Prof. Dr. Anne Böckler-Raettig

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Blickverarbeitung und Blickverhalten
• Soziales Verstehen: Empathie, Perspektivübernahme, Theory of Mind
• Soziales Handeln: Altruismus, Prosoziales Verhalten, Sozialer Ausschluss
• Soziale Kognition und Interaktion im klinischen und Entwicklungskontext
• Psychologische Effekte von Meditation

Forschungsprojekte

Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe: More than meets the eye: Untersuchungen zur Integration, Funktion und Beeinträchtigung der Verarbeitung von direktem Blickkontakt

DFG-Forschungsprojekt "ContextualEYEze: Das Zusammenspiel von Blick- und Kontextinformation beim sozialen Urteilen, Verstehen und Entscheiden"https://gepris-extern.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/550926152

Funktionen

• Stellv. Vorstand der lokalen Ethikkommission
• Vorsitzende der ständigen Tenure-Kommission der JMU
• Ko-Vorsitzende der Diversity-AG der Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
• Vertrauensdozentin der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• Ansprechperson der Kontaktstelle für sexuelle Belästigung

Publikationen

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Bücher

Böckler-Raettig (2024). Soziale Kognition und Interaktion. Ein Lehrbuch. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. https://doi.org/10.17433/978-3-17-043221-5

Böckler-Raettig (2019). Theory of Mind. München: Ernst Reinhardt. 

Eintrag zu Theory of Mind im socialnet Lexikon: https://www.socialnet.de/lexikon/Theory-of-Mind

Artikel in Fachzeitschriften

* contributed equally

2025

Kürten, J., Breil, C., Pittig, R., Huestegge, L., & Böckler, A. (2025). How eccentricity modulates attention capture by direct face/gaze and sudden onset motion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 87(2), 354-366. 10.3758/s13414-025-03015-8 (open access)

2024

Hein, G., Huestegge, L., Böckler-Raettig, A., Deserno, L., Eder, A. B., Hewig, J., ... & Gamer, M. (2024). A social information processing perspective on social connectedness. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 167, 105945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105945 (open access)

Konrad, A. C., Förster, K., Stretton, J., Dalgleish, T., Böckler‐Raettig, A., Trautwein, F. M., ... & Kanske, P. (2024). Risk factors for internalizing symptoms: The influence of empathy, theory of mind, and negative thinking processes. Human Brain Mapping, 45(3), e26576. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26576 (open access)

Landmann, E., Breil, C., Huestegge, L.*, & Böckler, A.* (2024). The semantics of gaze in person perception: A novel qualitative-quantitative approach. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 893. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51331-0 

Wesarg-Menzel, C., Gallistl, M., Niconchuk, M., Böckler, A., O’Malley, B., & Engert, V. (2024). Compassion buffers the association between trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity: Findings of a cross-sectional study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 165, 107036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107036 (open access)

2023

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpnec.2022.100159 (open access)

​​​​​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. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xge0001143 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02382-2 (open access)

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. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xhp0001046

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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20855-8 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001036 (open access)

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. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/emo0001076

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105271 (open access)

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. 10.3758/s13428-021-01589-3 (open access)

Breil, C. & Böckler-Raettig, A. (2021): Look away to listen: the interplay of emotional context and eye contact in video conversations, Visual Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1908470

Böckler, A., Rennert, A., & Raettig, T. (2021). Stranger, lover, friend? The pain of rejection does not depend.Social Psychology, 52(3), 173–184. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000446 (open acces)

Schmitz, L., Wahn, B., Krüger, M., & Böckler-Raettig, A. (2021). In the blink of an eye? Evidence for a reduced attentional blink for eyes. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22m7b86k (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02147-3 (open access)

Riechelmann, E., Raettig, T., Böckler, A., & Huestegge, L. (2021). Gaze interaction: Anticipation-based control of the gaze of others. Psychological Research, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01257-4

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01618-y (open access)

 

2020

Breil, C. & Böckler, A. (2020). The lens shapes the view: On task dependency in ToM research. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 7, 41-50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40473-020-00205-6 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01221-2

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. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24966 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104039 (open access)

2019

Böckler, A. (2019). Why we share our cookies: Prosocial behavior from a psychological perspective. Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht über die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur. https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2019/0880

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. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v1i2.33143 (open access)

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 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31813-8 (open access)

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). https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.940 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1462-y (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-017-0023-6 (open access)

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. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1016/j.paid.2016.07.020

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2017.1294107 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700489 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw052 (open access)

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. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1177/1948550616639650

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.07.004

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. https://doi.org/10.1167/16.2.11 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw093 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3392-15.2016 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23247 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv319 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.07.009

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.082

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2015.1053442 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2038-5 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550613488951

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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613516147 

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. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss061 (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2012.682119

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. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027523

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. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000073

Böckler, A., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2011). Observing shared attention modulates gaze following. Cognition, 120(2), 292-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.05.002

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2625-z (open access)

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. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118316757.ch17 

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. 10.1007/7854_2015_412

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. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199988341.003.0013

2010

Böckler, A., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2010). Socializing Cognition. In B. Glatzeder, V. Goel, & A. Mueller (Eds.), Perspectives on Thinking. Heidelberg: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03129-8 

 

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