Dreisoerner, A., Feneberg, A. C., Forbes, P. A. G., Pronizius, E., Piperno, G., Stijovic, A., Skoluda, N., Lamm, C., Silani, G., & Nater, U. M. (2025). Fatigue and Its Longitudinal Associations With Mood, Stress, Anxiety, and Hair Cortisol During the Lockdowns of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Cohort Study With Ecological Momentary Assessment. Biopsychosocial science and medicine, 87(9), 652-661. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000001433

Stijovic, A., Forbes, P., Pronizius, E., Feneberg, A., Piperno, G., Nater, U. M., Lamm, C., & Silani, G. (2025). Affective and Social Predictors of Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Lockdown. Biological Psychiatry, 97(10), 1002-1010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.02.007

Kraus, J., Mlynski, C., Hartmann, F., Clay, G., Goschke, T., Silani, G., & Job, V. (2025). The pleasure of effort: Cognitive challenges trigger hedonic physiological responses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1546(1), 100-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15323

Buehler, R., Ansorge, U., & Silani, G. (2024). Social attention in the wild - fixations to the eyes and autistic traits during a naturalistic interaction in a healthy sample. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 30102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79210-8

Pronizius, E., Forbes, P. A. G., Feneberg, A. C., Miculescu, B., Nater, U. M., Piperno, G., Silani, G., Stijovic, A., & Lamm, C. (2024). Everyday helping is associated with enhanced mood but greater stress when it is more effortful. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 24120. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-75261-z

Keysers, C., Silani, G., & Gazzola, V. (2024). Predictive coding for the actions and emotions of others and its deficits in autism spectrum disorders. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , 167, Article 105877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105877

Stijovic, A., Siegel, M., Kocan, A. U., Bojkovska, I., Korb, S., & Silani, G. (2024). Defining social reward: A systematic review of human and animal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 150(12), 1472-1509. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000455

Chiappini, E., Massaccesi, C., Korb, S., Steyrl, D., Willeit, M., & Silani, G. (2024). Neural Hyperresponsivity During the Anticipation of Tangible Social and Nonsocial Rewards in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Concurrent Neuroimaging and Facial Electromyography Study. Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, 9(9), 948-957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.04.006

Freund, A., Fuchshuber, J., Silani, G., & Unterrainer, H.-F. (2024). The relationship between attachment, primary emotions and positive/negative spirituality: a path analysis. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, Article 1375850. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1375850, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1375850

Quesque, F., Apperly, I., Baillargeon, R., Baron-Cohen, S., Becchio, C., Bekkering, H., Bernstein, D., Bertoux, M., Bird, G., Bukowski, H., Burgmer, P., Carruthers, P., Catmur, C., Dziobek, I., Epley, N., Erle, T. M., Frith, C., Frith, U., Galang, C. M., ... Brass, M. (2024). Defining key concepts for mental state attribution. Communications Psychology, 2, Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00077-6

Massaccesi, C., Korb, S., Götzendorfer, S., Chiappini, E., Willeit, M., Lundström, J. N., Windischberger, C., Eisenegger, C., & Silani, G. (2024). Effects of dopamine and opioid receptor antagonism on the neural processing of social and nonsocial rewards. Human Brain Mapping, 45(4), Article e26645. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26645

Korb, S., Clarke, A., Massaccesi, C., Willeit, M., & Silani, G. (2023). Facial mimicry is not modulated by dopamine D2/3 and opioid receptor antagonism. Psychopharmacology, 240, 2081-2091. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-023-06426-3

Kraus, J., Výborová, E., & Silani, G. (2023). The effect of intranasal oxytocin on social reward processing in humans: a systematic review. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, Article 1244027. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1244027

Riva, F., Pronizius, E., Lenger, M., Kronbichler, M., Silani, G., & Lamm, C. (2023). Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 18(1), Article nsad034. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad034

Stijovic, A., Forbes, P. A. G., Tomova, L., Skoluda, N., Feneberg, A. C., Piperno, G., Pronizius, E., Nater, U. M., Lamm, C., & Silani, G. (2023). Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field. Psychological Science, 34(5), 537-551. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231156413

Forbes, P. A. G., Pronizius, E., Feneberg, A. C., Nater, U. M., Piperno, G., Silani, G., Stijovic, A., & Lamm, C. (2023). The effects of social interactions on momentary stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdowns. British Journal of Health Psychology, 28(2), 306-319. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12626

Stiehl, K. A. M., Krammer, I., Schrank, B., Pollak, I., Silani, G., & Woodcock, K. A. (2023). Children’s perspective on fears connected to school transition and intended coping strategies. Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 26(3), 603-637. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09759-1

Feneberg, A. C., Stijovic, A., Forbes, P. A. G., Lamm, C., Piperno, G., Pronizius, E., Silani, G., & Nater, U. M. (2023). Perceptions of Stress and Mood Associated With Listening to Music in Daily Life During the COVID-19 Lockdown. JAMA Network Open, 6(1), Article e2250382. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.50382

Ruiz, M., Groessing, A., Guran, A., Kocan, A., Mikus, N., Nater, U. M., Kouwer, K., Posserud, M.-B., Salomon-Gimmon , M., Todorova, B., Wagner, I. C., Gold, C., Silani, G., & Specht, K. (2023). Music for autism: a protocol for an international randomized crossover trial on music therapy for children with autism. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, Article 1256771. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1256771