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Johannes Michalak is affiliated with Witten/Herdecke University in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the fields of psychology and medicine. Their scholarly work covers various subfields, prominently clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and general health professions. The focus on these areas reflects a broad approach to psychological topics, encompassing both theoretical and applied dimensions.

Michalak's research topics include mindfulness and compassion interventions, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, behavioral health and interventions, psychology, coaching and therapy, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, and action observation and synchronization. This range indicates a multidisciplinary engagement with mental health and behavioral science.

The scientist's recent papers illustrate thematic concentrations around motor behavior, depression, and mindfulness. Notable publications include:

  • Expansive and Contractive Postures and Movement: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Motor Displays on Affective and Behavioral Responses (2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • The Cross-cultural Validity of the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Across 16 Countries (2020, Mindfulness)
  • Motor alterations in depression and anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022, Journal of Affective Disorders)
  • Bodily Maps of Emotion in Major Depressive Disorder (2020, Cognitive Therapy and Research)
  • Gait Patterns and Mood in Everyday Life: A Comparison Between Depressed Patients and Non-depressed Controls (2021, Cognitive Therapy and Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michalak include Thomas Heidenreich, Mia Skytte O'Toole, Johannes Graser, Emma Elkjær, and Mai Bjørnskov Mikkelsen. Collaborative work with these researchers underscores an active research network in psychological science.

Michalak's research articles are prevalently published in venues such as Cognitive Therapy and Research, Die Psychotherapie, Journal of Affective Disorders, Clinical Psychology Science and Practice, and Acta Psychologica. These journals are consistent with their focus on clinical and cognitive psychology, as well as affective and therapeutic topics.

In addition to journal publications, Johannes Michalak has contributed to academic books, including the work titled Achtsamkeit published by Hogrefe Verlag in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Embodiment of sadness and depression--gait patterns associated with dysphoric mood.

    Johannes Michalak;Nikolaus F. Troje;Julia Fischer;Patrick Vollmar

  • Rumination as a predictor of relapse in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression

    Johannes Michalak;Anne Hölz;Tobias Teismann

  • Die deutsche Version der Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale (MAAS) Psychometrische Befunde zu einem Achtsamkeitsfragebogen

    Johannes Michalak;Thomas Heidenreich;Gunnar Ströhle;Christof Nachtigall

  • Don't Forget Your Body: Mindfulness, Embodiment, and the Treatment of Depression

    Johannes Michalak;Jan Burg;Thomas Heidenreich

  • Vegetarian diet and mental disorders: results from a representative community survey

    Johannes Michalak;Xiao Chi Zhang;Frank Jacobi

  • Mindfulness predicts relapse/recurrence in major depressive disorder after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

    Johannes Michalak;Thomas Heidenreich;Petra Meibert;Dietmar Schulte

  • The Healthy Quality of Mindful Breathing: Associations With Rumination and Depression

    Jan M. Burg;Johannes Michalak

  • Education and mental health: Do psychosocial resources matter?

    Helen Niemeyer;Angela Bieda;Johannes Michalak;Silvia Schneider

  • Sitting posture makes a difference-embodiment effects on depressive memory bias.

    Johannes Michalak;Judith Mischnat;Tobias Teismann

  • Achtsamkeit («Mindfulness») als Therapieprinzip in Verhaltenstherapie und Verhaltensmedizin

    T. Heidenreich;J. Michalak

  • Where Do We Go From Here? The Goal Perspective in Psychotherapy

    Johannes Michalak;Martin Grosse Holtforth

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for persistent insomnia: a pilot study.

    Thomas Heidenreich;Inka Tuin;Burkhard Pflug;Matthias Michal

  • How we walk affects what we remember: gait modifications through biofeedback change negative affective memory bias.

    Johannes Michalak;Johannes Michalak;Katharina Rohde;Nikolaus F. Troje

  • The treatment of chronic depression with cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled clinical trials.

    Philip Negt;Eva‐Lotta Brakemeier;Johannes Michalak;Lotta Winter

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy, Drug, or Their Combination for Persistent Depressive Disorder: Personalizing the Treatment Choice Using Individual Participant Data Network Metaregression.

    Toshi A Furukawa;Orestis Efthimiou;Erica S Weitz;Andrea Cipriani

  • The Psychometric Properties of the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills in Clinical Populations.

    Corinna Baum;Willem Kuyken;Martin Bohus;Thomas Heidenreich

  • Personal Goals of Psychotherapy Patients: The Intensity and the "Why" of Goal-Motivated Behavior and Their Implications for the Therapeutic Process.

    Johannes Michalak;Marc A. Klappheck;Joachim Kosfelder

  • Mindfulness as self-regulated attention: Associations with heart rate variability.

    Jan M. Burg;Oliver T. Wolf;Johannes Michalak

  • Erfassung von Achtsamkeit mit der deutschen Version des Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaires (FFMQ-D)

    Johannes Michalak;Gerhard Zarbock;Marko Drews;Deline Otto

  • A randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and a group version of cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy for chronically depressed patients.

    Johannes Michalak;Martin Schultze;Thomas Heidenreich;Elisabeth Schramm

  • Buffering low self-esteem: The effect of mindful acceptance on the relationship between self-esteem and depression

    Johannes Michalak;Tobias Teismann;Thomas Heidenreich;Gunnar Ströhle

  • Achtsamkeit und Akzeptanz in der Psychotherapie

    Johannes Michalak;Thomas Heidenreich;Martin Bohus

Frequent Co-Authors

Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg
Silvia Schneider
Silvia Schneider Ruhr University Bochum
Franz Petermann
Franz Petermann University of Bremen
Jürgen Margraf
Jürgen Margraf Ruhr University Bochum
Elisabeth Schramm
Elisabeth Schramm University of Freiburg
Kurt Hahlweg
Kurt Hahlweg Technische Universität Braunschweig
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Martin Grosse Holtforth
Martin Grosse Holtforth University of Bern
Thomas Forkmann
Thomas Forkmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Nikolaus F. Troje
Nikolaus F. Troje York University

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