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2026

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Citations
24863
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Claus Lamm is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. The scientist's work includes significant contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and clinical psychology.

The scope of Lamm's research covers a broad range of topics related to the neural and behavioral aspects of psychology, moral and emotional judgment, as well as action observation and synchronization. Their investigations further extend to pain management and the placebo effect, human-animal interaction studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and functional brain connectivity.

Frequent collaborators in Lamm's research include Markus Rütgen, Isabella C. Wagner, Giorgia Silani, Ronald Sladky, and Ludwig Huber. Together, these coauthors have contributed to various publications over years of collaboration.

Lamm's work has been published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • NeuroImage
  • Scientific Reports
  • eLife

Among the recent papers associated with or relevant to the research area of Claus Lamm are:

  • "Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID-19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue" (2020), published in British Journal of Health Psychology
  • "National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices" (2020), published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour

Best Publications

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

    Claus Lamm;Claus Lamm;Claus Lamm;Jean Decety;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

  • The social neuroscience of empathy

    Tania Singer;Claus Lamm

  • The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal

    Claus Lamm;C. Daniel Batson;Jean Decety

  • Human empathy through the lens of social neuroscience.

    Jean Decety;Claus Lamm

  • The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition

    Jean Decety;Claus Lamm

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

  • Functional Neural Plasticity and Associated Changes in Positive Affect After Compassion Training

    Olga M. Klimecki;Susanne Leiberg;Claus Lamm;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

  • The role of anterior insular cortex in social emotions

    Claus Lamm;Tania Singer

  • Right supramarginal gyrus is crucial to overcome emotional egocentricity bias in social judgments.

    Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Claus Lamm;Claus Lamm;Christian C. Ruff;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

  • What Are You Feeling? Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Assess the Modulation of Sensory and Affective Responses during Empathy for Pain

    Claus Lamm;Howard C. Nusbaum;Andrew N. Meltzoff;Jean Decety

  • How do we empathize with someone who is not like us? a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Claus Lamm;Andrew N. Meltzoff;Jean Decety

  • The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy—A critical comment.

    Claus Lamm;Jasminka Majdandžić

  • Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID-19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue.

    Jonas P. Nitschke;Jonas P. Nitschke;Paul A. G. Forbes;Nida Ali;Jo Cutler;Jo Cutler

  • Transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation (tES and TMS) for addiction medicine: A consensus paper on the present state of the science and the road ahead

    Hamed Ekhtiari;Hosna Tavakoli;Giovanni Addolorato;Chris Baeken

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • Empathy versus personal distress: Recent evidence from social neuroscience.

    Jean Decety;Claus Lamm

  • From shared to distinct self–other representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders

    C. Lamm;H. Bukowski;G. Silani

  • Is stress affecting our ability to tune into others? Evidence for gender differences in the effects of stress on self-other distinction

    L. Tomova;B. von Dawans;M. Heinrichs;G. Silani

  • Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain

    Markus Rütgen;Eva-Maria Seidel;Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Igor Riečanský;Igor Riečanský

  • Towards understanding rTMS mechanism of action: Stimulation of the DLPFC causes network-specific increase in functional connectivity.

    Martin Tik;André Hoffmann;Ronald Sladky;Livia Tomova

  • The role of emotions for moral judgments depends on the type of emotion and moral scenario.

    Giuseppe Ugazio;Claus Lamm;Claus Lamm;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgia Silani
Giorgia Silani University of Vienna
Tania Singer
Tania Singer Max Planck Society
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago
Stefan Stieger
Stefan Stieger Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences
Predrag Petrovic
Predrag Petrovic Karolinska Institute
Birgit Derntl
Birgit Derntl University of Tübingen
Mats Lekander
Mats Lekander Karolinska Institute
Ludwig Huber
Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Göran Kecklund
Göran Kecklund Stockholm University
Patricia L. Lockwood
Patricia L. Lockwood University of Birmingham

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