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Overview

Isabel Dziobek is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research focuses predominantly on psychology and neuroscience, with notable contributions in clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology. The work extends into experimental and cognitive psychology as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • NeuroImage

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Isabel Dziobek include:

  • "Facial mimicry, empathy, and emotion recognition: a meta-analysis of correlations" (2020), published in Cognition & Emotion
  • "Towards the automatic detection of social biomarkers in autism spectrum disorder: introducing the simulated interaction task (SIT)" (2020), published in npj Digital Medicine
  • "Understanding versus feeling the emotions of others: How persistent and recurrent depression affect empathy" (2020), published in Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • "A Multidimensional View on Social and Non-Social Rewards" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Statistical and functional convergence of common and rare genetic influences on autism at chromosome 16p" (2022), published in Nature Genetics

Isabel Dziobek frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Mareike Bayer
  • Magdalena Matyjek
  • Simón Guendelman
  • Ludger Tebartz van Elst
  • Irene Trilla

Best Publications

  • Dissociation of Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Adults with Asperger Syndrome Using the Multifaceted Empathy Test (MET)

    Isabel Dziobek;Kimberley Rogers;Kimberley Rogers;Stefan Fleck;Markus Bahnemann

  • Introducing MASC: a movie for the assessment of social cognition.

    Isabel Dziobek;Stefan Fleck;Elke Kalbe;Kimberley Rogers

  • Oxytocin Enhances Amygdala-Dependent, Socially Reinforced Learning and Emotional Empathy in Humans

    René Hurlemann;Alexandra Patin;Oezguer A. Onur;Michael X. Cohen

  • Who cares? Revisiting empathy in asperger syndrome

    Kimberley Rogers;Isabel Dziobek;Jason Hassenstab;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Hippocampal damage and memory impairments as possible early brain complications of type 2 diabetes

    S. M. Gold;Isabel Dziobek;Victoria Sweat;Aziz Tirsi

  • Lack of empathy in patients with narcissistic personality disorder

    Kathrin Ritter;Isabel Dziobek;Sandra Preißler;Anke Rüter

  • Neuronal correlates of altered empathy and social cognition in borderline personality disorder

    Isabel Dziobek;Sandra Preißler;Zarko Grozdanovic;Isabella Heuser;Isabella Heuser

  • The Role of the Amygdala in Atypical Gaze on Emotional Faces in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Dorit Kliemann;Isabel Dziobek;Alexander Hatri;Jürgen Baudewig

  • Social Cognition in Borderline Personality Disorder: Evidence for Disturbed Recognition of the Emotions, Thoughts, and Intentions of others

    Sandra Preißler;Isabel Dziobek;Kathrin Ritter;Hauke R. Heekeren

  • Moving in and out of synchrony: A concept for a new intervention fostering empathy through interactional movement and dance

    Andrea Behrends;Sybille Müller;Isabel Dziobek

  • Explaining altruistic sharing in the dictator game : The role of affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and justice sensitivity

    Aileen Edele;Isabel Dziobek;Monika Keller

  • Atypical Reflexive Gaze Patterns on Emotional Faces in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Dorit Kliemann;Isabel Dziobek;Alexander Hatri;Rosa Steimke

  • Different aspects of theory of mind in paranoid schizophrenia: Evidence from a video-based assessment

    Christiane Montag;Isabel Dziobek;Inga S. Richter;Kathrin Neuhaus

  • Action monitoring, error detection, and the basal ganglia: an ERP study.

    M Falkenstein;H Hielscher;I Dziobek;P Schwarzenau

  • Theory of mind impairments in euthymic bipolar patients

    Christiane Montag;André Ehrlich;Kathrin Neuhaus;Isabel Dziobek

  • Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Dysregulation and Memory Impairments in Type 2 Diabetes

    Hannah Bruehl;Melanie Rueger;Isabel Dziobek;Victoria Sweat

  • Social cognition in borderline personality disorder.

    Stefan Roepke;Stefan Roepke;Aline Vater;Sandra Preißler;Hauke R. Heekeren

  • Social cognition under stress: differential effects of stress-induced cortisol elevations in healthy young men and women.

    Tom Smeets;Isabel Dziobek;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Romantic Relationships and Relationship Satisfaction Among Adults With Asperger Syndrome and High‐Functioning Autism

    Sandra Strunz;Constanze Schermuck;Sarah Ballerstein;Christoph J. Ahlers

  • Effect of Psilocybin on Empathy and Moral Decision-Making

    Thomas Pokorny;Katrin H Preller;Michael Kometer;Isabel Dziobek

Frequent Co-Authors

Hauke R. Heekeren
Hauke R. Heekeren Universität Hamburg
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Sven Bölte
Sven Bölte Karolinska Institute
Christian Otte
Christian Otte Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Malek Bajbouj
Malek Bajbouj Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Katja Wingenfeld
Katja Wingenfeld Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Elke Kalbe
Elke Kalbe University of Vechta
Matthias Brand
Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen
Luise Poustka
Luise Poustka University of Göttingen
Katrin H. Preller
Katrin H. Preller University of Zurich

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