Professor Markus Heinrichs, Ph.D.
Director, Laboratory for Biological and Personality Psychology (Link)
Head, Outpatient Psychotherapy Clinic and Research Unit for Stress-Related Disorders (Link)
Head, Research Group "Social Neuroscience", Freiburg Brain Imaging Center (FBI), University Medical Center Freiburg (Link)
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences (Link)
Senator Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg (Link)
2014: "Highly Cited Researcher" Award as one of the most cited researchers worldwide (evaluation of the top 1% of the most-cited publications in the natural sciences, social sciences, and medicine of the last decade) and placed on the list of "The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds" (press information University of Freiburg and press information German Psychological Society)
Address: Department of Psychology
Laboratory for Biological
and Personality Psychology
Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
Stefan-Meier-Strasse 8
D-79104 Freiburg i. Br.
Germany Office: 3rd Floor, Room 03-006
(Reception desk: Room 03-007) Telephone:
+49-(0)761-203-3029 (secretary)
+49-(0)761-203-97720 (clinic)
+49-(0)761-203-3024 (direct line) Fax: +49-(0)761-203-3023 E-mail: heinrichs@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de Office hours: Study courses: Wed., 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Clinic: By arrangement
(prior appointment by secretary)Research and Work Focuses
Selected Publications
Testosterone and androgen receptor gene polymorphism are associated with confidence and
competitiveness in men
Hormones and Behavior, 92, 93-102
Article
Kinetics and dose-dependency of intranasal oxytocin effects on amygdala reactivity
Biological Psychiatry, 82, 885-894
Article
Altering the course of schizophrenia: progress and perspectives
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 15, 485-515
Article
Genetic modulation of oxytocin sensitivity: a pharmacogenetic approach
Translational Psychiatry, 5, e664 (1-7)
Article
Stress und Stressbewältigung
Göttingen: Hogrefe
Book
Psychobiology of social support: the social dimension of stress buffering
Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 32, 149-162
Article
Oxytocin and the social brain: neural mechanisms and perspectives in human research
Brain Research, 1580, 160-171
Article
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 23, 11-16
Article
In the eye of the beholder: eye contact increases resistance to persuasion
Psychological Science, 24, 2254-2261
Article
The social dimension of stress reactivity: acute stress increases prosocial behavior in humans
Psychological Science, 23, 651-660
Article
New evidence on testosterone and cooperation
Nature, 485, 5-6
Article
Oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain: social neuropeptides for translational medicine
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 12, 524-538
Article
Common oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphism and social support interact to reduce stress in humans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 108, 19937-19942
Article
The Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G): A new research tool for controlled simultaneous social stress exposure in a group format
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36, 514-522
Article
Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour
Nature, 463, 356-359
Article
Oxytocin, vasopressin, and human social behavior
Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 30, 548-557
Article
Intranasal oxytocin increases positive communication and reduces cortisol levels during couple conflict
Biological Psychiatry, 65, 728-731
Article
Oxytocin makes a face in memory familiar
Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 38-42
Article
Neuropeptides and social behavior: effects of oxytocin and vasopressin in humans
Progress in Brain Research, 170, 337-350
Article
Oxytocin shapes the neural circuitry of trust and trust adaptation in humans
Neuron, 58, 639-650
Article
Oxytocin improves "mind-reading" in humans
Biological Psychiatry, 61, 731-733
Article
Effects of different kinds of couple interaction on cortisol and heart rate responses to stress in women
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 32, 565-574
Article
Glucocorticoids reduce phobic fear in humans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 103, 5585-5590
Article
Predicting posttraumatic stress symptoms from pretraumatic risk factors: A 2-year prospective follow-up study in firefighters
American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 2276-2286
Article
(* shared first authorship)
Oxytocin increases trust in humans
Nature, 435, 673-676
Article
Selective amnesic effects of oxytocin on implicit and explicit memory
Physiology & Behavior, 83, 31-38
Article
Social support and oxytocin interact to suppress cortisol and subjective responses to psychosocial stress
Biological Psychiatry, 54, 1389-1398
Article