Titel: The animal and human neuroendocrinology of social cognition, motivation and behavior. How does the neuroendocrine system modulate social behavior? The authors review animal as well as human work that aims to answer this question, and suggest ways to advance further research.

An article in the newspaper Die Zeit reports on a recent publication in the journal Neuron. “Children behave selfishly. They do not lack insight – their brain cannot help it”. 

Fear, joy, sorrow – what touches people in their innermost being seems to be unchangeable and to connect people across times and cultures. But feelings are anything but eternal. At the Max Planck Forum in Berlin, Gert Scobel talks to Tania Singer about the world of emotions. 

At the annual World Economic Forum, the major economic, political and social issues of the future are discussed. This year the motto of the forum is “The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models”.

Recent Paper by Hein, G., Lamm, C., Brodbeck, C., Singer, T. (2011). Skin conductance response to other’s pain predicts later costly helping. PloS One, 19, e22759. rated as “Top 2% in Biology and Medicine”, Faculty of 1000.

Volker Panzer talks to neuroscientist Tania Singer, physician and neurobiologist Joachim Bauer, philosopher Thomas Metzinger and biologist and mathematician Manfred Milinski on the ZDF nachtstudio.

“Feelings like happiness or sadness make brains vibrate in the same beat: Why? This is something Max Planck researcher Tania Singer has explored.” Norbert Lossau interviewed Prof. Tania Singer in the newspaper Die Welt. 

A workshop organised by Tania Singer and the Department of Social Neuroscience on compassion-training programs at various research centres, relate their experiences about working with prisoners and in hospitals, and promote the practical uses of compassion-training in dealing with social and political issues. 

World Economic Forum in Geneva. The World Economic Forum in Geneva will be held under the motto “Shared norms for a new reality”. But how can such a new reality be created? New findings from the neurosciences could reveal an alternative.

The news magazine Focus selects Prof. Tania Singer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig as one of the most influential German personalities in the category “Scientists”.

The ability to empathise is one of the most basic human qualities. But what actually happens in our brain and can this ability be trained? These are questions that neuropsychologist Tania Singer has been tracking down.

Prof. Tania Singer does an interview with ORF during the Meditation and Science Conference that took place in Berlin from November 26 to 27, 2010

Empathy and Compassion – Insights from the Social Neurosciences How to train empathy and measure it with imaging techniques Prof. Dr. Tania Singer, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig

At the “Falling Walls” conference, top international researchers explain in which socially relevant areas scientific breakthroughs are imminent. This year, MPI Director Tania Singer was also invited. She will present her work in the field of social neuroscience.

A new study published by Cell Press in the October 7th issue of the journal Neuron reveals that brain signals elicited by the sight of someone suffering pain differ as a function of whether we identify positively or negatively with that person and that these differential brain signals predict a later decision to help or withdraw from helping.