Sören Krach

The neuroscience of social feelings: mechanisms of adaptive social functioning

2021, Social Cognition, Social Emotions /

Abstract Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We examne the functional neuroanatomy and neurobiology of social feelings and their role in adaptive social functioning. Existing neuroscience literature is reviewed to identify concepts, methods and challenges that […]

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Empathie, Intuition und die Übertragung von Gefühlen

Media /

Podcast-Diskussion mit Alexander Nusselt und Daniel Fürg von 48forward.com über Social Neuroscience, soziale Emotionen und Intuition   Unsere Gefühle sind Teil dessen, was uns zu Menschen macht. Pandemie und Beschränkungen dauern nun schon über ein Jahr und wir haben den Eindruck, dass immer mehr Menschen stark von ihren Emotionen geleitet werden. Ein Blick in die

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Rejection of DFG-Antragspaket “SO AVID”

Fails /

SOCIAL SUPPORT, SLEEP, OPTIMISM & ANTI-VIRAL IMMUNE DEFENSE – S3O AVID Today we received a complete rejection of our DFG-Antragspaket S3O AVID involving a network of 18 physicians and scientists from Kiel, Lübeck, Hamburg, Stockholm and Nijmegen with interdisciplinary expertise in immunology, rheumatology, psychiatry, psychology, anaesthesiology, intensive care medicine, oncology and virology. Our submission was part of the “Call for

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Meta-analysis of fMRI studies using the Social Incentive Delay (SID) task accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews!

Science /

Together with colleagues from King’s College London, University of Oxford, Virginia Tech, Temple University, University Medical Center Groningen and the University of Amsterdam Lena Rademacher published a new meta-analysis of functional MRI studies using the social incentive delay (SID) paradigm (see Spreckelmeyer et al., 2009; Rademacher et al., 2010).    Check out the publication here:

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Mapping social reward and punishment processing in the human brain: A voxel-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging findings using the Social Incentive Delay task

2021, Meta-Science (Methods), Social Reward /

Abstract Social incentives (rewards or punishments) motivate human learning and behaviour, and alterations in the brain circuits involved in the processing social incentives have been linked with several neuropsychiatric disorders. However, questions still remain about the exact neural substrates implicated in social incentive processing. Here, we conducted four Anisotropic Effect Size Signed Differential Mapping voxel-based

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Successful defense by Dr. med. Banafsche Sayyad!

Personnel, Science /

After several years, next to working as a physician at the Klinikum Neukölln (Berlin) in the field of neurology, Banafsche Sayyad has finally finished her MD in our lab! Congratulations!  In her thesis, Banafsche examined how “sex/gender” is operationalised in functional MRI research and what consequences and implications such operationalisations carry. Therefore Banafsche analysed 34

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Painful laughter – Media and politics in the age of cringe

Conferences /

Painful laughter – Wieland Schwanebeck (TU Dresden), with support from the Volkswagen Stiftung, organized this inspiring symposium on the role of awkwardness and cringe comedy in media and politics at the Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover. Talks spanned from early British comedy to analyses and discussions of up-to-date cringe comedy (e.g. live interview with Robert B. Weide,

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