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Ilona Papousek

Ilona Papousek

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Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
5769
World Ranking
7660
National Ranking
36

Overview

Ilona Papousek is affiliated with the University of Graz in Austria. Their research primarily encompasses the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology. Other notable subfields include cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

The main topics of their work cover creativity in education and neuroscience, sport psychology and performance, mind wandering and attention, neural and behavioral psychology studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, language, metaphor, and cognition, as well as humor studies and applications.

Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • Scientific Reports
  • Sensors
  • Behavioral Sciences

Ilona Papousek has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Andréas Fink
  • Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan
  • Christian Rominger
  • Elisabeth M. Weiss
  • Helmut Lackner

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Ilona Papousek include:

  • Creative, Antagonistic, and Angry? Exploring the Roots of Malevolent Creativity with a Real-World Idea Generation Task (2020, The Journal of Creative Behavior)
  • More habitual physical activity is linked to the use of specific, more adaptive cognitive reappraisal strategies in dealing with stressful events (2020, Stress and Health)
  • Humor comprehension and creative cognition: Shared and distinct neurocognitive mechanisms as indicated by EEG alpha activity (2020, NeuroImage)
  • Functional brain activation patterns of creative metacognitive monitoring (2022, Neuropsychologia)
  • Failure to reappraise: Malevolent creativity is linked to revenge ideation and impaired reappraisal inventiveness in the face of stressful, anger-eliciting events (2021, Anxiety Stress & Coping)

Best Publications

  • Statistics anxiety, trait anxiety, learning behavior, and academic performance

    Daniel Macher;Manuela Paechter;Ilona Papousek;Kai Ruggeri

  • Statistics anxiety, state anxiety during an examination, and academic achievement.

    Daniel Macher;Manuela Paechter;Ilona Papousek;Kai Ruggeri

  • Mathematics Anxiety and Statistics Anxiety. Shared but Also Unshared Components and Antagonistic Contributions to Performance in Statistics

    Manuela Paechter;Daniel Macher;Khatuna Martskvishvili;Sigrid Wimmer

  • Trait and state positive affect and cardiovascular recovery from experimental academic stress.

    Ilona Papousek;Karin Nauschnegg;Manuela Paechter;Helmut K. Lackner

  • The time-course of EEG Alpha Power Changes in Creative Ideation

    Daniela Schwab;Mathias Benedek;Ilona Papousek;Elisabeth M. Weiss

  • Creativity and the Stroop interference effect

    Susanne Edl;Mathias Benedek;Ilona Papousek;Elisabeth M. Weiss

  • Sensitivity of EEG upper alpha activity to cognitive and affective creativity interventions.

    Andreas Fink;Daniela Schwab;Ilona Papousek

  • Creativity and schizotypy from the neuroscience perspective

    Andreas Fink;Bernhard Weber;Karl Koschutnig;Mathias Benedek

  • Gray matter density in relation to different facets of verbal creativity

    Andreas Fink;Karl Koschutnig;Lisa Hutterer;Elisabeth Steiner

  • Psychometric Evaluation and Experimental Validation of the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale

    Ilona Papousek;Kai Ruggeri;Daniel Macher;Manuela Paechter

  • The creative brain in the figural domain: Distinct patterns of EEG alpha power during idea generation and idea elaboration.

    Christian Rominger;Ilona Papousek;Corinna M. Perchtold;Bernhard Weber

  • Covariations of EEG asymmetries and emotional states indicate that activity at frontopolar locations is particularly affected by state factors.

    Ilona Papousek;Günter Schulter

  • Frontal brain asymmetry and affective flexibility in an emotional contagion paradigm

    Ilona Papousek;Eva M. Reiser;Bernhard Weber;H. Harald Freudenthaler

  • Prefrontal EEG alpha asymmetry changes while observing disaster happening to other people: cardiac correlates and prediction of emotional impact

    Ilona Papousek;Elisabeth M. Weiss;Günter Schulter;Andreas Fink

  • Training of Verbal Creativity Modulates Brain Activity in Regions Associated with language- and memory-Related Demands

    Andreas Fink;Mathias Benedek;Karl Koschutnig;Eva Pirker

  • Gelotophobia, emotion-related skills and responses to the affective states of others

    Ilona Papousek;Willibald Ruch;H. Harald Freudenthaler;Eva Kogler

  • EEG alpha activity during imagining creative moves in soccer decision-making situations.

    Andreas Fink;Christian Rominger;Mathias Benedek;Corinna M. Perchtold

  • Creativity is associated with a characteristic U-shaped function of alpha power changes accompanied by an early increase in functional coupling

    Christian Rominger;Ilona Papousek;Corinna M Perchtold;Mathias Benedek

  • Phase synchronization of hemodynamic variables and respiration during mental challenge

    Helmut Karl Lackner;Helmut Karl Lackner;Ilona Papousek;Jerry Joseph Batzel;Andreas Roessler

  • Typical performance measures of emotion regulation and emotion perception and frontal EEG asymmetry in an emotional contagion paradigm

    Ilona Papousek;H. Harald Freudenthaler;Günter Schulter

  • Potential markers of aggressive behavior: the fear of other persons' laughter and its overlaps with mental disorders.

    Elisabeth M. Weiss;Günter Schulter;H. Harald Freudenthaler;Ellen Hofer

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisabeth M. Weiss
Elisabeth M. Weiss University of Innsbruck
Andreas Fink
Andreas Fink University of Graz
Mathias Benedek
Mathias Benedek University of Graz
Andrea Christiane Samson
Andrea Christiane Samson University of Fribourg
Walther Parson
Walther Parson Innsbruck Medical University
Daniel Memmert
Daniel Memmert German Sport University Cologne
Willibald Ruch
Willibald Ruch University of Zurich
Ulrich S. Tran
Ulrich S. Tran University of Vienna
Tobias Greitemeyer
Tobias Greitemeyer University of Innsbruck
Karin Landerl
Karin Landerl University of Graz

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