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Public speaking training in front of a supportive audience in Virtual Reality improves performance in real-life by Kroczek, Leon O. H., Mühlberger, Andreas

“…Public speaking is a challenging task that requires practice. Virtual Reality allows to present realistic public speaking scenarios in this regard, however,…”
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Face masks reduce interpersonal distance in virtual reality by Kroczek, Leon O. H., Böhme, Stephanie, Mühlberger, Andreas

“…During the COVID-19 pandemic several behavioral measures have been implemented to reduce viral transmission. While these measures reduce the risk of…”
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Angry facial expressions bias towards aversive actions by Kroczek, Leon O. H, Lingnau, Angelika, Schwind, Valentin, Wolff, Christian, Mühlberger, Andreas

“…Social interaction requires fast and efficient processing of another person’s intentions. In face-to-face interactions, aversive or appetitive actions…”
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Cigarette craving in virtual reality cue exposure in abstainers and relapsed smokers by Schröder, Benedikt, Kroczek, Agnes, Kroczek, Leon O. H., Ehlis, Ann-Christine, Batra, Anil, Mühlberger, Andreas

“…Cue exposure therapy (CET) in substance-use disorders aims to reduce craving and ultimately relapse rates. Applying CET in virtual reality (VR) was proposed to…”
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Returning a smile: Initiating a social interaction with a facial emotional expression influences the evaluation of the expression received in return by Kroczek, Leon O.H., Mühlberger, Andreas

“…Face-to-face social interactions are characterized by the reciprocal exchange of facial emotions between interaction partners. Typically, facial emotional…”
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The time course of speaker-specific language processing by Kroczek, Leon O.H., Gunter, Thomas C.

“…Listeners are sensitive to a speaker's individual language use and generate expectations for particular speakers. It is unclear, however, how such expectations…”
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Interpersonal Distance During Real-Time Social Interaction: Insights From Subjective Experience, Behavior, and Physiology by Kroczek, Leon O. H., Pfaller, Michael, Lange, Bastian, Müller, Mathias, Mühlberger, Andreas

“…Physical distance is a prominent feature in face-to-face social interactions and allows regulating social encounters. Close interpersonal distance (IPD)…”
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Widespread Recommendations Can Change Our Habits of Hand-Washing and Physical Distance During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Biehl, Stefanie C, Schmidmeier, Melissa, Wechsler, Theresa F, Kroczek, Leon O H, Mühlberger, Andreas

“…Habits and behaviors in everyday life currently need to be modified as quickly as possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two of the most effective tools to…”
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Observers predict actions from facial emotional expressions during real-time social interactions by Kroczek, Leon O.H., Lingnau, Angelika, Schwind, Valentin, Wolff, Christian, Mühlberger, Andreas

“…In face-to-face social interactions, emotional expressions provide insights into the mental state of an interactive partner. This information can be crucial to…”
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Time to Smile: How Onset Asynchronies Between Reciprocal Facial Expressions Influence the Experience of Responsiveness of a Virtual Agent by Kroczek, Leon O. H., Mühlberger, Andreas

“…Human social interactions are highly coordinated in time and involve the reciprocal exchange of facial emotional expressions. While timing has been identified…”
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Communicative predictions can overrule linguistic priors by Kroczek, Leon O. H., Gunter, Thomas C.

“…Predictions allow for efficient human communication. To be efficient, listeners’ predictions need to be adapted to the communicative context. Here we show that…”
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Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network by Schroën, Joëlle A. M., Gunter, Thomas C., Numssen, Ole, Kroczek, Leon O. H., Hartwigsen, Gesa, Friederici, Angela D.

“…Recent neurobiological models on language suggest that auditory sentence comprehension is supported by a coordinated temporal interplay within a left-dominant…”
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Contributions of left frontal and temporal cortex to sentence comprehension: Evidence from simultaneous TMS-EEG by Kroczek, Leon O.H., Gunter, Thomas C., Rysop, Anna U., Friederici, Angela D., Hartwigsen, Gesa

“…Sentence comprehension requires the rapid analysis of semantic and syntactic information. These processes are supported by a left hemispheric dominant…”
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Social Presence as a Moderator of the Effect of Agent Behavior on Emotional Experience in Social Interactions in Virtual Reality by Pfaller, Michael, Kroczek, Leon O. H., Lange, Bastian, Fülöp, Raymund, Müller, Mathias, Mühlberger, Andreas

“…Background: Exposure therapy involves exposure to feared stimuli and is considered to be the gold-standard treatment for anxiety disorders. While its…”
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Distinct Neural Networks Relate to Common and Speaker-Specific Language Priors by Kroczek, Leon O H, Gunter, Thomas C

“…Effective natural communication requires listeners to incorporate not only very general linguistic principles which evolved during a lifetime but also other…”
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The influence of persona and conversational task on social interactions with a LLM-controlled embodied conversational agent by Kroczek, Leon O. H, May, Alexander, Hettenkofer, Selina, Ruider, Andreas, Ludwig, Bernd, Mühlberger, Andreas

“…Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in conversational tasks. Embodying an LLM as a virtual human allows users to engage in…”
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