Prof. Dr. Anne Böckler-Raettig
| Consultation hour | weekly, by appointment |
| anne.boeckler@uni-wuerzburg.de | |
| Phone | |
| Fax | +49 931 3182616 |
| Office | Röntgenring 11, 97070 Würzburg |
| Room |
Research areas
- Gaze processing and gaze behaviour
- Social cognition: empathy, perspective taking, Theory of Mind
- Social interaction: altruism, prosocial behavior, social exclusion
- Social cognition and interaction in clinical and developmental contexts
- Effectiveness of meditation-based interventions
Research projects (publicly funded)
Emmy Noether Research Group: More than meets the eye: Integration, influences and impairments of direct gaze processing
Offices Held
- Deputy Chair of the local Ethics Committee
- Tenure-Track Committee of JMU
- Co-Chair of the Diversity-AG of the Faculty of Human Sciences
- Member of the Faculty board of the Faculty of Human Sciences
- Confidential professor of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Teaching (English)
- Lecture Multivariate Statistics (Monday 10-12 am)
- Seminar Social Cognition & Interaction (Wednesday 12-2 pm)
- PhD seminar (Tuesday 8-10 am)
- Seminar Perceiving Minds of Individuals & Groups (with Prof. Deutsch; Friday 10-12 am)
- Seminar Social Cognition (with Prof. Deutsch; Tuesday 2-4 pm)
- Colloquium Cognitive Psychology (with Prof. Kunde, Prof. Huestegge, Prof. Eder; Monday 6-8 pm)
| 2021 - | Professor for Research Methods & Social Cognition at Würzburg University |
| 2018 - | PI of the Emmy Noether Research Group “More than meets the eye” |
| 2020-2021 | Professor for Cognitive Psychology at Leibniz University Hannover |
| 2015-2020 | Assistant Professor at Würzburg University Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig |
| 2012-2015 | Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig |
| 2011-2012 | Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University, USA |
| 2013 | PhD Defense at Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL |
| 2008-2012 | PhD candidate at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, NL / Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL |
| 2002-2008 | Psychology (Diploma) at Humboldt-University Berlin and University of Glasgow, funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
Publications
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Books
Böckler-Raettig (2019). Theory of Mind. München: Ernst Reinhardt.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
To come
Landmann, E., Breil, C., Huestegge, L.*, & Böckler, A.* (in press). The semantics of gaze in person perception: A novel qualitative-quantitative approach. Scientific Reports.
* contributed equally
2023
Klinker, L., Böckler, A., Kreibich, S., & Mazigo, H. (2023). Cultural adaption and validation of the Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue–Community Stigma Scale in the assessment of public stigma related to schistosomiasis in lakeshore areas of Mwanza region, Tanzania. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17(8), e0011534.
Konrad, A., Förster, K., Stretton, J., Dalgleish, T., Böckler-Raettig, A., Trautwein, M. F., ... & Kanske, P. (2023). Risk Factors for Internalizing Symptoms: The Influence of Empathy, Theory of Mind, and Negative Thinking Processes. Human Brain Mapping.
Landmann, E., Krahmer, A., & Böckler, A. (2023). Social Understanding beyond the Familiar: Disparity in Visual Abilities Does Not Impede Empathy and Theory of Mind. Journal of Intelligence, 12(1), 2.
Micheli, L., Breil, C., & Böckler, A. (2023). Golden gazes: Gaze direction and emotional context promote prosocial behavior by increasing attributions of empathy and perspective-taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication.
Valk. S. L., Kanske, P., Park, B., Hong, S.-J., Böckler, A., Trautwein, F.-M., Bernhardt, B, & Singer, T. (2023). Functional and microstructural plasticity following social and interoceptive mental training. eLife 12:e85188.
2022
Blasberg, J. U., Kanske, P., Böckler, A., Trautwein, F. M., Singer, T., & Engert, V. (2022). Associations of social processing abilities with psychosocial stress sensitivity. Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology, 12, 100159.
Böckler, A. & Singer, T. (2022). Longitudinal Evidence for Differential Plasticity of Cognitive Functions: Mindfulness-based mental training enhances working memory, but not perceptual discrimination, response inhibition and metacognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Breil, C., Huestegge, L., & Böckler, A. (2022). From eye to arrow: Attention capture by direct gaze requires more than just the eyes. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
Breil, C., Raettig, T., Pittig, R., van der Wel, R. P., Welsh, T., & Böckler, A. (2022). Don’t look at me like that: Integration of gaze direction and facial expression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(10), 1083.
Lehmann, K., Böckler, A., Klimecki, O., Müller-Liebmann, C., & Kanske, P. (2022). Empathy and correct mental state inferences both promote prosociality. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-8.
McDonald, B., Böckler, A., & Kanske, P. (2022). Soundtrack to the social world: Emotional music enhances empathy, compassion, and prosocial decisions but not theory of mind. Emotion.
Pittig, R., van der Wel, R. P., Welsh, T. N., & Böckler, A. (2022). What’s in a gaze, what’s in a face?: The direct gaze effect can be modulated by emotion expression. Emotion.
Stengelin, R., Schleihauf, H., Seidl., A., & Böckler-Raettig, A. (2022). Spreading the game: An experimental study on the link between children’s overimitation and their adoption, transmission, and modification of conventional information. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, 105271.
2021
Breil, C., Kanske, P., Pittig, R. & Böckler, A. (2021). A revised instrument for the assessment of empathy and Theory of Mind in adolescents: Introducing the EmpaToM-Y. Behavior Research Methods. doi: 10.3758/s13428-021-01589-3
Breil, C. & Böckler-Raettig, A. (2021): Look away to listen: the interplay of emotional context and eye contact in video conversations, Visual Cognition, doi:10.1080/13506285.2021.1908470
Böckler, A., Rennert, A., & Raettig, T. (2021). Stranger, lover, friend? The pain of rejection does not depend. Social Psychology.
Schmitz, L., Wahn, B., Krüger, M., & Böckler-Raettig, A. (2021). In the blink of an eye? Evidence for a reduced attentional blink for eyes. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43).
Riechelmann, E., Gamer, M., Böckler, A., & Huestegge, L. (2021). How ubiquitous is the direct-gaze advantage? Evidence for an averted-gaze advantage in a gaze-discrimination task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-23.
Riechelmann, E., Raettig, T., Böckler, A., & Huestegge, L. (2021). Gaze interaction: Anticipation-based control of the gaze of others. Psychological Research, 1-20.
Wahn, B., Schmitz, L., Kingstone, A., & Böckler-Raettig, A. (2021). When eyes beat lips: speaker gaze affects audiovisual integration in the McGurk illusion. Psychological Research, 1-14.
2020
Breil, C. & Böckler, A. (2020). The lens shapes the view: On task dependency in ToM research. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 7, 41-50.
Götz, F., Böckler, A., & Eder, A. (2020). Low numbers from a low head? Effects of observed head orientation on numerical cognition. Psychological Research, 1-14.
Tholen, M. G., Trautwein, F. M., Böckler, A., Singer, T., & Kanske, P. (2020). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind. Human Brain Mapping.
Trautwein, F.-M., Kanske, P., Böckler, A., & Singer, T. (2020). Differential benefits of mental training types for attention, compassion, and theory of mind. Cognition, 194, 104039.
2019
Böckler, A. (2019). Why we share our cookies: Prosocial behavior from a psychological perspective. Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht über die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur.
Lehmann, K., Maliske, L., Böckler, A., & Kanske, P. (2019). Social impairments in mental disorders: Recent developments in studying the mechanisms of interactive behavior. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 1(2), 1-15.
Riechelmann*, E., Weller*, L., Huestegge, L., Böckler, A., & Pfister, R. (2019). Revisiting intersubjective action-effect binding: No evidence for social moderators. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81(6), 1991–2002. doi:10.3758/s13414-019-01715-6
* contributed equally
2018
Böckler, A., Tusche, A., Schmidt, P., & Singer, T. (2018). Distinct mental trainings differentially enhance altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behaviour. Scientific reports, 8(1), 13560.
Lumma, A. L., Valk, S., Böckler, A., Vrticka, P., & Singer, T. (2018). Change in emotional self-concept following socio-cognitive training relates to structural plasticity of the prefrontal cortex. Brain and Behavior, 8(4).
van der Wel, R., Welsh, T., & Böckler, A. (2018). Talking heads or talking eyes? Effects of head orientation and sudden onset gaze cues on attention capture. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-6.
2017
Böckler*, A., Herrmann*, L., Trautwein, F.-M., Holmes, T. & Singer, T. (2017). Know thy Selves: Learning to understand oneself increases the ability to understand others. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 1-13.
* contributed equally
Böckler*, A., Sharifi*, M., Kanske, P., Dziobek, I., & Singer, T. (2017). Social decision making in narcissism: Reduced generosity and increased retaliation are driven by alterations in perspective-taking and anger. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 1-7.
* contributed equally
Lumma, A.-L., Böckler, A., Vrticka, P., & Singer, T. (2017). Who am I? Differential effects of three contemplative mental trainings on emotional word use in self-descriptions. Self and Identity, 16(5), 607–628.
Valk, S. L., Bernhardt, B. C., Trautwein, F. M., Böckler, A., & Kanske, P., Guizard, N., ... & Singer, T. (2017). Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Science Advances, 3(10), e1700489.
2016
Böckler*, A., Kanske*, P., Trautwein, F. M., Lesemann, F. H. P., & Singer, T. (2016). Are strong empathizers better mentalizers? Evidence for independence and interaction between the routes of social cognition. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsw052.
* contributed equally
Böckler, A., Tusche, A., & Singer, T. (2016). The structure of human prosociality: Differentiating altruistically motivated, norm motivated, strategically motivated and self-reported prosocial behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(6), 530-541.
Bornemann, B., Kok, B. E., Böckler, A., & Singer, T. (2016). Helping from the heart: Voluntary up-regulation of heart rate variability predicts altruistic behavior. Biological Psychology, 119, 54-63.
Huestegge, L., & Böckler, A. (2016). Out of the corner of the driver's eye: Peripheral processing of hazards in static traffic scenes. Journal of Vision, 16(2), 11-11.
Molenberghs, P., Trautwein, F.-M., Böckler, A., Singer, T., & Kanske, P. (2016). Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: A large scale fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsw093.
Tusche, A., Böckler, A., Kanske, P., Trautwein, F.-M., & Singer, T. (2016). Decoding the charitable brain: Empathy, perspective taking and attention shifts differentially predict altruistic giving. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 4719-4732.
Valk, S., Bernhardt, B., Böckler, A., Kanske, P., & Singer, T. (2016). Substrates of metacognition on perception and metacognition on higher-order cognition relate to different subsystems of the mentalizing network. Human Brain Mapping, 37(10), 3388-3399.
Valk, S.L., Bernhardt, B., Böckler, A., Trautwein, F.-M., Kanske, P., & Singer, T. (2016). Socio-cognitive phenotypes differentially modulate large-scale structural covariance networks. Cerebral Cortex, bhv319.
2015
Böckler, A., van der Wel, R., & Welsh, T. (2015). Eyes only? Perceiving eye contact is neither sufficient nor necessary for attentional capture by face direction. Acta Psychologica, 160, 134-140.
Böckler*, A., Kanske*, P., Trautwein*, F.-M., & Singer, T. (2015). Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind. NeuroImage, 122, 6-19.
* contributed equally
Böckler, A., Eskenazi, T., Sebanz, N., & Rueschemeyer, S.-A. (2015). (How) observed eye-contact modulates gaze following. An fMRI study. Cognitive Neuroscience, 7(1-4), 55-66.
2014
Böckler, A., Timmermans, B., Sebanz, N., Vogeley, K., & Schilbach, L. (2014). Effects of observing eye contact on gaze following in high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44(7), 1651-1658.
Böckler, A., Hömke, P., & Sebanz, N. (2014). Invisible man: Exclusion from shared attention affects gaze behavior and self-reports. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5(2), 140-148.
Böckler, A., van der Wel, R. P. R. D., & Welsh, T. N. (2014). Catching eyes: Effects of social and nonsocial cues on attention capture. Psychological Science, 25(3), 720-727.
2013
Böckler, A., & Zwickel, J. (2013). Influences of spontaneous perspective taking on spatial and identity processing of faces. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(7), 735-740.
2012
Böckler, A., & Sebanz, N. (2012). A co-actor’s focus of attention affects attention allocation and stimulus processing: An EEG study. Social Neuroscience, 7(6), 565-577.
Böckler, A., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2012). Effects of a coactor’s focus of attention on task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(6), 1404-1415.
2011
Böckler, A., Alpay, G., & Stürmer, B. (2011). Accessory stimuli affect prerequisites of conflict, not conflict control: A Simon-task ERP study. Experimental Psychology, 58(2), 102-109.
Böckler, A., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2011). Observing shared attention modulates gaze following. Cognition, 120(2), 292-298.
Böckler, A., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2011). Giving a helping hand: Effects of joint attention on mental rotation of body parts. Experimental Brain Research, 211(3-4), 531-545.
Buchkapitel
2017
Böckler, A., Sebanz, N., Wilkinson, A., & Huber, L. (2017). Solving social coordination problems: From ants to apes. In S. Shepherd (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience. New York: Rockefeller
2015
Kanske*, P., Böckler*, A., & Singer, T. (2015). Models, mechanisms and moderators dissociating empathy and Theory of Mind. In M. Wöhr, & S. Krach (Eds.), Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences – Social Behavior from Rodents to Humans: Neural Foundations and Clinical Implications.
* shared first authors
2013
Böckler, A., & Sebanz, N. (2013). Linking joint attention and joint action. In H. S. Terrace, & J. Metcalfe (Eds.), Agency and joint attention. (pp. 206-215). New York: Oxford University Press.
2010
Böckler, A., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2010). Socializing Cognition. In B. Glatzeder, V. Goel, & A. Mueller (Eds.), Perspectives on Thinking. Heidelberg: Springer.
