Publications of Haakon G. Engen

Favre, P.; Kanske, P.; Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.: Decreased emotional reactivity after 3-month socio-affective but not attention- or meta-cognitive-based mental training: A randomized, controlled, longitudinal fMRI study. NeuroImage 237, 118132 (2021)

Engen, H. G.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Skottnik, L.; Ricard, M.; Singer, T.: Structural changes in socio-affective networks: Multi-modal MRI findings in long-term meditation practitioners. Neuropsychologia 116 (Part A), pp. 26 - 33 (2018)

Engen, H. G.; Kanske, P.; Singer, T.: Endogenous emotion generation ability is associated with the capacity to form multimodal internal representations. Scientific Reports 8, 1953 (2018)

Engen, H.; Kanske, P.; Singer, T.: The neural component-process architecture of endogenously generated emotion. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 12 (2), pp. 197 - 211 (2017)

Engen, H. G.; Smallwood, J.; Singer, T.: Differential impact of emotional task relevance on three indices of prioritised processing for fearful and angry facial expressions. Cognition & Emotion 31 (1), pp. 175 - 184 (2017)

Hildebrandt, L. K.; McCall, C.; Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.: Cognitive flexibility, heart rate variability, and resilience predict fine-grained regulation of arousal during prolonged threat. Psychophysiology 53 (6), pp. 880 - 890 (2016)

Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.: Affect and motivation are critical in constructive meditation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 20 (3), pp. 159 - 160 (2016)

Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.: Compassion-based emotion regulation up-regulates experienced positive affect and associated neural networks. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 10 (9), pp. 1291 - 1301 (2015)

Bernhardt, B. C.; Smallwood, J.; Tusche, A.; Ruby, F. J. M.; Engen, H. G.; Steinbeis, N.; Singer, T.: Medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortical thickness predicts shared individual differences in self-generated thought and temporal discounting. NeuroImage 90, pp. 290 - 297 (2014)

Ruby, F. J. M.; Smallwood, J.; Engen, H.; Singer, T.: How self-generated thought shapes mood - The relation between mind-wandering and mood depends on the socio-temporal content of thoughts. PLoS One 8 (10), e77554 (2013)

Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.: Empathy circuits. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 23 (2), pp. 275 - 282 (2013)

Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.: Deconstructing social emotions: Empathy and compassion and their relation to prosocial behavior. In: The nature of emotion, 2nd ed. Ed., pp. 233 - 237 (Eds. Davidson, R.; Shackman, A.; Fox, A.; Lapate, R.). Oxford University Press, New York (2018)

Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.: Fighting fire with fire: Endogenous emotion generation as a means of emotion regulation. In: The nature of emotion, 2nd ed. Ed., pp. 172 - 177 (Eds. Davidson, R.; Shackman, A.; Fox, A.; Lapate, R.). Oxford University Press, New York (2018)

Skottnik, L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Engen, H. G.; Valk, S. L.; Cordemans, B.; Ricard, M.; Singer, T.: Expert compassion meditators show cortical thickness increases in socio-affective brain networks. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Hamburg, Germany (2014)

Engen, H. G.; Singer, T.: The neural signatures of compassion-based emotion regulation in expert meditators. Inaugural Conference of the Society for Affective Science (SAS), Bethesda, MD, USA (2014)