Prof. Markus Heinrichs, Ph.D.

Chair for Biological and Personality Psychology

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 a.m.) +49-(0)761-203-3028 (secretary p.m.) +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 – 2:00 p.m. Clinic: By arrangement (prior appointment by secretary)

Research and Work Focuses

• Psychobiological foundations of social interaction
• Stress- and anxiety-protective factors (e.g. oxytocin, social support, partnership, attachment)
• Etiology, pathogenesis, and experimental therapy research on mental disorders with social deficits (e.g. social phobia, personality disorders, autism)
• Psychotraumatology and emergency psychology

Selected Publications

• Kumsta R., and Heinrichs M. (2013)
  Oxytocin, stress and social behavior: neurogenetics of the human oxytocin system
  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 23, 11-16
  Article
• von Dawans B., Fischbacher U., Kirschbaum C., Fehr E., and Heinrichs M. (2012)
  The social dimension of stress reactivity: acute stress increases prosocial behavior in humans
  Psychological Science, 23, 651-660
  Article
• Eisenegger C., Naef M., Snozzi R., Heinrichs M., and Fehr E. (2012)
  New evidence on testosterone and cooperation
  Nature, 485, 5-6
  Article
• Meyer-Lindenberg A., Domes G., Kirsch P., and Heinrichs M. (2011)
  Oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain: social neuropeptides for translational medicine
  Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 12, 524-538
  Article
• Chen F. S., Kumsta R., von Dawans B., Monakhov M., Ebstein R. P., and Heinrichs M. (2011)
  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
• von Dawans B., Kirschbaum C., and Heinrichs M. (2011)
  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

• Eisenegger C., Naef M., Snozzi R., Heinrichs M., and Fehr E. (2010)
  Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour
  Nature, 463, 356-359
  Article
• Heinrichs M., von Dawans B., and Domes G. (2009)
  Oxytocin, vasopressin, and human social behavior
  Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 30, 548-557
  Article
• Ditzen B., Schaer M., Gabriel B., Bodenmann G., Ehlert U., and Heinrichs M. (2009)
  Intranasal oxytocin increases positive communication and reduces cortisol levels during couple conflict
  Biological Psychiatry, 65, 728-731
  Article
• Rimmele U., Hediger K., Heinrichs M., and Klaver P. (2009)
  Oxytocin makes a face in memory familiar
  Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 38-42
  Article
• Heinrichs M., and Domes G. (2008)
  Neuropeptides and social behavior: effects of oxytocin and vasopressin in humans
  Progress in Brain Research, 170, 337-350
  Article
• Baumgartner T., Heinrichs M., Vonlanthen A., Fischbacher U., and Fehr E. (2008)
  Oxytocin shapes the neural circuitry of trust and trust adaptation in humans
  Neuron, 58, 639-650
  Article
• Ditzen B., Schmidt S., Strauss B., Nater U.M., Ehlert U., and Heinrichs M. (2008)
  Adult attachment and social support interact to reduce psychological but not cortisol responses to stress
  Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 64, 479-486
  Article
• Domes G., Heinrichs M., Michel A., Berger C., and Herpertz S.C. (2007)
  Oxytocin improves "mind-reading" in humans 
  Biological Psychiatry, 61, 731-733
  Article
• Ditzen B., Neumann I.D., Bodenmann G., von Dawans B., Turner R.A., Ehlert U., and Heinrichs M. (2007)
  Effects of different kinds of couple interaction on cortisol and heart rate responses to stress in women
  Psychoneuroendocrinology, 32, 565-574
  Article
• Soravia L.M., Heinrichs M., Aerni A., Maroni C., Schelling G., Ehlert U., Roozendaal B., and De Quervain D.J.-F. (2006)
  Glucocorticoids reduce phobic fear in humans
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 103, 5585-5590
  Article
• Heinrichs M., Wagner D., Schoch W., Soravia L.M., Hellhammer D.H., and Ehlert U. (2005)
  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
• Kosfeld M.*, Heinrichs M.*, Zak P., Fischbacher U., and Fehr E. (2005)
  (* shared first authorship)
  Oxytocin increases trust in humans
  Nature, 435, 673-676
  Article
• Heinrichs M., Meinlschmidt G., Wippich W., Ehlert U., and Hellhammer D.H. (2004)
  Selective amnesic effects of oxytocin on implicit and explicit memory
  Physiology & Behavior, 83, 31-38
  Article
• Heinrichs M., Baumgartner T., Kirschbaum C., and Ehlert U. (2003)
  Social support and oxytocin interact to suppress cortisol and subjective responses to psychosocial stress
  Biological Psychiatry, 54, 1389-1398
  Article