Univ.-Prof. Giorgia Silani, Privatdoz. PhD
T: +43-1-4277-47223
Wintersemester 2025
Sommersemester 2025
200090 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Klinische Psychologie und Gesundheitspsychologie - Theory and practice in clinical and social neuroscience
540011 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Health: mechanisms, prevention, and intervention
Wintersemester 2024
200151 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Klinische Psychologie und Gesundheitspsychologie - Theory and practice in clinical and social neuroscience
540011 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Health: mechanisms, prevention, and intervention


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


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), Artikel 24120. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-75261-z





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, Artikel 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), Artikel 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




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



Chiappini, E., Silani, G., Lundström, J. N., & Korb, S. (2023). Facial Electromyography in Food Research in a Behavioral and MR Setting. in M. Bensafi (Hrsg.), Basic Protocols on Emotions, Senses, and Foods (S. 185-201). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2934-5_15

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, Artikel 1256771. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1256771

Trajectories of fatigue and their influence on stress, anxiety, and mood during the COVID-19 lockdowns: an ecological momentary assessment study

Dreisörner, A. (Vortragende*r), Feneberg, A. (Autor*in), Forbes, P. (Autor*in), Pronizius, E. (Autor*in), Piperno, G. (Autor*in), Stijovic, A. (Autor*in), Skoluda, N. (Autor*in), Lamm, C. (Autor*in), Silani, G. (Autor*in) & Nater, U. M. (Autor*in)

15 Sept. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Reading Emotions in Art: Do autistic traits influence how we perceive emotions through art?

Kim, Y. A. (Vortragende*r), Gülen, E. (Autor*in), Lauer, K. (Autor*in), Demmer, T. (Autor*in), Kühnapfel, C. (Autor*in), Silani, G. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

17 Mai 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The impact of stress and opioid administration on liking and wanting of affective touch.

Massaccesi, C. (Vortragende*r) & Silani, G. (Autor*in)

2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Age-related differences in automatic imitation inhibition: an fMRI study.

Pronizius, E. (Vortragende*r), Riva, F. (Autor*in), Lenger, M. (Autor*in), Kronbichler, M. (Autor*in), Silani, G. (Autor*in) & Lamm, C. (Autor*in)

21 Juli 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Effects of the mu-opioid receptor agonist morphine on facial mimicry and emotion recognition.

Massaccesi, C. (Vortragende*r), Korb, S. (Autor*in), Willeit, M. (Autor*in), Quednow, B. B. (Autor*in) & Silani, G. (Autor*in)

Juli 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Diurnal Dynamics of Stress and Mood in the Risk Groups during Covid-19 Lockdown - A Large Binational Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Feneberg, A. (Autor*in), Forbes, P. (Autor*in), Piperno, G. (Autor*in), Pronizius, E. (Vortragende*r), Skoluda, N. (Autor*in), Stijovic, A. (Autor*in), Lamm, C. (Autor*in), Nater, U. M. (Autor*in) & Silani, G. (Autor*in)

20 Sept. 202122 Sept. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Enhanced motivation and hedonic reactions to social touch under stress following morphine administration

Massaccesi, C. (Vortragende*r), Willeit, M. (Autor*in), Quednow, B. B. (Autor*in), Nater, U. M. (Autor*in) & Silani, G. (Autor*in)

Juni 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Silani, G. (Invited speaker)

Mai 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids.

Silani, G. (Invited speaker)

März 2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding empathy from a clinical perspective

Silani, G. (Invited speaker)

Okt. 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Silani, G. (Vortragende*r)

März 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Self-Other distinction in empathy is modulated by cTBS on right supramarginal gyrus and dispositional cognitive empathy: An rTMS/fMRI study.

Bukowski, H. (Vortragende*r), Tik, M. (Vortragende*r), Silani, G. (Vortragende*r), Ruff, C. (Vortragende*r), Windischberger, C. (Vortragende*r) & Lamm, C. (Vortragende*r)

21 Juli 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The influence of age on emotional egocentrism.

Riva, F. (Vortragende*r), Tschernegg, M. (Autor*in), Kronbichler, M. (Autor*in), Lamm, C. (Autor*in) & Silani, G. (Autor*in)

20 Juli 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science




Neurochemical modulation of facial mimicry

Korb, S. (Vortragende*r), Massaccesi, C. (Autor*in), Willeit, M. (Autor*in), Rumiati, R. (Autor*in), Eisenegger, C. (Autor*in) & Silani, G. (Autor*in)

Juli 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Wanting and linking of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Silani, G. (Vortragende*r)

Juli 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Emotional egocentricity bias during social pain in Autism-Spectrum-Disorder (ASD): Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence

Hartmann, H. (Invited speaker), Hitz, H. (Autor*in), Stepnicka, P. (Autor*in), Lengersdorff, L. (Autor*in) & Silani, G. (Autor*in)

7 Okt. 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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