Grit Hein

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Grit Hein is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Grit Hein has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 24 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Grit Hein's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (18 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers) and COVID-19 and Mental Health (8 papers). Grit Hein is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (18 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers) and COVID-19 and Mental Health (8 papers). Grit Hein collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and China. Grit Hein's co-authors include Tania Singer, Robert T. Knight, C. Daniel Batson, Kerstin Preuschoff, Giorgia Silani, Marcus J. Naumer, Jochen Kaiser, Oliver Doehrmann, Philippe N. Tobler and Notger G. Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Grit Hein

57 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Neural Responses to Ingroup and Outgroup Members' Suffering Predict Individual Differences in Costly Helping

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Grit Hein Germany	18	1.6k	998	779	333	307	66	2.5k
Jiajin Yuan China	29	1.6k 1.0×	699 0.7×	1.0k 1.3×	196 0.6×	183 0.6×	132	2.8k
Yawei Cheng Taiwan	22	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	500 0.6×	666 2.0×	171 0.6×	47	2.4k
Pascal Molenberghs Australia	28	2.3k 1.5×	1.5k 1.5×	561 0.7×	572 1.7×	390 1.3×	52	3.3k
Lee Ryan United States	29	2.4k 1.5×	688 0.7×	480 0.6×	407 1.2×	249 0.8×	67	3.7k
Ruolei Gu China	31	2.2k 1.4×	606 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	197 0.6×	297 1.0×	155	3.2k
Brent Hughes United States	21	2.0k 1.3×	708 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	384 1.2×	310 1.0×	34	3.3k
Tokiko Harada Japan	24	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	538 0.7×	180 0.5×	365 1.2×	48	2.1k
Sylvie Blairy Belgium	18	1.1k 0.7×	815 0.8×	923 1.2×	265 0.8×	294 1.0×	41	2.2k
Soyoung Q. Park Germany	25	1.6k 1.0×	356 0.4×	620 0.8×	247 0.7×	176 0.6×	63	2.6k
Peter Mende‐Siedlecki United States	18	1.4k 0.9×	569 0.6×	990 1.3×	111 0.3×	530 1.7×	34	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Grit Hein

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Grit Hein

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Grit Hein. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Grit Hein based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Grit Hein. Grit Hein is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Gu, Ruolei, Yuqing Zhou, Yuan Zhou, et al.. (2025). The human-AI empathy loop: a path toward stronger human-AI relationships. Science Bulletin. 71(4). 683–687.

Weiß, Martin, et al.. (2025). The buffering of autonomic fear responses is moderated by the characteristics of a virtual character. Computers in Human Behavior. 168. 108657–108657.

Hein, Grit, et al.. (2025). Influence of Social Support on Peri‐Operative Pain: A Secondary Sub‐Sample Analysis of a Prospective Observational Trial. European Journal of Pain. 29(8). e70094–e70094.

Weiß, Martin, et al.. (2024). Differential effects of everyday-life social support on chronic pain. BMC Neurology. 24(1). 301–301. 4 indexed citations

Engelmann, Jan B., et al.. (2024). Connected in Bad Times and in Good Times: Empathy Induces Stable Social Closeness. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(23). e1108232024–e1108232024. 4 indexed citations

Ma, Yina, et al.. (2024). Empathy incites a stable prosocial decision bias. Cerebral Cortex. 34(7). 1 indexed citations

Weiß, Martin, et al.. (2024). Common and differential variables of anxiety and depression in adolescence: a nation-wide smartphone-based survey. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. 18(1). 103–103. 3 indexed citations

Rodrigues, Johannes, Martin Weiß, Grit Hein, & Johannes Hewig. (2024). Electrophysiological correlates of why humans deviate from rational decision‐making: A registered replication study. Psychophysiology. 62(1). e14665–e14665. 2 indexed citations

Weiß, Martin, Marko Paelecke, Patrick Mussel, & Grit Hein. (2024). Neural dynamics of personality trait perception and interaction preferences. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 30455–30455.

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Weiß, Martin, et al.. (2023). The effects of everyday-life social interactions on anxiety-related autonomic responses differ between men and women. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 9498–9498. 5 indexed citations

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Heinig, Ingmar, Martin Weiß, Alfons O. Hamm, et al.. (2023). Exposure traced in daily life: improvements in ecologically assessed social and physical activity following exposure-based psychotherapy for anxiety disorders. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 101. 102792–102792. 2 indexed citations

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Weiß, Martin, Harald Baumeister, Caroline Cohrdes, et al.. (2022). Extraversion moderates the relationship between social media use and depression. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 8. 100343–100343. 13 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yuqing, et al.. (2022). Learning from Ingroup Experiences Changes Intergroup Impressions. Journal of Neuroscience. 42(36). 6931–6945. 6 indexed citations

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Herrmann, Martin J., et al.. (2021). The skin conductance response indicating pain relief is independent of self or social influence on pain. Psychophysiology. 59(3). e13978–e13978. 4 indexed citations

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Weiß, Martin, Grit Hein, & Johannes Hewig. (2021). Between Joy and Sympathy: Smiling and Sad Recipient Faces Increase Prosocial Behavior in the Dictator Game. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(11). 6172–6172. 9 indexed citations

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Gelbrich, Götz, Benedikt Weißbrich, Lars Dölken, et al.. (2021). Seroprävalenz von COVID-19 und psychosoziale Auswirkungen in der Allgemeinbevölkerung: Ergebnisse des STAAB-COVID-One Programms. Das Gesundheitswesen. 83(12). 965–975. 2 indexed citations

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Burke, Christopher J., et al.. (2020). Why We Learn Less from Observing Outgroups. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(1). 144–152. 9 indexed citations

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Naumer, Marcus J., Yavor Yalachkov, Oliver Doehrmann, et al.. (2010). Visuohaptic convergence in a corticocerebellar network. European Journal of Neuroscience. 31(10). 1730–1736. 20 indexed citations

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Hein, Grit, Oliver Doehrmann, Notger G. Müller, et al.. (2007). Object Familiarity and Semantic Congruency Modulate Responses in Cortical Audiovisual Integration Areas. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(30). 7881–7887. 162 indexed citations

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Hein, Grit, Arjen Alink, Andreas Kleinschmidt, & Notger G. Müller. (2007). Competing Neural Responses for Auditory and Visual Decisions. PLoS ONE. 2(3). e320–e320. 17 indexed citations

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