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University Research Priority Program (URPP)

Foundations of Human Social Behavior

 
 
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Björn Bartling
Mail: bartling@iew.uzh.ch
  • behavioral economics
  • experimental economics
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Thomas Baumgartner
Homepage: http://www.iew.uzh.ch/home/tbaumgartner/
Mail: t.baumgartner@iew.uzh.ch
  • social neuroscience and neuroeconomics
  • feeling present in virtual reality: the neural basis
  • the neural circuitry of emotional experiences and anticipation
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Helen Bernhard
Mail: h.bernhard@iew.uzh.ch
  • Head of Research Management
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Kay Brodersen
Mail: broderse@iew.uzh.ch
  • multivariate pattern analysis, statistical classification
  • decision making and microeconomics
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Adrian Bruhin
Homepage: http://www.iew.uzh.ch/chairs/fehr/team/bruhin.html
Mail: bruhin@iew.uzh.ch
  • finite mixture regression models
  • individual risk-taking behavior
  • other-regarding preferences
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Justin Chumbley
Mail: chumbley@iew.uzh.ch
  • learning theory and emotion
  • statistical learning and inference
  • neuroscience imaging
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Alain Cohn
Mail: acohn@iew.uzh.ch
  • experimental labor markets
  • experimental financial markets
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Ingolf U. Dalferth
Homepage (University of Zurich): http://www.uzh.ch/hermes/ihr_dalferth.html
Homepage (Claremont Graduate University): http://www.cgu.edu/pages/5589.asp
Mail: dalferth@access.uzh.ch
  • religion and emotion, altruism, trust, and evil
  • semiotics and hermeneutics (language processes, communication, forms of understanding)
  • philosophy of religion (analytical philosophy, phenomenology)
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Jean Daunizeau
Mail: daunizea@iew.uzh.ch
  • EEG/MEG inverse problem and EEG/fMRI information fusion
  • dynamic causal modelling
  • perception, learning, and decision making
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Gregor Domes
Homepage: http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/fachrichtungen/psychobio/team/domes_en.html
Mail: domes@psychologie.uzh.ch
  • effects of neuropeptides (oxytocin, vasopressin) on social cognition
  • neural basis of emotional reactivity and emotion regulation
  • social cognitive functioning in autism spectrum disorders and borderline personality disorder
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Charles Efferson
Homepage: http://www.santafe.edu/~cmefferson/cmeSite/home.html
Mail: efferson@iew.uzh.ch
  • human evolutionary ecology
  • social learning and cultural transmission
  • religion
  • ethnicity
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Christoph Eisenegger
Homepage: http://www.iew.uzh.ch/institute/people/eisenegger.html
Mail: eisenegger@iew.uzh.ch
  • cognitive neuroscience
  • decision making
  • neuropharmacology
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Ernst Fehr
Homepage: http://www.iew.uzh.ch/home/fehr/
Mail: efehr@iew.uzh.ch
  • proximate and ultimate sources of human altruism
  • neuroeconomics of social emotions and social behavior
  • psychological foundations of incentives and social norms
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Janine Germann
Homepage: http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/fachrichtungen/psychobio/team/germann_en.html
Mail: j.germann@psychologie.uzh.ch
  • social relationships and stress
  • psychobiology and therapy of autistic disorders
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Eva Gschwend
Homepage: http://www.socialbehavior.uzh.ch/administration.html
Mail: eva.gschwend@iew.uzh.ch
  • administration
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Johannes Haushofer
Homepage: http://www.iew.uzh.ch/chairs/fehr/team/jhaushofer.html
Mail: jhaushof@iew.uzh.ch
  • neural substrates of reward and temporal discounting
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Grit Hein
Mail: ghein@iew.uzh.ch
  • behavioral and neural foundations of human empathy and prosocial behavior and their modulation
  • cross-cultural aspects of empathy
  • social cognition and its link to other brain functions such as multisensory integration and attention
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Markus Heinrichs
Homepage (Dept. of Psychology): http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/fachrichtungen/psychobio_en.html
Homepage (URPP): http://www.socialbehavior.uzh.ch/static/home/heinrichs/
Mail: m.heinrichs@psychologie.uzh.ch
  • psychobiology of social interaction (social support, attachment, trust, theory of mind, aggression)
  • effects of hormones on affective, cognitive, and neural processing of social behavior (oxytocin, vasopressin, glucocorticoids)
  • experimental psychotherapy and psychopathology (anxiety disorders, autism, posttraumatic stress disorder, personality disorders)
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Holger Herz
Mail: hherz@iew.uzh.ch
  • neuroeconomics (decision making, learning)
  • behavioral economics (emotions, social preferences)
  • experimental cconomics (social interaction in the lab and field)
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Tamara Herz
Homepage: http://www.socialbehavior.uzh.ch/administration.html
Mail: therz@iew.uzh.ch
  • administration
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Lars Kasper
Mail: lkasper@iew.uzh.ch
  • neuroscience (decision and learning paradigms, DCM and computational modelling of high field, high resolution fMRI data, movement artifact correction)
  • MR physics (sequence design and reconstruction, field monitoring, movement/susceptibility artifact handling)
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Olga Klimecki
Mail: klimecki@iew.uzh.ch
  • social neuroscience (emotion sharing, emotion regulation, theory of mind, memory)
  • neural foundations of empathy learning
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Claus Lamm
Homepage: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/claus.lamm
Mail: claus.lamm@iew.uzh.ch
  • social neuroscience (understanding others, empathy, compassion)
  • neuroeconomics (social decision making, cooperation and competition)
  • neuroplasticity (effects of experience and training on understanding self and others)
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Susanne Leiberg
Mail: sleiberg@iew.uzh.ch
  • social neuroscience
  • relation of empathy to prosocial behavior
  • interaction of emotion and attention
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Falk Lieder
Homepage: http://theneuronetwork.com/profile/FalkLieder
Mail: flieder@uos.de
  • computational mechanisms of learning and inference in the brain
  • statistics and machine learning for neural data analysis and modeling
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Janek S. Lobmaier
Homepage: http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/fachrichtungen/psychobio/team/Janek_en.html
Mail: j.lobmaier@psychologie.uzh.ch
  • face perception
  • prosopagnosia
  • social cues in faces (eye gaze, expression, trustworthiness, attractiveness)
  • neural underpinnings of the interpretation of social cues in faces
  • hormonal influence on interpretation of social cues in faces
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Christoph Mathys
Mail: chmathys@iew.uzh.ch
  • psychology and psychopathology of decision making and learning
  • dynamic modeling of mental and neural processes
  • MRI physics
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Michel Maréchal
Mail: marechal@iew.uzh.ch
  • behavioral economics
  • experimental economics
  • field experiments
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Ursi Meier
Homepage: http://www.iew.uzh.ch/institute/administration.html
Mail: umeier@iew.uzh.ch
  • administration
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Yosuke Morishima
Mail: morishi@iew.uzh.ch
  • prosocial behavior
  • connectivity in the brain network
  • prefrontal control of adaptive behavior
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Bettina Petralli
Homepage: http://www.iew.uzh.ch/institute/administration.html
Mail: petralli@iew.uzh.ch
  • administration
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Marco Piccirelli
Mail: piccirel@iew.uzh.ch
  • physics of neuroimaging & peripherics
  • fMRI sequence design and reconstruction
  • movement & susceptibility artifact handling
  • eye movements' control system
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Kerstin Preuschoff
Mail: preuschoff@iew.uzh.ch
  • neural circuitry of reward and risk processing
  • risk learning
  • decision making
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Ruthger Righart
Mail: righart@iew.uzh.ch
  • social neuroscience of empathy and fairness
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Christian Ruff
Mail: ruff@iew.uzh.ch
  • neural mechanisms of decision making, both in perception and behavioural regulation
  • reward influences on perception and behaviour
  • combining brain stimulation and neuroimaging methods
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Stefan Schmid
Mail: stschmid@iew.uzh.ch
  • programming
  • webmaster
  • IT support
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Frédéric Schneider
Mail: frederic@iew.uzh.ch
  • behavioral economics (labor contracts, bounded rationality)
  • neuroeconomics (social preferences)
  • experimental economics (field experiments)
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Daniel Schunk
Homepage: http://www.daniel-schunk.de/
Mail: dschunk@iew.uzh.ch
  • experimental and behavioral economics
  • applied econometrics
  • public policy
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Giorgia Silani
Mail: silani@iew.uzh.ch
  • emotion and alexithymia
  • social cognition and autism spectrum disorders
  • reading and developmental dyslexia
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Tania Singer
Homepage: http://www.socialbehavior.uzh.ch/singer/
Mail: singer@iew.uzh.ch
  • social neuroscience (empathy, fairness, social emotions)
  • neuroeconomics (decision making, social cooperation)
  • lifespan and cognitive psychology (socio-affective and cognitive development)
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Nikolaus Steinbeis
Mail: steinbei@iew.uzh.ch
  • neural correlates and development of social cognition (empathy, secondary emotions, trust, intro- and interoception)
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Angela Steiner
Homepage: http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/fachrichtungen/psychobio/team/steiner_en.html
Mail: a.steiner@psychologie.uzh.ch
  • psychobiology of mental disorders (oxytocin, cortisol)
  • clinical psychology of social behavior (social phobia)
  • emotion recognition in psychological disorders with social deficits
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Klaas Enno Stephan
Homepage: http://www.socialbehavior.uzh.ch/stephan/
Mail: k.stephan@iew.uzh.ch
  • neuroeconomics (learning and decision-making)
  • computational neuroscience and computational psychiatry
  • neuroimaging and neuropharmacology
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Karl Treiber
Mail: ktreiber@iew.uzh.ch
  • Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Lab Manager
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Giuseppe Ugazio
Mail: gugazio@iew.uzh.ch
  • ethics and neuroscience
  • decision making
  • norms
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Bernadette von Dawans
Homepage: http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/fachrichtungen/psychobio/team/vondawans_en.html
Mail: b.vondawans@psychologie.uzh.ch
  • psychobiology of social behavior and stress (oxytocin, vasopressin, cortisol)
  • clinical psychology of social behavior (personality disorders, social phobia)
  • psychophysiology of social interaction (heart rate variability)
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Karin Zeder
Homepage: http://www.socialbehavior.uzh.ch/administration.html
Mail: zeder@iew.uzh.ch
  • administration
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Affiliates

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Urs Fischbacher
Homepage:http://expecon.wiwi.uni-konstanz.de
Mail: fischbacher@twi-kreuzlingen.ch
  • experimental and behavioral economics
  • neuroeconomics
  • social preferences
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Michael Kosfeld
Homepage:http://www.mm.uni-frankfurt.de/index.php?id=937
Mail: kosfeld@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
  • behavioral economics and game theory
  • psychology of incentives and social interaction
  • neuroeconomics
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