PUBLICATIONS

Scientific Articles

2024, in press, and preprints

• Vollberg, M. C., & Cikara, M. (2024). Affective prediction errors in persistence and escalation of aggression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(6), 1551-1567 doi: 10.1037/xge0001570

• Vollberg, M. C., O'Connor, B. B., Vuilleumier, P., Sander, D., & Cikara, M. (2023). Place-related neural activity sets the stage for empathy. PsyArxiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/9cqdm

• Vollberg, M. C., & Sander, D. (2024). Hidden reward: Affect and its prediction errors as windows into subjective value. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33(2), 93-99. doi: 10.1177/09637214231217678

2021

• Vollberg, M. C., Gaesser, B., Cikara, M. (2021). Activating episodic simulation increases affective empathy. Cognition, 209, Article 104558. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104558

2020

• Lees, J., Cetron, J. S., Vollberg, M. C., Reggev, N., Cikara, M. (2020). Intentions to comply with COVID-19 preventive behaviors are associated with personal beliefs, independent of perceived social norms. PsyArxiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/97jry

2019

• Werner Y. B., Hakanson, B., Martinek, J., Repici, A., von Rahden, B. H. A., Bredenoord, A. J., Bisschops, R., Messman, H., Vollberg, M. C., Noder, T., Kersten, J. F., Mann, O., Izbicki, J.., Pazdro, A., Fumagalli, U., Rosati, R., Germer, C.-T., Schijven, M. P., Emmermann, A., von Renteln, D., Fockens, P., Boeckxstaens, G., & Rösch, T. (2019). Endoscopic or surgical myotomy in patients with idiopathic achalasia. New England Journal of Medicine, 381, 2219-2229. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1905380

2018

• Vollberg, M. C., & Cikara, M. (2018). The neuroscience of intergroup emotion. Current Opinion in Psychology, 24, 48-52. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.05.003

2016

•  Hein, G., Engelmann, J. B., Vollberg, M. C., & Tobler, P. N. (2016). How learning shapes the empathic brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(1), 80-85. 10.1073/pnas.1514539112