Translational Social Neuroscience
Third-party funding (selection of current projects)
German Research Foundation
- Neural mechanisms of (mal)adaptive approach and avoidance behaviour
- Clinical Research group ResolvePAIN
- Heisenbergprofessur and Research grants, e.g., focusing on social motives
Volkswagenstiftung
Sino-German Center for Science Promotion
- Mobility Grant: Cultural neuroscience research on social motivation and behavior
Team
Head
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Grit Hein, Dipl.-Psych.
E-Mail: Hein_G@ ukw.de
Telefon: +49 931 201 77411
Academic staff
Current research topics
Social Motives (e.g. empathy, reciprocity, egoism etc.):
- Neuronal processing
- Interactions between different motives
- Interactions between social motives and cognitive processes (e.g., learning and decision processes
Impact of social interactions on clinically relevant processes (e.g., anxiety, pain)
- Identifying social factors and specifying types of social interactions that reduce anxiety and pain
- Effect of social interactions in every-day life on mental and physical health
Publications
Selected publications can be found here.
All publications of the working group can be found on pubmed or in the list of publications of our hospital.
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