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Peter Sedlmeier publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Sedlmeier sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 98 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Peter Sedlmeier D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Sedlmeier sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Peter Sedlmeier is affiliated with Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily lies within the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Their scientific contributions emphasize topics such as Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Music Therapy and Health, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Behavioral Health and Interventions, and Art Therapy and Mental Health.

Peter Sedlmeier has published extensively in the journal Mindfulness, among other venues, with frequent publications also appearing in Complementary Medicine Research, Frontiers in Psychology, Depression and Anxiety, and OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine.

Notable recent papers include:

  • What Do Meditators Do When They Meditate? Proposing a Novel Basis for Future Meditation Research, 2021, Mindfulness
  • Meditation-Based Lifestyle Modification: Development of an Integrative Mind-Body Program for Mental Health and Human Flourishing, 2020, Complementary Medicine Research
  • Why Do People Begin to Meditate and Why Do They Continue?, 2020, Mindfulness
  • Differential Effects of Ethical Education, Physical Hatha Yoga, and Mantra Meditation on Well-Being and Stress in Healthy Participants-An Experimental Single-Case Study, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Meditation-based lifestyle modification in mild to moderate depression-A randomized controlled trial, 2022, Depression and Anxiety

Collaborations feature several frequent co-authors, including Holger C. Bringmann, Karin Matko, Michael Jeitler, Andreas Michalsen, and Nicole Bringmann.

In addition to journal articles, Peter Sedlmeier has authored book publications such as The Psychology of Meditation in 2022, published by Hogrefe Publishing eBooks.

Best Publications

  • The psychological effects of meditation: a meta-analysis.

    Peter Sedlmeier;Juliane Eberth;Marcus Schwarz;Doreen Zimmermann

  • The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation: A Meta-Analysis

    Juliane Eberth;Peter Sedlmeier

  • Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners

    Kieran C.R. Fox;Savannah Nijeboer;Matthew L. Dixon;James L. Floman

  • Do studies of statistical power have an effect on the power of studies

    Peter Sedlmeier;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • The psychological functions of music listening

    Thomas Schäfer;Peter Sedlmeier;Christine Städtler;David Huron

  • Functional neuroanatomy of meditation: A review and meta-analysis of 78 functional neuroimaging investigations

    Kieran C. R. Fox;Matthew L. Dixon;Savannah Nijeboer;Manesh Girn

  • Forschungsmethoden und Statistik in der Psychologie

    Peter Sedlmeier;Frank Renkewitz

  • Teaching Bayesian reasoning in less than two hours.

    Peter Sedlmeier;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • The Impact of Background Music on Adult Listeners: A Meta-Analysis.

    Juliane Kämpfe;Peter Sedlmeier;Frank Renkewitz

  • From the Functions of Music to Music Preference.

    Thomas Schäfer;Peter Sedlmeier

  • Intuitions About Sample Size: The Empirical Law of Large Numbers

    Peter Sedlmeier;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • What makes us like music? Determinants of music preference.

    Thomas Schäfer;Peter Sedlmeier

  • Etc. frequency processing and cognition

    Peter Sedlmeier;Tilmann Betsch

  • What Is Meditation? Proposing an Empirically Derived Classification System.

    Karin Matko;Peter Sedlmeier

  • Are judgments of the positional frequencies of letters systematically biased due to availability

    Peter Sedlmeier;Ralph Hertwig;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Cognitive illusions reconsidered

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Ralph Hertwig;Ulrich Hoffrage;Peter Sedlmeier

  • The functions of music and their relationship to music preference in India and Germany.

    Thomas Schäfer;Arun Tipandjan;Peter Sedlmeier

  • Free Word Associations Correspond to Contiguities Between Words in Texts

    Manfred Wettler;Reinhard Rapp;Peter Sedlmeier

  • Psychological Effects of Meditation for Healthy Practitioners: an Update

    Peter Sedlmeier;Caroline Loße;Lisa Christin Quasten

  • Music is in the Muscle: How Embodied Cognition May Influence Music Preferences

    Peter Sedlmeier;Oliver Weigelt;Eva Walther

  • What Makes Mindfulness-Based Interventions Effective? An Examination of Common Components

    Alexander Kropp;Peter Sedlmeier

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Ralph Hertwig
Ralph Hertwig Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Kalina Christoff
Kalina Christoff University of British Columbia
Ferdinand Binkofski
Ferdinand Binkofski RWTH Aachen University
Denis J. Hilton
Denis J. Hilton Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Josef F. Krems
Josef F. Krems Chemnitz University of Technology
Matthias Brand
Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen
Siegfried L. Sporer
Siegfried L. Sporer University of Giessen
Claus-Christian Carbon
Claus-Christian Carbon University of Bamberg

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