Publications

Dreisörner A, Goetz V, Frohnmayer D, Tran U , Voracek M , Nater UM. Prevalence and severity of mental health problems in early-career researchers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nature Human Behaviour. 2026 Juni 29.

Lodrant K, Van De Ville D, Scharnowski F , Kostorz K. Interbrain synchrony analysis for fNIRS – a signal processing primer. 2026 Juni 2. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/b2w75_v1

White MP , Egger JAM, Amato G, Astell-Burt T, Bekke-Hansen S, Borja A et al. Testing nature-based biopsychosocial resilience theory: a research programme protocol. Archives of Public Health. 2026 Apr. 24;84(1):90. doi: 10.1186/s13690-026-01903-5

Calderon S, Mac Giolla E, Ask K, Adler SJ, Agerström J, Akpınar B et al. Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2026 Apr. 1;9(2). doi: 10.1177/25152459251401177

Pegler D, Jäkel F, Steyrl D , Scharnowski F , Melinšcak F. Unpacking Interpretability: Human-Centered Criteria for Optimal Combinatorial Solutions. 2026 März 9.

Hampejs V, Wala A, Tran US , Pahl S , Egger JAM , Voracek M et al. Health and well-being in nature: Analysis of 18,054 visit reports and implications for nature-based biopsychosocial resilience theory (NBRT). Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2026 März;110:102918. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.102918

Pointner N, Savran D, Mader J, Steinbauer P, Berger A, Fuiko R et al. Prediction of Language Development in Neonates Born at Less than 32 Weeks of Gestation. The Journal of pediatrics. 2026 März;290:114959. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114959

Asakawa-Haas KD, Spiegel D, Bossert L, Garic A, Schwartz K , Voracek M et al. Psychosocial interventions indicate prolonged survival in cancer patients in a systematic review, meta-analysis, and multiverse meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Communications Psychology. 2026 Feb. 11;4(1):49. doi: 10.1038/s44271-026-00414-x

Hopfgartner M, Weiler-Wichtl L, Glinsky L, Tran US , Voracek M. Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in pediatric oncology and hematology: a systematic review and three-level meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review. 2026. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2026.2659057

Geretsegger M, Meling HMK, Savinova A, Aßmus J, Dy CL, Mydland TS et al. Fighting Addictions, improving Lives through COmprehensive drug rehabilitation with music (FALCO): Protocol for an international randomised controlled trial. 2026. doi: 10.64898/2026.02.19.26346573

Fassl F , Hofleitner M , Wunsch A, Lange J, Tran US , Lüftenegger M. Influence of friendship on benign and malicious envy among secondary school students. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 2026. Epub 2026. doi: 10.1111/bjep.70095

Bergmann L, Beckenbach R, Zach L, Roth B , Tran US. One and a Half Years of ChatGPT – An Umbrella Review of Large Language Model (LLM) Perception Across Time and Research Fields. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology. 2026;234(1-2):88-97. doi: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000609

Richardson M, Lengieza M, White MP , Tran US , Voracek M, Stieger S et al. Publisher Correction: Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries (Ambio, (2026), 55, 1, (80-100), 10.1007/s13280-025-02275-w). Ambio. 2026. doi: 10.1007/s13280-025-02342-2

Duc NTM, Dila KAS, Nguyen DH, Eltaybani S, Singal AG, Siddiqui AR et al. A checklist for translating and adapting questionnaires (CTAQ) in healthcare research: insights from a Delphi method approach. Tropical Medicine and Health. 2025 Dez.;53(1):154. doi: 10.1186/s41182-025-00798-2

Hoehl S, Bánki A, Brzozowska A, Carollo A, Kostorz K, Nguyen T et al. A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony. Developmental Review. 2025 Dez.;78:101234. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2025.101234

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

Zeggio S, Steyrl D , Pelowski M, Krack P, Darweesh SKL, Crone JS et al. Neuropsychological insights into creativity in people with Parkinson's disease. npj Parkinson's Disease. 2025 Nov. 19;11(1):324. doi: 10.1038/s41531-025-01165-y

Lieberman JM, Lanius RA, Densmore M, Théberge J, Rabellino D, Frewen PA et al. Contributions of the default mode and central executive networks during posterior cingulate cortex-targeted fMRI neurofeedback in PTSD. NeuroImage: Clinical. 2025 Nov. 12;48:103891. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2025.103891

Richardson M, Lengieza M, White M , Tran U , Voracek M, Stieger S et al. Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries. Ambio. A Journal of Environment and Society. 2025 Nov. 1;80-100.

Zhang M , Pegler D, Karner A, Scharnowski F , Melinšcak F. Mapping mental representations of fear-relevant stimuli through similarity modeling. 2025 Nov. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/j8epm_v3

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.;246:113308. 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(4):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;44(24):19148-19174. 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 Sept. 24;20(1):223-254. Epub 2025 Sept. 24. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2025.2562841

Pegler D , Steyrl D , Zhang M, Karner A, Arato J, Scharnowski F et al. SpiderNets: Vision Models Predict Human Fear From Aversive Images. 2025 Sept. 5. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.04889

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 Sept.;10(1):182-201. Epub 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x

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 Sept.;351:116648. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116648

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).

Pamplona GSP, Zweerings J, Lor CS, deErney L, Roecher E, Taebi A et al. Neural Mechanisms of Feedback Processing and Regulation Recalibration During Neurofeedback Training. Human Brain Mapping. 2025 Juli;46(10):e70279. doi: 10.1002/hbm.70279

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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni;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 Juni;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

Schwartz K, Ganster FM, Voracek M , Tran US. Mindfulness and Objective Measures of Body Awareness: A Preregistered Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis. Biopsychosocial science and medicine. 2025 Mai;87(4):235-248. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001381

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):2486903. doi: 10.1080/20008066.2025.2486903

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. 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 März;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. 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):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

Normann A, Voracek M , Tran US. Mindfulness Predicts Mind Wandering and Differentially Affects Its Controllability in Everyday Life. Creativity Research Journal. 2025;37(4):639-653. doi: 10.1080/10400419.2024.2326339