1. Tania Singer was born on 1969 and is a German psychologist and social neuroscientist and the scientific director of the Max Planck Society's Social Neuroscience Lab in Berlin, Germany.
17 Facts About Tania Singer
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Tania Singer's research focuses on the developmental, neuronal, and hormonal mechanisms underlying human social behavior and social emotions such as compassion and empathy.
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Tania Singer is founder and principal investigator of the ReSource project, one of the largest longitudinal studies on the effects of mental training on brain plasticity as well as mental and physical health, co-funded by the European Research Council.
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Tania Singer is the daughter of the neuroscientist Wolf Singer.
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Tania Singer studied psychology at the University of Marburg from 1989 to 1992.
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Tania Singer was a predoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and received her Ph.
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Tania Singer then continued to work at the Max Planck Institute as a research scientist at the Center for Lifespan Psychology until 2002.
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Tania Singer is an honorary research fellow at the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research of the University of Zurich as well as an honorary board member of Mind and Life Europe.
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Tania Singer's work focuses on social cognition; social moral emotions such as empathy, compassion, envy, and fairness; social decision making; and communication.
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Tania Singer is interested in the determinants of cooperation and prosocial behavior as well as the breakdown of cooperation and the emergence of selfish behavior.
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Tania Singer's research uses a range of methods including functional magnetic resonance imaging, virtual reality environments, biological markers such as cortisol, and behavioral studies.
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Tania Singer was a board member and vice president of the Mind and Life Institute and is an honorary board member of Mind and Life Europe.
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Tania Singer has worked with the French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard to investigate brain activity during meditation.
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Tania Singer is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
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Tania Singer founded and is principal investigator of the ReSource Project, a large-scale one-year longitudinal mental training study co-funded by the European Research Council since 2008.
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Tania Singer has a long-standing interest in collaboration between arts and science and for example produced the multi-media, free-downloadable e-book Compassion: Bridging Practice and Science together with the artist Olafur Eliasson.
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Tania Singer is Professor and scientific Head of the Social Neuroscience Lab of the Max Planck Society in Berlin.