective networks: Multi-modal MRI findings in long-term meditation practitioners. Neuropsychologia, 116, 26–33.

Przyrembel, M., & Singer, T. (2018). Experiencing meditation: Evidence for differential effects of three contemplative mental practices in micro-phenomenological interviews. Consciousness and Cognition, 62, 82–101.

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.

Lumma, A.-L., Valk, S. L., Böckler, A., Vrticka, P., & Singer, T. (2018). Change in emotional self-concept following socio-cognitive training relates to structural plasticity of the prefrontal cortex. Brain and Behavior, 8. doi:10.1002/brb3.940

Engert, V., Ragsdale, A. M., & Singer, T. (2018). Cortisol stress resonance in the laboratory is associated with inter-couple diurnal cortisol covariation in daily life. Hormones and Behavior, 98, 183–190.

Preckel, K., Kanske, P., & Singer, T. (2018). On the interaction of social affect and cognition: Empathy, compassion and theory of mind. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 19, 1–6.

Engen, H. G., Kanske, P., & Singer, T. (2018). Endogenous emotion generation ability is associated with the capacity to form multimodal internal representations. Scientific Reports, 8. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-20380-7

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.

Hildebrandt, L. K., McCall, C., & Singer, T. (2017). Differential effects of attention-, compassion- and socio-cognitively based mental practices on self-reports of mindfulness and compassion. Mindfulness, 8, 1488–1512.

Engert, V., Kok, B. E., Papassotiriou, I., Chrousos, G. P., & Singer, T. (2017). Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training. Science Advances, 3. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700495