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Thomas W. Schubert

Thomas W. Schubert

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Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
11038
World Ranking
7427
National Ranking
66

Overview

Thomas W. Schubert is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a primary focus on psychology, arts and humanities, and computer science. The breadth of Schubert's work includes topics such as social psychology, literature and literary theory, cognitive neuroscience, human-computer interaction, and sociology and political science, illustrating an interdisciplinary approach.

Schubert's published works cover a variety of themes, notably media influence and health, cultural differences and values, virtual reality applications and impacts, neuroscience and music perception, action observation and synchronization, emotions and moral behavior, and social and intergroup psychology.

Frequent coauthors in Schubert's research include:

  • Janis Zickfeld
  • Beate Seibt
  • Holger Regenbrecht
  • Anders Kuvaas Herting
  • Patrícia Arriaga

Schubert has published extensively in various venues, with notable repeated contributions to Frontiers in Psychology and arXiv (Cornell University). Other venues include Psychophysiology, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Examples of recent papers by Schubert are:

  • Correlates of Health-Protective Behavior During the Initial Days of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Norway, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Tears of joy, aesthetic chills and heartwarming feelings: Physiological correlates of Kama Muta, 2020, Psychophysiology
  • Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries, 2021, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Measuring Presence in Augmented Reality Environments: Design and a First Test of a Questionnaire, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Emotional Campaigning in Politics: Being Moved and Anger in Political Ads Motivate to Support Candidate and Party, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

  • The Experience of Presence: Factor Analytic Insights

    Thomas Schubert;Frank Friedmann;Holger Regenbrecht

  • Your Highness: Vertical Positions as Perceptual Symbols of Power.

    Thomas W. Schubert

  • Weight as an Embodiment of Importance

    Nils B Jostmann;D Daniël Lakens;Thomas W Schubert

  • Overlap of Self, Ingroup, and Outgroup: Pictorial Measures of Self-Categorization.

    Thomas W. Schubert;Sabine Otten

  • The sense of presence in virtual environments:: A three-component scale measuring spatial presence, involvement, and realness

    Thomas W. Schubert

  • High in the Hierarchy: How Vertical Location and Judgments of Leaders' Power are Interrelated

    Steffen Giessner;Thomas Schubert

  • Synchronous Multisensory Stimulation Blurs Self-Other Boundaries

    Maria-Paola Paladino;Mara Mazzurega;Francesco Pavani;Thomas W. Schubert

  • Embodied Presence in Virtual Environments

    Thomas Schubert;Frank Friedmann;Holger Regenbrecht

  • Real and illusory interactions enhance presence in virtual environments

    Holger Regenbrecht;Thomas Schubert

  • Measuring the Sense of Presence and its Relations to Fear of Heights in Virtual Environments

    Holger T. Regenbrecht;Thomas W. Schubert;Frank Friedmann

  • A New Conception of Spatial Presence: Once Again, with Feeling

    Thomas W. Schubert

  • Mighty Metaphors: Behavioral and ERP Evidence that Power Shifts Attention on a Vertical Dimension.

    Kiki Zanolie;Saskia van Dantzig;Saskia van Dantzig;Inge Boot;Jasper Wijnen

  • The embodied self: Making a fist enhances men's power-related self-conceptions

    Thomas W. Schubert;Sander L. Koole

  • The Power in Your Hand: Gender Differences in Bodily Feedback From Making a Fist

    Thomas W. Schubert

  • Empathic Concern Is Part of a More General Communal Emotion.

    Janis Heinrich Zickfeld;Thomas Schubert;Thomas Schubert;Beate Seibt;Beate Seibt;Alan Page Fiske

  • Embodiment as a unifying perspective for psychology

    Thomas W. Schubert;Gün R. Semin

  • Decomposing the sense of presence : Factor analytic insights

    T. W. Schubert

  • Control over the AssoCiAtion of Power And size

    Thomas W. Schubert;Sven Waldzus;Steffen R. Giessner

  • Kama muta: Conceptualizing and measuring the experience often labelled being moved across 19 nations and 15 languages.

    Janis Heinrich Zickfeld;Thomas Schubert;Beate Seibt;Johanna Katarina Blomster

  • The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It:

    Alan Page Fiske;Alan Page Fiske;Alan Page Fiske;Beate Seibt;Beate Seibt;Thomas Schubert;Thomas Schubert

  • Prasenzerleben in virtuellen Uriçebungen: Eine Skala zur Messung von räumlicher Präsenz, Involviertheit und Realitätsurteil.

    Thomas W. Schubert

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Page Fiske
Alan Page Fiske University of California, Los Angeles
Siegwart Lindenberg
Siegwart Lindenberg University of Groningen
Astrid Schütz
Astrid Schütz University of Bamberg
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets Tilburg University
Maria Paola Paladino
Maria Paola Paladino University of Trento
Elizabeth A. Franz
Elizabeth A. Franz University of Otago
Darío Páez
Darío Páez Andrés Bello University
Michelle K. Ryan
Michelle K. Ryan University of Exeter
Gyöngyi Kökönyei
Gyöngyi Kökönyei Eötvös Loránd University
Amélie Mummendey
Amélie Mummendey Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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