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Psychology

D-Index
89
Citations
46268
World Ranking
977
National Ranking
31

Neuroscience

D-Index
89
Citations
46245
World Ranking
1129
National Ranking
94

Tania Singer publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tania Singer sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 301 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Tania Singer D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tania Singer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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

  • Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

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

  • 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

  • The empathic brain: how, when and why?

    Frederique de Vignemont;Tania Singer

  • The social neuroscience of empathy

    Tania Singer;Claus Lamm

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

    Tania Singer

  • A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty

    Tania Singer;Hugo D. Critchley;Kerstin Preuschoff

  • Empathy and compassion

    Tania Singer;Olga Maria Klimecki

  • The Neural Basis of Empathy

    Boris C. Bernhardt;Tania Singer

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

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

  • 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

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

    Geoffrey Bird;Giorgia Silani;Rachel Brindley;Sarah White

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

    Grit Hein;Tania Singer

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

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

  • The role of anterior insular cortex in social emotions

    Claus Lamm;Tania Singer

  • Levels of emotional awareness and autism: An fMRI study

    Giorgia Silani;Geoffrey Bird;Rachel Brindley;Tania Singer

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

    Susanne Leiberg;Olga Klimecki;Tania Singer

  • Brain responses to the acquired moral status of faces.

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

  • Differential encoding of losses and gains in the human striatum

    Ben Seymour;Nathaniel Daw;Peter Dayan;Tania Singer

  • Oxytocin Attenuates Affective Evaluations of Conditioned Faces and Amygdala Activity

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Philipp Kanske
Philipp Kanske TU Dresden
Veronika Engert
Veronika Engert Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Boris C. Bernhardt
Boris C. Bernhardt Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Claus Lamm
Claus Lamm University of Vienna
Giorgia Silani
Giorgia Silani University of Vienna
Jonathan Smallwood
Jonathan Smallwood Queen's University
George P. Chrousos
George P. Chrousos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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