Claus Lamm

22.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
213 papers, 12.3k citations indexed

About

Claus Lamm is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Claus Lamm has authored 213 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 80 papers in Social Psychology and 58 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Claus Lamm's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (57 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (43 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (36 papers). Claus Lamm is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (57 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (43 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (36 papers). Claus Lamm collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Claus Lamm's co-authors include Jean Decety, Tania Singer, C. Daniel Batson, Giorgia Silani, Christian Windischberger, Markus Rütgen, Daniela M. Pfabigan, Jasminka Majdandžić, Andrew N. Meltzoff and Herbert Bauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Claus Lamm

204 papers receiving 12.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain

2010 1.4k citations Claus Lamm, Jean Decety et al. NeuroImage profile →
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy

2009 1.3k citations Tania Singer, Claus Lamm profile →
The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal

2007 978 citations Claus Lamm, Jean Decety et al. profile →
The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition

2007 798 citations Jean Decety, Claus Lamm The Neuroscientist profile →
Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience

2006 645 citations Jean Decety, Claus Lamm profile →
Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue

2020 235 citations Paul Forbes, Matthew A J Apps et al. British Journal of Health Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claus Lamm Austria	47	6.9k	5.4k	3.1k	2.8k	2.2k	213	12.3k
Ben Seymour United Kingdom	51	11.2k 1.6×	3.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	3.4k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	108	16.8k
Simone Shamay‐Tsoory Israel	50	5.5k 0.8×	5.7k 1.1×	2.7k 0.9×	3.8k 1.4×	2.5k 1.1×	192	11.9k
David H. Zald United States	65	8.4k 1.2×	2.1k 0.4×	2.8k 0.9×	4.8k 1.7×	3.9k 1.8×	188	18.0k
Alfons O. Hamm Germany	54	8.4k 1.2×	2.7k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	5.6k 2.0×	2.4k 1.1×	209	13.9k
Naomi I. Eisenberger United States	68	5.1k 0.7×	8.0k 1.5×	3.1k 1.0×	4.6k 1.7×	5.5k 2.5×	177	18.3k
Peter Kirsch Germany	58	5.1k 0.7×	3.6k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	3.1k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	196	11.9k
Hauke R. Heekeren Germany	63	8.5k 1.2×	2.0k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	200	12.9k
Ute Habel Germany	56	6.0k 0.9×	2.5k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	3.4k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	326	11.8k
Mauricio R. Delgado United States	56	9.0k 1.3×	2.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	3.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	109	13.3k
Todd A. Hare Switzerland	42	9.1k 1.3×	3.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	4.5k 1.6×	5.1k 2.3×	77	17.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claus Lamm

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Lamm, Claus, et al.. (2024). How dopamine shapes trust beliefs. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 136. 111206–111206.

Forbes, Paul, Gökhan Aydogan, Boryana Todorova, et al.. (2024). Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations

Wagner, Isabella C., et al.. (2023). Functionally analogous body- and animacy-responsive areas are present in the dog (Canis familiaris) and human occipito-temporal lobe. Communications Biology. 6(1). 645–645. 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, et al.. (2023). Aberrant uncertainty processing is linked to psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits, and is reflected in pupil dilation during probabilistic learning. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 23(3). 905–919. 10 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, et al.. (2023). Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior through impacting choice consistency in healthy males. Neuropsychopharmacology. 48(10). 1541–1550. 8 indexed citations

Forbes, Paul, Ekaterina Pronizius, Anja C. Feneberg, et al.. (2022). The effects of social interactions on momentary stress and mood during COVID ‐19 lockdowns. British Journal of Health Psychology. 28(2). 306–319. 12 indexed citations

Huber, Alexa, et al.. (2022). The causal role of affect sharing in driving vicarious fear learning. PLoS ONE. 17(11). e0277793–e0277793. 4 indexed citations

Hartmann, Helena, Federica Riva, Markus Rütgen, & Claus Lamm. (2021). Placebo Analgesia Does Not Reduce Empathy for Naturalistic Depictions of Others’ Pain in a Somatosensory Specific Way. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 2(3). tgab039–tgab039. 3 indexed citations

Yao, Yuan‐Wei, et al.. (2021). Effects of non-invasive brain stimulation on visual perspective taking: A meta-analytic study. NeuroImage. 242. 118462–118462. 7 indexed citations

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Sladky, Ronald, Andreas Hahn, Georg S. Kranz, et al.. (2021). Dynamic Causal Modeling of the Prefrontal/Amygdala Network During Processing of Emotional Faces. Brain Connectivity. 12(7). 670–682. 6 indexed citations

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Ugazio, Giuseppe, Marcus Grueschow, Rafael Polanía, et al.. (2021). Neuro-computational foundations of moral preferences. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 17(3). 253–265. 5 indexed citations

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Wagner, Isabella C., Markus Rütgen, & Claus Lamm. (2020). Pattern similarity and connectivity of hippocampal-neocortical regions support empathy for pain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 15(3). 273–284. 19 indexed citations

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Lamm, Claus, Urs M. Nater, Anja C. Feneberg, et al.. (2020). The COVID-19 crisis, stress, mood, and behaviour: an ecological momentary assessment study. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Rütgen, Markus, I Riečanský, Allan Hummer, et al.. (2020). Beyond Sharing Unpleasant Affect—Evidence for Pain-Specific Opioidergic Modulation of Empathy for Pain. Cerebral Cortex. 31(6). 2773–2786. 28 indexed citations

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Lamm, Claus, et al.. (2018). Another’s Pain in my Brain: Clarifying the Specificity of the Effects of Placebo Analgesia on First-Hand and Empathy for Pain. Open Science Framework. 1 indexed citations

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Spies, Marie, Christoph Kraus, Manfred Klöbl, et al.. (2017). Default mode network deactivation during emotion processing predicts early antidepressant response. Translational Psychiatry. 7(1). e1008–e1008. 58 indexed citations

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Yamada, Makiko, Claus Lamm, & Jean Decety. (2011). Pleasing frowns, disappointing smiles: An ERP investigation of counterempathy.. Emotion. 11(6). 1336–1345. 27 indexed citations

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Lamm, Claus, Jean Decety, & Tania Singer. (2010). Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain. NeuroImage. 54(3). 2492–2502. 1420 indexed citations breakdown →

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Decety, Jean & Claus Lamm. (2007). The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition. The Neuroscientist. 13(6). 580–593. 798 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lamm, Claus, Christian Windischberger, Ewald Moser, & Herbert Bauer. (2007). The functional role of dorso-lateral premotor cortex during mental rotation. NeuroImage. 36(4). 1374–1386. 63 indexed citations

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