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Matthias J. Wieser is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a substantial focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Clinical psychology also features prominently as a subfield in their body of work.

Wieser's scholarly output includes a significant number of publications centered on anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional research topics cover neural and behavioral psychology studies, memory and neural mechanisms, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, behavioral health and interventions, mindfulness and compassion interventions, as well as heart rate variability and autonomic control.

Their publication record comprises articles in several frequent venues, reflecting their active contribution to specific academic journals. These include:

  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Attentional threat biases and their role in anxiety: A neurophysiological perspective" (2020), published in International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • "Social aversive generalization learning sharpens the tuning of visuocortical neurons to facial identity cues" (2020), published in eLife
  • "Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Targeting the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Reduces Reactive Aggression and Modulates Electrophysiological Responses in a Forensic Population" (2021), published in Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • "Context-dependent generalization of conditioned responses to threat and safety signals" (2020), published in International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • "Acceptance-Based Emotion Regulation Reduces Subjective and Physiological Pain Responses" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Wieser collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Marta Andreatta
  • Paul Pauli
  • Alex H K Wong
  • Yannik Stegmann
  • Ingmar H. A. Franken

Best Publications

  • Faces in context: a review and systematization of contextual influences on affective face processing.

    Matthias J. Wieser;Tobias Brosch

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Matthias J. Wieser;Paul Pauli;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Not so harmless anymore: How context impacts the perception and electrocortical processing of neutral faces

    Matthias J. Wieser;Antje B.M. Gerdes;Inga Büngel;Katharina A. Schwarz

  • Virtual social interactions in social anxiety--the impact of sex, gaze, and interpersonal distance.

    Matthias J. Wieser;Paul Pauli;Miriam Grosseibl;Ina Molzow

  • Why are you looking like that? How the context influences evaluation and processing of human faces

    Katharina A. Schwarz;Matthias J. Wieser;Antje B. M. Gerdes;Andreas Mühlberger

  • Sustained preferential processing of social threat cues: Bias without competition?

    Matthias J. Wieser;Matthias J. Wieser;Lisa M. McTeague;Andreas Keil

  • Psychological Placebo and Nocebo Effects on Pain Rely on Expectation and Previous Experience.

    Philipp Reicherts;Antje B.M. Gerdes;Paul Pauli;Matthias J. Wieser

  • Distinct effects of attention and affect on pain perception and somatosensory evoked potentials.

    Ramona Kenntner-Mabiala;Marta Andreatta;Matthias J. Wieser;Andreas Mühlberger

  • The impact of changes in spatial distance on emotional responses.

    Andreas Mühlberger;Roland Neumann;Matthias J Wieser;Paul Pauli

  • Emotion processing in Parkinson's disease: dissociation between early neuronal processing and explicit ratings.

    Matthias J. Wieser;Andreas Mühlberger;Georg W. Alpers;Michael Macht

  • Brain Activations to Emotional Pictures are Differentially Associated with Valence and Arousal Ratings

    Antje B. M. Gerdes;Matthias J. Wieser;Andreas Mühlberger;Peter Weyers

  • The N2pc component reliably captures attentional bias in social anxiety

    Mario Reutter;Johannes Hewig;Matthias J. Wieser;Matthias J. Wieser;Roman Osinsky;Roman Osinsky

  • Steady‐state visual evoked potentials as a research tool in social affective neuroscience

    Matthias J. Wieser;Vladimir Miskovic;Andreas Keil

  • Social vision: Sustained perceptual enhancement of affective facial cues in social anxiety.

    Lisa M. McTeague;Joshua R. Shumen;Matthias J. Wieser;Peter J. Lang

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Andreas Mühlberger
Andreas Mühlberger University of Regensburg
Antje B. M. Gerdes
Antje B. M. Gerdes University of Mannheim
Andreas Keil
Andreas Keil University of Florida
Georg W. Alpers
Georg W. Alpers University of Mannheim
Vladimir Miskovic
Vladimir Miskovic Binghamton University
Rebecca M. Todd
Rebecca M. Todd University of British Columbia
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Ingmar H.A. Franken
Ingmar H.A. Franken Erasmus University Rotterdam

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