An interview titled “The view goes inside” [Der Blick geht nach innen] by Tania Singer about the ReSource study is published in the newspaper die Leipziger Volkszeitung

A recently published study conducted by Olga M. Klimecki et al. (2012) was mentioned in the Leipziger Volkszeitung. Meditation changes brain function. Category: “Interesting facts, controversies, tips and dates concerning Leipzig university life always on Friday”.

As part of the Leipzig Long Night of Sciences on 29 June 2012, Prof. Dr Tania Singer will give a public lecture  in the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Lecture Hall. 

An interview with Tania Singer with the Thuringian state newspaper TLZ. This interview was conducted in the run-up to her lecture for students at the Bauhaus-University Weimar who are currently practicing mindfulness.

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.