Thomas Wolfgang 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
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Lizarazo Pereira, Diana M.; Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang & Roth, Jenny (2022). Moved by Social Justice: The Role of Kama Muta in Collective Action Toward Racial Equality. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.780615.
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Grüning, David J. & Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang (2021). Emotional Campaigning in Politics: Being Moved and Anger in Political Ads Motivate to Support Candidate and Party. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.781851.
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Janicke-Bowles, Sophie H.; Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang & Blomster Lyshol, Johanna Katarina (2021). Kama Muta as a Eudaimonic Entertainment Experience. In Vorderer, Peter & Klimmt, Christoph (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Entertainment Theory. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190072216. p. 402–418. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190072216.013.22.
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Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; van de Ven, Niels; Pich, Olivia; Schubert, Thomas; Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina & Vingerhoets, Ad J.J.M. (2021). Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. ISSN 0022-1031. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137. Full text in Research Archive
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Wang, Yin; Schubert, Thomas & Quadflieg, Susanne (2020). Behavioral and neural evidence for an evaluative bias against other people's mundane interracial encounters. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. ISSN 1749-5016. 14(12), p. 1329–1339. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsaa005.
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Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Arriaga, Patrícia; Vilar Santos, S.; Schubert, Thomas & Seibt, Beate (2020). Tears of joy, aesthetic chills and heartwarming feelings: Physiological correlates of Kama Muta. Psychophysiology. ISSN 0048-5772. 57(12). doi: 10.1111/psyp.13662. Full text in Research Archive
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Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Herting, Anders Kuvaas; Grahe, Jon E. & Faasse, Kate (2020). Correlates of Health-Protective Behavior During the Initial Days of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Norway. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.564083. Full text in Research Archive
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Prendergast, Claire Nicole & Schubert, Thomas (2020). Investigating Reflexive Responses to Explicit and Implicit Forms of Social Exclusion Using Immersive Virtual Environment Technology. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575783. Full text in Research Archive
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Schubert, Thomas (2020). Grounding of rank: embodiment, space, and magnitude. Current Opinion in Psychology. ISSN 2352-250X. 33, p. 222–226. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.09.012. Full text in Research Archive
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Hu, Chuan-Peng; Yin, Ji-Xing; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Dalğar, İlker; Weissgerber, Sophia C. & Vergara, Rodrigo C. [Show all 32 contributors for this article] (2019). Data from the Human Penguin Project, a cross-national dataset testing social thermoregulation principles. Scientific Data. ISSN 2052-4463. 6:32, p. 1–7. doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0029-2. Full text in Research Archive
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Petersen, Evi; Fiske, Alan Page & Schubert, Thomas (2019). The role of social relational emotions for human-nature connectedness. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 10:2759, p. 1–6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02759. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
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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. Full text in Research Archive
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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), p. 1–17. doi: 10.1521/soco.2019.37.1.1.
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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. Full text in Research Archive
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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), p. 74–86. doi: 10.1177/1754073917723167. Full text in Research Archive
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IJzerman, Hans; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Dalgar, Ilker; Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Vergara, Rodrigo C. & Cairo, Athena [Show all 31 contributors for this article] (2018). The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature. Collabra: Psychology. ISSN 2474-7394. 4(1). doi: 10.1525/collabra.165.
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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. doi: 10.1080/23743603.2018.1514254. Full text in Research Archive
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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.
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Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate; Blomster, Johanna Katarina; Arriaga, Patrícia & Basabe, Nekane [Show all 35 contributors for this article] (2018). Kama Muta: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Experience Often Labelled Being Moved Across 19 Nations and 15 Languages . Emotion. ISSN 1528-3542. 19(3), p. 402–424. doi: 10.1037/emo0000450. Full text in Research Archive
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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. p. 1–25. doi: 10.1007/s10919-018-0276-5. Full text in Research Archive
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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. 33, p. 197–212. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1441128. Full text in Research Archive
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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), p. 1691–1699. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1430556. Full text in Research Archive
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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), p. 174–184. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1268998.
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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 Cassaniti, Julia L. & Menon, Usha (Ed.), Universalism without uniformity: Explorations in mind and culture. University of Chicago Press. ISSN 022650168X. p. 79–100. doi: https%3A/doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226501710.001.0001.
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Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Zhu, Lei; Arriaga, Patrícia & Simão, Cláudia [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (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), p. 418–435. doi: 10.1177/0022022117746240.
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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). doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001820.
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Lu, Lifeng; Schubert, Thomas & Zhu, Lei (2017). The spatial representation of power in children. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. p. 1–11. doi: 10.1007/s10339-017-0814-9. Full text in Research Archive
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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
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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), p. 389–394. doi: 10.1037/emo0000271. Full text in Research Archive
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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), p. 106–129. doi: 10.1080/23743603.2017.1298356. Full text in Research Archive
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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), p. 1603–1616. doi: 10.1177/0146167216666266.
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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, p. 93–94. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.12.001.
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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
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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, p. 38–39. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X14001290. Full text in Research Archive
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Toscano, Hugo; Schubert, Thomas & Sell, Aaron N. (2014). Judgments of dominance from the face track physical strength. Evolutionary Psychology. ISSN 1474-7049. 12(1), p. 1–18. doi: 10.1177/147470491401200101. Full text in Research Archive
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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, p. 147–159. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000134.
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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, p. 160–166. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000142.
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Schubert, Thomas; D'Ausilio, Alessandro & Canto, Rosario (2013). Using Arduino microcontroller boards to measure response latencies. Behavior Research Methods. ISSN 1554-351X. 45, p. 1332–1346. doi: 10.3758/s13428-013-0336-z. Full text in Research Archive
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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
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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), p. 442–464. doi: 10.15213269.2011.620541.
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Petersen, Evi & Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang (2021). How kama muta connects people to nature?
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Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang & Grüning, David J. (2021). Proper understanding of grounded procedures of separation needs a dual inheritance approach. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000394.
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Schubert, Thomas & Grüning, David J. (2020). Proper understanding of grounded procedures of separation needs a dual inheritance approach. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 44, p. 51–52. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000394.
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Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Schubert, Thomas (2019). How to identify and how to conduct research that is informative and reproducible. In Valsiner, Jaan (Eds.), Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences. Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-030-33098-9. p. 147–168.
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IJzerman, Hans; Čolić, Marija V.; Hennecke, M.; Hong, Youngki; Hu, Chuan-Peng & Joy-Gaba, Jennifer [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2017). Does distance from the equator predict self-control? Lessons from the Human Penguin Project. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 40:e86, p. 22–23. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001035. Full text in Research Archive