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2025
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Serum BDNF increase after 9-month contemplative mental training is associated with decreased cortisol secretion and increased dentate gyrus volume: Evidence from a randomized clinical trial. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 5 (2), 100414 (2025)
2024
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Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol. eLife 12, RP87634 (2024)
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Evidence for differential associations of distinct trait mindfulness facets with acute and chronic stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology 166, 107051 (2024)
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Testing the monitor and acceptance theory: The role of training-induced changes in monitoring- and acceptance-related capacities after attention-based, socio-emotional, or socio-cognitive mental training in reducing cortisol stress reactivity. Stress 27, 2345906 (2024)
2023
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Functional and microstructural plasticity following social and interoceptive mental training. eLife 12, e85188 (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 28, 100598 (2023)
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Specific reduction in the cortisol awakening response after socio-affective mental training. Mindfulness 14, pp. 681 - 694 (2023)
2022
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Associations of social processing abilities with psychosocial stress sensitivity. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology 12, 100159 (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 142, 105800 (2022)
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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 151 (7), pp. 1573 - 1590 (2022)
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Plasma oxytocin is modulated by mental training, but does not mediate its stress-buffering effect. Psychoneuroendocrinology 141, 105734 (2022)
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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 2 (2), pp. 136 - 146 (2022)
2021
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Contemplative mental training reduces hair glucocorticoid levels in a randomized clinical trial. Psychosomatic Medicine 83 (8), pp. 894 - 905 (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 237, 118132 (2021)
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Association between hippocampal structure and serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in healthy adults: A registered report. NeuroImage 236, 118011 (2021)
2020
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind. Human Brain Mapping 41 (10), pp. 2611 - 2628 (2020)
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Two systems for thinking about others' thoughts in the developing brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (12), pp. 6928 - 6935 (2020)
2019
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Only vulnerable adults show change in chronic low-grade inflammation after contemplative mental training: Evidence randomized clinical trial. Scientific Reports 9, 19323 (2019)
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Socioaffective versus sociocognitive mental trainings differentially affect emotion regulation strategies. Emotion 19 (8), pp. 1329 - 1342 (2019)
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Association of short-term change in leukocyte telomere length with cortical thickness change and outcomes of mental training among healthy adults: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Network Open 2 (9), e199687 (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 44, pp. 1797 - 1804 (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, pp. 151 - 158 (2019)
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Loving-kindness meditation - A queen of hearts?: A physio-phenomenological investigation on the variety of experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies 26 (7-8), pp. 95 - 129 (2019)
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Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability through biofeedback is improved by mental contemplative training. Scientific Reports 9, 7860 (2019)
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Neural mechanisms of affective matching across faces and scenes. Scientific Reports 9, 1492 (2019)
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, 15462 (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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Distinct mental trainings differentially affect altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behaviour. Scientific Reports 8, 13560 (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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Structural changes in socio-affective networks: Multi-modal MRI findings in long-term meditation practitioners. Neuropsychologia 116 (Part A), pp. 26 - 33 (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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Longitudinal evidence for 4-year-olds’ but not 2- and 3-year-olds’ false belief-related action anticipation. Cognitive Development 46 (April-Juni 2018), pp. 58 - 68 (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), e00940 (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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On the interaction of social affect and cognition: Empathy, compassion and theory of mind. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 19, pp. 1 - 6 (2018)
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Endogenous emotion generation ability is associated with the capacity to form multimodal internal representations. Scientific Reports 8, 1953 (2018)
2017
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Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others. Nature Human Behaviour 2, pp. 45 - 51 (2017)
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Differential effects of attention-, compassion- and socio-cognitively based mental practices on self-reports of mindfulness and compassion. Mindfulness 8 (6), pp. 1488 - 1512 (2017)
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Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training. Science Advances 3 (10), e1700495 (2017)
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Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Science Advances 3 (10), e1700489 (2017)
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Who am I? Differential effects of three contemplative mental trainings on emotional word use in self-descriptions. Self and Identity 16 (5), pp. 607 - 628 (2017)
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Caring cooperators and powerful punishers: Differential effects of induced care and power motivation on different types of economic decision making. Scientific Reports 7, 11068 (2017)
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Implicit and explicit false belief development in preschool children. Developmental Science 20 (5), e12445 (2017)
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Where the narcissistic mind wanders: Increased self-related thoughts are more positive and future-oriented. Journal of Personality Disorders 31 (4), pp. 553 - 566 (2017)
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Corrigendum to “Is meditation always relaxing? Investigating heart rate, heart rate variability, experienced effort and likeability during training of three types of meditation”. International Journal of Psychophysiology 117, pp. 126 - 130 (2017)
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Study protocol of the ASD-Net, the German research consortium for the study of Autism Spectrum Disorder across the lifespan: From a better etiological understanding, through valid diagnosis, to more effective health care. BMC Psychiatry 17, 206 (2017)
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Know thy selves: Learning to understand oneself increases the ability to understand others. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 1 (2), pp. 197 - 209 (2017)
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Social cognition in aggressive offenders: Impaired empathy, but intact theory of mind. Scientific Reports 7, 670 (2017)
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White matter maturation is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood. Nature Communications 8, 14692 (2017)