Publications

Lieberman JM, Lanius RA, Théberge J, Frey BN, Frewen PA, Scharnowski F et al. Study protocol for a multi-session randomized sham-controlled trial of PCC- and amygdala-targeted neurofeedback for the treatment of PTSD. BMC Psychiatry. 2025 Dez;25(1):698. doi: 10.1186/s12888-025-07050-5

Ganster FM, Schwartz K , Voracek M , Tran US. Narcissism and mindfulness: A preregistered systematic review and three-level meta-analysis. Personality and Individual Differences. 2025 Nov;246:113299. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113299

Hampejs V, Zwickl AA, Tran US , Voracek M. The Dark Triad of personality and criminal and delinquent behavior: Preregistered systematic review and three-level meta-analysis. Personality and Individual Differences. 2025 Nov;246. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113308

Donath J, Lüke T, Tran U, Botes E, Götz T. The transfer of teacher training to inclusive classroom practice: A meta-analytic SEM approach. Educational Psychology Review. 2025 Nov;37(105). doi: 10.1007/s10648-025-10081-9

Chen SC, Buchanan EM, Kekecs Z, Miller JK, Szabelska A, Aczel B et al. Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages. Current Psychology. 2025 Okt 22. doi: 10.1007/s12144-025-08304-x

Reiter L , Voracek M, Betsch C, Böhm R. Emphasising herd immunity in vaccine advocacy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review. 2025 Sep 24;1-32. Epub 2025 Sep 24. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2025.2562841

Pegler D , Steyrl D , Zhang M, Karner A, Arato J , Scharnowski F et al. SpiderNets: Estimating Fear Ratings of Spider-Related Images with Vision Models. 2025 Sep 5. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.04889

Bencker C , Tran U , Roth L, Nayman S, Nater UM. Associations between premenstrual symptoms and (traumatic) stress: a systematic review and three multilevel meta-analyses. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2025 Aug 11;1 - 11. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2025.10311

Bencker C , Tran U , Roth L, Nayman S, Nater UM. Stress, Trauma, and Core Premenstrual Disorders: A Systematic Review and Comprehensive Meta-Analysis.. 2025. Beitrag in International Congress of Behavioral Medicine 2025 (ICBM 2025). doi: 10.1007/s12529-025-10383-w

Zwickl AA, Tran US, Schmied S, Hampejs V , Voracek M. Suicidality among sexual minority individuals: A preregistered systematic umbrella review of 20 years of research. Psychiatry Research. 2025 Jul. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116648

Phills CE, Miller JK, Buchanan EM, Williams A, Meyers C, Brown ER et al. Multi-region investigation of 'man' as default in attitudes. PLoS ONE. 2025 Jun 25;20(6):e0323938. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0323938

Kostorz K, Nguyen T, Pan Y, Melinscak F, Steyrl D, Hu Y et al. Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback. Imaging Neuroscience. 2025 Jun 17;3:IMAG.a.43. doi: 10.1162/IMAG.a.43

Thiedmann P, Dejardin F , Reiter L , Tran US. Brief Online Socio-Cognitive Mindfulness Interventions Neither Improve Socio-Cognitive Mindfulness nor Cognitive Biases: A Two-Study Conceptual Replication and Reanalysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Mindfulness. 2025 Jun;16(6):1555-1568. Epub 2025 Apr 21. doi: 10.1007/s12671-025-02575-y

Swami V, Tran US , Voracek M, Aavik T, Ranjbar HA, Adebayo SO et al. Self-Compassion Around the World: Measurement Invariance of the Short Form of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-SF) Across 65 Nations, 40 Languages, Gender Identities, and Age Groups. Mindfulness. 2025 Jun;16(6):1569-1596. doi: 10.1007/s12671-025-02560-5

Geidel B , Siegel M , Steyrl D, Goldberg AE, Bodenmann G, Zemp M. Study Protocol for the Rainbow Austrian Longitudinal Family (RALF) study: A longitudinal, multi-method, multi-rater investigation of risk and resilience factors in Austrian LGBTQ+ parent families. BMC Psychology. 2025 Mai 26;13. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/p6zhj_v1, 10.1186/s40359-025-02828-4

Oberleiter S, Wurzer J, Mikas M, Held M, Wieland B, Zeilinger EL et al. Generational IQ test score changes and the positive manifold of intelligence: evidence from Austrian Air Force pilots and air traffic controllers (1992–2016). Frontiers in Psychology. 2025 Mai 14;16:1547520. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1547520

Prinz W , Tran U, Straub G, Lueger-Schuster B. Underreporting in the military: perceived sensitivity of trauma-related and comorbid disorders among soldiers and civilian employees of the Austrian Armed Forces. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2025 Apr 17;16(1).

Lor CS, Steyrl D, Karner A, Götzendorfer SJ, Klimesch A, Eder SJ et al. SpiderPhy dataset: A multimodal dataset of Physiological, Psychometric and Behavioral Responses to fear stimuli. Scientific Data. 2025 Apr 10;12(1):599. 599. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04908-x

Gyimesi ML, Webersberger V, Del Giudice M, Voracek M , Tran US. One App to Rule Them All: A One-Stop Calculator and Guide for 95 Effect-Size Variants for Two-Group Comparisons of Central Tendency, Variability, Overlap, Dominance, and Distributional Tails. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2025 Apr 1;8(2). doi: 10.1177/25152459251323186

Rife SC, Lambert Q, Calin-Jageman R, Adamkovič M, Banik G, Barberia I et al. Registered Replication Report: Study 3 From Trafimow and Hughes (2012). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2025 Apr 1;8(2). doi: 10.1177/25152459251328334

Swami V, Voracek M, Furnham A, Horne G, Longhurst P, Tran US. Is nature exposure in autistic adults associated with more positive body image? Body Image. 2025 Mär;52:101854. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101854

Zhang M, Karner A, Kostorz K, Shea S, Steyrl D, Melinscak F et al. SpiDa-MRI behavioral and (f)MRI data of adults with fear of spiders. Scientific Data. 2025 Feb 17;12(1):284. 284. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04569-w

Nicholson AA, Lieberman JM, Hosseini-Kamkar N, Eckstrand K, Rabellino D, Kearney B et al. Exploring the impact of biological sex on intrinsic connectivity networks in PTSD: A data-driven approach. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry. 2025 Jan 10;136:111180. Epub 2024 Okt 22. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2024.111180

Kerschbaumer S, Voracek M, Aczél B, Anderson SF, Booth BM, Buchanan EM et al. VALID: A Checklist-Based Approach for Improving Validity in Psychological Research. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2025 Jan 1;8(1). doi: 10.1177/25152459241306432

Swami V, Stieger S, Voracek M, Aavik T, Ranjbar HA, Adebayo SO et al. Life satisfaction around the world: Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. PLoS ONE. 2025 Jan;20(1 January):e0313107. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0313107

Todorova B , Steyrl D, Hornsey MJ, Pearson S, Brick C, Lange F et al. Machine learning identifies key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors. npj climate action. 2025;4(1):46. doi: 10.1038/s44168-025-00251-4

Buchanan EM, Cuccolo K, Heyman T, van Berkel N, Coles NA, Iyer A et al. Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nature Human Behaviour. 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x

Siegel M , Steyrl D, Goldberg AE, Nicholson A, Zemp M. Minority stress and structural stigma predict well-being in European LGBTQ+ parents. Journal of Marriage and Family. 2025;87(3):1009-1037. doi: 10.1111/jomf.13071

Zehnter M, Wolfmayr C, Andriopoulos LA, Kirchler E, Voracek M, Ryan M. Text-mining obituaries between 1953 and 2019 revealed that women leaders are described increasingly like men leaders, but yet evaluated differently. The Leadership Quarterly. 2025;36(4):101884. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2025.101884

Goreis A , Fanninger S, Lozar A, Mayer A, Pfatrisch N , Voracek M et al. Water temperature and biological sex influence cold pressor pain in healthy adults: A randomized within-subjects trial. Frontiers in Physiology. 2025;16(1628111). doi: 10.3389/fphys.2025.1628111

Oberleiter S , Fries J , Dejardin F , Heller J, Schaible C, Vetter M et al. Inconsistent Flynn effect patterns may be due to a decreasing positive manifold: Cohort-based measurement-invariant IQ test score changes from 2005 to 2024. Intelligence: a multidisciplinary journal. 2024 Nov 1;107:101867. doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2024.101867

Sieder K, Thiedmann P, Voracek M , Tran U. Baseline trait mindfulness moderates the efficacy of mindfulness interventions and active controls: A meta-analysis of 177 randomised controlled trials. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. 2024 Nov;16(4):2499-2519. Epub 2024 Mai 9. doi: 10.1111/aphw.12550

Swami V, White MP , Voracek M , Tran US, Aavik T, Ranjbar HA et al. Exposure and connectedness to natural environments: An examination of the measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) and Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2024 Nov;99:102432. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102432

Bencker C , Tran U , Roth L, Nayman S, Nater UM. Associations between Premenstrual Symptoms and (Traumatic) Stress: A Systematic Review and Three Multilevel Meta-Analyses. 2024 Okt 10. Epub 2024 Okt 10. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/z4uce

Tsarpalis-Fragkoulidis A, Tran U , Zemp M. Fears of positive and negative evaluation and their within-person associations with emotion regulation in adolescence: A longitudinal analysis. Development and Psychopathology. 2024 Okt 3;1-13. 24001366. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424001366

Hall B, Schmidt K, Wagge J, Lewis SC, Weissgerber SC, Kiunke F et al. Registered Replication Report: A Large Multilab Cross-Cultural Conceptual Replication of Turri et al. (2015). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2024 Okt 1;7(4). doi: 10.1177/25152459241267902

Swami V, Pietschnig J, Stieger S, Voracek M , Tran US. Transliminality – Converging Evidence of Associations With and Openness to Experience and Its Facets. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 2024 Okt 1;232(4):269-278. doi: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000576

Chiappini E, Massaccesi C, Korb S, Steyrl D, Willeit M, Silani G. Neural Hyperresponsivity During the Anticipation of Tangible Social and Nonsocial Rewards in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Concurrent Neuroimaging and Facial Electromyography Study. Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging. 2024 Sep;9(9):948-957. Epub 2024 Apr 18. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.04.006

Graf E, Donath JL, Botes E, Voracek M , Götz T. The associations between discrete emotions and political learning: A cross-disciplinary systematic review and meta-analysis.ü. Educational Psychology Review. 2024 Sep;36(3):77. doi: 10.1007/s10648-024-09893-y

Spee BTM , Leder H , Mikuni J , Scharnowski F , Pelowski M , Steyrl D. Using Machine Learning to Predict Judgments on Western Visual Art Along Content-Representational and Formal-Perceptual Attributes. PLoS ONE. 2024 Sep;19(9):e0304285. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304285

Hanfstingl B, Oberleiter S , Pietschnig J , Tran U , Voracek M. Detecting jingle and jangle fallacies by identifying consistencies and variabilities in study specifications – a call for research. Frontiers in Psychology. 2024 Aug 30;15.

Mikuni J , Spee BTM, Forlani G, Leder H , Scharnowski F, Nakamura K et al. Cross-Cultural Comparison of Beauty Judgments in Visual Art Using Machine Learning Analysis of Art Attribute Predictors Among Japanese and German Speakers. Scientific Reports. 2024 Jul 10;14(1):15948. doi: 10.1038/S41598-024-65088-Z

Niederkrotenthaler T, Tran US, Till B. Associations of Suicide Referents with Different Moral Connotation with Actual Suicides: Time Series Analysis. Crisis. 2024 Jul 1;45(4):280-286. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000946

Thanhaeuser M, Gsoellpointner M, Kornsteiner-Krenn M, Steyrl D, Brandstetter S, Jilma B et al. Introduction of Solid Foods in Preterm Infants and Its Impact on Growth in the First Year of Life-A Prospective Observational Study. Nutrients. 2024 Jun 28;16(13):2077. doi: 10.3390/nu16132077

Karner A, Obenaus L, Zhang M, Lor C, Kostorz K , Pegler D et al. Visual attributes of spiders associated with aversiveness in spider-fearful individuals: A machine learning analysis. PsyArXiv. 2024 Jun 14. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/ht2pr

Spee BTM , Arato J , Mikuni J , Tran U , Pelowski M , Leder H. The dynamics of experiencing Gestalt and Aha in cubist art: pupil responses and art evaluations show a complex interplay of task, stimuli content, and time course. Frontiers in Psychology. 2024 Mär 13;15:01-15. 1192565. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1192565

Swami V, Voracek M, Todd J, Furnham A, Horne G, Tran US. Positive self-beliefs mediate the association between body appreciation and positive mental health. Body Image. 2024 Mär;48:101685. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101685

Popovova J, Mazloum R, Macauda G, Stämpfli P, Vuilleumier P, Frühholz S et al. Enhanced attention-related alertness following right anterior insular cortex neurofeedback training. Iscience. 2024 Feb 16;27(2):108915. 108915. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.108915

Zhang M, Karner A, Kostorz K, Shea S, Steyrl D , Melinšcak F et al. SpiDa-MRI, behavioral and (f)MRI data of adults with fear of spiders. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 7.