Publications of our Research Unit


Silani, G., & Broadbeck, C. (2014). Gender and Social Emotions: A Review of the Neuroscientific Literature on Empathy and its Link to Psychopathy, Antisocial Behavior and Alexithymia. In I. Latu, M. Schmid Mast , & S. Kaiser (Eds.), Gender and Emotion : An Interdisciplinary Perspective (pp. 69-92). Article 3 Peter Lang.

Lamm, C., & Silani, G. (2014). Insights into collective emotions from the social neuroscience of empathy. In C. von Scheve , & M. Salmella (Eds.), Collective Emotions: perspectives from psychology, philosophy, and sociology (pp. 63-77). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659180.003.0005

Seidel, E.-M., Silani, G., Metzler, H., Thaler, H., Lamm, C., Gur, R. C., Kryspin-Exner, I., Habel, U., & Derntl, B. (2013). The impact of social exclusion vs. inclusion on subjective and hormonal reactions in females and males. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(12), 2925–2932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.07.021

Silani, G., Zucconi, A., & Lamm, C. (2013). Carl Rogers meets the neurosciences: insights from social neuroscience for client-centered therapy. In J. H. D. Cornelius-White, R. Motschnig-Pitrik, & M. Lux (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Handbook of the Person-Centered Approach: Research and Theory (pp. 63-78). Springer.

Silani, G. (2013). Emozioni sociali. Le basi neurofisiologiche dell’empatia e del comportamento di aiuto. Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia , 4(3), 296.

Woollams, A. M., Silani, G., Okada, K., Patterson, K., & Price, C. J. (2011). Word or word-like? Dissociating orthographic typicality from lexicality in the left occipito-temporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(4), 992-1002. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2010.21502