Intern
Research Training Group 2660: Approach-Avoidance

Publications

Publications within the RTG

Members of the RTG are marked in bold

(*these authors contributed equally) 

2025

  • Weiß, M.*, Krop, P.*, Treml., L., Neuser, E., Botsch, M., Herrmann, M.J., Latoschik, M.E., & Hein, G. (2025). The buffering of autonomic fear responses is moderated by the characteristics of a virtual character. Computers in Human Behavior, 168, 108657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108657
  • Tonn, S., Teigeler, J., Pfister, R., & Gamer, M. (2025). A gaze into the void: Anticipatory saccades toward prevented events. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03019-4  
  • Reutter*, M., Teigeler*, J., & Gamer, M. (2025). The influence of social anxiety and visual exploration on threat responding and generalization. Behaviour Research and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2025.104746; Preprint: https://t.co/ei9VH0S0sY   
  • Pollerhoff, L., Saulin, A., Kurtz, M., Stietz, J., Peng, X.-R., Hein, G., Tusche, A., Kanske, P., Li, S.-C., & Reiter, A. M. F. (2025). Adult age differences in the integration of values for self and other. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 12776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-96656-6     
  • Lesch, K. P., & Gorbunov, N. (2025). Antisocial personality disorder: Failure to balance excitation/inhibition? Neuropharmacology, 268, 110321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2025.110321 
  • Gado, S., Stegmann, Y., & Gamer, M. (in press). Voluntary and reflexive mechanisms of visual attention: An investigation of the robustness of the social attention bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001341, Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/4ayc9
  • Gado, S., & Gamer, M. (in press). Studying the influence of single social interactions on approach and avoidance behavior – a multimodal investigation in immersive virtual reality. Behavior Research Methods.
  • Fröhner, J. H., Waltmann, M., Reiter, A. M. F., Kräplin, A., & Smolka, M. N. (2025). Relevance of Probabilistic Reversal Learning for Adolescent Drinking Trajectories. Addiction Biology, 30(3), e70026. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.70026 

 

2024

  • Ziegler, G. C., Groß, S., Boreatti, A., Heine, M., McNeill, R. V., Kranz, T. M., Romanos, M., Jacob, C. P., Reif, A., Kittel-Schneider, S., & Lesch, K.-P. (2024). Suicidal behavior in ADHD: The role of comorbidity, psychosocial adversity, personality and genetic factors. Discover Mental Health, 4(1), 51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44192-024-00103-3
  • Weiß, M., Jachnik, A., Lampe, E. C., Gründahl, M., Harnik, M., Sommer, C., Rittner, H. L., & Hein, G. (2024). Differential effects of everyday-life social support on chronic pain. BMC Neurology, 24(1), 301. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-024-03792-z 
  • Weiß, M., Gutzeit, J., Pryss, R., Romanos, M., Deserno, L., & Hein, G. (2024).  Common and differential variables of anxiety and depression in adolescence – A nation-wide smartphone-based survey. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 18(1), 103. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-024-00793-1
  • Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A. M. F., Villringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2024). Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying differential reinforcement learning from wins and losses in obesity with and without binge eating. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.06.002  
  • Stegmann, Y., Teigeler, J., Mirifar, A., Keil, A., & Gamer, M. (2024). Electrocortical responses in anticipation of avoidable and inevitable threats: A multisite study. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(42). https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0575-24.2024
  • Scholz, V., Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2024). Decrease in decision noise from adolescence into adulthood mediates an increase in more sophisticated choice behaviors and performance gain. PLoS Biology, 22(11), e3002877. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002877 
  • Rodrigues, J., Weiß, M., Hein, G., & Hewig, J. (2024). Electrophysiological correlates of why humans deviate from rational decision-making: A registered replication study. Psychophysiology, e14665. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14665
  • Rodrigues, J., Leipold, N., Hewig, J., & Hein, G. (2024). The relationship of the source of punishment and personality traits with investment and punishment in a public goods game. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 21046. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-71106-x
  • Reinhard, J., Mittermeier, A., Brandstetter, L., Mowat, K., Slyschak, A., Reiter, A. M. F., Gamer, M., & Romanos, M. (2024). Fear conditioning and fear generalization in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33(7), 2163–2172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02304-7
  • Reutter, M., Hutterer, K., Gründahl, M., Gall, D., Dannlowski, U., Domschke, K., Leehr, E. J., Lonsdorf, T. B., Lueken, U., Reif, A., Schiele, M. A., Zwanzger, P., Pauli, P., Hein, G., & Gamer, M. (2024). Mental health improvement after the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with psychological distress. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 5685. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55839-3; Repository: https://github.com/spressi/Covid_burden   
  • Pollerhoff, L., Reindel, D. F., Kanske, P., Li, S. C., & Reiter, A. M. (2024). Age differences in prosociality across the adult lifespan: A meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105843 
  • Pfeiffer, M., Masson, E., Kübler, A., & Rodrigues, J. (2024). Reliability of individual task-related frontal-midline-theta frequency for neurofeedback training–exploratory investigations. Proceedings of the 9th Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference. https://doi.org/10.3217/978-3-99161-014-4-046
  • Pfeiffer, M., Kübler, A., & Hilger, K. (2024). Modulation of human frontal midline theta by neurofeedback: A systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 162, 105696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105696 
  • Herzog, N., Hartmann, H., Janssen, L. K., Waltmann, M., Fallon, S. J., Deserno, L., & Horstmann, A. (2024). Working memory gating in obesity: Insights from a case-control fMRI study. Appetite, 195, 107179. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107179 
  • Herzog, N., Hartmann, H., Janssen, L. K., Kanyamibwa, A., Waltmann, M., Kovacs, P., Deserno, L., Fallon, S., Villringer, A., & Horstmann, A. (2024). Working memory gating in obesity is moderated by striatal dopaminergic gene variants. eLife, 13, RP93369. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.93369 
  • Heinig, I.*, Weiß, M.*, Hamm, A. O., Hein, G., Hollandt, M., Hoyer, J., ... & Pittig, A. (2024). Exposure traced in daily life: improvements in ecologically assessed social and physical activity following exposure-based psychotherapy for anxiety disorders. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 101, 102792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102792   
  • Hein, G., Huestegge, L., Böckler-Raettig, A., Deserno, L., Eder, A. B., Hewig, J., Hotho, A., Kittel-Schneider, S., Leutritz, A. L., Reiter, A. M. F., Rodrigues, J., & Gamer, M. (2024). A social information processing perspective on social connectedness. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 167, 105945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105945
  • Gregorová, K., Eldar, E., Deserno, L., & Reiter, A. M. F. (2024). A cognitive-computational account of mood swings in adolescence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(4), 290–303. doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.02.006
  • Glück*, V. M., Engelke*, P., Hilger*, K., Wong, A. H. K., Boschet, J. M., & Pittig, A. (2024). A network perspective on real-life threat, anxiety, and avoidance. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 80(1), 23–38. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23575  
  • Gado, S., Teigeler, J., Kümpel, K., Schindler, M., & Gamer, M. (2024). The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2424919 
  • Eidel, M., Pfeiffer, M., Ziebell, P., & Kübler, A. (2024). Recording the tactile P300 with the cEEGrid for potential use in a brain-computer interface. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1371631
  • Aster, H.-C., Waltmann, M., Busch, A., Romanos, M., Gamer, M., Maria van Noort, B., Beck, A., Kappel, V., & Deserno, L. (2024). Impaired flexible reward learning in ADHD patients is associated with blunted reinforcement sensitivity and neural signals in ventral striatum and parietal cortex. NeuroImage: Clinical, 103588. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103588

 

2023

  • Wong, A. H. K., Lee, J. C., Engelke, P., & Pittig, A. (2023). Reduction of costly safety behaviors after extinction with a generalization stimulus is determined by individual differences in generalization rules. Behavior Research and Therapy, 160, 104233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104233 
  • Weiß, M.*, Saulin, A.*, Iotzov, V., Hewig, J., & Hein, G. (2023). Can monetary incentives overturn fairness-based decisions? [Registered Report]. Royal Society Open Science. 10: 211983. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211983
  • Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A. M. F., Villringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2023). Diminished reinforcement sensitivity in adolescence is associated with enhanced response switching and reduced coding of choice probability in the medial frontal pole. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101226 
  • Strekalova*, T., Moskvin*, O., Jain*, A. Y., Gorbunov*, N., Gorlova, A., Sadovnik, D., Umriukhin, A., Cespuglio, R., Yu, W. S., Tse, A. C. K., Kalueff, A. V., Lesch, K. P., & Lim, L. W. (2023). Molecular signature of excessive female aggression: Study of stressed mice with genetic inactivation of neuronal serotonin synthesis. Journal of Neural Transmission (Vienna), 130(9), 1113–1132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-023-02677-8 
  • Stegmann, Y., Andreatta, M., Pauli, P., Keil, A., & Wieser, M. J. (2023). Investigating sustained attention in contextual threat using steady-state VEPs evoked by flickering video stimuli. Psychophysiology, 60(5), e14229. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14229    
  • Scholz, V., Waltmann, M., Herzog, N., Reiter, A., Horstmann, A., & Deserno, L. (2023). Cortical grey matter mediates increases in model-based control and learning from positive feedback from adolescence to adulthood. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43(12), 2178 LP – 2189. https://doi.org/10.1523/ JNEUROSCI.1418-22.2023
  • Herzog, N., Hartmann, H., Jannsen, L. K., Kanyamibwa, A., Waltmann, M., Kovacs, P., Deserno, L., Fallon, S. J., Villringer, A., & Horstmann, A. (2023). Impaired updating of working memory representations in individuals with high BMI: evidence for dopaminergic mechanisms. ELife, 1–31. https://doi.org/ 10.1101/2023.11.03.565528
  • Hampf, C., Scherf-Clavel, M., Weiß, C., Klüpfel, C., Stonawski, S., Hommers, L., Lichter, K., Erhardt-Lehmann, A., Unterecker, S., Domschke, K., Kittel-Schneider, S., Menke, A., Deckert, J. & Weber, H. (2023). Effects of Anxious Depression on Antidepressant Treatment Response. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(24), 17128.  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms242417128 
  • Gregorova, K., Eldar, E., Mittermeier, S., Li, S.-C., Romanos, M., Bürger, A., Deserno, L., & Reiter, A. M. F. (2023). A computational account of mood variability during adolescence and its links to psychopathology [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol]. 740517 Bytes. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.23899464.V1  
  • Diouf, D., Vitale, M. R., Zöller, J. E. M., Pineau, A. M., Klopocki, E., Hamann, C., Vanmierlo, T., Van den Hove, D., & Lesch, K. P. (2023). Generation of a ST3GAL3 null mutant induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line (UKWMPi002-A-3) by CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Stem Cell Research, 67, 103038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scr.2023.103038 
  • Bürger, A., Scheiner, C., Seidel, A., Wasserscheid, A., Romanos, M., Reiter A. M. F. (2023). Universal prevention for non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents is scarce-A systematic review. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1130610. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1130610

 

2022   

  • Waltmann, M., Schlagenhauf, F., & Deserno, L. (2022). Sufficient reliability of the behavioral and computational readouts of a probabilistic reversal learning task. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/ 10.3758/s13428-021-01739-7 
  • Schapovalova, O., Gorlova, A., de Munter, J., Sheveleva, E., Eropkin, M., Gorbunov, N., Sicker, M., Umriukhin, A., Lyubchyk, S., Lesch, K. P., Strekalova, T., & Schroeter, C. A. (2022, August 22). Immunomodulatory effects of new phytotherapy on human macrophages and TLR4- and TLR7/8-mediated viral-like inflammation in mice. Frontiers in Medicine, 9, 952977. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.952977 
  • Merscher, A.-S., Tovote, P., Pauli, P., & Gamer, M. (2022). Centralized gaze as an adaptive component of defensive states in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1975), 20220405. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0405
  • Hamann, C. S., Bankmann, J., Mora Maza, H., Kornhuber, J., Zoicas, I., & Schmitt-Böhrer, A. (2022). Social fear affects limbic system neuronal activity and gene expression. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(15), 8228. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23158228  
  • Gründahl, M., Weiß, M., Maier, L., Hewig, J., Deckert, J. & Hein, G. (2022). Construction and validation of a scale to measure loneliness and isolation during social distancing and its effect on mental health. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 798596. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.798596  

 

2021