Haker
Fakultäten » Medizinische Fakultät » Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik » Soziale Psychiatrie und Allgemeinpsychiatrie Zürich West, Klinik für » Prof. Dr. Wulf Rössler » Haker
Current research project
| Title / Titel | Sense of agency, empathy and schizophrenia | ||||
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| Original title / Originaltitel | Sense of Agency und empathische Fähigkeiten bei Menschen mit Schizophrenieerkrankung | ||||
| Summary / Zusammenfassung | The initial point for our research is a component- model of empathy which encompasses, besides empathic resonance and perspective taking, the sense of agency as a third component. Several studies from the field of developmental psychology have shown that the sense of agency develops around the age of two years, concomitant with the development of a self-concept (Bischof-Köhler, 1989). This component is especially important because it can be severely disturbed, as in the case of schizophrenia. Symptoms like passivity experiences or delusions of control, which are typical of schizophrenia, point to impairments of the sense of agency in this population. Our goal is to study the sense of agency in conjunction with theory of mind and resonance paradigms to gain a completed picture of empathic abilities in people with schizophrenia, and to find out if these deficits add something to the eluciadation of the etiology of schizophrenia. Weitere Informationen |
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| Publications / Publikationen | Schimansky, J., Rössler, W., & Haker, H. (2011) Disentangling the self and the other: social cognition in schizophrenia patients with first-rank symptoms. Psychopathology, accepted 2011.Schimansky, J., David, N., Rössler, W., & Haker, H. (2010). Sense of agency and mentalizing: Dissociation of subdomains of social cognition in patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 178(1), 39-45.Haker, H. & Rössler, W. (2008). Empathy in Schizophrenia: Impaired Resonance. Arch of Psych and Clin Neurosc (accepted).Weitere Informationen | ||||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | empathy, schizophrenia, sense of agency, resonance, theory of mind, self-other distinction | ||||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Apr 2008 to Dec 2012 |