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Key Reviews (since 2021)
Kuper-Smith, B. J., & Korn, C. W. (2023). Linearly-additive decomposed 2 × 2 games: A primer for research. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1). Link
Rosenblau, G., Frolichs, K., & Korn, C. W. (2023). A neuro-computational social learning framework to facilitate transdiagnostic classification and treatment across psychiatric disorders. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 149, 105181. Link
Key Publications (since 2021)
Doppelhofer, L. M., Perla, R., Frolichs, K. M. M., Rosenblau, G., Herpertz, S. C., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Estimating and learning personality traits of and from women with borderline personality disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, in print. Link
Doppelhofer, L. M., Loloff, J., Neukel, C., Herpertz, S. C., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Cooperative decision-making in borderline personality disorder: Insights from a preregistered study using a comprehensive economic task battery. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 12(1), 24. Link
Kuper-Smith, B. J., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Loss avoidance during social interactions. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 114. Link
Kube, T., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Induced negative affect hinders self-referential belief updating in response to social feedback. Emotion, 25(1), 174–185. Link
Kuper-Smith, B. J., Voulgaris, A., Briken, P., Fuss, J., & Korn, C. W. (2024). Social preferences and psychopathy in a sample of male prisoners: A pilot study. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8344. Link
Frolichs, K. M. M., Rosenblau, G., & Korn, C. W. (2022). Incorporating social knowledge structures into computational models. Nature Communications, 13(1), 6205. Link
Doppelhofer, L. M., Hurlemann, R., Bach, D. R., & Korn, C. W. (2021). Social motives in a patient with bilateral selective amygdala lesions: Shift in prosocial motivation but not in social value orientation. Neuropsychologia, 162, 108016. Link
Kuper-Smith, B. J., Doppelhofer, L. M., Oganian, Y., Rosenblau, G., & Korn, C. W. (2021). Risk perception and optimism during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Royal Society Open Science, 8(11), 210904. Link
Preprints
Zhang, S., Blank, H., Terzidis, I., Rosenblau, G., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Pupil dilation reflects prediction errors in learning about others' personality traits. Preprint & submitted. Link
Liu, J., Oganian, Y., Wagner, V., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Does the option to be neutral alter the framing effect? Preprint. Link
Zhang, S., Xue, Y., Ma, Y., & Korn, C. W. (2025). The self-allocation bias: Behavioral and neural characterization of a newly identified bias for individual performance and contribution in cooperative tasks. Preprint & submitted. Link
Kammler-Säcker, K. I., Burghardt, M., Mohr, M., Zhang, S., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Virtual grid aggression tasks reveal intention-dependent cooperation and affective responses to digital agents. Preprint. Link
Schnitzler, T., Perla, R., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Whole-body synchronization in autistic adults. Preprint & submitted. Link
Cahalan, S., Block, S. H., Loughlin, M., Perla, R., Korn, C. W., & Rosenblau, G. (2025). Rethinking the double empathy problem: Modeling how autistic and non-autistic groups learn about their own and each other's preferences. Preprint & submitted. Link
Czekalla, N., Schroder, A., Mayer, A. V., Stierand, J., Stolz, D. S., Kube, T., Korn, C. W., Wilhelm-Groch, I., Klein, J., Paulus, F. M., Krach, S., & Muller-Pinzler, L. (2025). Aberrant insula activity to negative and reduced learning from positive prediction errors as mechanisms underlying maladaptive self-belief formation in depression. Preprint & submitted. Link
Golowin, S., Duncan, N. W., Shaikh, F., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Humans employ more sophisticated decision policies when threat is higher in approach-avoidance conflicts. Preprint & submitted. Link
Garcia-Arch, J., Kube, T., Fuentemilla, L., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Self-utility distance predicts perceived stress and affective vulnerability. Preprint & submitted. Link
Shlobin, N. A., Beestrum, M., Soutschek, A., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Cognitive biases in physician decision-making: A systematic review. Preprint & submitted. Link
Hu, X., García-Arch, J., Zhang, S., & Korn, C. W. (2025b). Imagined self-related feedback elicits positively biased processing. Preprint & submitted. Link
Guennouni, I., Korn, C. W.*, & Koppe, G.* (2025). The price of dark traits: Strategic exploitation and its limitations in repeated trust games. Preprint & submitted. Link
Guennouni, I., Koppe, G.*, & Korn, C. W.* (2025). When forgiveness backfires: Rejection sensitivity and cooperative behavior following exposure to adaptive forgiving agents. Preprint & submitted. Link
Korn, C. W., Kerzel, M., Redžepović, S., Barros, P., Heinrich, S., Wermter, S., & Gläscher, J. (2021). Cross-modal emotion recognition: How similar are patterns between DNNs and human fMRI data? Brain2AI@ICLR2021 conference proceedings. Link
Reviews
Liu, S., Behrens, S. C., Besteher, B., Bilek, E., Chae, W. R., Clemens, V., Korn, C. W., Pflug, V., Richter, A., Selle, J., O'Sullivan, J. L., von Brachel, R., Totzeck, C., & Brandhorst, I. (2024). Structures, aims and needs of early career scientists at the German Center for Mental Health. Nervenarzt, 95(5), 467–473. Link
Flechsenhar, A., Kanske, P., Krach, S., Korn, C. W., & Bertsch, K. (2022). The (un)learning of social functions and its significance for mental health. Clinical Psychology Review, 98, 102204. Link
Korn, C. W., & Wolf, R. C. (2021). Negative valence systems in the system of research domain criteria: Empirical results and new developments. Nervenarzt, 92(9), 868–877. Link
Bach, D. R., Castegnetti, G., Korn, C. W., Gerster, S., Melinscak, F., & Moser, T. (2018). Psychophysiological modeling: Current state and future directions. Psychophysiology, 55(11), e13214. Link
Rusch, T., Korn, C. W., & Gläscher, J. (2017). A two-way street between attention and learning. Neuron, 93(2), 256–258. Link
Publications
Schroder, A., Czekalla, N., Mayer, A. V., Zhang, L., Stolz, D. S., Korn, C. W., Diekelmann, S., Luebber, F., Paulus, F. M., Muller-Pinzler, L., & Krach, S. (2025). Initial expectations and confidence affect the formation of novel self-beliefs and their revision. Open Mind (Cambridge), 9, 1576–1596. Link
Garcia-Arch, J., Sabio-Albert, M., Korn, C. W., & Fuentemilla, L. (2025). How the self-concept structures social role learning: Insights from computational models. Royal Society Open Science, 12(9), 250590. Link
Seitz, K. I., Schouler, N., Hundertmark, J., Wilhelm, M., Franz, S., Bauer, S., Taubner, S., Korn, C. W., Haun, M. W., Ditzen, B., Zimmermann, H., Enning, F., Vonderlin, R., Schmahl, C., Schramm, E., Aguilar-Raab, C., Vonderlin, E., Bailer, J., Bopp, E., & Herpertz, S. C. (2025). Mechanism-based modular psychotherapy versus cognitive behavioural therapy for adolescents and young adults with childhood trauma experiences: Study protocol for a feasibility trial within the German Center for Mental Health. BMJ Open, 15(4), e090476. Link
Liu, W., Mark, I., Korn, C. W., & Rosenblau, G. (2025). Social context matters: Characterizing adolescent cooperation strategies when perceiving the other as a peer versus computer partner. Journal of Adolescence. Link
Garcia-Arch, J., Korn, C. W., & Fuentemilla, L. (2025). Self-utility distance as a computational approach to understanding self-concept clarity. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 50. Link
Mueller, M., Korn, C. W., & Haaker, J. (2025). The effect of nicotine on threat avoidance behaviour in healthy non-smokers. Psychopharmacology, 242(9), 2111–2121. Link
Becker, J., Korn, C. W., & Blank, H. (2024). Pupil diameter as an indicator of sound pair familiarity after statistically structured auditory sequence. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8739. Link
Becker, J., Viertler, M., Korn, C. W., & Blank, H. (2024). The pupil dilation response as an indicator of visual cue uncertainty and auditory outcome surprise. European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(10), 2686–2701. Link
Schnitzler, T., Korn, C. W., S, C. H., & Fuchs, T. (2024). Emotion recognition in autism spectrum condition during the COVID-19 pandemic. Autism, 28(7), 1690–1702. Link
Abivardi, A., Korn, C. W., Rojkov, I., Gerster, S., Hurlemann, R., & Bach, D. R. (2023). Acceleration of inferred neural responses to oddball targets in an individual with bilateral amygdala lesion compared to healthy controls. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 14550. Link
Rosenblau, G., Korn, C. W., Dutton, A., Lee, D., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2021). Neurocognitive mechanisms of social inferences in typical and autistic adolescents. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 6(8), 782–791. Link
Esser, R., Korn, C. W., Ganzer, F., & Haaker, J. (2021). L-dopa modulates activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and ventral tegmental area during threat extinction learning in humans. eLife, 10. Link
Korn, C. W., & Bach, D. R. (2019). Minimizing threat via heuristic and optimal policies recruits hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(7), 733–745. Link
Oganian, Y., Heekeren, H. R., & Korn, C. W. (2019). Low foreign language proficiency reduces optimism about the personal future. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(1), 60–75. Link
Korn, C. W., Heekeren, H. R., & Oganian, Y. (2019). The framing effect in a monetary gambling task is robust in minimally verbal language switching contexts. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(1), 52–59. Link
Bach, D. R., Korn, C. W., Vunder, J., & Bantel, A. (2018). Effect of valproate and pregabalin on human anxiety-like behaviour in a randomised controlled trial. Translational Psychiatry, 8(1), 157. Link
Rosenblau, G., Korn, C. W., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2018). A computational account of optimizing social predictions reveals that adolescents are conservative learners in social contexts. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(4), 974–988. Link
Tzovara, A., Korn, C. W., & Bach, D. R. (2018). Human Pavlovian fear conditioning conforms to probabilistic learning. PLoS Computational Biology, 14(8), e1006243. Link
Korn, C. W., Ries, J., Schalk, L., Oganian, Y., & Saalbach, H. (2018). A hard-to-read font reduces the framing effect in a large sample. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(2), 696–703. Link
Korn, C. W., & Bach, D. R. (2018). Heuristic and optimal policy computations in the human brain during sequential decision-making. Nature Communications, 9(1), 325. Link
Jeung, H., Walther, S., Korn, C. W., Bertsch, K., & Herpertz, S. C. (2018). Emotional responses to receiving peer feedback on opinions in borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9(6), 595–600. Link
Korn, C. W., Vunder, J., Miro, J., Fuentemilla, L., Hurlemann, R., & Bach, D. R. (2017). Amygdala lesions reduce anxiety-like behavior in a human benzodiazepine-sensitive approach-avoidance conflict test. Biological Psychiatry, 82(7), 522–531. Link
Korn, C. W., Staib, M., Tzovara, A., Castegnetti, G., & Bach, D. R. (2017). A pupil size response model to assess fear learning. Psychophysiology, 54(3), 330–343. Link
Oganian, Y.*, Korn, C. W.*, & Heekeren, H. R. (2016). Language switching—but not foreign language use per se—reduces the framing effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(1), 140–148. Link
Korn, C. W., & Bach, D. R. (2016). A solid frame for the window on cognition: Modeling event-related pupil responses. Journal of Vision, 16(3), 28. Link
Korn, C. W.*, Rosenblau, G.*, Rodriguez Buritica, J. M., & Heekeren, H. R. (2016). Performance feedback processing is positively biased as predicted by attribution theory. PLoS ONE, 11(2), e0148581. Link
Korn, C. W., La Rosée, L., Heekeren, H. R., & Roepke, S. (2016a). Social feedback processing in borderline personality disorder. Psychological Medicine, 46(3), 575–587. Link
Korn, C. W., La Rosée, L., Heekeren, H. R., & Roepke, S. (2016b). Processing of information about future life events in borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Research, 246, 719–724. Link
Korn, C. W., & Bach, D. R. (2015). Maintaining homeostasis by decision-making. PLoS Computational Biology, 11(5), e1004301. Link
Prehn, K.*, Korn, C. W.*, Bajbouj, M., Klann-Delius, G., Menninghaus, W., Jacobs, A. M., & Heekeren, H. R. (2015). The neural correlates of emotion alignment in social interaction. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(3), 435–443. Link
Korn, C. W.*, Sharot, T.*, Walter, H., Heekeren, H. R., & Dolan, R. J. (2014). Depression is related to an absence of optimistically biased belief updating about future life events. Psychological Medicine, 44(3), 579–592. Link
Garrett, N., Sharot, T., Faulkner, P., Korn, C. W., Roiser, J. P., & Dolan, R. J. (2014). Losing the rose tinted glasses: Neural substrates of unbiased belief updating in depression. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 639. Link
Korn, C. W., Fan, Y., Zhang, K., Wang, C., Han, S., & Heekeren, H. R. (2014). Cultural influences on social feedback processing of character traits. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 192. Link
Castro, L. R., Brito, M., Guiot, E., Polito, M., Korn, C. W., Herve, D., Girault, J. A., Paupardin-Tritsch, D., & Vincent, P. (2013). Striatal neurones have a specific ability to respond to phasic dopamine release. The Journal of Physiology, 591(13), 3197–3214. Link
Meshi, D., Biele, G., Korn, C. W., & Heekeren, H. R. (2012). How expert advice influences decision making. PLoS ONE, 7(11), e49748. Link
Korn, C. W., Prehn, K., Park, S. Q., Walter, H., & Heekeren, H. R. (2012). Positively biased processing of self-relevant social feedback. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(47), 16832–16844. Link
Sharot, T., Guitart-Masip, M., Korn, C. W., Chowdhury, R., & Dolan, R. J. (2012). How dopamine enhances an optimism bias in humans. Current Biology, 22(16), 1477–1481. Link
Sharot, T., Kanai, R., Marston, D., Korn, C. W., Rees, G., & Dolan, R. J. (2012). Selectively altering belief formation in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 109(42), 17058–17062. Link
Sharot, T.*, Korn, C. W.*, & Dolan, R. J. (2011). How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality. Nature Neuroscience, 14(11), 1475–1479. Link
Miscellaneous
Korn, C. W. (2025). Tools and toys: Impulses for researching and promoting functional social interactions. Athene Magazin der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1. Link
Steiger, O., Doppelhofer, L. M., Kostova, R., Koch, N., & Korn, C. W. (2025). Personality dimensions in borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at DGPPN Conference. Link
Hu, X., García-Arch, J., Zhang, S., & Korn, C. W. (2025a). Self-enhancement in artificial cognition: Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural evidence from large language models. Proposal for special issue. Link
Kostova, R., Rosenblau, G., & Korn, C. W. (2025). How do teens and adults learn about other people? In-Mind Online-Magazin. Link
Korn, C. W., & Rosenblau, G. (2020). How do teens and adults learn about other people? Frontiers for Young Minds, 8, 563084. Link