17th October 2019. The IFLP (Institut Francais du Leadership Positif) appoints executives who reinvent their leadership, accelerate their transformation and positively influence society. Theevent took place in Lyon, France.

14th October 2019. Online interview on the exploration of wellbeing in the digital age, the meeting point between digitisation and the world of consciousness and spirituality – over lunch.

26th September 2019. To investigate the influence of telomere length on brain structure, scientists investigated its length using leukocyte DNA from participants’ blood using PCR and calculated the thickness of the cerebral cortex using MRI scans. 

Tagesspiegel online reports on Tania Singer’s Talk at the symposium “Psychotherapy online — How? When? For who?” [„Online Psychotherapie – Wie? Wann? Für wen?“]. The symposium was organised by the Berliner Fliedner Klinik and took place on August 28th 2019. 

In August 2019 an overview paper was published in the Special Issue Mindfulness titled “It matters what you practice: differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project“. In this paper, the latest results of the ReSource Project are presented 

The second MLE Hub Meeting of the European Neurophenomonolgy, Contemplative, and Embodied Cognition Network. From June 11th -15th the second MLE HUB Meeting took place. Topic of this workshop was States of Consciousness: Comparing Meditation, Hypnosis, Trance and Psychedelics from a first- and third-person Perspective. 

“Different Forms of Meditation: What is good for what? Mindfulness, Awareness and Compassion”. An interview on the impacts of different forms of meditation as studied in the Resource Project. This took place at the Congress at the Akademie Heiligenfeld: Mindfulness, evolution, consciousness, being human.

In order to live together in communities we need to cooperate with one another. To organise this, we punish people when they behave uncooperatively. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have now looked at this connection. 

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung pleads for more compassion in society in an article on November 1st 2017 titled “The Heart of the Others” [Das Herz der anderen]. Tania Singer has already been teaching this for several years and provides the scientific foundation. 

“Are we facing a social revolution?” [Steht uns eine soziale Revolution bevor?]. In the 44th edition of the ZEIT on October 25th 2017, Uwe Jean Heuser reports on Tania Singer’s research on empathy, compassion and finding an alternative to capitalism. (German)

Two publications from the Department of Social Neuroscience headed by Tania Singer make it onto the cover of Science Advances. The first is titled “Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training”.

Two publications from the Department of Social Neuroscience headed by Tania Singer make it onto the cover of Science Advances. The second is titled “Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training”. 

What Science Tells Us About Good and Evil. Tania Singer’s work on the plasticity of the social brain, compassion and empathy networks, and the effects of different forms of training such as loving-kindness training is featured in National Geographic. 

A new study on the benefits of perspective adoption. Through training, people can learn to become more aware of their mental processes and through this can also improve their understanding of the mental workings of others. 

At about the age of four we suddenly begin to understand that others think differently from us – we can put ourselves in other people’s shoes. Scientists at the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences have found that this developmental milestone is connected with a crucial fibre link.