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Prof. Dr. Philipp Kanske

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Philipp Kanske is Professor for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at Technische Universität Dresden. He explores the emotional and cognitive processes that enable social behavior and their alterations in psychopathology. In his work he uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to describe the underlying neuronal mechanisms.

I support the Open Science Initiative of the Faculty of Psychology.

Academic experience

since 2017	Professor for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Technische Universität Dresden
2012 – 2017	Group Leader „Psychopathology of the Social Brain” at the Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2011 – 2012	Research staff at Heidelberg University, Department of Psychiatry, Section of Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Heidelberg
2009 – 2011	PostDoc at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Mannheim

Education

2014	Habilitation at Heidelberg University
2011	Licensed Psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT)
2008	Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Leipzig (summa cum laude)
2005	Dipl.-Psych. at Technische Universität Dresden (funded by ev. Studienwerk Villigst)
2004	M.Sc. at the University of Oregon, USA (funded by Fulbright)

Honors and awards

2023	ERC consolidator grant "INTERACT - The interplay of neural networks enabling social interaction"
2017	Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Research Foundation
2015 - 2020	Member of the Young Academy at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2019 - 2020 Speaker, 2018 - 2020 Member of the Board)
2013	Lilly Young Investigator Fellowship in Bipolar Disorder at the International Conference on Bipolar Disorder
2013	Young Investigator Award of the European Brain and Behaviour Society
2013	„Rising Star” of the Association for Psychological Science
2012	Young Investigator Award of the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application
2008	Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
2006	Werner Straub Award of the Department of Psychology at Technische Universität Dresden

Publications

157 Entries

2024

Patterns of social-affective responses to trauma exposure and their relation to psychopathologyThomas, S., Schäfer, J., Kanske, P. & Trautmann, S., 5 Mar 2024, In: PloS one. 19(2024), 3, 19 p., e0289664Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
How self-states help: Observing the embodiment of self-states through nonverbal behaviorEngel, I., Dshemuchadse, M., Surrey, C., Roos, L., Kanske, P. & Scherbaum, S., Mar 2024, In: PloS one. 19, 3 March, p. 1-13, 13 p., e0300682Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Psychological and Neural Correlates of Social Affect and Cognition in Narcissism: A Multimethod Study of Self-Reported Traits, Experiential States, and Behavioral and Brain IndicatorsJauk, E., Blum, C., Hildebrandt, M., Lehmann, K., Maliske, L. & Kanske, P., Mar 2024, In: Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. 15(2024), 2, p. 157–171, 15 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Risk factors for internalizing symptoms: The influence of empathy, theory of mind, and negative thinking processesKonrad, A. C., Förster, K., Stretton, J., Dalgleish, T., Böckler-Raettig, A., Trautwein, F., Singer, T. & 1 others, 15 Feb 2024, In: Human brain mapping. 45(2024), 3, 19 p., e26576Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Acetylcholine and metacognition during sleepGott, J. A., Stücker, S., Kanske, P., Haaker, J. & Dresler, M., Jan 2024, In: Consciousness and cognition. 117, 103608Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
Exposure traced in daily life: improvements in ecologically assessed social and physical activity following exposure-based psychotherapy for anxiety disordersHeinig, I., Weiß, M., Hamm, A. O., Hein, G., Hollandt, M., Hoyer, J., Kanske, P. & 3 others, Jan 2024, In: Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 101(2024), 9 p., 102792Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Downsides to the empathic brain? A review of neural correlates of empathy in major depressive disorderChoi, D., Förster, K., Alexander, N. & Kanske, P., 2024, In: Frontiers in human neuroscience. 18, 7 p., 1456570Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Short survey/Review
Theater-based interventions as a means of reducing social isolation and loneliness, facilitating successful aging, and strengthening social cognition in older adultsMcDonald, B., Reiter, A. M. & Kanske, P., 2024, In: Frontiers in psychology. 15, 1364509Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2023

Publisher Correction: Investigating adult age differences in real-life empathy, prosociality, and well-being using experience sampling (Scientific Reports, (2022), 12, 1, (3450), 10.1038/s41598-022-06620-x)Pollerhoff, L., Stietz, J., Depow, G. J., Inzlicht, M., Kanske, P., Li, S. & Reiter, A. M., Dec 2023, In: Scientific reports. Vol. 13. p. 13777Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to specialist publication > Corrections (errata and retractions)
Gender differences in empathy, compassion, and prosocial donations, but not theory of mind in a naturalistic social taskMcDonald, B. & Kanske, P., 25 Nov 2023, In: Scientific reports. 13, 1, 15 p., 20748Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article