Stefan Wiens
Professor
Interests
The study of the neural underpinnings of emotion, with emphasis on automatic (unconscious, pre-attentive, involuntary) processes using measures of peripheral psychophysiology and brain imaging.
Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Head of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, with the goal to provide students, researchers, teachers, and the public with expertise in contemporary methods in cognitive neuroscience.
Education
| Ph.D. | 1999 | SUNY at Stony Brook (Social/Health Psychology) |
| M.A. | 1996 | State University of New York at Stony Brook (Psychology) |
| B.A. | 1991 | University of Hamburg, Germany (Psychology) |
Work Experience
| Professor, since 2010 |
| Research Assistant Professor, 2004-2010 |
| Post doc: Karolinska Institute, 1999-2003 |
| Graduate Teaching Assistant: SUNY at Stony Brook, 1993 and 1997 |
| Graduate Research Assistant: SUNY at Stony Brook, 1994-1996 |
| Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of Hamburg, 1991-1993 |
Teaching
Master Programme: Theoretical and methodological perspectives in biological psychology, 7.5 ECTS. More info.
Publications – Journal Articles
Find Wiens' recent abstracts in the Annual Report database.
Peira, N., Golkar, A., Öhman, A., Anders, S., & Wiens, S. (in press). Emotional responses in spider fear are closely related to picture awareness. Cognition & Emotion.
Wiens, S., Sand, A., Norberg, J., & Andersson, P. (in press). Emotional event-related potentials are reduced if negative pictures presented at fixation are unattended. Neuroscience Letters.
Sand, A., & Wiens, S. (in press). Processing of unattended, simple negative pictures resists perceptual load. Neuroreport.
Tillman, C. M., & Wiens, S. (in press). Behavioral and ERP indices of response conflict in stroop and flanker tasks. Psychophysiology.
Olofsson, J.K., Gospic, K., Petrovic, P., Ingvar, M., & Wiens, S. (in press). Effects of oxazepam on affective perception, recognition and event-related potentials. Psychopharmacology. [Fulltext]
Wiens, S., Sand, A., & Olofsson, J.K. (in press). Nonemotional features suppress early and enhance late emotional electrocortical responses to negative pictures. Biological Psychology. [Fulltext]
Norberg, J., Peira, N., & Wiens, S. (2010). Never mind the spider: Late positive potentials to phobic threat at fixation are unaffected by perceptual load. Psychophysiology, 47(6), 1151-1158. [Fulltext]
Peira, N., Golkar, A., Larsson, M., & Wiens, S. (2010). What You Fear Will Appear. Detection of Schematic Spiders in Spider Fear. Experimental psychology, 57(6), 470-475. [Fulltext]
Alvarsson, J. J., Wiens, S., & Nilsson, M. E. (2010). Stress Recovery during Exposure to Nature Sound and Environmental Noise. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 7(3), 1036-1046. [Full text]
Olofsson, J. K., Nordin, S., Wiens, S., Hedner, M., Nilsson, L. G., & Larsson, M. (2010). Odor identification impairment in carriers of ApoE-4 is independent of clinical dementia. Neurobiology of Aging, 31(4), 567-577. [Full Text]
Anders, S., Eippert, F., Wiens, S., Birbaumer, N., Lotze, M., & Wildgruber, D. (2009). When seeing outweighs feeling: A role for prefrontal cortex in passive control of negative affect in blindsight. Brain, 132(11), 3021-3031. [Full Text]
Maurex, L., Zaboli, G., Wiens, S., Åsberg, M., Loeopardi, R., & Öhman, A. (2009). Emotionally controlled decision-making and a gene variant related to serotonin synthesis in women with borderline personality disorder. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 50(1), 5-10.
Wiens, S., Peira, N., Golkar, A., & Öhman, A. (2008). Recognizing masked threat: Fear betrays, but disgust you can trust. Emotion, 8(6), 810-819. [PDF]
Wiens, S. (2007). Concepts of visual consciousness and their measurement. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3(1-2), 349-359. [PDF]
Gray, M. A., Harrison, N. A., Wiens, S., & Critchley, H. D. (2007). Modulation of emotional appraisal by false physiological feedback during fMRI. PLoS One, 2(6), e546. [PDF]
Gavazzeni, J., Wiens, S., & Fischer, H. (2008). Age effects to negative arousal differ for self report and electrodermal activity. Psychophysiology, 45(1), 148-151. [Full text]
Wiens, S. (2006). Current concerns in visual masking. Emotion, 6, 675-680. [PDF]
Wiens, S. (2006). Subliminal emotion perception in brain imaging: Findings, issues, and recommendations. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 107-123. [PDF]
Wiens, S. (2006). Remain aware of awareness [Correspondence]. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6. www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v6/n3/full/nrn1630-c1.html.
Wiens, S. (2005). Interoception in emotional experience. Current Opinion In Neurology, 18, 442-447. [PDF]
Wiens, S., & Öhman, A. (2005). Visual masking in magnetic resonance imaging. NeuroImage, 27, 465-467. [PDF]
Wiens, S., Fransson, P., Dietrich, T., Lohmann, P., Ingvar, M., & Öhman, A. (2004). Keeping it short: A comparison of methods for brief picture presentation. Psychological Science, 15, 282-285. [PDF]
Critchley, H. D., Wiens, S., Rotshtein, P., Öhman, A., & Dolan, R. J. (2004). Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 189-195. [PDF]
Wiens, S., Katkin, E. S., & Öhman, A. (2003). Effects of trial order and differential conditioning on acquisition of differential shock expectancy and skin conductance conditioning to masked stimuli. Psychophysiology, 40, 989-997. [PDF]
Wiens, S., & Öhman, A. (2002). Unawareness is more than a chance event: Comment on Lovibond and Shanks (2002). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 28, 27-31. [PDF]
Wiens, S., & Palmer S. N. (2001). Quadratic trend analysis and heartbeat detection. Biological Psychology, 58, 159-175. [PDF]
Katkin, E. S., Wiens, S., & Öhman, A. (2001). Nonconscious fear conditioning, visceral perception, and the development of gut feelings. Psychological Science, 12, 366-370. [PDF]
Wiens, S., Mezzacappa, E. S., & Katkin, E. S. (2000). Heartbeat detection and the experience of emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 14, 417-427. [PDF]
Kelsey, R. M., Blascovich, J., Leitten, C. L., Schneider, T. R., Tomaka, J., & Wiens, S. (2000). Cardiovascular reactivity and adaptation to recurrent psychological stress: The moderating effects of evaluative observation. Psychophysiology, 37, 748-756.
Wiens, S., & Emmerich, D. S. (1999). Synthetic stimuli attenuate the effect of attention on the dichotic right-ear advantage. Acta Psychologica, 102, 13-19. [PDF]
Kelsey, R. M., Blascovich, J., Tomaka, J., Leitten, C. L., Schneider, T. R., & Wiens, S. (1999). Cardiovascular reactivity and adaptation to recurrent psychological stress: Effects of prior task exposure. Psychophysiology, 36, 818-831.
Kelsey, R. M., Reiff, S., Wiens, S., Schneider, T. R., Mezzacappa, E. S., & Guethlein, W. (1998). The ensemble averaged impedance cardiogram: An evaluation of scoring methods and interrater reliability. Psychophysiology, 35, 337-340.
Ritz, T., Wiens, S., & Dahme, B. (1998). Stability of total respiratory resistance under multiple baseline conditions, isometric arm exercise and voluntary deep breathing. Biological Psychology, 49, 187-213.
Wiens, S., Emmerich, D. S., & Katkin, E. S. (1997). Response bias affects perceptual asymmetry scores and performance measures on a dichotic listening task. Neuropsychologia, 35, 1475-1482. [PDF]
Publications – Book Chapters
Wiens, S., & Öhman, A. (2007). Probing unconscious emotional processes: On becoming a successful masketeer. In J. A. Coan & J. J. B. Allen (Eds.), The handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment (pp. 65-90): Oxford University Press. [Scanned PDF]
Öhman, A., & Wiens, S. (2004). The concept of an evolved fear module and cognitive theories of anxiety. In A. S. R. Manstead, N. H. Frijda & A. H. Fischer (Eds.), Feelings and emotions: The Amsterdam symposium (pp. 58-80). Cambridge, UK: Cambrigde University Press.
Öhman, A., & Wiens, S. (2003). On the automaticity of autonomic responses in emotion: An evolutionary perspective. In R. J. Davidson, K. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Sciences (pp. 256-275). New York: Oxford University Press.
Öhman, A., & Wiens, S. (2001). To think and to feel: Nonconscious emotional activation and consciousness. In A. Kaszniak (Ed.), Emotions, Qualia, Consciousness (pp. 363-385). London: World Scientific.
