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Heterogeneous Mental Health Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: An Examination of Long-Term Trajectories, Risk Factors, and Vulnerable Groups. Healthcare, 11, 1305. (2023)

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Revisiting the stress recovery hypothesis: Differential associations of cortisol stress reactivity and recovery after acute psychosocial stress with markers of long-term stress and health. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 100598. (2023)

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Specific Reduction in the Cortisol Awakening Response after Socio-Affective Mental Training. Mindfulness, 1-14. (2023)

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A neurophenomenological approach to non-ordinary states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics. Trends in cognitive sciences. (2022)

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Associations of social processing abilities with psychosocial stress sensitivity. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology. (2022).

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Investigating the impact of distinct contemplative mental trainings on daily life stress, thoughts and affect – evidence from a nine-month longitudinal ecological momentary assessment study. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 105800 (2022).

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Plasma oxytocin is modulated by mental training, but does not mediate its stress-buffering effect.Psychoneuroendocrinology, 105734 (2022)

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Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceived Changes in Psychological Vulnerability, Resilience and Social Cohesion before, during and after Lockdown. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2022)

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Exploring the Structure and Interrelations of Time-Stable Psychological Resilience, Psychological Vulnerability, and Social Cohesion. Frontiers in Psychiatry. (2022)

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Investigating differential effects of socio-emotional and mindfulness-based online interventions on mental health, resilience and social capacities during the COVID-19 pandemic: The study protocol. PLOS One. (2021)

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Longitudinal Evidence for Differential Plasticity of Cognitive Functions: Mindfulness-based mental training enhances working memory, but not perceptual discrimination, response inhibition and metacognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2021)

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Assessment of reward-related brain function after a single-dose of oxytocin in autism: a randomized controlled trial. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science (accepted)

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Development of functional network architecture explains changes in children’s altruistically motivated helping. Developmental Science (2021)

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Association between hippocampal structure and serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in healthy adults: A registered report. NeuroImage (2021)

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Decreased emotional reactivity after 3-month socio-affective but not attention- or meta-cognitive-based mental training: A randomized, controlled, longitudinal fMRI study. NeuroImage (2021)

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Cooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals. Scientific Reports (2021)

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Navigating Motivation: A Semantic and Subjective Atlas of 7 Motives. Frontiers in Psychology (2021)

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Two systems for thinking about other’s thoughts in the developing brain. PNAS (2020)

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fMRI item analysis of empathy and theory of mind. HBM, 41(10), 2611-2628 (2020)

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Differential Benefits of Mental Training Types for Attention, Compassion, and Theory of Mind. Cognition 194, 104039 (2020)

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Only vulnerable adults show change in chronic low-grade inflammation after contemplative mental training: evidence from a randomized clinical trial. Scientific Reports 9, 19323 (2019)

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It matters what you practice: Differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project. Current Opinion in Psychology 28, S. 151 – 158 (2019)

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Association of Short-Term Change in Telomere Length with Cortical Thickness Changes and Effects of Mental Training Among Healthy Adults: A randomised clinical trial. JAMA Network Open 2 (9) (2019)

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Loving-Kindness Meditation – A Queen of Hearts? Journal of Consciousness Studies 26 (7-8), S. 95 – 129 (2019)

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Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability through biofeedback is improved by mental contemplative training. Scientific Reports 9 (2019)

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Acute psychosocial stress increases serum BDNF levels: An antagonistic relation to cortisol but no group differences after mental training. Neuropsychopharmacology (2019)

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Neural mechanisms of affective matching across faces and scenes. Scientific Reports 9 (2019)

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Socioaffective versus sociocognitive mental trainings differentially affect emotion regulation strategies. Emotion (2018)