Rainer Duesing

Universität Osnabrück | UOS · Institute of Psychology

Emotion regulation ability (ERA) enables individuals to disengage from negative stimuli. In this study, we investigated the role of ERA in the depression-related negativity bias. Seventy-four individuals with major depressive disorder and eighty-three nonclinical individuals were screened for depressiveness using the Beck Depression Inventory. ERA...

The recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has plunged countries across the world into crisis. Both in the general population and in specific subgroups such as infected people or health care workers, studies have reported increased symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. However, the reactions of individuals with mental disorders...

Background Post-Stroke Depression (PSD) is a severe condition, affecting about 30% of stroke survivors within a five-year period after stroke. Post-stroke functional impairments (FI) and social support are associated with PSD. It is inconclusive, whether one of the factors, post-stroke FI and PSD, shows a stronger predictive value on the respective...

Objective Findings on the relationship between hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) activity and cognitive performance are inconsistent. We investigated whether personality in terms of emotion regulation abilities (ERA) moderates the relationship between stress-contingent HPA activity and accuracy of intuitive coherence judgments.MethodERA a...

Body image disturbance is associated with several mental disorders. Previous research on body image has focused mostly on women, largely neglecting body image in men. Moreover, only a small number of studies have conducted gender comparisons of body image over the lifespan and included participants aged 50 years and older. With regard to measuremen...

Zusammenfassung Negatives körperbezogenes Feedback ist mit einer erhöhten Körperunzufriedenheit assoziiert. Als Instrument zur Erfassung verbalen und nonverbalen körperbezogenen Feedbacks eignet sich die englischsprachige Feedback on Physical Appearance Scale (FOPAS), die jedoch bisher für den deutschsprachigen Raum noch nicht validiert wurde. Ziel...

Although muscle dysmorphia (MD) has been added as a specifier for body dysmorphic disorder in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, experimental research on psychopathological mechanisms is lacking. Because models of eating disorders (EDs) suggest parallels between MD and ED, body-oriented attentional biases,...

Previous body image research suggests that first, exposure to body stimuli can negatively affect men’s body satisfaction and second, body concerns are associated with dysfunctional gaze behavior. To date, however, the effects of self- vs. other-referential body stimuli and of gaze behavior on body image in men under exposure conditions have not bee...

Whereas for women, body image disturbances have been shown to be associated with a biased, self-deprecating pattern of body-directed visual attention, it has never been directly studied how men look at their own and other bodies and whether gaze behavior is moderated by traits central to male body image (i.e., drive for thinness and muscularity). T...

Social evaluation is a potent stressor and consistently leads to an activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system. Here, we investigated whether individual differences in action orientation influence the relationship between the cortisol response to social-evaluative threat and relative left frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) alpha asy...

Corresponding author at: VU University Amsterdam, Department of Clinical Psychology, van der Boechorststraat 1, NL-1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Everyday life experience tells us that individual differences apparently matter. Although confronted with the same situation, individuals seem to act and react in different ways. On a behavioral and self-report level, individual differences are well documented. Over the past decades, they have been systematically assessed and embedded in complex th...

Previous research on relationships between affective-motivational traits and hemispheric asymmetries in resting frontal alpha band power as measured by electroencephalography (EEG) focused on individual differences in motivational direction (approach vs. withdrawal) or behavioral activation. The present study investigated resting frontal alpha asym...

Previous research demonstrated that affiliation primes facilitate intuitive thought (Kuhl & Kazén, 2008). We investigated whether trait tendencies toward affiliation also predict intuitive thought. Thirty-nine students filled in the operant motive test for the assessment of social motives, a variant of the Thematic Apperception Test, and correspond...

Oxytocin facilitates stress regulation but little is known about individual differences in this effect. The present study investigates whether the effect of intranasal oxytocin on stress-contingent cortisol release differs between individuals with high vs. low emotional regulation abilities (ERA). In a double-blind study thirty-six healthy male stu...

What are the cognitive and affective prerequisites of adaptive behaviour and what can be learnt from human adaptive behaviour for modelling artificial systems? To answer these questions, this talk will present an information-processing architecture that we consider the minimum requirement for a functional analysis of personality. The architecture c...

Oxytocin facilitates stress regulation but little is known about individual differences in these effects. The present study investigates whether the effect of intranasal oxytocin on stress-contingent cortisol release differs between individuals with high vs. low efficiency in coping with stress. In a double-blind study thirty-seven healthy male stu...