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Editorial: The social brain: new insights from social, clinical, and biological psychology [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Carmelo M. Vicario, Chiara Lucifora, Giuseppe Craparo, Paola Magnano, Gabriella Martino   +4 more
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Philosophical Management of Stress based on Science and Epicurean Pragmatism: A Pilot Study

Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2022
In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, we created and implemented from November 2020 to February 2021 a monthly educational pilot program of philosophical management of stress based on Science, Humanism and Epicurean Pragmatism, which was offered
Christos Yapijakis, Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, George P. Chrousos   +2 more
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Diagnosing callous-unemotional personality traits by heart rate orienting responses to images inducing threat and distress

Scientific Reports, 2023
The present study aimed at developing a rather easily applicable method of testing physiological reactions to images of threats and misery. To this end, rapid-changing, transient heart rate orienting responses were used for gaining physiologically based,
Günter Schulter, Beatrice Milek, Helmut Karl Lackner, Bernhard Weber, Andreas Fink, Christian Rominger, Corinna Perchtold-Stefan, Ilona Papousek   +7 more
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Reliability assessment of temporal discounting measures in virtual reality environments

Scientific Reports, 2021
In recent years the emergence of high-performance virtual reality (VR) technology has opened up new possibilities for the examination of context effects in psychological studies.
Luca R. Bruder, Lisa Scharer, Jan Peters
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Increased Anxiety of Public Situations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From a Community and a Patient Sample

Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2021
[Background] Increases in emotional distress in response to the global outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic have been reported. So far, little is known about how anxiety responses in specific everyday public life situations have been affected. [
Andre Pittig, Valentina M. Glück, Juliane M. Boschet, Alex H. K. Wong, Paula Engelke   +4 more
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Associations between childhood maltreatment and DNA methylation of the oxytocin receptor gene in immune cells of mother–newborn dyads

Translational Psychiatry, 2021
The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) and its receptor (OXTR) modulate interpersonal relationships, particularly mother–child interactions. DNA methylation (DNAm) changes of the OXTR gene were observed in individuals who experienced Childhood Maltreatment (CM).
Laura Ramo-Fernández, Anja M. Gumpp, Christina Boeck, Sabrina Krause, Alexandra M. Bach, Christiane Waller, Iris-Tatjana Kolassa, Alexander Karabatsiakis   +7 more
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Modeling Oculomotor Variability During Slow Cabin Decompression Using Infrared Technology

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 2018
Slow cabin decompression is highly perilous due to its gradual and thus generally inconspicuous nature. In an applied approach to studying its effects upon oculomotor performance, experienced pilots performed a simulated flight task during slow ...
Jennifer E Thropp, Paul W. Buza
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EmBody/EmFace as a new open tool to assess emotion recognition from body and face expressions

Scientific Reports, 2022
Nonverbal expressions contribute substantially to social interaction by providing information on another person’s intentions and feelings. While emotion recognition from dynamic facial expressions has been widely studied, dynamic body expressions and the
Lea L. Lott, Franny B. Spengler, Tobias Stächele, Bastian Schiller, Markus Heinrichs   +4 more
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No evidence that gaze anxiety predicts gaze avoidance behavior during face-to-face social interaction

Scientific Reports, 2022
Eye contact is an indispensable social signal, yet for some individuals it is also a source of discomfort they fear and avoid. However, it is still unknown whether gaze anxiety actually produces avoidant gaze behavior in naturalistic, face-to-face ...
Daniel Tönsing, Bastian Schiller, Antonia Vehlen, Ines Spenthof, Gregor Domes, Markus Heinrichs   +5 more
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Parental characteristics and offspring mental health and related outcomes: a systematic review of genetically informative literature

Translational Psychiatry, 2021
Various parental characteristics, including psychiatric disorders and parenting behaviours, are associated with offspring mental health and related outcomes in observational studies.
Eshim S. Jami, Anke R. Hammerschlag, Meike Bartels, Christel M. Middeldorp   +3 more
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