Assoz. Prof. Giorgia Silani, Privatdoz. PhD
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Stijovic A, Forbes PAG, Tomova L, Skoluda N, Feneberg AC, Piperno G et al. Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field. Psychological Science. 2023 May;34(5):537-551. doi: 10.1177/09567976231156413

Forbes PAG, Pronizius E, Feneberg AC, Nater UM, Piperno G, Silani G et al. The effects of social interactions on momentary stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdowns. British Journal of Health Psychology. 2023 May;28(2):306-319. Epub 2022 Oct 17. doi: 10.1111/bjhp.12626


Feneberg AC, Stijovic A, Forbes PAG, Lamm C, Piperno G, Pronizius E et al. Perceptions of Stress and Mood Associated With Listening to Music in Daily Life During the COVID-19 Lockdown. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Jan 10;6(1):e2250382. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.50382

Chiappini E, Silani G, Lundström JN, Korb S. Facial Electromyography in Food Research in a Behavioral and MR Setting. In Bensafi M, editor, Basic Protocols on Emotions, Senses, and Foods. New York, NY: Springer US. 2023. p. 185-201 doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2934-5_15


Mikus N, Korb S, Massaccesi C, Gausterer C, Graf I, Willeit M et al. Effects of dopamine D2/3 and opioid receptor antagonism on the trade-off between model-based and model-free behaviour in healthy volunteers. eLife. 2022 Dec 5;11:e79661. doi: 10.1101/2022.03.03.482871, 10.7554/eLife.79661



Massaccesi C, Korb S, Willeit M, Quednow BB, Silani G. Effects of the mu-opioid receptor agonist morphine on facial mimicry and emotion recognition. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2022 Aug;142:105801. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105801


Korb S, Deniz TC, Ünal B, Clarke A, Silani G. Emotion perception bias associated with the hijab in Austrian and Turkish participants. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 2022 May;75(5):796-807. Epub 2021 Sep 29. doi: 10.1177/17470218211048317


Stijovic A, Forbes P, Tomova L, Skoluda N, Feneberg AC, Piperno G et al. Homeostatic regulation of energetic arousal during acute social isolation-converging evidence from the lab and the field. PsyArXiv. 2022 Mar 9. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/3z74g

Feneberg AC, Stijovic A, Forbes P, Lamm C, Piperno G, Pronizius E et al. Stress and mood regulation using music in times of COVID-19 lockdown: an ecological momentary assessment study. PsyArXiv. 2022 Feb 27. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/93cfa


Hartmann H, Lengersdorff L, Hitz HH, Stepnicka P, Silani G. Emotional Ego- and Altercentric Biases in High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2022 Feb 18;13:813969. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.813969


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The impact of stress and opioid administration on liking and wanting of affective touch.

Claudia Massaccesi (Speaker) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Age-related differences in automatic imitation inhibition: an fMRI study.

Ekaterina Pronizius (Speaker), Federica Riva (Contributor), Melanie Lenger (Contributor), Martin Kronbichler (Contributor), Giorgia Silani (Contributor) & Claus Lamm (Contributor)

21 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Effects of the mu-opioid receptor agonist morphine on facial mimicry and emotion recognition.

Claudia Massaccesi (Speaker), Sebastian Korb (Contributor), Matthaeus Willeit (Contributor), Boris B. Quednow (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Diurnal Dynamics of Stress and Mood in the Risk Groups during Covid-19 Lockdown - A Large Binational Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Anja Feneberg (Contributor), Paul Forbes (Contributor), Giulio Piperno (Contributor), Ekaterina Pronizius (Speaker), Nadine Skoluda (Contributor), Ana Stijovic (Contributor), Claus Lamm (Contributor), Urs Markus Nater (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

20 Sep 202122 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Enhanced motivation and hedonic reactions to social touch under stress following morphine administration

Claudia Massaccesi (Speaker), Matthaeus Willeit (Contributor), Boris B. Quednow (Contributor), Urs Markus Nater (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids.

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Regulation of personal space by socio-economical interactions in adults with autism spectrum disorders – an fMRI study.

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding empathy from a clinical perspective

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Self-Other distinction in empathy is modulated by cTBS on right supramarginal gyrus and dispositional cognitive empathy: An rTMS/fMRI study.

Henryk Bukowski (Speaker), Martin Tik (Speaker), Giorgia Silani (Speaker), Christian Ruff (Speaker), Christian Windischberger (Speaker) & Claus Lamm (Speaker)

21 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The influence of age on emotional egocentrism.

Federica Riva (Speaker), Melanie Tschernegg (Contributor), Martin Kronbichler (Contributor), Claus Lamm (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

20 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science




Neurochemical modulation of facial mimicry

Sebastian Korb (Speaker), Claudia Massaccesi (Contributor), Matthaeus Willeit (Contributor), Raffaella Rumiati (Contributor), Christoph Eisenegger (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wanting and linking of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Emotional egocentricity bias during social pain in Autism-Spectrum-Disorder (ASD): Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence

Helena Hartmann (Invited speaker), Hannah Hitz (Contributor), Philipp Stepnicka (Contributor), Lukas Lengersdorff (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

7 Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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