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Overview

Georg W. Alpers is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany. The scientist's research predominantly spans the field of psychology, with a particular focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, general health professions, and social psychology.

The primary topics of their work include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, patient-provider communication in healthcare, face recognition and perception, patient satisfaction in healthcare, children's physical and motor development, infant development and preterm care, and broader mental health research topics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Georg W. Alpers include:

  • Antje B. M. Gerdes
  • Björn Büdenbender
  • Maximilian C. Kriegmair
  • Anja K. Köther
  • Lydia Fehm

The scientist's recent publications illustrate a focus on psychological processes related to emotion, fear, anxiety, and communication. Notable papers include:

  • "Dealing With the COVID-19 Infodemic: Distress by Information, Information Avoidance, and Compliance With Preventive Measures" (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Automatic Facial Expression Recognition in Standardized and Non-standardized Emotional Expressions" (2021), Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Read My Face: Automatic Facial Coding Versus Psychophysiological Indicators of Emotional Valence and Arousal" (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Fear one, fear them all: A systematic review and meta-analysis of fear generalization in pathological anxiety" (2022), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Behavioural and functional evidence revealing the role of RBFOX1 variation in multiple psychiatric disorders and traits" (2022), Molecular Psychiatry

Georg W. Alpers frequently publishes in several scientific venues, mainly:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Verhaltenstherapie
  • European journal of psychotraumatology
  • Clinical Psychology in Europe

The scientist's work demonstrates a consistent engagement with topics concerning psychological health, cognitive and emotional processing, and patient experiences within healthcare settings. Through collaborative research and publication across various journals, Georg W. Alpers contributes to advancing understanding in both clinical and experimental dimensions of psychology.

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

  • Evaluation of an internet support group for women with primary breast cancer.

    Andrew J. Winzelberg;Catherine Classen;Georg W. Alpers;Heidi Roberts

  • Happy mouth and sad eyes: scanning emotional facial expressions.

    Hedwig Eisenbarth;Georg W. Alpers

  • 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

  • Psychological Treatment for Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Role of Therapist-Guided Exposure In Situ in CBT

    Andrew T. Gloster;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Franziska Einsle;Thomas Lang

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

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

  • Evaluation of computerized text analysis in an internet breast cancer support group

    Georg W. Alpers;Georg W. Alpers;Andrew J. Winzelberg;Catherine Classen;Heidi Roberts

  • Dissociation in victims of childhood abuse or neglect: a meta-analytic review.

    Ruben Vonderlin;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Georg W. Alpers;Martin Bohus

  • Neuropeptide S receptor gene -- converging evidence for a role in panic disorder.

    Katharina Domschke;Andreas Reif;Heike Weber;Jan Richter

  • Spiders are special: fear and disgust evoked by pictures of arthropods

    Antje B.M. Gerdes;Gabriele Uhl;Gabriele Uhl;Georg W. Alpers

  • Here is looking at you: Emotional faces predominate in binocular rivalry.

    Georg W. Alpers;Antje B. M. Gerdes

  • Emotional pictures and sounds: a review of multimodal interactions of emotion cues in multiple domains

    Antje B. M. Gerdes;Matthias J. Wieser;Georg W. Alpers

  • Auditory cortex activation is modulated by emotion: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study

    Michael M. Plichta;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Georg W. Alpers;Georg W. Alpers;Wilma Harnisch

  • Dealing With the COVID-19 Infodemic: Distress by Information, Information Avoidance, and Compliance With Preventive Measures.

    Katharina Ulrike Siebenhaar;Anja Kristina Köther;Georg W. Alpers

  • Salivary cortisol response during exposure treatment in driving phobics.

    Georg W. Alpers;James L. Abelson;Frank H. Wilhelm;Walton T. Roth

  • Diminished cooperativeness of psychopaths in a prisoner's dilemma game yields higher rewards.

    Andreas Mokros;Birgit Menner;Hedwig Eisenbarth;Georg W. Alpers

  • Psychophysiological assessment during exposure in driving phobic patients

    Georg W. Alpers;Frank H. Wilhelm;Walton T. Roth

  • Enhancement of activity of the primary visual cortex during processing of emotional stimuli as measured with event-related functional near-infrared spectroscopy and event-related potentials.

    Martin J. Herrmann;Theresa Huter;Michael M. Plichta;Ann-Christine Ehlis

  • Impact of facial asymmetry in visual perception: a 3-dimensional data analysis.

    Philipp Meyer-Marcotty;Georg W. Alpers;Antje B.M. Gerdes;Angelika Stellzig-Eisenhauer

  • When spiders appear suddenly: spider-phobic patients are distracted by task-irrelevant spiders.

    Antje B.M. Gerdes;Georg W. Alpers;Georg W. Alpers;Paul Pauli

Frequent Co-Authors

Antje B. M. Gerdes
Antje B. M. Gerdes University of Mannheim
Alexander L. Gerlach
Alexander L. Gerlach University of Cologne
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Alfons O. Hamm
Alfons O. Hamm University of Greifswald
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Andreas Ströhle
Andreas Ströhle Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Andrew T. Gloster
Andrew T. Gloster University of Lucerne

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