2026 Tania Singer: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	89	1129	1016	94	89	303	46245
Psychology	89	978	854	31	29	301	46268

Overview

Tania Singer is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio in psychology and neuroscience. Their work predominantly focuses on themes within clinical and experimental psychology, behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main fields of study encompass:

Psychology (94 publications)
Neuroscience (33 publications)

The subfields of study include:

Clinical Psychology (51 publications)
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (20 publications)
Behavioral Neuroscience (17 publications)
Social Psychology (16 publications)
Psychiatry and Mental health (10 publications)

The core topics in Tania Singer's research involve:

Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (42 publications)
Stress Responses and Cortisol (34 publications)
COVID-19 and Mental Health (32 publications)
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (26 publications)
Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (16 publications)
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 publications)
Resilience and Mental Health (10 publications)

Among frequent co-authors are:

Veronika Engert (22 joint publications)
Roman Linz (14 joint publications)
Malvika Godara (12 joint publications)
Lara Puhlmann (12 joint publications)
Sarita Silveira (11 joint publications)

The primary publication venues for their work include:

Psychoneuroendocrinology (7 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)
eLife (3 publications)
Human Brain Mapping (2 publications)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Tania Singer highlight a range of cognitive neuroscience and mental health topics. These include:

"A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics," published in 2022 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
"Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind," published in 2020 in Human Brain Mapping
"Two systems for thinking about others' thoughts in the developing brain," published in 2020 in Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
"Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceived Changes in Psychological Vulnerability, Resilience and Social Cohesion before, during and after Lockdown," published in 2022 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
"Investigating differential effects of socio-emotional and mindfulness-based online interventions on mental health, resilience and social capacities during the COVID-19 pandemic: The study protocol," published in 2021 in PLoS ONE

Best Publications

Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John O'Doherty;Holger Kaube

5554
Citations
Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John P. O'Doherty;Klaas E. Stephan

2459
Citations
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

2406
Citations
The empathic brain: how, when and why?

Frederique de Vignemont;Tania Singer

2403
Citations
The social neuroscience of empathy

Tania Singer;Claus Lamm

2257
Citations
The neuronal basis and ontogeny of empathy and mind reading: Review of literature and implications for future research

Tania Singer

1613
Citations
A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty

Tania Singer;Hugo D. Critchley;Kerstin Preuschoff

1528
Citations
Empathy and compassion

Tania Singer;Olga Maria Klimecki

1404
Citations
The Neural Basis of Empathy

Boris C. Bernhardt;Tania Singer

1366
Citations
Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members' suffering predict individual differences in costly helping

Grit Hein;Giorgia Silani;Kerstin Preuschoff;C. Daniel Batson

1033
Citations
Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training

Olga Maria Klimecki;Olga Maria Klimecki;Susanne Leiberg;Matthieu Ricard;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

919
Citations
Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism

Geoffrey Bird;Giorgia Silani;Rachel Brindley;Sarah White

870
Citations
I feel how you feel but not always: The empathic brain and its modulation

Grit Hein;Tania Singer

824
Citations
Functional Neural Plasticity and Associated Changes in Positive Affect After Compassion Training

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

820
Citations
The role of anterior insular cortex in social emotions

Claus Lamm;Tania Singer

733
Citations
Levels of emotional awareness and autism: An fMRI study

Giorgia Silani;Geoffrey Bird;Rachel Brindley;Tania Singer

647
Citations
Short-term compassion training increases prosocial behavior in a newly developed prosocial game.

Susanne Leiberg;Olga Klimecki;Tania Singer

616
Citations
Brain responses to the acquired moral status of faces.

Tania Singer;Stefan J Kiebel;Joel S Winston;Raymond J Dolan

577
Citations
Differential encoding of losses and gains in the human striatum

Ben Seymour;Nathaniel Daw;Peter Dayan;Tania Singer

552
Citations
Oxytocin Attenuates Affective Evaluations of Conditioned Faces and Amygdala Activity

Predrag Petrovic;Raffael Kalisch;Tania Singer;Raymond J. Dolan

547
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philipp Kanske TU Dresden

Veronika Engert Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Boris C. Bernhardt Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Claus Lamm University of Vienna

Giorgia Silani University of Vienna

Jonathan Smallwood Queen's University

Chris D. Frith University College London

Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Raymond J. Dolan University College London

Geoffrey Bird University of Oxford

External Links

Personal website of Tania Singer

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