Massaccesi, C., Zhang, L., Silani, G., & Lamm, C. (2025). Avoiding Pain to Others Motivates Effortful Prosocial Behavior. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

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

Bühler, R., Potocár, L., Mikus, N., & Silani, G. (2025). Autistic traits relate to reduced reward sensitivity in learning from point-light displays (PLDs). Royal Society Open Science, 12(3), Artikel 241349. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241349

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

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, Artikel 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), Artikel 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, Artikel 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, Artikel 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, 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

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, Artikel 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), Artikel 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