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Overview

David Sander is a researcher affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland, with a focus on psychology and neuroscience. Their academic work spans across various subfields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and applied psychology.

The research conducted by David Sander often addresses several main topics, such as:

  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Relationships between changes in self-reported physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in France and Switzerland" (2020), published in the Journal of Sports Sciences
  • "The rise of affectivism" (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Evolution of physical activity habits after a context change: The case of COVID-19 lockdown" (2021), published in the British Journal of Health Psychology
  • "Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price" (2022), published in Psychological Science
  • "Reward and emotion: an affective neuroscience approach" (2021), published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Boris Cheval
  • Matthieu P. Boisgontier
  • Silvio Maltagliati
  • Matthew W. Miller
  • Sylvain Delplanque

David Sander's work has been published in several venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Motivation Science
  • Affective Science
  • Cortex

Their significant presence in the fields of psychology and neuroscience reflects a research portfolio that integrates behavioral, cognitive, and emotional dimensions. Topics such as emotions and moral behavior and neural psychology are recurrent themes in their publications. The diversity of subfields and collaborative efforts also underscore a multidisciplinary approach.

Best Publications

  • The human amygdala: an evolved system for relevance detection.

    David Sander;Jordan Grafman;Tiziana Zalla

  • Electrophysiological Correlates of Rapid Spatial Orienting Towards Fearful Faces

    Gilles Pourtois;Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • 2005 Special Issue: A systems approach to appraisal mechanisms in emotion

    David Sander;Didier Grandjean;Klaus R. Scherer

  • The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

    Raffael Kalisch;Dewleen G. Baker;Dewleen G. Baker;Ulrike Basten;Ulrike Basten;Marco P. Boks

  • The voices of wrath: brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless speech

    Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander;Gilles Pourtois;Sophie Schwartz

  • Emotion and attention interactions in social cognition: Brain regions involved in processing anger prosody

    David Sander;Didier Maurice Grandjean;Gilles Pourtois;Sophie Schwartz

  • Attentional Bias for Positive Emotional Stimuli: A Meta-Analytic Investigation

    Eva Pool;Tobias Brosch;Sylvain Delplanque;David Sander

  • Beyond Fear Rapid Spatial Orienting Toward Positive Emotional Stimuli

    Tobias Brosch;David Sander;Gilles Pourtois;Klaus R. Scherer

  • The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review

    Tobias Brosch;Gilles Pourtois;David Sander

  • The impact of emotion on perception, attention, memory, and decision-making

    Tobias Brosch;Klaus R. Scherer;Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander

  • That baby caught my eye. . . Attention capture by infant faces

    Tobias Brosch;David Sander;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Conscious emotional experience emerges as a function of multilevel, appraisal-driven response synchronization.

    Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Relationships between changes in self-reported physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in France and Switzerland.

    Boris Cheval;Hamsini Sivaramakrishnan;Silvio Maltagliati;Layan Fessler

  • Enhanced extrastriate visual response to bandpass spatial frequency filtered fearful faces: Time course and topographic evoked-potentials mapping

    Gilles Pourtois;E. S. Dan;Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander

  • Individual attachment style modulates human amygdala and striatum activation during social appraisal

    Pascal Vrticka;Frédéric Andersson;Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander

  • Interaction effects of perceived gaze direction and dynamic facial expression: Evidence for appraisal theories of emotion

    David Sander;Didier Grandjean;Susanne Kaiser;Thomas Wehrle

  • Mapping the Semantic Space for the Subjective Experience of Emotional Responses to Odors

    Christelle Chrea;Didier Maurice Grandjean;Sylvain Delplanque;Isabelle Cayeux

  • The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences

    David Sander;Klaus Rainer Scherer

  • Dissociable roles of the human somatosensory and superior temporal cortices for processing social face signals

    Gilles Pourtois;David Sander;Michael Andres;Didier Maurice Grandjean

  • The effect of appraisal level on processing of emotional prosody in meaningless speech.

    Dominik R. Bach;Didier Grandjean;David Sander;Marcus Herdener;Marcus Herdener

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvain Delplanque
Sylvain Delplanque University of Geneva
Tobias Brosch
Tobias Brosch University of Geneva
Klaus R. Scherer
Klaus R. Scherer University of Geneva
Didier Maurice Grandjean
Didier Maurice Grandjean University of Geneva
Boris Cheval
Boris Cheval École Normale Supérieure de Rennes
S. Craig Roberts
S. Craig Roberts University of Stirling
Annett Schirmer
Annett Schirmer University of Innsbruck
Martin Debbané
Martin Debbané University of Geneva
Amanda L. Rebar
Amanda L. Rebar Central Queensland University
Philippe Sarrazin
Philippe Sarrazin Grenoble Alpes University

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