Scientific Publications

  • Journal Article

    Singer, T.; Fehr, E.

    The neuroeconomics of mind reading and empathy. American Economic Review 95 (2), S. 340 – 345 (2005)

  • Journal Article

    Singer, T.; Seymour, B.; O'Doherty, J.; Kaube, H.; Dolan, R.; Frith, C.

    Empathy for pain involves the affective but not sensory components of pain. Science 303 (5661), S. 1157 – 1162 (2004)

  • Journal Article

    Singer, T.; Kiebel, S.; Winston, J.; Dolan, R.; Frith, C.

    Brain responses to the acquired moral status of faces. Neuron 41 (4), S. 653 – 662 (2004)

  • Journal Article

    Singer, T.; Ghisletta, P.; Lindenberger, U.; Baltes, P. B.

    The fate of cognition in very old age: Six year longitudinal in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). Psychology and Aging 18 (2), S. 318 – 331 (2003)

  • Journal Article

    Singer, T.; Lindenberger, U.; Baltes, P. B.

    Plasticity of memory for new learning in very old age: A story of major loss? Psychology and Aging 18 (2), S. 306 – 317 (2003)

  • Journal Article

    Lindenberger, U.; Singer, T.; Baltes, P. B.

    Longitudinal selectivity in aging populations: Separating mortality-associated versus experimental components in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 57 (6), S. P474 – P482 (2002)

  • Journal Article

    Singer, T.; Baltes, P. B.

    Plasticity and the aging mind: An exemplar of the biocultural orchestration of brain and behavior. European Review of Aging and Physical Activity 9 (1) (2001)

  • Book

    Book (8)


  • Book

    Ricard, M.; Singer, T.; Karius, K. (Hg.)

    Die Macht der Fürsorge. Für eine gemeinsame Zukunft. Wissenschaft und Buddhismus im Dialog mit dem Dalai Lama. Knaur MensSana TB (2019)

  • Book

    Singer, T.; Ricard, M.; Karius, K. (Hg.)

    Power and Care: Toward Balance for our common future – Science, society, and spirituality. (2019)

  • Book

    Ricard, M.; Singer, T.; Karius, K.

    Pouvoir et altruisme. Allary, Paris (2018)

  • Book

    Singer, T.; Kok, B. E.; Bornemann, B.; Zurborg, S.; Bolz, M.; Bochow, C.

    The ReSource Project: Background, design, samples, and measurements. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig (2016)

  • Book

    Singer, T.; Ricard, M. (Hg.)

    Caring economics: Conversations on altruism and compassion, between scientists, economists, and the Dalai Lama. St Martin’s Press, New York (2015), 240 S.

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    Singer, T.; Ricard, M.

    Mitgefühl in der Wirtschaft: Ein bahnbrechender Forschungsbericht. Knaus, Munich (2015), 255 S.

  • Book

    Singer, T.; Bolz, M. (Hg.)

    Mitgefühl: In Alltag und Forschung. Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig (2013)

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    Singer, T.; Bolz, M. (Hg.)

    Compassion: Bridging practice and science. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig (2013)

  • Book Chapter

    Book-Chapter (33)


  • Book Chapter

    Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.

    Deconstructing social emotions: Empathy and compassion and their relation to prosocial behavior. In: The nature of emotion, 2nd ed. Aufl., S. 233 – 237 (Hg. Davidson, R.; Shackman, A.; Fox, A.; Lapate, R.). Oxford University Press, New York (2018)

  • Book Chapter

    Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.

    Fighting fire with fire: Endogenous emotion generation as a means of emotion regulation. In: The nature of emotion, 2nd ed. Aufl., S. 172 – 177 (Hg. Davidson, R.; Shackman, A.; Fox, A.; Lapate, R.). Oxford University Press, New York (2018)

  • Book Chapter

    Vrticka, P.; Favre, P.; Singer, T.

    Compassion and the brain. In: Compassion: Concepts, research and applications, S. 135 – 150 (Hg. Gilbert, P.). Routledge, London, UK (2017)

  • Book Chapter

    Singer, T.

    I feel your pain: The social neuroscience of empathy and compassion. In: The monastery and the microscope: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on mind, mindfulness, and the nature of reality, S. 234 – 369 (Hg. Hasenkamp, W.; White, J. R.). Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (2017)

  • Book Chapter

    Klimecki, O. M.; Singer, T.

    The compassionate brain. In: The Oxford handbook of compassion science, S. 109 – 120 (Hg. Seppälä, E.; Simon-Thomas, E.; Brown, S. L.; Worline, M. C.; Cameron, C. D. et al.). Oxford University Press, New York, USA (2017)

  • Book Chapter

    Kanske, P.; Böckler, A.; Singer, T.

    Models, mechanisms and moderators dissociating empathy and Theory of Mind. In: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences – Social Behavior from Rodents to Humans: Neural Foundations and Clinical Implications. (Hg. Wöhr, M.; Krach, S.). Springer, Berlin (2015)

  • Book Chapter

    Chierchia, G.; Singer, T.

    The neuroscience of compassion and empathy and their link to prosocial motivation and behavior. In: Decision neuroscience – An integrative perspective, S. 247 – 257 (Hg. Dreher, J.-C.; Tremblay, L.). Elsevier, San Diego (2017)

  • Book Chapter

    Singer, T.

    Perspektiven der Empathie- und Compassion-Forschung. In: Handbuch der Philosophie und Ethik, Bd. Band 2, S. 256 – 264 (Hg. Nida-Rümelin, J.; Spiegel, I.; Tiedemann, M.). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn (2015)

  • Book Chapter

    Klimecki, O. M.; Singer, T.

    Compassion. In: Brain mapping: An encyclopedic reference, Bd. 3, S. 195 – 199 (Hg. Toga, A. W.). Elsevier, Oxford (2015)

  • Book Chapter

    Singer, T.; Tusche, A.

    Understanding others: Brain mechanisms of theory of mind and empathy. In: Neuroeconomics: Decision making and the brain, 2nd ed. Aufl., S. 513 – 532 (Hg. Glimcher, P. W.; Fehr, E.). Academic Press, London (2013)

  • Book Chapter

    McCall, C.; Singer, T.

    Empathy and the brain. In: Understanding other minds. Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience., Bd. 3rd, S. 195 – 213 (Hg. Baron-Cohen, S.; Tager-Flusberg, H.; Lombardo, M.). Oxford University Press, New York (2013)

  • Book Chapter

    Klimecki, O.; Ricard, M.; Singer, T.

    Empathy versus compassion: Lessons from 1st and 3rd person methods. In: Compassion: Bridging practice and science (Hg. Singer, T.; Bolz, M.) (2013)

  • Book Chapter

    Klimecki, O.; Singer, T.

    Empathy from the perspective of social neuroscience. In: The Cambridge handbook of human affective neuroscience, S. 533 – 551 (Hg. Armony, J.; Vuilleumier, P.). Cambridge University Press, New York (2013)