Publications
Scientific Articles
Dalbagno, D., Stussi, Y., Pool, E. R., Garofalo, S., Sander, D., di Pellegrino, G., & Starita, F. (2026). The role of outcome affective value in driving human Pavlovian learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition . Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/xan0000433
Fessler, L., Maltagliati, S., Meyer, P., Finckh, A., Cullati, S., Sander, D., Friese, M., Wiers, R. W., Farajzadeh, A., Luthy, C., Sarrazin, P., & Cheval, B. (2026). Anatomy of a failure: Can a cognitive-bias modification intervention improve physical activity in patients following a cardiac rehabilitation programme? BMJ Open, 16 (4), Article e101558. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-101558
Fischer, L., Audrin, C., Biémar, S., Mella, N., Sander, D., Romainville, M., & Dan-Glauser, E. (2026). What do teachers think about students' emotions? A mixed-method exploration of their implicit theories. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 41 , Article 31. doi: 10.1007/s10212-026-01074-5
Mella, N., Audrin, C., Biémar, S., Fischer, L., Romainville, M., Sander, D., & Dan-Glauser, E. (2026). Mapping teachers’ emotional and pedagogical dimensions: a network analysis of teachers’ socio-emotional competencies, conceptions of teaching and implicit theories of emotions. Social Psychology of Education, 29 , Article 94. doi: 10.1007/s11218-026-10263-5
Mella, N.*, Rey, G.*, Zaharia, A., Magnus Smith, M., Samson, A. C., Gentaz, E., Piguet, C., & Sander, D. (2026). Common and differential effects of improvisation theater, mindfulness training and board games at school on adolescents' social and emotional competencies. Social and Emotional Learning Research: Research, Practice, and Policy, 8 , Article 100213. doi: 10.1016/j.sel.2026.100213
Vollberg, M. C., O'Connor, B. B., Vuilleumier, P., Sander, D., & Cikara, M. (2026). Place-related representations in setting the stage for empathy. Cognition, 266 , Article 106327. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106327
Cheval, B., Ceravolo, L., Zimmermann, O., Igloi, K., Sander, D., Van Ruitenbeek, P., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2025). Neural correlates of approach-avoidance tendencies toward physical activity and sedentary stimuli: An MRI study. Imaging Neuroscience, 3 , Article IMAG.a.28. doi: 10.1162/IMAG.a.28
Gillioz, C., Nicolet-dit-Félix, M., Delplanque, S., Mortillaro, M., Sander, D., & Fiori, M. (2025). How do emotionally intelligent individuals react to other people’s emotions? A study on emotional and facial reactions. BMC Psychology, 13 , Article 224. doi: 10.1186/s40359-025-02425-5
Mella, N., Gay, P., Piguet, C., Avry, S., Vuillemin, I., & Sander, D. (2025). Évaluer systématiquement les compétences socio-émotionnelles des élèves ? Une réflexion sur le potentiel et les enjeux d’une telle mesure. ANAE : Approche neuropsychologique des apprentissages chez l'enfant, 37 (198).
Montagrin, A., Schwartz, S., Sander, D., & Rimmele, U. (2025). Rewriting the past: Reconsolidation of emotional episodic memories [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/nr6vc_v1
Quossi, A., Fessler, L., Maltagliati, S., Gardner, B., Miller, M. M., Sander, D., Rebar, A. L., Szabo, A., & Cheval, B. (2025). Can automatic reactions mirror exercise dependence? International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 23 , 1207-1233. doi: 10.1080/1612197X.2024.2387698
Sander, D. (2025). Des émotions pour apprendre : apports des sciences affectives et de l’affectivisme. ANAE : Approche neuropsychologique des apprentissages chez l'enfant, 37 (198).
Santavirta, S., Suominen, L., Wu, Y., Sander, D., & Nummenmaa, L. (2025). GPT-4 accurately predicts human emotions and their neural correlates. [Preprint]. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.18.677029
Wuensch, L., Stussi, Y., Vernede, T., Murray, R. J., Sander, D., Péron, J., & Pool, E. R. (2025). Differential influence of habit components on compulsive and problematic reward-seeking behavior. PLOS Mental Health, 2 (5), Article 0000323. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmen.0000323
Zaharia, A., Kojovic, N., Rojanawisut, T., Sander, D., Schaer, M., & Samson, A. C. (2025). Examining the link between social affect and visual exploration of cute stimuli in autistic children . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 55 , 4212-4225. doi: 10.1007/s10803-024-06504-1
Zaharia, A., Savary, V., Sander, D., Bressoud, N., & Samson, A. C. (2025). Jeux de société sur les compétences socio-émotionnelles : l'expérience de jeu avec des prototypes « chEERS Games » auprès d'élèves de 10 à 13 ans. ANAE : Approche neuropsychologique des apprentissages chez l'enfant, 37 (198).
Cereghetti, D., Coppin, G., Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., Sander, D., & Delplanque, S. (2024). Beyond self-report measures of arousal: A new priming task to capture activation of relaxing and energizing feelings elicited by odors. Food Quality and Preference, 119 , Article 105227. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2024.105227
Zavlanou, C., Savary, V., Mermet, S., Sander, D., Corradi-Dell'Acqua, C., Rudrauf, D., Tisserand, Y., & Sahyoun, C. (2024). Virtual reality vs. tablet for procedural comfort using an identical game in children undergoing venipuncture: A randomized clinical trial. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 12 , Article 1378459. doi: 10.3389/fped.2024.1378459
Zhukov, V., Petersen, A.M., Dukes, D., Sander, D., Tsiamyrtzis, P., & Pavlidis, I. (2024). Science convergence in affective research is associated with impactful multidisciplinary appeal rather than multidisciplinary content. Communications Psychology, 2 , Article 83. doi: 10.1038/s44271-024-00129-x
Coppin, G., Muñoz Tord, D., Pool, E. R., Locatelli, L., Achaibou A., Erdemli, A., León Pérez, L., Wuensch, L., Cereghetti, D., Golay, A., Sander, D., & Pataky Z. (2023). A randomized controlled trial investigating the effect of liraglutide on self-reported liking and neural responses to food stimuli in participants with obesity. International Journal of Obesity, 47 , 1224-1231. doi: 10.1038/s41366-023-01370-w
Nicolet-dit-Félix, M.*, Gillioz, C.*, Mortillaro, M., Sander, D., & Fiori, M. (2023). Emotional intelligence and attentional bias to emotional faces: Evidence of hypersensitivity to emotion information. Personality and Individual Differences, 201 , Article 111917. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111917
Parma, J. O., Bacelar, M. F. B., Cabral, D. A. R., Recker, R. S., Orsholits, D., Renaud, O., Sander, D., Krigolson, O. E., Miller, M. W., Cheval, B., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2023). Relationship between reward-related brain activity and opportunities to sit. Cortex, 167 , 197-217. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.06.011
Cernadas Curotto, P., Sterpenich, V., Sander, D., Favez, N., Rimmele, U., & Klimecki, O. (2022). Quarreling after a sleepless night: Preliminary evidence of the impact of sleep deprivation on interpersonal conflict. Affective Science, 3 , 341-352. doi: 10.1007/s42761-021-00076-4
Chalabaev, A., Sieber, S., Sander, D., Cullati, S., Maltagliati, S., Sarrazin, P., Boisgontier, M. P., & Cheval, B. (2022). Early-life socioeconomic circumstances and physical activity in older age: Women pay the price. Psychological Science, 33 (2), 212-223. doi: 10.1177/09567976211036061
Cheval, B., Boisgontier, M. P., Sieber, S., Ihle, A., Orsholits, D., Forestier, C., Sander, D., & Chalabaev, A. (2022). Cognitive functions and physical activity in aging when energy is lacking. European Journal of Ageing, 19 , 533-544. doi: 10.1007/s10433-021-00654-2
Cheval, B., Maltagliati, S., Fesseler, L., Farajzadeh, A., Ben Abdallah, S. N., Vogt, F., Dubessy, M., Lacour, M., Miller, M. W., Sander, D., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2022). Physical effort biases the perceived pleasantness of neutral faces: A virtual reality study. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 63 , Article 102287. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102287
Cheval, B., Maltagliati, S., Sieber, S., Cullati, S., Sander, D., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2022). Physical inactivity amplifies the negative association between sleep quality and depressive symptoms. Preventive Medicine, 164 , Article 107233. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107233
Cheval, B., Maltagliati, S., Sieber, S., Cullati, S., Zou, L., Ihle, A., Kramer, A. F., Yu, Q., Sander, D., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2022). Better subjective sleep quality partly explains the association between self-reported physical activity and better cognitive function. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 87 (2), 919-931. doi: 10.3233/JAD-215484
Palama, A., Malsert, J., Grandjean, D., Sander, D., & Gentaz, E. (2022). The cross-modal transfer of emotional information from voices to faces in 5-, 8- and 10-year-old children and adults: An eye-tracking study. Emotion, 22 (4), 725-739. doi: 10.1037/emo0000758
Pool, E. R.*, Munoz Tord, D.*, Delplanque, S., Stussi, Y., Cereghetti, D., Vuilleumier, P., & Sander, D. (2022). Differential contributions of ventral striatum subregions to the motivational and hedonic components of affective processing of reward. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42 (13), 2716-2728. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1124-21.2022
Cheval, B., Cabral, D. A. R., Daou, M., Bacelar, M. F. B., Parma, J. O., Forestier, C., Orsholits, D., Maltagliati, S., Sander, D., Boisgontier, M. P., & Miller, M. W. (2021). Inhibitory control elicited by physical activity and inactivity stimuli: an EEG study. Motivation Science, 7 (4), 386-399. doi: 10.1037/mot0000236
Cheval, B., Finckh, A., Maltagliati, S., Fessler, L., Cullati, S., Sander, D., Friese, M., Wiers, R. W., Boisgontier, M. P., Courvoisier, D. S., & Luthy, C. (2021). Cognitive-bias modification intervention to improve physical activity in patients following a rehabilitation programme: Protocol for the randomised controlled IMPACT trial. BMJ Open, 11 , Article e053845. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053845
Cheval, B., Maltagliati, S., Sieber, S., Beran, D., Chalabaev, A., Sander, D., Cullati, S., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2021). Why are individuals with diabetes less active? The mediating role of physical, emotional, and cognitive factors. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 55 (9), 904-917. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaaa120
Cheval, B., Sivaramakrishnan, H., Maltagliati, S., Fessler, L., Forestier, C., Sarrazin, P., Orsholits, D., Chalabaev, A., Sander, D., Ntoumanis, N., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2021). Relationships between changes in self-reported physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in France and Switzerland. Journal of Sports Sciences, 39 (6), 699-704. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2020.1841396
Dukes, D., Abrams, K., Adolphs, R., Ahmed, M. E., Beatty, A., Berridge, K. C., Broomhall, S., Brosch, T., Campos, J. J., Clay, Z., Clément, F., Cunningham, W., Damasio, A., Damasio, H., D'Arms, J., Davidson, J., de Gelder, B., Deonna, J., de Sousa, R., Ekman, P., Ellsworth, P., Fehr, E., Fischer, A., Foolen, A., Frevert, U., Grandjean, D., Gratch, J., Greenberg, L., Greenspan, P., Gross, J., Halperin, E., Kappas, A., Keltner, D., Knutson, B., Konstan, D., Kret, M., LeDoux, J., Lerner, J., Levenson, R. W., Loewenstein, G., Manstead, A., Maroney, T., Moors, A., Niedenthal, P., Parkinson, B., Pavlidis, I., Pelachaud, C., Pollak, S., Pourtois, G., Röttger-Rössler, B., Russell, J. A., Sauter, D., Scarantino, A., Scherer, K., Stearns, P., Stets, J., Tappolet, C., Teroni, F., Tsai, J., Turner, J., Van Reekum, C., Vuilleumier, P., Wharton, T., & Sander, D. (2021). The rise of affectivism. Nature Human Behaviour, 5 , 816-820. doi: 10.1038/S41562-021-01130-8
Ischer, M., Coppin, G., De Marles, A., Esselier, M., Porcherot, C., Gaudreau, N., Cayeux, I., Sander, D., & Delplanque, S. (2021). Exogenous capture of visual spatial attention by olfactory-trigeminal stimuli. PLoS ONE 16 (6), Article e025943. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252943
Maltagliati, S., Rebar, A., Fessler, L., Forestier, C., Sarrazin, P., Chalabaev, A., Sander, D., Sivaramakrishnan, H., Orsholits, D., Boisgontier, M. P., Ntoumanis, N., Gardner, B., & Cheval, B. (2021). Evolution of physical activity habits after a context change: The case of COVID-19 lockdown. British Journal of Health Psychology, 26 (4), 1135-1154. doi: 10.1111/bjhp.12524
Munoz Tord, D.*, Coppin, G.*, Pool, E. R., Mermoud, C., Pataky, Z., Sander, D., & Delplanque, S. (2021). 3D printed pacifier-shaped mouthpiece for fMRI-compatible gustometers. eNeuro, 8 (5), Article ENEURO.0208-21.2021. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0208-21.2021
Penić, S., Dukes, D., Elcheroth, G., Jayakody, S., & Sander, D. (2021). Beyond personal empathy: Perceiving inclusive empathy as socially shared predicts support for translational justice mechanisms. Affective Science, 2 , 402-413. doi: doi: 10.1007/s42761-021-00086-2
Stussi, Y.*, Sennwald, V.*, Pool, E. R., Delplanque, S., Brosch, T., Bianchi-Demicheli, F., & Sander, D. (2021). Individual concerns modulate reward-related learning and behaviors involving sexual outcomes. Motivation Science, 7 (4), 424-438. doi: 10.1037/mot0000249
van Assche, M., Simioni, S., Vrtička, P., Sander, D., Schluep, M., & Vuilleumier, P. (2021). Neuroimaging of emotional dysregulation in multiple sclerosis: relationship with alexithymia. Swiss Archives of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 172 , Article w03216. doi: 10.4414/sanp.2021.03216
Wharton, T., Bonard, C., Dukes, D., Sander, D., & Oswald, S. (2021). Relevance and Emotion. Journal of Pragmatics, 181 , 259-269. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.06.001
Zaharia, A., Noir-Kahlo, K., Bressoud, N., Sander, D., Dukes, D., & Samson, A. (2021). Proof of concept: A brief psycho-educational training program to increase the use of positive emotion regulation strategies in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 12 , Article 705937. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705937
Carlson, H., Leitão, J., Delplanque, S., Cayeux, I., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2020). Sustained effects of valenced smells on resting state brain activity. Cortex, 132 , 386-403. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.06.017
Cereghetti, D., Chillà, C., Porcherot, C., Sander, D., Cayeux, I., & Delplanque, S. (2020). LikeWant: A new methodology to measure implicit wanting for flavors and fragrances. Food Quality and Preference, 80 , Article 103829. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.103829
Cheval, B. Daou, M., Cabra, D., Bacelar, M. F. B., Parma, J. O., Forestier, C., Orsholits, D., Sander, D., Boisgontier, M. P., & Miller, M. W. (2020). Higher inhibitory control is required to escape the innate attraction to effort minimization. Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 51, Article 101781. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101781
Cheval, B., Miller, M. W., Orsholits, D., Berry, T., Sander, D., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2020). Physically active individuals look for more: An eye‐tracking study of attentional bias. Psychophysiology, 57 (6), Article e13582. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13582
Dell'Angela, L., Zaharia, A., Lobel, A., Begara, O., Sander, D., & Samson, A. (2020). Board games on emotional competences for school-age children. Games for Health Journal: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications, 9 (3), 187-196. doi: 10.1089/g4h.2019.0050
Denervaud, S., Fornari, E., Yang, X.-F., Hagmann, P., Immordino-Yang, M. H., & Sander, D. (2020). An fMRI study of error-monitoring in Montessori and traditionally-schooled children. npj Science of Learning , 5 , Article 11. doi: 10.1038/s41539-020-0069-6
Guex, R., Méndez-Bértolo, C., Moratti, S., Strange, B., Spinelli, L., Murray, R., Sander, D., Seeck, M., Vuilleumier, P., & Domínguez-Borràs, J. (2020). Temporal dynamics of amygdala response to emotion- and action-relevance. Scientific Reports, 10 , Article 11138. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67862-1
Humbert-Droz, S., Garcia, A., Sennwald, V., Teroni, F., Deonna, J., Sander, D., & Cova, F. (2020). Lost in intensity: Is there an empirical solution to the quasi-emotions debate? Aesthetic Investigations, 4 (1), 54-76. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4415555
Réveillon, M., Lazeyras, F., Van Calster, L., Cojan, Y., Sander, D., Hüppi, P. S., & Barisnikov, K. (2020). Neural functional correlates of the impact of socio-emotional stimuli on performances on a flanker task in children aged 9-11 years. Neuropsychologia, 145 , Article 106747. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.04.004
Sennwald, V., Pool, E. R., Delplanque, S., Bianchi-Demicheli, F., & Sander, D. (2020). Outcome-specific and general Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfers involving sexual rewards. Motivation Science, 6 (1), 79-83. doi: 10.1037/mot0000129
Tarditi, C., Hahnel, U. J. J., Jeanmonod, N., Sander, D., & Brosch, T. (2020). Affective dilemmas: The impact of trait affect and state emotion on sustainable consumption decisions in a social dilemma task. Environment and Behavior, 52 (1), 33-59. doi: 10.1177/0013916518787590
Cheval, B., Rebar, A. L., Miller, M. W., Sieber, S., Orsholits, D., Baranyi, G., Courvoisier, D., Cullati, S., Sander, D., Chalabaev, A., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2019). Cognitive resources moderate the adverse impact of poor perceived neighborhood conditions on self-reported physical activity of older adults. Preventive Medicine, 126 , Article 105741. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.05.029
Chillà, C., Cereghetti, D., Cayeux, I., Porcherot, C., Delplanque, S., & Sander, D. (2019). Measuring wanting without asking: The Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer paradigm under test. Food Quality and Preference, 78 , Article 103720. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.103720
Baer, T.*, Coppin, G.*, Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., Sander, D., & Delplanque, S. (2018). “Dior, J’adore”: Contextual information of luxury impacts emotional responses to perfumes. Food Quality and Preference, 69 , 36-43. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.12.003
Brosch, T., Stussi, Y., Desrichard, O., & Sander, D. (2018). Not my future? Core values and the neural representation of future events. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 18 (3), 476-484. doi: 10.3758/s13415-018-0581-9
Chatelain, G., Hille, S. L., Sander, D., Patel, M., Hahnel, U. J. J., & Brosch, T. (2018). Feel good, stay green: Positive affect promotes pro-environmental behaviors and mitigates compensatory “mental bookkeeping” effects. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 56 , 3-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.02.002
Cheval, B., Radel, R., Neva, J. L., Boyd, L. A., Swinnen, S. P., Sander, D., & Boisgontier, M. P. (2018). Behavioral and neural evidence of the rewarding value of exercise behaviors: A Systematic review. Sports Medicine, 48 (6), 1389-1404. doi: 10.1007/s40279-018-0898-0
Montagrin, A., Sterpenich, V., Brosch, T., Grandjean, D., Armony, J., Ceravolo, L., & Sander, D. (2018). Goal-relevant situations facilitate memory of neutral faces. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 18 (6), 1269-1282. doi: 10.3758/s13415-018-0637-x
Stussi, Y., Delplanque, S., Coraj, S., Pourtois, G., & Sander, D. (2018). Measuring Pavlovian appetitive conditioning in humans with the postauricular reflex. Psychophysiology, 55 (8), Article e13073. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13073
Audrin, C., Ceravolo, L., Chanal, J., Brosch, T., & Sander, D. (2017). Associating a product with a luxury brand label modulates neural reward processing and favors choices in materialistic individuals. Scientific Reports, 7 , Article 16176. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16544-6
Debanné, M., Badoud, D., Sander, D., Eliez, S., Luyten, P., & Vrticka, P. (2017). Brain activity underlying negative self- and other-perception in adolescents: The role of attachment-derived self-representations. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 17 (31), 554-576. doi: 10.3758/s13415-017-0497-9
Kalisch, R., Baker, D. G., Basten, U., Boks, M. P., Bonanno, G. A., Brummelman, B., Chmitorz, A., Fernàndez, G., Fiebach, C. J., Galatzer-Levy, I., Geuze, E., Groppa, S., Helmreich, I., Hendler, T., Hermans, E. J., Jovanovic, T., Kubiak, T., Lieb, K., Lutz, B., Müller, M. B., Murray, R. J., Nievergelt, C. M., Reif, A., Roelofs, K., Rutten B. P. F., Sander, D., Schick, A., Tüscher, O., Van Diest, I., van Harmelen, A.-L., Veer, I. M., Vermetten, E., Vinkers, C. H., Wager, T. D., Walter, H., Wessa, M., Wibral, M., & Kleim, B. (2017). The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders: Current challenges and future perspectives. Nature Human Behaviour, 1 , 784-790. doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0200-8
Shuman, V., Clark-Polner, E., Meuleman, B., Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2017). Emotion perception from a componential perspective. Cognition and Emotion, 31 , 47-56. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1075964
Coppin, G., Pool, E. R., Delplanque, S., Oud, B., Margot, C., Sander, D., & Van Bavel, J. (2016). Swiss identity smells like chocolate: Social identity shapes olfactory judgments. Scientific Reports, 6 , Article 34979. doi: 10.1038/srep34979
Franchini, M., Schaer, M., Glaser, B., Kott-Radecka, M., Debanné, M., Schneider, M., Menghetti, S., Sander, D., & Eliez, S. (2016). Visual processing of emotional dynamic faces in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 60 (4), 308-321. doi: 10.1111/jir.12250
Pool, E. R., Sennwald, V., Delplanque, S., Brosch, T., & Sander, D. (2016). Measuring wanting and liking from animals to humans: A systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 63 , 124-142. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.01.006
Sennwald, V., Pool., E. R., Brosch, T., Delplanque, S., Bianchi-Demicheli, F., & Sander, D. (2016). Emotional attention for erotic stimuli: Cognitive and brain mechanisms. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 524 , 1668-1675. doi: 10.1002/cne.23859
Burger, P., Bezençon, V., Bornemann, B., Brosch, T., Carabias-Hütter, V., Farsi, M., Hille, S. L., Moser, C., Ramseier, C., Samuel, R., Sander, D., Schmidt, S., Sohre, A., & Volland, B. (2015). Advances in understanding energy consumption behavior and the governance of its change - outline of an integrated framework. Frontiers in Energy Research, 3 , Article 29. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2015.00029
Delplanque, S., Coppin, G., Bloesch, L., Cayeux, I., Porcherot, C., & Sander, D. (2015). Mere exposure effect depends on an odour’s initial pleasantness. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 , Article 920. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00920
Ferdenzi, C., Delplanque, S., Mehu-Blantar, I., Da Paz Cabral, K. M., Domingos Felicio, M., & Sander, D. (2015). The GEneva Faces And Voices (GEFAV) database. Behavior Research Methods, 47 (4), 1120-1121. doi: 10.3758/s13428-014-0545-0
Pichon, A., Coppin, G., Cayeux, I., Porcherot, C., Sander, D., & Delplanque, S. (2015). Sensitivity of physiological emotional measures to odors depends on the product and the pleasantness range used. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 , Article 1821. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01821
Coppin, G., Delplanque, S., Bernard, C., Cekic, S., Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., & Sander, D. (2014). Choice both affects and reflects preferences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67 (7), 1415-1427. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2013.863953
Debbané, M., Vrticka, P., Lazouret, M., Badoud, D., Sander, D., & Eliez, S. (2014). Self-reflection and positive schizotypy in the adolescent brain. Schizophrenia Research, 152 (1), 65-72. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.06.027
Ischer, M., Baron, N., Mermoud, C., Cayeux, I., Porcherot, C., Sander, D., & Delplanque, S. (2014). How incorporation of scents could enhance immersive virtual experiences. Frontiers in Psychology, 5 , Article 736. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00736
Pool, E. R., Delplanque, S., Porcherot, C., Jenkins, T., Cayeux, I., & Sander, D. (2014). Sweet reward increases implicit discrimination of similar odors. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8 , Article 158. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00158
Vrticka, P., Sander, D., Anderson, B., Badoud, D., Eliez, S., & Debbané, M. (2014). Social feedback processing from early to late adolescence: Influence of sex, age, and attachment style. Brain and Behavior, 4 (5), 703-720. doi: 10.1002/brb3.251
Brosch. T., Scherer. K. R., Grandjean, D., & Sander, D. (2013). The impact of emotion on perception, attention, memory, and decision-making. Swiss Medical Weekly, 143 , Article w13786. doi: 10.4414/smw.2013.13786
Ferdenzi, C., Delplanque, S., Barbosa, P., Court, K., Guinard, J. X., Guo, T., Roberts, S. C., Schirmer, A., Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., Sander, D., & Grandjean, D. (2013). Affective semantic space of scents. Towards a universal scale to measure self-reported odor-related feelings. Food Quality and Preference, 30 , 128-138. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.04.010
Ferdenzi, C., Patel, S., Mehu-Blantar, I., Khidasheli, M., Sander, D., & Delplanque, S. (2013). Voice attractiveness: Influence of stimulus duration and type. Behavior Research Methods, 45 , 405-413. doi: 10.3758/s13428-012-0275-0
Ferdenzi, C., Roberts, S. C., Schirmer, A., Delplanque, S., Cekic, S., Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., Sander, D., & Grandjean, D. (2013). Variability of affective responses to odors: Culture, gender, and olfactory knowledge. Chemical Senses, 38 (2), 175-186. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjs083
Vrticka, P., Simioni, S., Fornari, E., Schluep, M., Vuilleumier, P., & Sander, D. (2013). Neural substrates of social emotion regulation: A fMRI study on imitation and expressive suppression to dynamic facial signals. Frontiers in Psychology, 4 , Article 95. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00095
Bediou, B., Koban, L., Rosset, S., Pourtois, G., & Sander, D. (2012). Delayed monitoring of accuracy errors compared to commission errors in ACC. NeuroImage, 60 (4), 1925-1936. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.010
Bediou, B., Sacharin, V., Hill, C., Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2012). Sharing the fruit of labor: Flexible application of justice principles in an Ultimatum Game with joint-production. Social Justice Research, 25 (1), 25-40. doi: 10.1007/s11211-012-0151-1
Coppin, G., Delplanque, S., Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., & Sander, D. (2012). When flexibility is stable: Implicit long-term shaping of olfactory preferences. PLoS One, 7 (6), Article e37857. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037857
Delplanque, S., Chrea, C., Grandjean, D., Ferdenzi, C., Cayeux, I., Porcherot, C., Le Calvé, B., Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2012). How to map the affective semantic space of scents. Cognition and Emotion, 26 (5), 885-898. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2011.628301
Nahum, L., Barcellona-Lehmann, S., Morand, S., Sander, D., & Schnider, A. (2012). Intrinsic emotional relevance of outcomes and prediction error: Their influence on early processing of subsequent stimulus during reversal learning. Journal of Psychophysiology, 26 (1), 42-50. doi: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000066
Brosch, T., Coppin, G., Scherer, K. R., Schwartz, S., & Sander, D. (2011). Generating value(s): Psychological value hierarchies reflect context dependent sensitivity of the reward system. Social Neuroscience, 6 (2), 198-208. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2010.506754
Brosch, T., Pourtois, G., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2011). Additive effects of emotional, endogenous, and exogenous attention: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Neuropsychologia, 49 (7), 1779-1787. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.056
Ferdenzi, C., Schirmer, A., Roberts, S. C., Delplanque, S., Porcherot, C., Cayeux, I., Velazco, M. I., Sander, D., Scherer, K. R., & Grandjean, D. (2011). Affective dimensions of odor perception: A comparison between Swiss, British, and Singaporean populations. Emotion, 11 (5), 1168-1181. doi: 10.1037/a0022853
Jarlier, S., Grandjean, D., Delplanque, S., N'Diaye, K., Cayeux, I., Velazco, M. I., Sander, D., Vuilleumier, P., & Scherer, K. R. (2011). Thermal analysis of facial muscles contractions. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2 (1), 2-9. doi: 10.1109/t-affc.2011.3
Coppin, G., Delplanque, S., Cayeux, I., Porcherot, C., & Sander, D. (2010). I’m no longer torn after choice: How explicit choices implicitly shape preferences of odors. Psychological Science, 21 (4), 489-493. doi: 10.1177/0956797610364115
Cristinzio, C., N’Diaye, K., Seeck, M., Vuilleumier, P., & Sander, D. (2010). Integration of gaze direction and facial expression in patients with unilateral amygdala damage. Brain, 133 (1), 248-261. doi: 10.1093/brain/awp255
Nahum, L., Simon, S. R., Sander, D., Lazeyras, F., & Schnider, A. (2010). Neural response to the behaviorally relevant absence of anticipated outcomes and the presentation of potentially harmful stimuli: A human fMRI study. Cortex, 47 (2), 191-201. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.11.007
Roesch, E. B., Sander, D., Mumenthaler, C., Kerzel, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2010). Psychophysics of emotion: The QUEST for emotion perception. Journal of Vision, 10 (3), 4. doi: 10.1167/10.3.4
Roesch, E. B, Tamarit, L., Reveret, L., Grandjean, D., Sander D., & Scherer K. R. (2010). FACSGen: A tool to synthesize realistic, static and dynamic emotional facial expressions based on facial action units. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 35 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10919-010-0095-9
Bach, D. R., Herdener, M., Grandjean, D., Sander, D., Seifritz, E., & Strik, W. K. (2009). Altered lateralisation of emotional prosody processing in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 110 (1-3), 180-187. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2009.02.011
Chrea, C., Grandjean, D., Delplanque, S., Cayeux, I., Le Calvé, B., Aymard, L., Velazco, M. I., Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2009). Mapping the semantic space for the subjective experience of emotional responses to odors. Chemical Senses, 34 (1), 49-62. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjn052
Delplanque, S., Grandjean, D., Chrea, A., Coppin, G., Aymard, L., Cayeux, I., Le Calvé, B., Margot, C., Velazco, M. I., Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2009). Sequential unfolding of novelty and pleasantness appraisals of odors: Evidence from facial electromyography and autonomic reactions. Emotion, 9 (3), 316-328. doi: 10.1037/a0015369
Bach, D. R., Grandjean, D., Sander, D., Herdener, M., Strik, W. K., & Seifritz, E. (2008). The effect of appraisal level on processing of emotional prosody in meaningless speech. NeuroImage, 42 (2), 919-927. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.05.034
Delplanque, S., Grandjean D., Chrea, C., Aymard, L., Cayeux, I., Le Calvé, B., Velazco, M. I., Scherer, K. R., & Sander, D. (2008). Emotional processing of odors: Evidence for a non-linear relation between pleasantness and familiarity evaluations. Chemical Senses, 33 (5), 469-479. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjn014
Grandjean, D., Sander, D., Lucas, N., Scherer, K. R., & Vuilleumier, P. (2008). Effects of emotional prosody on auditory extinction for voices in patients with spatial neglect. Neuropsychologia, 46 (2), 487-496. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.08.025
Vrticka, P., Andersson, F., Grandjean, D., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2008). Individual attachment style modulates human amygdala and striatum activation during social appraisal. PLoS One, 3 (8), e2868. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002868
Sander, D., Grandjean, D, Kaiser, S., Wehrle, T., & Scherer, K. R. (2007). Interaction effects of perceived gaze direction and dynamic facial expression: Evidence for appraisal theories of emotion. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19 (3), 470-480. doi: 10.1080/09541440600757426
Grandjean, D.*, Sander, D.*, Pourtois, G., Schwartz, S., Seghier, M., Scherer, K. R., & Vuilleumier, P. (2005). The voices of wrath: Brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless speech. Nature Neuroscience, 8 (2), 145-146. doi: 10.1038/nn1392
Pourtois, G., Dan, E., Grandjean, D., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2005). Enhanced extrastriate visual response to band-pass spatial frequency filtered fearful faces: Time course and topographic evoked-potentials. Human Brain Mapping, 26 (1), 65-79. doi 10.1002/hbm.20130
Sander, D.*, Grandjean, D.*, Pourtois, G., Schwartz, S., Seghier, M., Scherer, K. R., & Vuilleumier, P. (2005). Emotion and attention interactions in social cognition: Brain regions involved in processing anger prosody. NeuroImage, 28 (4), 848-858. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.06.023
Sander, D., Koenig, O., Georgieff, N., Terra, J.-L., & Franck, N. (2005). Processus émotionnel dans la schizophrénie : étude de la composante d'évaluation. L'Encéphale, 31 (6), 672-682. doi: 10.1016/s0013-7006(05)82425-x
Pourtois, G., Sander, D., Andres, M., Grandjean, D., Reveret, L., Olivier, E., & Vuilleumier, P. (2004). Dissociable roles of the human somatosensory and superior temporal cortices for processing social face signals. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20 (12), 3507-3515. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03794.x
Books and Chapters 2025
Sander, D. (2025). Theories of emotion for human affective neuroscience. In J. Armony & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of human affective neuroscience (2nd ed., pp. 7-32). Cambridge University Press.
Kragel, P. A., Sander, D., & LaBar, K. S. (2024). How can brain data be used to arbitrate among emotion theories? In A. Scarantino (Ed.), Emotion theory: The Routledge comprehensive guide (Vol. 1, pp. 511-542). Routledge.
Samson, A. C., Sander, D., & Kramer, U. (Eds.). (2024). Change in emotion and mental health . Academic Press.
Samson, A. C., Sander, D., & Kramer, U. (2024). Preparing the next generation of studies on change in emotion and mental health. In A. C. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health (pp. 357-371). Academic Press.
Samson, A. C., Sander, D., & Kramer, U. (2024). Summary of the recommendations for research on change in emotion and mental health. In A. C. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health (pp. 345-356). Academic Press.
Zaharia, A., Dell’Angela, L., Sander, D., & Samson, A. C. (2022). Play and games: means to support emotional development. In D. Dukes, A. C. Samson, & E. A. Walle (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of emotional development (pp. 354-369). Oxford University Press.
Coppin, G., & Sander, D. (2021). Theoretical approaches to emotion and its measurement. In H. Meiselman (Ed.), Emotion measurement (2nd ed., pp. 3-37). Woodhead Publishing.
Pool, E. R., & Sander, D. (2021). Emotional learning: Measuring how affective values are acquired and updated. In H. L. Meiselman (Ed.), Emotion measurement (2nd ed., pp. 133-165). Woodhead Publishing.
Mumenthaler, C., & Sander, D. (2019). Socio-affective inferential mechanisms involved in emotion recognition. In D. Dukes & F. Clément (Eds.), Foundations of affective social learning: Conceptualizing the social transmission of value (pp. 142-164). Cambridge University Press.
Audrin, C., & Sander, D. (2018). Les biais dans les processus décisionnels. Dans L. Hirsch & C. Imhoos (Eds.), Arbitrage, médiation et autres modes pour résoudre les conflits autrement (pp. 463-471). Schultheiss Éditions Romandes.
Pichon, A., & Sander, D. (2018). Ingrédients, odeurs et émotions. Dans M. Grisel & G. Savary (Eds.), Matières premières cosmétiques . Lavoisier.
Cova, F., Deonna, J., & Sander, D. (2017). "That's deep!": The role of being moved and feeling of profundity in the appreciation of serious narratives. In T. Blake & D. R. Wehrs (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of affect studies and textual criticism . Palgrave Macmillan
Delplanque, S., Coppin, G., & Sander, D. (2017). Emotion and odors: Beyond valence. In A. Buettner (Ed.), Springer handbook of odor (pp. 787-797). Springer
Sander, D., & Herschdorfer, D. (2017). Emotions . Benteli.
Coppin, G., & Sander, D. (2016). Theoretical approaches to emotion and its measurement. In H. Meiselman (Ed.), Emotion measurement (pp 3-30). Woodhead Publishing.
Brosch, T., & Sander, D. (Eds.) (2015). Handbook of value . Oxford University Press.
Sander, D. (Ed.) (2015). Le monde des émotions . Belin.
Coppin, G., & Sander, D. (2013). Neuropsychologie affective et olfaction : Etudier la sensibilité de l’amygdale aux odeurs pour tester les théories de l’émotion [Affective neuropsychology and olfaction: Investigate amygdala sensitivity to smells to test theories of emotion]. Dans B. Schaal, C. Ferdenzi & O. Wathelet (Eds.). Odeurs et emotions. Le nez a ses raisons… [Odors and emotions. The nose has its reasons… ] (pp. 383-398). Université de Bourgogne : Editions Universitaires de Dijon, France.
Sander, D. (2013). Models of emotion: The affective neuroscience approach. In J. L. Armony & P. Vuilleumier (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of human affective neuroscience (pp. 5-53). Cambridge University Press.
Bediou, B., Sander, D., & Scherer. K. (2012). Régulation des émotions et processus d'évaluation. In M. Desseilles & M. Mikolajczak (Eds), Traité de la régulation émotionnelle (pp. 117-132). Deboeck.
Brosch, T., & Sander, D. (2012). Le rôle de l’amygdale dans l’émotion et la cognition sociale [The role of the amygdala in emotion and social cognition]. Dans P. Allain, G. Aubin, & D. Le Gall (Eds.), Cognition sociale et neuropsychologie (pp. 129-144). Solal.
Korsten, N., Roesch, E. B., Fragopanagos, N., Taylor, J. G., Grandjean, D., & Sander, D. (2011). Biological and computational constraints to psychological modelling of emotion. In Petta et al. (Eds.), Handbook for research on emotions and human-machine interactions . Springer-Verlag.
Sander, D. & Schwartz, S. (2010). Au coeur des émotions . Le pommier.
Delplanque, S., & Sander, D. (2009). Odour and Emotion. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 288-289). Oxford University Press.
Korb, S., & Sander, D. (2009). Facial expression of emotion (Neural architecture of). In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 173-175). Oxford University Press.
Sander, D. (2009). The amygdala. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (pp. 28–32). Oxford University Press.
Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2009). Psychologie des émotions : Survol des théories et débats. Dans D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Traité de Psychologie des émotions (pp. 3–39). Dunod.
Scherer, K. R., Sangsue, J., & Sander, D. (2008). De la psychologie à la psychopathologie des émotions. Dans M. Van der Linden & G. Ceschi (Eds.), Traité de psychopathologie cognitive (pp. 23-55). Solal.
Pourtois, G., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2007). Dynamique temporelle de l’attention émotionnelle : apports de l’imagerie cérébrale fonctionnelle. Dans G. Michael (Ed.), Neuroscience cognitive de l’attention visuelle (pp. 265-298). Solal.
Roesch, E. B., Sander, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2007). The link between temporal attention and emotion: A playground for psychology, neuroscience, and plausible artificial neural networks. In J. Marques de Sa et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the international conference on artificial neural networks, 2 , (pp. 859–868). Springer-Verlag.
Scherer, K. R., & Sander, D. (2005). The musical tuning of the brain. [Review of the book Tone of voice and mind]. Music Perception, 23 (1), 87-90.
Sander, D., & Koenig, O. (2001). Vers un modèle computationnel des mécanismes émotionnels. Dans J. Caron-Pargue, V. Nyckees, & H. Paugam-Moisy (Eds.), La cognition entre individu et société : des modèles et des méthodes . Hermès.
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