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Open AccessAssociation among childhood adversity and susceptibility to interference during varying salience: two studies in healthy males
Childhood adversity, a prevalent experience, is related to a higher risk for externalizing and internalizing psychopathology. Alterations in the development of cognitive processes, for example in the attention...
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Open AccessPost-hypnotic safety suggestion improves stress co** with long-lasting effects
Effective co** with acute stress is important to promote mental health and to build stress resilience. Interventions improving stress co** usually require long training periods. In this study, we present a...
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Open AccessA multicenter feasibility study on implementing a brief mindful breathing exercise into regular university courses
Practicing mindfulness is associated with stress reduction and with positive effects in the context of learning and teaching. Although effects on student populations have been studied extensively, there are fe...
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Open AccessSpecific Reduction in the Cortisol Awakening Response after Socio-Affective Mental Training
Psychosocial stress is an inherent part of modern lifestyle, and many suffer from chronic stress exposure and the subsequent development of stress-related diseases. In searching for efficient low-cost interven...
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Open AccessResilience and personality as predictors of the biological stress load during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
Since the Covid-19 outbreak, pandemic-specific stressors have potentiated the—already severe—stress load across the world. However, stress is more than an adverse state, and chronic exposure is causally involv...
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Open AccessMind-wandering content differentially translates from lab to daily life and relates to subjective stress experience
Experience and thoughts that are unrelated to the external surroundings are pervasive features of human cognition. Research under the rubric of mind-wandering suggests that such internal experience is context-...
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Open AccessOnly vulnerable adults show change in chronic low-grade inflammation after contemplative mental training: evidence from a randomized clinical trial
Growing evidence suggests that chronic low-grade inflammation can be reduced through mindfulness-based mental training interventions. However, these results are inconsistent and based on patient populations wi...