Thomas Schubert

Academic Interests
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Embodiment
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Social relations
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Social cognition
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Virtual reality
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Open source hard- and software for experimental psychology
Teaching
Lectures in PSY4600
Lectures in PSY1101 and PSYC1204
Project course PSYC3102
Higher education and employment history
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Master in Psychology (Diploma) from University of Jena, 1998
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PhD in Social Psychology from University of Jena, 2001
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Postdoc and Lecturer at Universities of Jena and Wuerzburg, 2001 - 2006
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Postdoc with Fellowship from Humboldt Foundation at Free University Amsterdam and University Utrecht, 2006 - 2008
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Independent Researcher at ISCTE, Lisboa, 2008 - 2012
Cooperation
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Cognizione e della Formazione, University of Trento
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CIS-IUL, ISCTE-IUL, Lisboa
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Information Science, University of Otago
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Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Publications
- Fiske, Alan Page; Seibt, Beate & Schubert, Thomas (2019). The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It. Emotion Review. ISSN 1754-0739. 11(1), s 74- 86 . doi: 10.1177/1754073917723167
- Giessner, Steffen Robert & Schubert, Thomas (2019). Power and vertical positions in an organization chart: A pre-registered replication report of study 3A and a modification of study 1A, Giessner & Schubert (2007). Collabra: Psychology. ISSN 2474-7394. 5(1) . doi: 10.1525/collabra.216
- Zhang, Pengfei; Schubert, Thomas & Zhu, Lei (2019). The effect of secondary task on the association between power and space. Social Cognition. ISSN 0278-016X. 37(1), s 1- 17 . doi: 10.1521/soco.2019.37.1.1
- Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate & Fiske, Alan P. (2019). Moving Through the Literature: What Is the Emotion Often Denoted Being Moved?. Emotion Review. ISSN 1754-0739. . doi: 10.1177/1754073918820126
- Holmgren, Jostein; Isager, Peder Mortvedt & Schubert, Thomas (2018). Evidence for magnitude representations of social hierarchies: Size and distance effects. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 13(9) . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203263
- IJzerman, Hans; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Dalgar, Ilker; Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Vergara, Rodrigo C.; Cairo, Athena; Čolić, Marija V.; Dursun, Pinar; Frankowska, Natalia; Hadi, Rhonda; Hall, Calvin J.; Hong, Youngki; Hu, Chuan-Peng; Joy-Gaba, Jennifer; Lazarević, Dušanka; Lazarević, Ljiljana B.; Parzuchowski, Michal; Ratner, Kyle G.; Rothman, David; Sim, Samantha; Simão, Cláudia; Song, Mengdi; Stojilović, Darko; Blomster, Johanna Katarina; Brito, Rodrigo; Hennecke, Marie; Jaume-Guazzin, Francisco; Schubert, Thomas; Schütz, Astrid; Seibt, Christa Beate & Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich (2018). The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature. Collabra: Psychology. ISSN 2474-7394. 4(1) . doi: http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.165
- Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Seibt, Beate & Fiske, Alan Page (2018). Moment-to-moment changes in feeling moved match changes in closeness, tears, goosebumps, and warmth: time series analyses. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. 32(1), s 174- 184 . doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1268998
- Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Fiske, Alan Page (2018). Touching the Base: Heart-Warming Ads from the 2016 U.S. Election Moved Viewers to Partisan Tears. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. . doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1441128 Full text in Research Archive.
- Toscano, Hugo; Schubert, Thomas & Giessner, Steffen Robert (2018). Eye Gaze and Head Posture Jointly Influence Judgments of Dominance, Physical Strength, and Anger. Journal of nonverbal behavior. ISSN 0191-5886. s 1- 25 . doi: 10.1007/s10919-018-0276-5 Full text in Research Archive.
- Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Schubert, Thomas (2018). Warm and Touching Tears: Tearful Individuals are Perceived as Warmer Because We Assume They Feel Moved and Touched. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. 32(8), s 1691- 1699 . doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1430556 Full text in Research Archive.
- Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate; Blomster, Johanna Katarina; Arriaga, Patrícia; Basabe, Nekane; Blaut, Agata; Caballero, A.; Carrera, Pilar; Dalgar, Ilker; Ding, Yi; Dumont, K; Gaulhofer, Valerie; Gračanin, Asmir; Gyenis, Réka; Hu, Chuan-Peng; Kardum, Igor; Lazarević, Ljiljana; Mathew, Leemamol; Mentser, Sari; Nussinson, Ravit; Onuki, Mayuko; Páez, Darío; Pásztor, Anna; Peng, Kaiping; Petrović, Boban; Pizarro, José J.; Schönefeld, Victoria; Śmieja, Magdalena; Tokaji, Akihiko; Vingerhoets, Ad; Vorster, Anja; Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina; Zhu, Lei & Fiske, Alan Page (2018). Kama Muta: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Experience Often Labelled Being Moved Across 19 Nations and 15 Languages. Emotion. ISSN 1528-3542. . doi: 10.1037/emo0000450
- Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; van de Ven, Niels; Schubert, Thomas & Vingerhoets, Ad J.J.M. (2018). Are tearful individuals perceived as less competent? Probably not.. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. ISSN 2374-3603.
- Fiske, Alan Page; Schubert, Thomas & Seibt, Beate (2017). “Kama muta” or ‘being moved by love’: A bootstrapping approach to the ontology and epistemology of an emotion, In Julia L. Cassaniti & Usha Menon (ed.), Universalism without uniformity: Explorations in mind and culture. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 022650168X. 5. s 79 - 100
- Lu, Lifeng; Schubert, Thomas & Zhu, Lei (2017). The spatial representation of power in children. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. s 1- 11 . doi: 10.1007/s10339-017-0814-9 Full text in Research Archive.
- Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Blomster, Johanna Katarina & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Being moved is a positive emotion, and emotions should not be equated with their vernacular labels.. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 40(e374), s 39 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17001820
- Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Interpersonal closeness and morality predict feelings of being moved. Emotion. ISSN 1528-3542. 17(3), s 389- 394 . doi: 10.1037/emo0000271 Full text in Research Archive.
- Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Zhu, Lei; Arriaga, Patrícia; Simão, Cláudia; Nussinson, Ravit & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Kama Muta: Similar emotional responses to touching videos across the US, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. ISSN 0022-0221. 49(3), s 418- 435 . doi: 10.1177/0022022117746240
- Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Empathic Concern is Part of A More General Communal Emotion. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 8(MAY) . doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00723 Full text in Research Archive.
- Jostmann, Nils B; Lakens, Daniel & Schubert, Thomas (2016). A short history of the weight-importance effect and a recommendation for pre-testing: Commentary on Ebersole et al. (2016). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. ISSN 0022-1031. 67, s 93- 94 . doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.12.001
- Toscano, Hugo; Schubert, Thomas; Dotsch, Ron; Falvello, Virginia & Todorov, Alexander (2016). Physical Strength as a Cue to Dominance: A Data-Driven Approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. ISSN 0146-1672. 42(12), s 1603- 1616 . doi: 10.1177/0146167216666266
- Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Schubert, Thomas (2016). Revisiting and Extending a Response Latency Measure of Inclusion of the Other in the Self. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. ISSN 2374-3603. 1(1-3), s 106- 129 . doi: 10.1080/23743603.2017.1298356 Full text in Research Archive.
- Seibt, Beate; Waldzus, Sven; Schubert, Thomas & Brito, Rodrigo (2015). Conservatism is not the missing viewpoint for true diversity. Commentary on Duarte et al.. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 38:e157, s 38- 39 . doi: 10.1017/S0140525X14001290 Full text in Research Archive.
- Toscano, Hugo & Schubert, Thomas (2015). Judged and remembered trustworthiness of faces is enhanced by experiencing multisensory synchrony and asynchrony in the right order. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 10(12) . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145664 Full text in Research Archive.
- Toscano, Hugo; Schubert, Thomas & Sell, Aaron N. (2014). Judgments of dominance from the face track physical strength. Evolutionary Psychology. ISSN 1474-7049. 12(1), s 1- 18 Full text in Research Archive.
- IJzerman, Hans; Karremans, Johan; Thomsen, Lotte & Schubert, Thomas (2013). Caring for sharing: How attachment styles modulate communal cues of physical warmth. Social Psychology. ISSN 1864-9335. 44, s 160- 166 . doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000142
- Schubert, Lisa; Schubert, Thomas & Topolinski, Sascha (2013). The effect of spatial elevation on respect depends on merit and medium. Social Psychology. ISSN 1864-9335. 44, s 147- 159 . doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000134
- Schubert, Thomas; D'Ausilio, Alessandro & Canto, Rosario (2013). Using Arduino microcontroller boards to measure response latencies. Behavior Research Methods. ISSN 1554-351X. 45, s 1332- 1346 . doi: 10.3758/s13428-013-0336-z Full text in Research Archive.
- Schubert, Thomas; Murteira, Carla; Collins, Elizabeth C. & Lopes, Diniz (2013). ScriptingRT: A Software Library for Collecting Response Latencies in Online Studies of Cognition. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 8(6) . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067769 Full text in Research Archive.
- Giessner, Steffen R.; Ryan, Michelle K.; Schubert, Thomas & Quaquebeke, Nils (2011). The Power of Pictures: Vertical Picture Angles in Power Pictures. Media Psychology. ISSN 1521-3269. 14(4), s 442- 464 . doi: 15213269.2011.620541
- IJzerman, Hans; Čolić, Marija V.; Hennecke, M.; Hong, Youngki; Hu, Chuan-Peng; Joy-Gaba, Jennifer; Lazarević, Dušanka; Lazarević, Ljiljana; Parzuchowski, Michal; Ratner, Kyle G.; Schubert, Thomas; Schütz, Astrid; Stojilović, Darko; Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Lindenberg, Siegwart (2017). Does distance from the equator predict self-control? Lessons from the Human Penguin Project. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 40:e86, s 22- 23 . doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001035 Full text in Research Archive.