Research
Take a look at the topics on which the workgroup has already conducted research. Below you will find published books, book chapters and articles by the members of the workgroup.
2025
Stephan, A. (2025). Künstliche Intelligenz – eine Herausforderung für moderne Gesellschaften. Schriftenreihe der Freien Akademie, Band 43. Neu-Isenburg: Angelika Lenz Verlag.
Eickers, G. (2025). Scripts and social cognition: How we interact with others. London: Routledge.
2024
Meyer, U. (2024). Willensfreiheit, Wissenschaft und diskursive Vernunft: Überlegungen zu Philosophie und (Forschungs-)Praxis. Paderborn: Brill mentis.
Hay, C. (2024). Feministisch Denken: Die Philosophie hinter der Revolution. Paderborn: mentis. Transl. and intr. aus dem Bruch, K., Franke, V., Haberland, E. N., Hüsing, I., Klausing, F., Mossner, C., Walter, S., Ziegler, C., & Zörlein, L.
2023
von Maur, I., Meyer, U., & Walter, S. (eds.) (2023). Wozu Gefühle? Philosophische Reflexionen für Achim Stephan. Paderborn: mentis.
2021
Hörzer, G. M. (ed.) (2021). Saul Kripke: Identity and Necessity / Identität und Notwendigkeit. Stuttgart: Reclam.
Stephan, A., & Walter, S. (eds.) (2021). Alan Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence / Können Maschinen denken? Stuttgart: Reclam.
2020
Hörzer, G. M. (2020). Understanding Physicalism. Berlin/New York: DeGruyter.
2023
Javaid, B.M., & Stephan, A. (2023). Kolorismus auf dem indischen Sub-kontinent: Einsichten aus Perspektive der situierten Affektivität. In: Thomas Stodulka, Anita von Poser, Gabriel Scheidecker & Jonas Bens (Hg.): Anthropologie der Emotionen. Affektive Dynamiken in Kultur und Gesellschaft. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 319-334.
2022
Stephan, A. (2022). Situierte Affektivität – Emotionen jenseits von Gehirn und Körper. In: Helmut Fink & Rainer Rosenzweig (Hg.): Wo sitzt der Geist? Von Leib und Seele zur erweiterten Kognition. Nürnberg: Kortizes, 159-172.
2020
Stephan, A. & Walter, S. (2020). Situated Affectivity. In: T. Szanto & H. Landweer (Hg.) The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion. Abingdon: Routledge, 299-311.
2021
Newen, A., Krickel ,B., Stephan, A., & Leon de Bruin (2021). Situated Cognition and Its Critics: Recent Developments. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88971-645-6
www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/11500/situated-cognition-and-its-critics-recent-developments
2025
Grasso-Cladera, A., Madrid-Carvajal, J., Walter, S., & König, P. (2025). Approach–avoidance bias in virtual and real-world simulations: Insights from a systematic review of experimental setups. Brain Sciences, 25, 103. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15020103
Mossner, C., & Walter, S. (2025). Scaffolded affective harm: What is it and (how) can we do something about it? Topoi. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10136-6
Solzbacher, J., König, P., & Walter, S. (2025). Embodying ‘good’ and ‘bad’: The emergent bodily meaning of approach- and avoidance-behavior. Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2466646
2024
Derakhshan, S., Nosrat Nezami, F., Wächter, M. A., Stephan, A., Pipa, G., & König, P. (2024). A situated inspection of autonomous vehicle acceptance–A population study in virtual reality. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2358577
Eickers, G., (2024a). Scripts and social cognition. Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10: 54. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.5191
Eickers, G. (2024b). Are all emotions social? Embracing a pluralistic understanding of social emotions, Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion, 2(1), 15–29. https://doi.org/10.59123/wq4y6h13
Eickers, G. (2024c). Social media experiences of LGBTQ+ People: Enabling feelings of belonging. Topoi, 43, 617–630. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09994-3
Mossner, C., & Walter, S. (2024). Shaping social media minds: Scaffolding empathy in digitally mediated interactions? Topoi 43, 645–658 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10034-x
Pismenny, A. & Eickers, G. & Prinz, J. (2024). Emotional injustice, Ergo. an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 11: 6. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.5711
Yuen, H.S., Zörlein, L. & Walter, S. (2024). It is not just ‘the opposite of jealousy’: a Buddhist perspective on the emotion of compersion in consensually non-monogamous relationships. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 3, 40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-024-00171-w
2023
Bajwa, M. J., von Maur, I., & Stephan, A. (2023). Colorism in the Indian subcontinent—insights through situated affectivity. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09901-6
Coelho, S., Vendrell Ferran, Í., & Stephan, A. (2023). Emotional abilities and art experience in autism spectrum disorder. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09917-y
Eickers, G. (2023). Coordinating behaviors: Is social interaction scripted? Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 53 (1), 85-99. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12357
Walter, S., & Stephan, A. (2023). Situated affectivity and mind shaping: Lessons from social psychology. Emotion Review, 15(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739221112419
Zörlein, L., Yuen, H. S., & Walter, S. (2023). Compersion in nicht-monogamen Beziehungen – eine buddhistische Perspektive. Zeitschrift für praktische Philosophie, 10(2), 189–216. https://doi.org/10.22613/zfpp/10.2.8
2022
Coelho, Sara, Sophia Marlene Bonatti, Elena Doering, Asena Paskaleva-Yankova und Achim Stephan (2022). Moral Agency, Rules and Temporality in People Who Are Diagnosed with Mild Forms of Autism: In Defense of a Sentimentalist View. Frontiers in Psychology 13: 875680 (16 Seiten). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.875680
Eickers, G. (2022). Approaches to blushing: Context matters. Perspectiva Filosófica – Special Issue: Phenomenology, Action, Cognition and Affectivity, 49(5), 98–121.
Solzbacher, J., Czeszumski, A., Walter, S., & König, P. (2022). Evidence for the embodiment of the automatic approach bias. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 797122. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.797122
2021
Coninx, S., & Stephan, A. (2021) A taxonomy of environmentally scaffolded affectivity. Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, 54(1), 38–64. https://doi.org/10.1163/24689300-bja10019
Czeszumski, A., Albers, F., Walter, S., & König, P. (2021). Let me make you happy, and I’ll tell you how you look around: Using an approach-avoidance task as an embodied emotion prime in a free-viewing task. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 604393. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.604393
2020
Haq, H., Shaheed, S., & Stephan, A. (2020). Radicalization through the Lens of Situated Affectivity. Frontiers in Psychology 11: art. 205 (12 Seiten). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00205
Valentini, Daniele, Anna Maria Lorusso und Achim Stephan (2020). Onlife Extremism: Dynamic Integration of Digital and Physical Spaces in Radicalization. Frontiers in Psychology 11: art. 524 (15 Seiten). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00524