Erasmus University Rotterdam

prof.dr. (Matthias) MJ Wieser

prof.dr. (Matthias) MJ Wieser
Full Professor Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies/ Clinical Psychology
Location
Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
Room
T13-60
Telephone
+31104089655
Email
wieser@essb.eur.nl

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Research:

The ultimate goal of my research program is twofold:

(1) to characterize and understand the (neuro-)cognitive and affective processes underlying core aspects of social vision, aversive learning, cognition-emotion interactions, emotional reactivity, and pain perception,

(2) to apply the basic knowledge of core processes obtained from studies of healthy populations to better delineate the dysfunctions of basic (neuro-)cognitive and affective processes in fear, anxiety, and pain.

 

Main Research Topics:

1. Experimental clinical psychology and affective neuroscience:

  • Biased emotion processing in (Social) Anxiety
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Research:

The ultimate goal of my research program is twofold:

(1) to characterize and understand the (neuro-)cognitive and affective processes underlying core aspects of social vision, aversive learning, cognition-emotion interactions, emotional reactivity, and pain perception,

(2) to apply the basic knowledge of core processes obtained from studies of healthy populations to better delineate the dysfunctions of basic (neuro-)cognitive and affective processes in fear, anxiety, and pain.

 

Main Research Topics:

1. Experimental clinical psychology and affective neuroscience:

  • Biased emotion processing in (Social) Anxiety
  • Electro-cortical correlates of social fear conditioning
  • Neural correlates and differentiation of anticipatory anxiety and phasic fear
  • Contextual influences on face processing

2. Experimental pain research:

  • Affective modulation of pain
  • Affective and cognitive determinants of placebo and nocebo effects
  • Anticipation of pain and its relationship to anxiety

        • I. Bernoster, K. de Groot, M.J. Wieser, R. Thurik & I.H.A. Franken (2019). Birds of a feather flock together: Evidence of prominent correlations within but not between self-report, behavioral, and electrophysiological measures of impulsivity. Biological Psychology, 145, 112-123. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.04.008 [go to publisher's site]
        • M.J. Wieser, A. Hambach & M. Weymar (2018). Neurophysiological correlates of attentional bias for emotional faces in socially anxious individuals – Evidence from a visual search task and N2pc. Biological Psychology, 132, 192-201. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.01.004
        • G. Juravle, P. Reicherts, M. Riechmann-Weinstein, M.J. Wieser & A. von Leupoldt (2017). Neural responses to affective pictures while anticipating and perceiving respiratory threat. Psychophysiology, 54 (2), 182-192. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12776
        • M.J. Wieser, P. Reicherts, G. Juravle & Â. von Leupoldt (2016). Attention mechanisms during predictable and unpredictable threat—A steady-state visual evoked potential approach. Neuroimage, 139, 167-175. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.026
        • P. Reicherts, A.B.M. Gerdes, P. Pauli & M.J. Wieser (2016). Psychological placebo and nocebo effects on pain rely on expectation and previous experience. Journal of Pain, 17 (2), 203-214. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2015.10.010
        • A.K. Kastner, E.L.R. Flohr, P. Pauli & M.J. Wieser (2016). A Scent of Anxiety: Olfactory Context Conditioning and its Influence on Social Cues. Chemical Senses, 41 (2), 143-153. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjv067
        • M.J. Wieser, V. Miskovic & A. Keil (2016). Steady-state visual evoked potentials as a research tool in social affective neuroscience. Psychophysiology, 53 (12), 1763-1775. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12768
        • L. Ahrens, P. Pauli, A. Reif, A. Mühlberger, A. Langs, T. Aalderink & M.J. Wieser (2016). Fear conditioning and stimulus generalization in patients with social anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 44, 36-46. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.10.003
        • P. Reicherts, J. Wiemer, A. Gerdes, S. Schulz, P. Pauli & M.J. Wieser (2016). Anxious anticipation and pain-The influence of instructed versus conditioned threat on pain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12 (4), 544-554. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsw181
        • M.J. Wieser, P. Reicherts, G. Juravle & A. von Leupoldt (2016). Attention mechanisms during predictable and unpredictable threat - A steady-state visual evoked potential approach. Neuroimage, 139, 167-175. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.026
        • A. Kastner, P. Pauli & M.J. Wieser (2015). Sustained attention in context conditioning: Evidence from steady-state VEPs. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 98 (3), 546-556. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.03.005
        • L.M. Ahrens, A. Mühlberger, P. Pauli & M.J. Wieser (2015). Impaired visuocortical discrimination learning of socially conditioned stimuli in social anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10 (7), 929-937. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu140
        • T. Hahn, K. Notebaert, C. Anderl, P. Reicherts, M.J. Wieser, J. Kopf, A. Reif, K. Fehl, D. Semmann & S. Windmann (2015). Reliance on functional resting-state network for stable task control predicts behavioral tendency for cooperation. Neuroimage, 118, 231-236. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.093
        • V. Miskovic, J. Martinovic, M.J. Wieser, N.E. Petro, M.M. Bradley & A. Keil (2015). Electrocortical amplification for emotionally arousing natural scenes: The contribution of luminance and chromatic visual channels. Biological Psychology, 106, 11-17. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.01.012
        • L. Wu, M.H. Winkler, M.J. Wieser, M. Andreatta, Y. Li & P. Pauli (2015). Emotion regulation in heavy smokers: experiential, expressive and physiological consequences of cognitive reappraisal. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1555. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01555
        • R. Baur, A. Conzelmann, M.J. Wieser & P. Pauli (2015). Spontaneous emotion regulation: Differential effects on evoked brain potentials and facial muscle activity. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 96 (1), 38-48. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.02.022
        • M.J. Wieser & D.A. Moscovitch (2015). he Effect of Affective Context on Visuocortical Processing of Neutral Faces in Social Anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1824. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01824
        • M.J. Wieser, T. Flaisch & P. Pauli (2014). Raised Middle-Finger: Electrocortical Correlates of Social Conditioning with Nonverbal Affective Gestures. PLoS One (print), 9 (7):e102937. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102937
        • G. Juravle, M.C. Stoeckel, M. Rose, M. Gamer, C. Büchel, M.J. Wieser & A. von Leupoldt (2014). Investigating the effect of respiratory bodily threat on the processing of emotional pictures. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 204, 41-49. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2014.05.007
        • M.J. Wieser, A.B.M. Gerdes, I. Büngel, K.A. Schwarz, A. Mühlberger & P. Pauli (2014). Not so harmless anymore: How context impacts the perception and electrocortical processing of neutral faces. Neuroimage, 92, 74-82. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.01.022
        • M.J. Wieser & A. Keil (2014). Fearful faces heighten the cortical representation of contextual threat. Neuroimage, 86, 317-325. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.008
        • P. Reicherts, A.B.M. Gerdes, P. Pauli & M.J. Wieser (2014). Der wechselseitige Einfluss von Schmerz-und Emotionsverarbeitung. Schmerz, 28 (6), 631-634. doi: 10.1007/s00482-014-1481-8
        • E.L.R. Flohr, A. Arshamian, M.J. Wieser, C. Hummerl, M. Larsson, A. Mühlberger & T. Hummel (2014). The fate of the inner nose: Odor imagery in patients with olfactory loss. Neuroscience, 268, 118-127. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.03.018
        • A.B.M. Gerdes, M.J. Wieser & G.W. Alpers (2014). Emotional pictures and sounds: a review of multimodal interactions of emotion cues in multiple domains. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1351. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01351
        • P. Reicherts, A.B.M. Gerdes, P. Pauli & M.J. Wieser (2014). The mutual influence of pain and emotion processing. Schmerz, 28 (6), 631-634. doi: 10.1007/s00482-014-1481-8
        • M.J. Wieser, A.B.M. Gerdes, P. Reicherts & P. Pauli (2014). Mutual influences of pain and emotional face processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1160. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01160
        • M.J. Wieser, V. Miscovic, S. Rausch & A. Keil (2014). Different time course of visuocortical signal changes to fear-conditioned faces with direct or averted gaze: A ssVEP study with single-trial analysis. Neuropsychologia, 62, 101-110. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.009
        • P. Reicherts, A.B.M. Gerdes, P. Pauli & M.J. Wieser (2013). On the mutual effects of pain and emotion: Facial pain expressions enhance pain perception and vice versa are perceived as more arousing when feeling pain. Pain, 154 (6), 793-800. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.02.012
        • K.A. Schwarz, M.J. Wieser, A.B.M. Gerdes, A. Mühlberger & P. Pauli (2013). Why are you looking like that? How the context influences evaluation and processing of human faces. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8 (4), 438-445. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss013
        • A.B.M. Gerdes, M.J. Wieser, F. Bublatzky, A. Kusay, M.M. Plichta & G.W. Alpers (2013). Emotional sounds modulate early neural processing of emotional pictures. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:741. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00741
        • A.B.M. Gerdes, M.J. Wieser, G.W. Alpers, F. Strack & P. Pauli (2012). Why do you smile at me while I'm in pain? — Pain selectively modulates voluntary facial muscle responses to happy faces. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 85, 161-167. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.06.002
        • M.J. Wieser, A.B.M. Gerdes, R. Greiner, P. Reicherts & P. Pauli (2012). Tonic pain grabs attention, but leaves the processing of facial expressions intact—evidence from event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology, 90, 242-248. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.03.019
        • K. Likowski, A. Mühlberger, A.B.M. Gerdes, M.J. Wieser, P. Pauli & P. Weyers (2012). Facial mimicry and the mirror neuron system: simultaneous acquisition of facial electromyography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00214
        • P. Reicherts, M.J. Wieser, A.B.M. Gerdes, K. Likowski, P. Weyers, A. Mühlberger & P. Pauli (2012). Electrocortical evidence for preferential processing of dynamic pain expressions compared to other emotional expressions. Pain, 153, 1959-1964. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.06.017
        • M.J. Wieser, L. McTeague & A. Keil (2012). Competition effects of threatening faces in social anxiety. Emotion, 12, 1050-1060. doi: 10.1037/a0027069
        • M. Andreatta, M. Fendt, A. Mühlberger, M.J. Wieser, S. Imobersteg, A. Yarali, B. Gerber & P. Pauli (2012). Onset and offset of aversive events establish distinct memories requiring fear and reward networks. Learning & Memory, 19, 518-526. doi: 10.1101/lm.026864.112
        • F.L. Gruss, M.J. Wieser, S.R. Schweinberger & A. Keil (2012). Face-evoked steady-state visual potentials: effects of presentation rate and face inversion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00316
        • M.J. Wieser & T. Brosch (2012). Faces in context: a review and systematization of contextual influences on affective face processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 471. doi: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00471
        • M.J. Wieser, E. Klupp, P. Weyers, P. Pauli, D. Weise, D. Zeller, J. Classen & A. Mühlberger (2012). Reduced early visual emotion discrimination as an index of diminished emotion processing in Parkinson’s disease? – Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cortex, 48, 1207-1217. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.06.006
        • M.J. Wieser, L. McTeague & A. Keil (2011). Sustained Preferential Processing of Social Threat Cues: Bias without Competition? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1973-1986. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21566
        • T. Brosch & M.J. Wieser (2011). The (Non)Automaticity of Amygdala Responses to Threat: On the Issue of Fast Signals and Slow Measures. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 14451-14452. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4089-11.2011
        • M.M. Plichta, A.B.M. Gerdes, G.W. Alpers, W. Harnisch, S. Brill, M.J. Wieser & A.J. Fallgatter (2011). Auditory cortex activation is modulated by emotion: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Neuroimage, 55, 1200-1207. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.01.011
        • L. McTeague, J.R. Shumen, M.J. Wieser, P.J. Lang & A. Keil (2011). Social vision: Sustained perceptual enhancement of affective facial cues in social anxiety. Neuroimage, 54, 1615-1624. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.08.080
        • M.J. Wieser & A. Keil (2011). Temporal Trade-Off Effects in Sustained Attention: Dynamics in Visual Cortex Predict the Target Detection Performance during Distraction. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 7784-7790. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5632-10.2011
        • A.B.M. Gerdes, M.J. Wieser, A. Mühlberger, P. Weyers, G.W. Alpers, M.M. Plichta, F. Breuer & P. Pauli (2010). Brain activations to emotional pictures are differentially associated with valence and arousal ratings. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 175. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00175
        • M.J. Wieser, P. Pauli, P. Reicherts & A. Mühlberger (2010). Don't look at me in anger! Enhanced processing of angry faces in anticipation of public speaking. Psychophysiology, 47, 271-280. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00938.x
        • A. Mühlberger, M.J. Wieser, A.B.M. Gerdes, M. Frey, P. Weyers & P. Pauli (2010). Stop looking angry and smile, please: start and stop of the very same facial expression differentially activate threat- and reward-related brain networks. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 321-329. doi: doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsq039
        • M.J. Wieser, P. Pauli, M. Grosseibl, I. Molzow & A. Mühlberger (2010). Virtual social interactions in social anxiety—the impact of sex, gaze, and interpersonal distance. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 14, 547-553. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2009.0432.
        • P. Kraft, O. Gadeholt, M.J. Wieser, J. Jennings & J. Classen (2009). Lying obliquely—a clinical sign of cognitive impairment: cross sectional observational study. British Medical Journal, 339. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5273
        • M.J. Wieser, P. Pauli & A. Mühlberger (2009). Probing the attentional control theory in social anxiety: An emotional saccade task. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 314-322. doi: 10.3758/CABN.9.3.314
        • A. Mühlberger, M.J. Wieser, M.J. Hermann, P. Weyers, C. Tröger & P. Pauli (2009). Early cortical processing of natural and artificial emotional faces differs between lower and higher socially anxious persons. Journal of Neural Transmission, 116, 735-746. doi: 10.1007/s00702-008-0108-6
        • M.J. Wieser, P. Pauli, G.W. Alpers & A. Mühlberger (2009). s eye to eye contact really threatening and avoided in social anxiety?—An eye-tracking and psychophysiology study. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 93-103. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.04.004
        • M.J. Wieser, P. Pauli, P. Weyers, G.W. Alpers & A. Mühlberger (2009). Fear of negative evaluation and the hypervigilance-avoidance hypothesis: an eye-tracking study. Journal of Neural Transmission, 116, 717-723. doi: 10.1007/s00702-008-0101-0
        • A. Mühlberger, M.J. Wieser & P. Pauli (2008). Visual Attention during Virtual Social Situations Depends on Social Anxiety. Cyberpsychology and Behavior, 11, 425-430. doi: 10.1089/cpb.2007.0084.
        • A. Mühlberger, M.J. Wieser & P. Pauli (2008). Darkness-enhanced startle responses in ecologically valid environments: A virtual tunnel driving experiment. Biological Psychology, 77, 47-52. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.09.004
        • A. Mühlberger, M.J. Wieser, R. Neumann & P. Pauli (2008). The impact of changes in spatial distance on emotional responses. Emotion, 8, 192-198. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.2.192
        • R. Kenntner-Mabiala, M. Andreatta, M.J. Wieser, A. Mühlberger & P. Pauli (2008). Distinct effects of attention and affect on pain perception and somatosensory evoked potentials. Biological Psychology, 78, 114-122. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.01.007
        • A. Mühlberger, M.J. Wieser, R. Kenntner-Mabiala, P. Pauli & B.K. Wiederhold (2007). Pain Modulation during Drives through Cold and Hot Virtual Environments. Cyberpsychology and Behavior, 10, 516-522. doi: 10.1089/cpb.2007.9996
        • M.J. Wieser, A. Mühlberger, G.W. Alpers, M. Macht, H. Ellgring & P. Pauli (2006). Emotion processing in Parkinson's disease: Dissociation between early neuronal processing and explicit ratings. Clinical Neurophysiology, 117, 94-102. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.09.009
        • M.J. Wieser, A. Mühlberger, R. Kenntner-Mabiala & P. Pauli (2006). s emotion processing affected by advancing age? An event-related brain potential study. Brain Research, 1096, 138-147. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.028

      • M.J. Wieser & P. Pauli (2016). Neuroscience of Pain and Emotion. In M Al'Absi & M.A. Flaten (Eds.), The Neuroscience of Pain, Stress, and Emotion (pp. 3-28). London: Elsevier

  • Pain:

    Title
    Pain:
    Year
    2018
    Year level
    (Bachelor 3) (Bachelor 3)

    Anxiety and Stress

    Title
    Anxiety and Stress
    Year
    2018
    Year level
    (Bachelor 2) (Bachelor 2)

  • Cognition & Emotion

    Role
    Consulting Editor
    Start date approval
    Jan/2018

  • Full Professor

    University
    Erasmus University Rotterdam
    School
    Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
    Department
    Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies/ Clinical Psychology
    Country
    The Netherlands
    Telephone
    +31104089655

    Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology

    University
    University of Würzburg
    Country
    Germany

    Assistant Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology

    University
    University of Würzburg
    Country
    Germany

Address

Visiting address

Burg. Oudlaan 50 3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam