Publications

Sarah Roßkopf, Leon O.H. Kroczek, Theresa F. Wechsler, Felix Stärz, Matthias Blau, Steven Van De Par, Andreas Mühlberger (2026). Hey AI: Can You Trigger Me? A Comparison of Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Human Speech in a Virtual Social Stress Paradigm. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans.

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Teresa Schmidt-Peter, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger (2026). Preliminary Evaluation of the German SPIN and Mini-SPIN for Screening Social Anxiety Disorder in University Students. BMC Psychology.

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Mareike Daeglau, Stephan Getzmann, Moritz Bender, Janina Fels, Rainer Martin, Alexander Raake, Isabel S. Schiller, Sabine J. Schlittmeier, Katrin Schoenenberg, Felix Stärz, Leon O. H. Kroczek (2026). Interactive Communication -- Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives from Psychology, Acoustics, and Technology. arXiv.

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Sarah Roßkopf, Andreas Mühlberger, Felix Stärz, Matthias Blau, Steven Van De Par, Leon O. H. Kroczek (2026). Aurally Impressed, yet Not More Stressed: On the Relationship between Audiovisual Realism, Social Anxiety, and Presence in a Virtual Social Stress Scenario. PLOS One.

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Felix Stärz, Steven Van De Par, Sarah Roßkopf, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger, Matthias Blau (2026). Use of Audio-Visual Interactive Virtual Environments to Avoid the Room Divergence Effect in Office-like Environments. Acta Acustica.

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Leon O.H. Kroczek, Alexander May, Selina Hettenkofer, Andreas Ruider, Bernd Ludwig, Andreas Mühlberger (2025). The Influence of Persona and Conversational Task on Social Interactions with a LLM-controlled Embodied Conversational Agent. Computers in Human Behavior.

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Leon O. H. Kroczek, Silke Frank, Uta Gold, Fridolin Hesse, Selina Hettenkofer, Nadja Peterreins, Lorenz Teutsch, Valerie Theophile, Andreas Mühlberger (2025). Communicative Social Intentions Modulate Emotional Mimicry Responses. Psychophysiology.

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Teresa Schmidt-Peter, Theresa F. Wechsler, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger (2025). The Effects of Different Variants of Eye-Tracking-Based Feedback of Attentional Processes during Virtual Social Interactions. Frontiers in Virtual Reality.

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Leon O. H. Kroczek, Moritz Köster, Andreas Mühlberger (2025). Neural and Affective Dynamics of Social Context Conditioning in Virtual Reality. PsyArXiv.

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Sarah Roßkopf, Andreas Mühlberger, Felix Stärz, Steven Van De Par, Matthias Blau, Leon O.H. Kroczek (2025). Impact of Visual Virtual Scene and Localization Task on Auditory Distance Perception in Virtual Reality. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

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Katharina Paul, Douglas J. Angus, Florian Bublatzky, Raoul Wüllhorst, Tanja Endrass, Lisa-Marie Greenwood, Greg Hajcak, Bradley N. Jack, Sebastian P. Korinth, Leon O.H. Kroczek, Boris Lucero, Annakarina Mundorf, Sophie Nolden, Jutta Peterburs, Daniela M. Pfabigan, Antonio Schettino, Mario Carlo Severo, Yee Lee Shing, Gözem Turan, Melle J.W. Van Der Molen, Matthias J. Wieser, Niclas Willscheid, Faisal Mushtaq, Yuri G. Pavlov, Gilles Pourtois (2025). Revisiting the Electrophysiological Correlates of Valence and Expectancy in Reward Processing -- A Multi-Lab Replication. Cortex.

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Leon O.H Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger (2025). Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Interactive Exchange of Facial Emotional Expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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Felix Stärz, Steven Van De Par, Sarah Roßkopf, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger, Matthias Blau (2025). Comparison of Binaural Auralisations to a Real Loudspeaker in an Audiovisual Virtual Classroom Scenario: Effect of Room Acoustic Simulation, HRTF Dataset, and Head-Mounted Display on Room Acoustic Perception. Acta Acustica.

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Leon O. H. Kroczek, Sarah Roßkopf, Felix Stärz, Matthias Blau, Steven Van De Par, Andreas Mühlberger (2024). The influence of affective voice on sound distance perception.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

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Leon O.H. Kroczek, Angelika Lingnau, Valentin Schwind, Christian Wolff, Andreas Mühlberger (2024). Observers predict actions from facial emotional expressions during real-time social interactions. Behavioural Brain Research.

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Benedikt Schröder, Agnes Kroczek, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Ann-Christine Ehlis, Anil Batra, Andreas Mühlberger (2024). Cigarette craving in virtual reality cue exposure in abstainers and relapsed smokers. Scientific Reports.

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Leon O. H. Kroczek, Alexander May, Selina Hettenkofer, Andreas Ruider, Bernd Ludwig, Andreas Mühlberger (2024). The Influence of Persona and Conversational Task on Social Interactions with a LLM-controlled Embodied Conversational Agent. arXiv.

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Sarah Roßkopf, Leon O.H. Kroczek, Felix Stärz, Matthias Blau, Steven Van De Par, Andreas Mühlberger (2024). The Impact of Binaural Auralizations on Sound Source Localization and Social Presence in Audiovisual Virtual Reality: Converging Evidence from Placement and Eye-Tracking Paradigms. Acta Acustica.

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S. Roßkopf, L.O.H. Kroczek, F. Stärz, M. Blau, S. Van De Par, A. Mühlberger (2024). Comparable sound source localization of plausible auralizations and real sound sources evaluated in a naturalistic eye-tracking task in virtual reality. Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023.

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Joëlle A. M. Schroën, Thomas C. Gunter, Ole Numssen, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Gesa Hartwigsen, Angela D. Friederici (2023). Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger (2023). Public speaking training in front of a supportive audience in Virtual Reality improves performance in real-life. Scientific Reports.

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Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger (2023). Time to Smile: How Onset Asynchronies Between Reciprocal Facial Expressions Influence the Experience of Responsiveness of a Virtual Agent. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.

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Leon O H Kroczek, Stephanie Böhme, Andreas Mühlberger (2022). Face masks reduce interpersonal distance in virtual reality. Scientific Reports.

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Michael Pfaller, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Bastian Lange, Raymund Fülöp, Mathias Müller, Andreas Mühlberger (2021). Social Presence as a Moderator of the Effect of Agent Behavior on Emotional Experience in Social Interactions in Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Virtual Reality.

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Leon O. H. Kroczek, Angelika Lingnau, Valentin Schwind, Christian Wolff, Andreas Mühlberger (2021). Angry facial expressions bias towards aversive actions. PLOS ONE.

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Stefanie C Biehl, Melissa Schmidmeier, Theresa F Wechsler, Leon O. H. Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger (2021). Widespread recommendations can change our habits of hand-washing and physical distance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical Psychology in Europe.

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Leon O.H. Kroczek, Thomas C. Gunter (2021). The time course of speaker-specific language processing. Cortex.

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Leon O H Kroczek, Thomas C Gunter (2020). Distinct neural networks relate to common and speaker-specific language priors. Cerebral Cortex Communications.

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Leon O.H. Kroczek, Michael Pfaller, Bastian Lange, Mathias Müller, Andreas Mühlberger (2020). Interpersonal Distance During Real-Time Social Interaction: Insights From Subjective Experience, Behavior, and Physiology. Frontiers in Psychiatry.

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L.O.H. Kroczek, T.C. Gunter, A.U. Rysop, A.D. Friederici, G. Hartwigsen (2019). Contributions of left frontal and temporal cortex to sentence comprehension: Evidence from simultaneous TMS-EEG. Cortex.

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Leon O. H. Kroczek, Thomas C. Gunter (2017). Communicative predictions can overrule linguistic priors. Scientific Reports.

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