The ReSource Project
Selected Publications
ReSource Change Data
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142 (2022)
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
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141, 105734 (2022)
Plasma oxytocin is modulated by mental training, but does not mediate its stress-buffering effect. Psychoneuroendocrinology
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83 (8), pp. 894 - 905 (2021)
Contemplative mental training reduces hairglucocortovcoid levels in a randomized clinical trial. Psychosomatic Medicine
5.
236, 118011 (2021)
Association between hippocampal structure and serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in healthy adults: A registered report. NeuroImage
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237, 118132 (2021)
Decreased emotional reactivity after 3-month socio-affective but not attention- or meta-cognitive-based mental training: A randomized, controlled, longitudinal fMRI study. NeuroImage
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194, 104039 (2020)
Differential Benefits of Mental Training Types for Attention, Compassion, and Theory of Mind. Cognition
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9, 19323 (2019)
Only vulnerable adults show change in chronic low-grade inflammation after contemplative mental training: evidence from a randomized clinical trial. Scientific Reports
9.
2 (9), e199687 (2019)
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
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26 (7-8), pp. 95 - 129 (2019)
Loving-Kindness Meditation - A Queen of Hearts? Journal of Consciousness Studies
11.
28, pp. 151 - 158 (2019)
It matters what you practice: Differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project. Current Opinion in Psychology
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9, 7860 (2019)
Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability through biofeedback is improved by mental contemplative training. Scientific Reports
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62, pp. 82 - 101 (2018)
Experiencing meditation: Evidence for differential effects of three contemplative mental practices in micro-phenomenological interviews. Consciousness and Cognition
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8, 13560 (2018)
Distinct mental trainings differentially affect altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behaviour. Scientific Reports
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17.
8 (4), e00940 (2018)
Change in emotional self-concept following socio-cognitive training relates to structural plasticity of the prefrontal cortex. Brain and Behavior
18.
1 (2), pp. 197 - 209 (2017)
Know thy selves: Learning to understand oneself increases the ability to understand others. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
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54 (3), pp. 469 - 482 (2017)
Taking time to feel our body: Steady increases in heartbeat perception accuracy and decreases in alexithymia over 9 months of contemplative mental training. Psychophysiology
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3 (10), e1700495 (2017)
Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training. Science Advances
21.
8 (6), pp. 1488 - 1512 (2017)
Differential effects of attention-, compassion- and socio-cognitively based mental practices on self-reports of mindfulness and compassion. Mindfulness
22.
74 (2), pp. 126 - 134 (2017)
Effects of contemplative dyads on engagement and perceived social connectedness over 9 months of mental training: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Psychiatry
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8 (1), pp. 218 - 231 (2017)
Phenomenological fingerprints of four meditations: Differential state changes in affect, mind-wandering, meta-cognition and interoception before and after daily practice across nine months of training. Mindfulness
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16 (5), pp. 607 - 628 (2017)
Who am I? Differential effects of three contemplative mental trainings on emotional word use in self-descriptions. Self and Identity
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117, pp. 126 - 130 (2017)
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
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3 (10), e1700489 (2017)
Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Science Advances
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5, 1504 (2015)
Differential changes in self-reported aspects of interoceptive awareness through three months of contemplative training. Frontiers in Psychology
28.
97 (1), pp. 38 - 45 (2015)
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
ReSource Baseline Data and Paradigms
29.
41 (10), pp. 2611 - 2628 (2020)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind. Human Brain Mapping
30.
8, 15462 (2018)
Interactions of momentary thought content and subjective stress predict cortisol fluctuations in a daily life experience sampling study. Scientific Reports
31.
73, pp. 390 - 402 (2018)
Exploring the multidimensional complex systems structure of the stress response and its relation to health and sleep outcomes. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
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9 (6), pp. 754 - 759 (2018)
The structure of human prosociality revisited: Corrigendum and addendum to Böckler, Tusche, and Singer (2016). Social Psychological and Personality Science
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12 (2), pp. 197 - 211 (2017)
The neural component-process architecture of endogenously generated emotion. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
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27 (2), pp. 1358 - 1368 (2017)
Socio-cognitive phenotypes differentially modulate large-scale structural covariance networks. Cerebral Cortex
35.
26 (11), pp. 4136 - 4147 (2016)
Stimulus-driven reorienting impairs executive control of attention: Evidence for a common bottleneck in anterior insula. Cerebral Cortex
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7 (6), pp. 530 - 541 (2016)
The structure of human prosociality: Differentiating altruistically motivated, norm motivated, strategically motivated and self-reported prosocial behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science
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119, pp. 54 - 63 (2016)
Helping from the heart: Voluntary upregulation of heart rate variability predicts altruistic behavior. Biological Psychology
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53 (6), pp. 880 - 890 (2016)
Cognitive flexibility, heart rate variability, and resilience predict fine-grained regulation of arousal during prolonged threat. Psychophysiology
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74, pp. 111 - 120 (2016)
Boosting recovery rather than buffering reactivity: Higher stress-induced oxytocin secretion is associated with increased cortisol reactivity and faster vagal recovery after acute psychosocial stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology
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11 (9), pp. 1382 - 1392 (2016)
Are strong empathizers better mentalizers?: Evidence for independence and interaction between the routes of social cognition. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
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59, pp. 93 - 107 (2016)
Introducing the Wunderkammer as a tool for emotion research: Unconstrained gaze and movement patterns in three emotionally evocative virtual worlds. Computers in Human Behavior
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11 (12), pp. 1942 - 1951 (2016)
Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: A large scale fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
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26 (11), pp. 4136 - 4147 (2016)
Stimulus-driven reorienting impairs executive control of attention: Evidence for a common bottleneck in anterior insula. Cerebral Cortex
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37 (10), pp. 3388 - 3399 (2016)
Substrates of metacognition on perception and metacognition on higher-order cognition relate to different subsystems of the mentalizing network. Human Brain Mapping
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122, pp. 6 - 19 (2015)
Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind. NeuroImage
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38, pp. 60 - 70 (2015)
Physiophenomenology in retrospect: Memory reliably reflects physiological arousal during a prior threatening experience. Consciousness and Cognition