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

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Interacting and dissociable effects of alexithymia and depression on empathy. Psychiatry Research 270, pp. 631 – 638 (2018)

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Interactions of momentary thought content and subjective stress predict cortisol fluctuations in a daily life experience sampling study. Scientific Reports 8 (2018)

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Distinct mental trainings differentially affect altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behaviour. Scientific Reports 8 (2018)

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The structure of human prosociality revisited: Corrigendum and addendum to Böckler, Tusche, and Singer (2016). Social Psychological and Personality Science 9 (6), pp. 754 – 759 (2018)

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Exploring the multidimensional complex systems structure of the stress response and its relation to health and sleep outcomes. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 73, pp. 390 – 402 (2018)

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Experiencing meditation: Evidence for differential effects of three contemplative mental practices in micro-phenomenological interviews. Consciousness and Cognition 62, pp. 82 – 101 (2018)

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Change in emotional self-concept following socio-cognitive training relates to structural plasticity of the prefrontal cortex. Brain and Behavior 8 (4) (2018)

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Cortisol stress resonance in the laboratory is associated with inter-couple diurnal cortisol covariation in daily life. Hormones and Behavior 98, pp. 183 – 190 (2018)

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Endogenous emotion generation ability is associated with the capacity to form multimodal internal representations. Scientific Reports 8 (2018)

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Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others. Nature Human Behaviour 2 (2017)

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Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Science Advances 3 (10) (2017)