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Wolfgang Tschacher

Wolfgang Tschacher

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Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
9227
World Ranking
5461
National Ranking
61

Overview

Wolfgang Tschacher is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has a significant research presence in the fields of psychology and neuroscience.

Their main fields of study comprise Psychology with 72 publications and Neuroscience with 25 publications. Within these fields, Tschacher's work extends into several subfields including Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Applied Psychology. The distribution suggests a broad interdisciplinary approach within psychology and neuroscience.

Key topics in Tschacher's research include:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Diverse Music Education Insights
  • Social Representations and Identity

Tschacher has contributed a number of papers to notable publication venues such as Frontiers in Psychology, Entropy, Scientific Reports, Zeitschrift für Konfliktmanagement, and Mindfulness. Among these, Frontiers in Psychology and Entropy each have five publications attributed to Tschacher.

Selected recent papers by Wolfgang Tschacher include:

  • "Time to get personal? The impact of researchers choices on the selection of treatment targets using the experience sampling methodology," 2020, Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • "Reduced nonverbal interpersonal synchrony in autism spectrum disorder independent of partner diagnosis: a motion energy study," 2020, Molecular Autism
  • "Music Listening in Classical Concerts: Theory, Literature Review, and Research Program," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "When our hearts beat together: Cardiac synchrony as an entry point to understand dyadic co-regulation in couples," 2020, Psychophysiology
  • "Audience synchronies in live concerts illustrate the embodiment of music experience," 2023, Scientific Reports

The scientist has coauthored extensively with colleagues such as Martin Tröndle, Deborah Meier, Christian Weining, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, and Mario Pfammatter. These collaborators have worked with Tschacher on multiple occasions, contributing to a consistently active research network.

In addition to journal publications, Tschacher has authored book publications with Hogrefe AG eBooks, including the work titled "Embodiment" published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Nonverbal synchrony in psychotherapy: Coordinated body movement reflects relationship quality and outcome.

    Fabian Ramseyer;Wolfgang Tschacher

  • The assessment of mindfulness with self-report measures: existing scales and open issues

    Claudia Bergomi;Wolfgang Tschacher;Zeno Kupper

  • Synchrony in Psychotherapy: A Review and an Integrative Framework for the Therapeutic Alliance.

    Sander L. Koole;Wolfgang Tschacher;Wolfgang Tschacher

  • Nonverbal synchrony and affect in dyadic interactions

    Wolfgang Tschacher;Georg M. Rees;Fabian Ramseyer

  • Nonverbal synchrony of head- and body-movement in psychotherapy: different signals have different associations with outcome

    Fabian Ramseyer;Wolfgang Tschacher

  • Intentionality in non-equilibrium systems? The functional aspects of self-organized pattern formation

    Wolfgang Tschacher;Hermann Haken

  • Physiological Correlates of Aesthetic Perception of Artworks in a Museum

    Wolfgang Tschacher;Steven Greenwood;Volker Kirchberg;Stéphanie Wintzerith

  • Measuring Mindfulness: First Steps Towards the Development of a Comprehensive Mindfulness Scale

    Claudia Bergomi;Wolfgang Tschacher;Zeno Kupper

  • Development of the Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale (DACOBS)

    Mark van der Gaag;Chantal Schütz;Angela ten Napel;Yulia Landa

  • Towards a taxonomy of common factors in psychotherapy-results of an expert survey.

    Wolfgang Tschacher;Ulrich Martin Junghan;Mario Pfammatter

  • Change in suicide rates in Switzerland before and after firearm restriction resulting from the 2003 “Army XXI” reform.

    Thomas Reisch;Timur Steffen;Astrid Habenstein;Wolfgang Tschacher

  • Physiological synchrony in psychotherapy sessions.

    Wolfgang Tschacher;Deborah Meier

  • Nonverbal Synchrony in Social Interactions of Patients with Schizophrenia Indicates Socio-Communicative Deficits.

    Zeno Kupper;Fabian Ramseyer;Holger Hoffmann;Wolfgang Tschacher

  • The dynamical systems approach to cognition : concepts and empirical paradigms based on self-organization, embodiment, and coordination dynamics

    Wolfgang Tschacher;Jean-Pierre Dauwalder

  • Nonverbal synchrony: A new approach to better understand psychotherapeutic processes and drop-out

    Jane Paulick;Anne-Katharina Deisenhofer;Fabian Ramseyer;Wolfgang Tschacher

  • Self-Organization and Clinical Psychology: Empirical Approaches to Synergetics in Psychology

    Wolfgang Tschacher;Günter Schiepek;Ewald Johannes Brunner

  • Sequences of emotions in patients with borderline personality disorder.

    T. Reisch;U. W. Ebner-Priemer;W. Tschacher;M. Bohus

  • Time to get personal? The impact of researchers choices on the selection of treatment targets using the experience sampling methodology

    Jojanneke A. Bastiaansen;Yoram K. Kunkels;Frank J. Blaauw;Steven M. Boker

  • Konstruktion und erste Validierung eines Fragebogens zur umfassenden Erfassung von Achtsamkeit: Das Comprehensive Inventory of Mindfulness Experiences

    Claudia Bergomi;Wolfgang Tschacher;Zeno Kupper

  • A museum for the twenty-first century: the influence of ‘sociality’ on art reception in museum space

    Martin Tröndle;Stéphanie Wintzerith;Roland Wäspe;Wolfgang Tschacher

  • Wirkfaktoren der Psychotherapie - eine Übersicht und Standortbestimmung

    Mario Pfammatter;Wolfgang Tschacher

  • Video-based quantification of body movement during social interaction indicates the severity of negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia

    Zeno Kupper;Fabian Ramseyer;Holger Hoffmann;Samuel Kalbermatten

Frequent Co-Authors

Sander L. Koole
Sander L. Koole Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sebastian Walther
Sebastian Walther University of Bern
Anne Giersch
Anne Giersch University of Strasbourg
Kai Vogeley
Kai Vogeley University of Cologne
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Marc De Hert
Marc De Hert KU Leuven
Mark van der Gaag
Mark van der Gaag Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thomas Fuchs
Thomas Fuchs University of Göttingen
Andrea Christiane Samson
Andrea Christiane Samson University of Fribourg
Julian A. Rubel
Julian A. Rubel Osnabrück University

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