Assoc. Prof Dr. Giorgia Silani
Deputy Head - Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Head of the Research Unit for Clinical Social Neuroscience (CSN)
T: +43-1-4277-47223
E: giorgia.silani@univie.ac.at
Office: Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Wien, Room O3.47
Office hours: on appointment
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Liebiggasse 5
1010 Vienna
Research interests
- Neural foundations of social cognition and social emotions
- Empathy and prosocial behaviors
- Neurodiversity (e.g. autism)
- Reward processing and clinical conditions related to it (e.g. Anorexia Nervosa)
Professional experience
| 09/2022 – present | Deputy head of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 09/2020 – present | Associate Professor and Head of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit), Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 09/2019 - 11/2019 | Collaboration of Excellence Visiting Scholar, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy. |
| 05/2018 – 08/2020 | Assistant Professor with tenure track and Head of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit), Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 05/2014 - 04/2018 | Senior post-doc and Head of the Clinical Social Neuroscience Unit (CNS unit), Department of Applied Psychology: Health, Development, Enhancement and Intervention, University of Vienna, Austria. |
| 08/2010 - 12/2015 | Senior Researcher (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato) and Head of the Collective Emotions and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy. |
| 02/2007 - 07/2010 | Research Fellow (“Post-doc”), Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 06/2006 - 12/2006 | Research Fellow (“Post-doc”), Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, UK. |
| 10/2004 - 05/2006 | Visiting Doctoral Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK. |
| 01/2002 - 02/2006 | Doctoral Student in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. |
| 09/1999 - 12/2001 | Clinical neuropsychologist, Neuropsychology Laboratory, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy. |
| 07/1998 - 08/1999 | Clinical neuropsychologist, Neurological Rehabilitation Department, Tradate Hospital, Varese, Italy. |
Education
| 06/2017 | Habilitation for attainment of Venia Legendi in Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 02/2006 | Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience (summa cum laude), University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. |
| 02/1998 | M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology (summa cum laude), University of Turin, Italy. |
Awards and Stipends
| December 2021 | International Social Research Prize, Lugano, CH |
| 2008 | Best Poster Award at the Italian Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer Disease (ITINAD) conference, Italy |
| June 2002 | Best Poster Award at the AIP (Italian Psychological Association), Italy |
Certificates
| 01/2005 | Certificate of Psychotherapist upon completion of four-year postgraduate course in psychotherapy, Institute for the Person-Centered Approach (founded by Carl Rogers), Varese, Italy. |
| 09/2003 | Certificate of Clinical Psychologist, University of Turin, Italy. |
Publications
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2021
Massaccesi, C., Willeit, M., Quednow, B. B., Nater, U. M., Lamm, C., Mueller, D., & Silani, G. (2021, Aug 13). Enhanced negative response to stress following morphine administration increases wanting of social reward. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.13.456110
Massaccesi, C., Korb, S., Skoluda, N., Nater, U. M., & Silani, G. (2021). Effects of Appetitive and Aversive Motivational States on Wanting and Liking of Interpersonal Touch. Neuroscience, 464, 12-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.09.025
Rütgen, M., Wirth, E-M., Riecansky, I., Hummer, A., Windischberger, C., Petrovic, P., Silani, G., & Lamm, C. (2021). Beyond Sharing Unpleasant Affect—Evidence for Pain-Specific Opioidergic Modulation of Empathy for Pain. Cerebral Cortex, 31(6), 2773–2786. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.10.143495, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa385
Massaccesi, C., Groessing, A., Rosenberger, L. A., Hartmann, H., Candini, M., di Pellegrino, G., Frassinetti, F., & Silani, G. (2021). Neural correlates of interpersonal space permeability and flexibility in autism spectrum disorder. Cerebral Cortex, 31(6), 2968–2979. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa404
Pronizius, E., Feneberg, A., Forbes, P., Lamm, C., Nater, U. M., Piperno, G., Silani, G., Skoluda, N., & Stijovic, A. (2021). Diurnal dynamics of stress and mood in the risk groups during COVID-19 lockdown: a large binational ecological momentary assessment study. Journal of Neural Transmission, 128, 1784-1785. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-021-02422-z
Cogoni, C., Carnaghi, A., & Silani, G. (2021). Reduced shared emotional representations toward women revealing more skin. Cognition & Emotion, 35(2), 225-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1826409
Bukowski, H., Todorova, B., Boch, M., Silani, G., & Lamm, C. (2021). Socio-cognitive training impacts emotional and perceptual self-salience but not self-other distinction. Acta Psychologica, 216, [103297]. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m2qwj, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103297
2020
Korb, S., Götzendorfer, S. J., Massaccesi, C., Sezen, P., Graf, I., Willeit, M., Eisenegger, C., & Silani, G. (2020). Dopaminergic and opioidergic regulation during anticipation and consumption of social and nonsocial rewards. eLife, 9, 1-22. [e55797]. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55797
Bukowski, H., Tik, M., Silani, G., Ruff, C., Windischberger, C., & Lamm, C. (2020). When differences matter: rTMS/fMRI reveals how differences in dispositional empathy translate to distinct neural underpinnings of self-other distinction in empathy. Cortex: journal devoted to study of the nervous system and behavior, 128, 143-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.03.009
Bukowski, H., Boch, M., Lamm, C., & Silani, G. (2020). Is Self-Other distinction malleable? Egocentric and altercentric biases in empathy are modulated by priming attachment style and similarity mindsets. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bpyvz
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