Thomas Wolfgang Schubert

Professor - Metode, arbeids-, kultur- og sosialpsyk

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Email t.w.schubert@psykologi.uio.no

Mobile phone +47-46299581

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Visiting address Forskningsveien 3A Harald Schjelderups hus 0373 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1094 Blindern 0317 Oslo

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Academic Interests

Social emotions - especially kama muta aka being moved to tears
Social relations
psychology of climate change mitigation and adaptation
embodiment
Virtual reality
Open source hard- and software for experimental psychology

Teaching

Local Academic Coordinator of Global-MINDS

Course responsible for and teaching in Introduction to Social Psychology, PSY1100

Applied Social Psychology in the HUS MA, PSY4111

Promoting Change through Social Psychology, PSY4130

Higher education and employment history

Master in Psychology (Diploma) from University of Jena, 1998
PhD in Social Psychology from University of Jena, 2001
Postdoc and Lecturer at Universities of Jena and Würzburg, 2001 - 2006
Postdoc with Fellowship from Humboldt Foundation at Free University Amsterdam and University Utrecht, 2006 - 2008
Independent Researcher at ISCTE, Lisboa, 2008 - 2012

Cooperation

Department of Anthropology, UCLA
CIS-IUL, ISCTE-IUL, Lisboa
Information Science, University of Otago

Tags: Social Psychology

Lizarazo Pereira, D. M., Schubert, T. W., & Roth, J. (2022). Moved by social justice: the role of Kama muta in collective action toward racial equality. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 780615.
Diana Lizarazo's MA thesis that I supervised together with Jenny Roth. Diana works now for CEPI
Petersen, E., Fiske, A. P., & Schubert, T. W. (2019). The role of social relational emotions for human-nature connectedness. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 498311.
Part of Evi Petersen's PhD thesis that I co-supervised. Evi is now at OsloMet
Schubert, T. W. (2020). Grounding of rank: Embodiment, space, and magnitude. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 222-226.
Zickfeld, J. H., Schubert, T. W., Seibt, B., Blomster, J. K., Arriaga, P., Basabe, N., ... & Fiske, A. P. (2019). Kama muta: Conceptualizing and measuring the experience often labelled being moved across 19 nations and 15 languages. Emotion, 19(3), 402.
Part of Janis Zickfeld's PhD thesis that I supervised. Janis is now at Aarhus University

Steinnes, Kamilla Knutsen; Blomster Lyshol, Johanna Katarina; Zickfeld, Janis H.; Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang & Seibt, Beate (2024). Kama Muta: The Cuteness Emotion. In Al-Shawaf, Laith & Shackelford, Todd K. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197544754. p. 339–356. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.16.
Brito, Rodrigo; Waldzus, Sven; Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang; Sekerdej, Maciej; Louceiro, Ana & Simão, Cláudia (2023). Commensality constitutes communalism: Producing emergent bonds in experimental small groups by sharing food and drink. European Journal of Social Psychology. ISSN 0046-2772. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2956.
Herting, Anders Kuvaas & Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang (2022). Valence, sensations and appraisals co-occurring with feeling moved: evidence on kama muta theory from intra-individually cross-correlated time series. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2022.2089871.
Pereira, Diana M. Lizarazo; Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang & Roth, Jenny (2022). Moved by Social Justice: The Role of Kama Muta in Collective Action Toward Racial Equality. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.780615.
Grüning, David J. & Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang (2021). Emotional Campaigning in Politics: Being Moved and Anger in Political Ads Motivate to Support Candidate and Party. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.781851.
Janicke-Bowles, Sophie H.; Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang & Blomster Lyshol, Johanna Katarina (2021). Kama Muta as a Eudaimonic Entertainment Experience. In Vorderer, Peter & Klimmt, Christoph (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Entertainment Theory. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190072216. p. 402–418. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190072216.013.22.
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; van de Ven, Niels; Pich, Olivia; Schubert, Thomas; Vuoskoski, Jonna Katariina & Vingerhoets, Ad J.J.M. (2021). Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. ISSN 0022-1031. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137. Full text in Research Archive
Wang, Yin; Schubert, Thomas & Quadflieg, Susanne (2020). Behavioral and neural evidence for an evaluative bias against other people's mundane interracial encounters. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. ISSN 1749-5016. 14(12), p. 1329–1339. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsaa005.
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Arriaga, Patrícia; Vilar Santos, S.; Schubert, Thomas & Seibt, Beate (2020). Tears of joy, aesthetic chills and heartwarming feelings: Physiological correlates of Kama Muta. Psychophysiology. ISSN 0048-5772. 57(12). doi: 10.1111/psyp.13662. Full text in Research Archive
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Herting, Anders Kuvaas; Grahe, Jon E. & Faasse, Kate (2020). Correlates of Health-Protective Behavior During the Initial Days of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Norway. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.564083. Full text in Research Archive
Prendergast, Claire Nicole & Schubert, Thomas (2020). Investigating Reflexive Responses to Explicit and Implicit Forms of Social Exclusion Using Immersive Virtual Environment Technology. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575783. Full text in Research Archive
Schubert, Thomas (2020). Grounding of rank: embodiment, space, and magnitude. Current Opinion in Psychology. ISSN 2352-250X. 33, p. 222–226. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.09.012. Full text in Research Archive
Hu, Chuan-Peng; Yin, Ji-Xing; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Dalğar, İlker; Weissgerber, Sophia C. & Vergara, Rodrigo C. [Show all 32 contributors for this article] (2019). Data from the Human Penguin Project, a cross-national dataset testing social thermoregulation principles. Scientific Data. ISSN 2052-4463. 6:32, p. 1–7. doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0029-2. Full text in Research Archive
Petersen, Evi; Fiske, Alan Page & Schubert, Thomas (2019). The role of social relational emotions for human-nature connectedness. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 10:2759, p. 1–6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02759. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Little is known about the psychological processes through which people connect to nature. From social psychology, we know that emotions play an essential role when connecting to others. In this article, we argue that social connectedness and connectedness to nature are underpinned by the same emotions. More specifically, we propose that social relational emotions are crucial to understanding the process through which humans connect to nature. Beside other emotions, kama muta (Sanskrit: being moved by love) might play a particular crucial role when connecting to nature. Future research should consider the role of social relational emotions in human-nature relationships.
Giessner, Steffen Robert & Schubert, Thomas (2019). Power and vertical positions in an organization chart: A pre-registered replication report of study 3A and a modification of study 1A, Giessner & Schubert (2007). Collabra: Psychology. ISSN 2474-7394. 5(1). doi: 10.1525/collabra.216. Full text in Research Archive
Zhang, Pengfei; Schubert, Thomas & Zhu, Lei (2019). The effect of secondary task on the association between power and space. Social Cognition. ISSN 0278-016X. 37(1), p. 1–17. doi: 10.1521/soco.2019.37.1.1.
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate & Fiske, Alan P. (2019). Moving Through the Literature: What Is the Emotion Often Denoted Being Moved? Emotion Review. ISSN 1754-0739. doi: 10.1177/1754073918820126. Full text in Research Archive
Fiske, Alan Page; Seibt, Beate & Schubert, Thomas (2019). The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It. Emotion Review. ISSN 1754-0739. 11(1), p. 74–86. doi: 10.1177/1754073917723167. Full text in Research Archive
IJzerman, Hans; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Dalgar, Ilker; Weissgerber, Sophia C.; Vergara, Rodrigo C. & Cairo, Athena [Show all 31 contributors for this article] (2018). The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature. Collabra: Psychology. ISSN 2474-7394. 4(1). doi: 10.1525/collabra.165.
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; van de Ven, Niels; Schubert, Thomas & Vingerhoets, Ad J.J.M. (2018). Are tearful individuals perceived as less competent? Probably not. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. ISSN 2374-3603. doi: 10.1080/23743603.2018.1514254. Full text in Research Archive
Holmgren, Jostein; Isager, Peder Mortvedt & Schubert, Thomas (2018). Evidence for magnitude representations of social hierarchies: Size and distance effects. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 13(9). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203263.
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate; Blomster, Johanna Katarina; Arriaga, Patrícia & Basabe, Nekane [Show all 35 contributors for this article] (2018). Kama Muta: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Experience Often Labelled Being Moved Across 19 Nations and 15 Languages . Emotion. ISSN 1528-3542. 19(3), p. 402–424. doi: 10.1037/emo0000450. Full text in Research Archive
Toscano, Hugo; Schubert, Thomas & Giessner, Steffen Robert (2018). Eye Gaze and Head Posture Jointly Influence Judgments of Dominance, Physical Strength, and Anger. Journal of nonverbal behavior. ISSN 0191-5886. p. 1–25. doi: 10.1007/s10919-018-0276-5. Full text in Research Archive
Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Fiske, Alan Page (2018). Touching the Base: Heart-Warming Ads from the 2016 U.S. Election Moved Viewers to Partisan Tears. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. 33, p. 197–212. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1441128. Full text in Research Archive
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Schubert, Thomas (2018). Warm and Touching Tears: Tearful Individuals are Perceived as Warmer Because We Assume They Feel Moved and Touched. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. 32(8), p. 1691–1699. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1430556. Full text in Research Archive
Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Seibt, Beate & Fiske, Alan Page (2018). Moment-to-moment changes in feeling moved match changes in closeness, tears, goosebumps, and warmth: time series analyses. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. 32(1), p. 174–184. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1268998.
Fiske, Alan Page; Schubert, Thomas & Seibt, Beate (2017). “Kama muta” or ‘being moved by love’: A bootstrapping approach to the ontology and epistemology of an emotion. In Cassaniti, Julia L. & Menon, Usha (Ed.), Universalism without uniformity: Explorations in mind and culture. University of Chicago Press. ISSN 022650168X. p. 79–100. doi: https:/doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226501710.001.0001.
Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Zhu, Lei; Arriaga, Patrícia & Simão, Cláudia [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2017). Kama Muta: Similar emotional responses to touching videos across the US, Norway, China, Israel, and Portugal. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. ISSN 0022-0221. 49(3), p. 418–435. doi: 10.1177/0022022117746240.
Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Blomster, Johanna Katarina & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Being moved is a positive emotion, and emotions should not be equated with their vernacular labels. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 40(e374). doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001820.
Lu, Lifeng; Schubert, Thomas & Zhu, Lei (2017). The spatial representation of power in children. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. p. 1–11. doi: 10.1007/s10339-017-0814-9. Full text in Research Archive
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich; Schubert, Thomas; Seibt, Beate & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Empathic Concern is Part of A More General Communal Emotion. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 8(MAY). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00723. Full text in Research Archive
Seibt, Beate; Schubert, Thomas; Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Fiske, Alan Page (2017). Interpersonal closeness and morality predict feelings of being moved. Emotion. ISSN 1528-3542. 17(3), p. 389–394. doi: 10.1037/emo0000271. Full text in Research Archive
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Schubert, Thomas (2016). Revisiting and Extending a Response Latency Measure of Inclusion of the Other in the Self. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. ISSN 2374-3603. 1(1-3), p. 106–129. doi: 10.1080/23743603.2017.1298356. Full text in Research Archive
Toscano, Hugo; Schubert, Thomas; Dotsch, Ron; Falvello, Virginia & Todorov, Alexander (2016). Physical Strength as a Cue to Dominance: A Data-Driven Approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. ISSN 0146-1672. 42(12), p. 1603–1616. doi: 10.1177/0146167216666266.
Jostmann, Nils B; Lakens, Daniel & Schubert, Thomas (2016). A short history of the weight-importance effect and a recommendation for pre-testing: Commentary on Ebersole et al. (2016). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. ISSN 0022-1031. 67, p. 93–94. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.12.001.
Toscano, Hugo & Schubert, Thomas (2015). Judged and remembered trustworthiness of faces is enhanced by experiencing multisensory synchrony and asynchrony in the right order. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 10(12). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145664. Full text in Research Archive
Seibt, Beate; Waldzus, Sven; Schubert, Thomas & Brito, Rodrigo (2015). Conservatism is not the missing viewpoint for true diversity. Commentary on Duarte et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 38:e157, p. 38–39. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X14001290. Full text in Research Archive
Toscano, Hugo; Schubert, Thomas & Sell, Aaron N. (2014). Judgments of dominance from the face track physical strength. Evolutionary Psychology. ISSN 1474-7049. 12(1), p. 1–18. doi: 10.1177/147470491401200101. Full text in Research Archive
Schubert, Lisa; Schubert, Thomas & Topolinski, Sascha (2013). The effect of spatial elevation on respect depends on merit and medium. Social Psychology. ISSN 1864-9335. 44, p. 147–159. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000134.
IJzerman, Hans; Karremans, Johan; Thomsen, Lotte & Schubert, Thomas (2013). Caring for sharing: How attachment styles modulate communal cues of physical warmth. Social Psychology. ISSN 1864-9335. 44, p. 160–166. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000142.
Schubert, Thomas; D'Ausilio, Alessandro & Canto, Rosario (2013). Using Arduino microcontroller boards to measure response latencies. Behavior Research Methods. ISSN 1554-351X. 45, p. 1332–1346. doi: 10.3758/s13428-013-0336-z. Full text in Research Archive
Schubert, Thomas; Murteira, Carla; Collins, Elizabeth C. & Lopes, Diniz (2013). ScriptingRT: A Software Library for Collecting Response Latencies in Online Studies of Cognition. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 8(6). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067769. Full text in Research Archive
Giessner, Steffen R.; Ryan, Michelle K.; Schubert, Thomas & Quaquebeke, Nils (2011). The Power of Pictures: Vertical Picture Angles in Power Pictures. Media Psychology. ISSN 1521-3269. 14(4), p. 442–464. doi: 10.15213269.2011.620541.

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Petersen, Evi & Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang (2021). How kama muta connects people to nature?
Schubert, Thomas Wolfgang & Grüning, David J. (2021). Proper understanding of grounded procedures of separation needs a dual inheritance approach. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000394.
Schubert, Thomas & Grüning, David J. (2020). Proper understanding of grounded procedures of separation needs a dual inheritance approach. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 44, p. 51–52. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000394.
Zickfeld, Janis Heinrich & Schubert, Thomas (2019). How to identify and how to conduct research that is informative and reproducible. In Valsiner, Jaan (Eds.), Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences. Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-030-33098-9. p. 147–168.
IJzerman, Hans; Čolić, Marija V.; Hennecke, M.; Hong, Youngki; Hu, Chuan-Peng & Joy-Gaba, Jennifer [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2017). Does distance from the equator predict self-control? Lessons from the Human Penguin Project. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 40:e86, p. 22–23. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001035. Full text in Research Archive

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Social Psychology Research Group