Cooperating Researchers - Tania Singer

POSITION AT CILS

PI

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Psychology, Affective and Social Neurosciences

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Universität Zurich, Switzerland

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

 

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (APS)
  • Senior Fellow, Mind & Life Institute (MLI)
  • Visiting Professor, La Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Italy (2010)
  • Inaugural Chair of Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2008 – 2010)
  • Visiting Professor, La Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Italy (2008)
  • Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (Principal Investigator: Prof. Uta Frith), London, United Kingdom (2005 – 2006)
  • Research Fellow, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience (Principal Investigator: Prof. Chris Frith), London, United Kingdom (2003 – 2005)
  • Research Fellow, Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Portola Valley, CA, USA
  • Visiting Fellow, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom (2002 – 2003)

 

  • Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for best dissertation of the year (2000)

 

EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

  • Consulting Editor, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience


  • Faculty, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
  • Member, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
  • Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (German Psychological Society) (DGPs)
  • Member, Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
  • Member, International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
  • Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
  • Member, The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
  • Member, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
  • Member, Swiss Society for Neuroscience (SSN)
  • Member, Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ), Switzerland
  • Advisory Board Member, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), Stanford University School of MedicineAssociate Member, Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Portola Valley, CA, USA
  • Associate Member, Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Associate Member, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Bird, G., Silani, G., Brindley, R., White, S., Frith, U., & Singer, T. (2010). Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism. Brain, 133(5), 1515–1525.
  • Lamm, C., & Singer, T. (2010). The role of anterior insular cortex in social emotions. Brain Structure & Function, 241(5–6), 579–951.
  • Hein, G., Silani, G., Preuschoff, K., Batson, C. D., & Singer, T. (2010). Neural responses to the suffering of ingroup- and outgroup members predict individual differences in altruistic helping. Neuron, 68(1), 149–160.
  • Singer, T., Critchley, H. D., & Preuschoff, K. (2009). A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(8), 334-340.
  • Singer, T., & Lamm, C. (2009). The social neuroscience of empathy. The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience 2009: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1156, 81-96.
  • Singer, T., & Steinbeis, N. (2009). Differential roles of fairness- and compassion-based motivations for cooperation, defection, and punishment. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1167(1), 41-50.
  • Frith, C. D., & Singer, T. (2008). The role of social cognition in decision making. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 363(1511), 3875–3886.
  • Singer, T., Seymour, B., O’Doherty, J. P., Stephan, K. E., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, C. D. (2006). Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others. Nature, 439, 466–469.
  • Singer, T., Seymour, B., O’Doherty, J., Kaube, H., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, C. D. (2004). Empathy for pain involves the affective but not sensory components of pain. Science, 303, 1157–1162.
  • Singer, T., Kiebel, S. J., Winston, J. S., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, C. D. (2004). Brain responses to the acquired moral status of faces. Neuron, 41, 653–662.