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Andreas Mühlberger

Andreas Mühlberger

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Psychology

D-Index
65
Citations
12796
World Ranking
2873
National Ranking
120

Overview

Andreas Mühlberger is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany. Their research spans key areas in psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, and human-computer interaction.

The main fields of study in their work consist of:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, their research further specializes in subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Andreas Mühlberger's work covers several prominent topics including:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

They have contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Biological Psychology

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Andreas Mühlberger illustrate the breadth of their research activity:

  • Interpersonal Distance During Real-Time Social Interaction: Insights From Subjective Experience, Behavior, and Physiology, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Gaze Behavior in Social Fear Conditioning: An Eye-Tracking Study in Virtual Reality, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Integrating virtual realities and psychotherapy: SWOT analysis on VR and MR based treatments of anxiety and stress-related disorders, 2021, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Individual changes in stress, depression, anxiety, pathological worry, posttraumatic stress, and health anxiety from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults from Southeastern Germany, 2022, BMC Psychiatry
  • Face masks reduce interpersonal distance in virtual reality, 2022, Scientific Reports

Mühlberger has collaborated extensively with multiple coauthors, including:

  • Leon O. H. Kroczek
  • Theresa F. Wechsler
  • Martin J. Herrmann
  • Paul Pauli
  • Michael A. Pfaller

In addition to journal articles, they have participated in book publications, with a contribution to "Developments in Implicit Measurements" published by Frontiers Media in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The impact of perception and presence on emotional reactions: a review of research in virtual reality.

    Julia Diemer;Georg W. Alpers;Henrik M. Peperkorn;Youssef Shiban

  • Binocular rivalry between emotional and neutral stimuli: a validation using fear conditioning and EEG.

    Georg W. Alpers;Mirjana Ruhleder;Nora Walz;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Electromyographic responses to static and dynamic avatar emotional facial expressions.

    Peter Weyers;Andreas Mühlberger;Carolin Hefele;Paul Pauli

  • Virtual reality for fire evacuation research

    Max Kinateder;Enrico Ronchi;Daniel Nilsson;Margrethe Kobes

  • Is eye to eye contact really threatening and avoided in social anxiety? An eye-tracking and psychophysiology study

    Matthias J. Wieser;Paul Pauli;Georg W. Alpers;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes

    Katja U. Likowski;Andreas Mühlberger;Beate Seibt;Paul Pauli

  • Early cortical processing of natural and artificial emotional faces differs between lower and higher socially anxious persons

    Andreas Mühlberger;Matthias J. Wieser;Martin J. Herrmann;Peter Weyers

  • Repeated exposure of flight phobics to flights in virtual reality.

    Andreas Mühlberger;Martin J Herrmann;Georg Wiedemann;Heiner Ellgring

  • Fear of negative evaluation and the hypervigilance-avoidance hypothesis: an eye-tracking study

    Matthias J. Wieser;Paul Pauli;Peter Weyers;Georg W. Alpers

  • Inferiority or Even Superiority of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in Phobias?-A Systematic Review and Quantitative Meta-Analysis on Randomized Controlled Trials Specifically Comparing the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure to Gold Standard in vivo Exposure in Agoraphobia, Specific Phobia, and Social Phobia.

    Theresa F. Wechsler;Franziska Kümpers;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Modulation of event-related brain potentials during affective picture processing: a complement to startle reflex and skin conductance response?

    Christine Amrhein;Andreas Mühlberger;Paul Pauli;Georg Wiedemann

  • Effect of multiple context exposure on renewal in spider phobia.

    Youssef Shiban;Paul Pauli;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Efficacy of a one-session virtual reality exposure treatment for fear of flying.

    Andreas Mühlberger;Georg Wiedemann;Paul Pauli

  • Social influence on route choice in a virtual reality tunnel fire

    Max Kinateder;Enrico Ronchi;Daniel Gromer;Mathias Müller

  • Facial mimicry and the mirror neuron system: simultaneous acquisition of facial electromyography and functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Katja U. Likowski;Andreas Mühlberger;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Matthias J. Wieser

  • Effect of combined multiple contexts and multiple stimuli exposure in spider phobia: A randomized clinical trial in virtual reality.

    Youssef Shiban;Iris Schelhorn;Paul Pauli;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Don't look at me in anger! Enhanced processing of angry faces in anticipation of public speaking.

    Matthias J. Wieser;Paul Pauli;Philipp Reicherts;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Facial mimicry in its social setting

    Beate Seibt;Andreas Mühlberger;Katja U. Likowski;Peter Weyers

  • Social influence in a virtual tunnel fire – Influence of conflicting information on evacuation behavior☆

    Max Kinateder;Mathias Müller;Michael Jost;Andreas Mühlberger;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Virtual reality exposure in anxiety disorders: Impact on psychophysiological reactivity

    Julia Diemer;Andreas Mühlberger;Paul Pauli;Peter Zwanzger

  • Probing the attentional control theory in social anxiety: An emotional saccade task

    Matthias J. Wieser;Paul Pauli;Andreas Mühlberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Matthias J. Wieser
Matthias J. Wieser Erasmus University Rotterdam
Martin J. Herrmann
Martin J. Herrmann University of Würzburg
Georg W. Alpers
Georg W. Alpers University of Mannheim
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Peter Zwanzger
Peter Zwanzger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Antje B. M. Gerdes
Antje B. M. Gerdes University of Mannheim
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster

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