Tania Singer

36.6k total citations · 12 hit papers
200 papers, 24.3k citations indexed

About

Tania Singer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tania Singer has authored 200 papers receiving a total of 24.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 69 papers in Social Psychology and 69 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Tania Singer's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (44 papers), Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (41 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (34 papers). Tania Singer is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (44 papers), Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (41 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (34 papers). Tania Singer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Tania Singer's co-authors include Claus Lamm, Raymond J. Dolan, Chris Frith, Ben Seymour, Olga Klimecki, John P. O’Doherty, Jean Decety, Frédérique de Vignemont, Boris C. Bernhardt and Holger Kaube and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tania Singer

195 papers receiving 23.4k 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.

Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

2004 2.7k citations Tania Singer, Raymond J. Dolan et al. profile →
Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain

2010 1.4k citations Tania Singer et al. profile →
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy

2009 1.3k citations Tania Singer et al. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences profile →
The empathic brain: how, when and why?

2006 1.1k citations Tania Singer et al. profile →
Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

2006 1.1k citations Tania Singer, Raymond J. Dolan et al. profile →
A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty

2009 922 citations Tania Singer, Hugo Critchley et al. profile →
The neuronal basis and ontogeny of empathy and mind reading: Review of literature and implications for future research

2006 724 citations Tania Singer profile →
The Neural Basis of Empathy

2012 678 citations Boris C. Bernhardt, Tania Singer profile →
Empathy and compassion

2014 646 citations Tania Singer et al. profile →
Neural Responses to Ingroup and Outgroup Members' Suffering Predict Individual Differences in Costly Helping

2010 538 citations Tania Singer et al. profile →
Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism

2010 486 citations Tania Singer et al. profile →
Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training

2013 430 citations Matthieu Ricard, Tania Singer et al. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A neuroscience perspective on the plasticity of the social and relational brain 2025 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Tania Singer	1
2	- How do Mindfulness-based Trainings Reduce Physiological Stress? Assessing Changes in Attention and Acceptance Traits and Their Role in Cortisol Reduction 2024 ·Psychoneuroendocrinology ·(unknown), Roman Linz, Veronika Engert, Tania Singer	1
3	Serum BDNF Increase After 9-Month Contemplative Mental Training Is Associated With Decreased Cortisol Secretion and Increased Dentate Gyrus Volume: Evidence From a Randomized Clinical Trial 2024 ·Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science ·Lara Puhlmann, Pascal Vrtička, Roman Linz, Sofie L. Valk, Ioannis Papassotiriou, George P. Chrousos, Veronika Engert, Tania Singer	2
4	Mapping pathways to neuronal atrophy in healthy, mid-aged adults: From chronic stress to systemic inflammation to neurodegeneration? 2024 ·Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health ·J. Schaefer, Veronika Engert, Sofie L. Valk, Tania Singer, Lara Puhlmann	4
5	Functional and microstructural plasticity following social and interoceptive mental training 2023 ·eLife ·Sofie L. Valk, Philipp Kanske, Bo‐yong Park, Seok‐Jun Hong, Anne Böckler, Fynn‐Mathis Trautwein, Boris C. Bernhardt, Tania Singer	14
6	Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol 2023 ·eLife ·Sofie L. Valk, Veronika Engert, Lara Puhlmann, Roman Linz, Benoît Caldairou, Andrea Bernasconi, Neda Bernasconi, Boris C. Bernhardt, Tania Singer	1
7	Specific Reduction in the Cortisol Awakening Response after Socio-Affective Mental Training 2023 ·Mindfulness ·Veronika Engert, (unknown), Tania Singer	9
8	Revisiting the stress recovery hypothesis: Differential associations of cortisol stress reactivity and recovery after acute psychosocial stress with markers of long-term stress and health 2023 ·Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health ·(unknown), Roman Linz, Lara Puhlmann, Tania Singer, Veronika Engert	18
9	Contemplative Mental Training Reduces Hair Glucocorticoid Levels in a Randomized Clinical Trial 2021 ·Psychosomatic Medicine ·Lara Puhlmann, Pascal Vrtička, Roman Linz, Tobias Stalder, Clemens Kirschbaum, Veronika Engert, Tania Singer	18
10	Two systems for thinking about other's thoughts in the developing brain. 2020 ·Europe PMC (PubMed Central) ·Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann, Angela D. Friederici, Tania Singer, Nikolaus Steinbeis	42
11	Loving-Kindness Meditation -- A Queen of Hearts?: A Physio-Phenomenological Investigation on the Variety of Experience 2019 ·Journal of Consciousness Studies ·(unknown), Pascal Vrtička, Veronika Engert, Tania Singer	4
12	Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance 2019 ·OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin) ·Dennis J. Snower, (unknown), Tania Singer	17
13	Exploring the multidimensional complex systems structure of the stress response and its relation to health and sleep outcomes 2018 ·Brain Behavior and Immunity ·Veronika Engert, Bethany E. Kok, Lara Puhlmann, Tobias Stalder, Clemens Kirschbaum, Filia Apostolakou, (unknown), Ioannis Papassotiriou, Panagiota Pervanidou, George P. Chrousos, Tania Singer	40
14	Power and care : towards balance for our common future : science, society, and spirituality 2018 ·The MIT Press eBooks ·Tania Singer, Matthieu Ricard, (unknown), Dalai Lama Xiv Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho	0
15	Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training 2017 ·Science Advances ·Sofie L. Valk, Boris C. Bernhardt, Fynn‐Mathis Trautwein, Anne Böckler, Philipp Kanske, Nicolas Guizard, D. Louis Collins, Tania Singer	173
16	Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training 2017 ·Science Advances ·Veronika Engert, Bethany E. Kok, Ioannis Papassotiriou, George P. Chrousos, Tania Singer	108
17	Boosting recovery rather than buffering reactivity: Higher stress-induced oxytocin secretion is associated with increased cortisol reactivity and faster vagal recovery after acute psychosocial stress 2016 ·Psychoneuroendocrinology ·Veronika Engert, (unknown), Antje Riepenhausen, Tania Singer	85
18	Where the depressed mind wanders: Self-generated thought patterns as assessed through experience sampling as a state marker of depression 2016 ·Journal of Affective Disorders ·Ferdinand Hoffmann, (unknown), Philipp Kanske, Felix Bermpohl, Tania Singer	92
19	Pupillary contagion: central mechanisms engaged in sadness processing 2006 ·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ·Neil A. Harrison, Tania Singer, Pia Rotshtein, Raymond J. Dolan, Hugo Critchley	139
20	Plasticity and the aging mind: An exemplar of the biocultural orchestration of brain and behavior 2001 ·MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) ·Tania Singer, Paul B. Baltes	0

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