Dr. Amelie Hübner

 

 

 

 

 

Completed project

Emotional sensations and inferring the emotional state of others, for example from facial expressions, are essential aspects of our everyday lives. Thereby, emotions are associated with a broad range of physiological changes. Recent models of emotion suggest that our emotional
experiences and the way we perceive the emotions of others largely depend on predictions for the causes of bodily sensations that are based on our past experiences. The sense of the body's internal states is called interoception and people differ in terms of how sensible they are to
interoceptive signals and changes, and how accurately they detect internal bodily sensations. A better ability to perceive interoceptive signals might lead to a richer emotional experience and this, in turn, could facilitate a better understanding of others' emotions. In contrast, clinical
manifestations of impaired interoception include, among others, difficulties in recognizing emotions, which can be observed in patients suffering from behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).

Publications

Hübner, A. M., Trempler, I., Schubotz, R. I. (2022) Interindividual differences in interoception modulate behavior and brain responses in emotional inference. NeuroImage 261 (2022) 119524. doi.org/10.1016/

Hübner, A.M., Trempler, I., Gietmann, C., Schubotz, R.I. (2021) Interoceptive sensibility predicts the ability to infer others' emotional states. PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258089, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258089.

current Position

Psychotherapist  https://hanse-psychotherapie.de/hanse-psychotherapie-binnenalster/

Professor of Psychology at the Hamburg Campus of Macromedia University of Applied Sciences  https://www.macromedia-fachhochschule.de/de/menschen/amelie-marleen-huebner/