This dissertation highlights various aspects of basic social attention by choosing versatile approaches to disentangle the precise mechanisms underlying the preference to focus on other human beings. The progressive examination of different social processes contrasted with aspects of previously adopted principles of general attention. Recent research investigating eye movements during free exploration revealed a clear and robust social bias, especially for the faces of depicted human beings in a naturalistic scene. However, free viewing implies a combination of mechanisms, namely automatic attention (bottom-up), goal-driven allocation (top-down), or contextual cues and inquires consideration of overt (open exploration using the eyes) as wel...
Self-control is a fundamental capacity in life. It enables people to act in accordance with their sh...
Self-regulated learning (SRL) has become one of the most important theoretical concepts in education...
Cooperation is beneficial for social groups and is exemplified in its most sophisticated form in soc...
This thesis investigates the relationship between eye movements, memory and thinking in five studies...
Seitdem die Informationstheorie in die psychologische Forschungsliteratur wäh-rend der Mitte des let...
The present dissertation aims to shed light on different mechanisms of socio-emotional feedback in s...
Our senses register numerous signals every second. Further processing of these signals is limited by...
There is evidence that pheromones are communicative signals in animals. However, the existence and f...
The focus of this research is on decisions related to human capital formation and preferences crucia...
Anxiety research is one of the major psychological research domains and looks back on decades of res...
Dual-process theories of recognition propose that two independent processes, familiarity and recolle...
Addiction, as a chronic and relapsing condition, is defined as a disorder of the brain, characterize...
The starting point of the dissertation was the question how people search for information in memory ...
The human senses constitute a highly complex system based on various sensory organs, afferent pathwa...
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterised by an intense fear of being judged or criticised by o...
Self-control is a fundamental capacity in life. It enables people to act in accordance with their sh...
Self-regulated learning (SRL) has become one of the most important theoretical concepts in education...
Cooperation is beneficial for social groups and is exemplified in its most sophisticated form in soc...
This thesis investigates the relationship between eye movements, memory and thinking in five studies...
Seitdem die Informationstheorie in die psychologische Forschungsliteratur wäh-rend der Mitte des let...
The present dissertation aims to shed light on different mechanisms of socio-emotional feedback in s...
Our senses register numerous signals every second. Further processing of these signals is limited by...
There is evidence that pheromones are communicative signals in animals. However, the existence and f...
The focus of this research is on decisions related to human capital formation and preferences crucia...
Anxiety research is one of the major psychological research domains and looks back on decades of res...
Dual-process theories of recognition propose that two independent processes, familiarity and recolle...
Addiction, as a chronic and relapsing condition, is defined as a disorder of the brain, characterize...
The starting point of the dissertation was the question how people search for information in memory ...
The human senses constitute a highly complex system based on various sensory organs, afferent pathwa...
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterised by an intense fear of being judged or criticised by o...
Self-control is a fundamental capacity in life. It enables people to act in accordance with their sh...
Self-regulated learning (SRL) has become one of the most important theoretical concepts in education...
Cooperation is beneficial for social groups and is exemplified in its most sophisticated form in soc...