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Overview

Tanja Michael is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany and has a significant publication record in the field of psychology, with a special focus on clinical and experimental subfields. Their research spans 108 publications centered predominantly on psychology, with notable contributions to clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, general health professions, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their recent research output includes the following papers:

  • Impact of COVID-19 on Public Mental Health and the Buffering Effect of a Sense of Coherence (2020), published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • On-line anxiety level detection from biosignals: Machine learning based on a randomized controlled trial with spider-fearful individuals (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • Sleep's impact on emotional recognition memory: A meta-analysis of whole-night, nap, and REM sleep effects (2020), published in Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • Social Functioning in Individuals Affected by Childhood Maltreatment: Establishing a Research Agenda to Inform Interventions (2022), published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • The relationship between attachment to pets and mental health: the shared link via attachment to humans (2022), published in BMC Psychiatry

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • M. Roxanne Sopp (36 joint publications)
  • Sarah K. Schäfer (28 joint publications)
  • Johanna Lass-Hennemann (22 joint publications)
  • Monika Equit (14 joint publications)
  • Christian G. Schanz (13 joint publications)

Common venues for their published work include:

  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology (6 publications)
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (4 publications)
  • BMC Psychiatry (3 publications)
  • Research Square (3 publications)
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (2 publications)

Their research primarily covers the following topics:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Health, Psychology, and Well-being
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Best Publications

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder following assault: the role of cognitive processing, trauma memory, and appraisals.

    Sarah L. Halligan;Tanja Michael;David M. Clark;Anke Ehlers

  • Intrusive re-experiencing in post-traumatic stress disorder: phenomenology, theory, and therapy.

    Anke Ehlers;Ann Hackmann;Tanja Michael

  • Fear conditioning in posttraumatic stress disorder: evidence for delayed extinction of autonomic, experiential, and behavioural responses.

    Jens Blechert;Tanja Michael;Noortje Vriends;Jü rgen Margraf

  • Rumination in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Tanja Michael;Sarah L. Halligan;David M. Clark;Anke Ehlers

  • Unwanted memories of assault: what intrusion characteristics are associated with PTSD?

    T Michael;Anke Ehlers;S L Halligan;David Clark

  • Glucocorticoids enhance extinction-based psychotherapy.

    Dominique J.-F. de Quervain;Dorothée Bentz;Tanja Michael;Olivia C. Bolt

  • Autonomic and Respiratory Characteristics of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Panic Disorder

    Jens Blechert;Tanja Michael;Paul Grossman;Marta Lajtman

  • Age of traumatisation as a predictor of post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression in young women.

    Andreas Maercker;Tanja Michael;Lydia Fehm;Eni S. Becker

  • Fear conditioning in panic disorder: Enhanced resistance to extinction.

    Tanja Michael;Jens Blechert;Noortje Vriends;Jürgen Margraf

  • Epidemiology of anxiety disorders

    Tanja Michael;Ulrike Zetsche;Jürgen Margraf

  • Impact of COVID-19 on public mental health and the buffering effect of a sense of coherence

    Sarah K Schäfer;M Roxanne Sopp;Christian G Schanz;Marlene Staginnus

  • A randomized comparison of cognitive behavioral therapy and behavioral weight loss treatment for overweight individuals with binge eating disorder.

    Simone Munsch;Esther Biedert;Andrea Meyer;Tanja Michael

  • PTSD in paramedics: resilience and sense of coherence.

    Markus Streb;Pascal Häller;Tanja Michael

  • Enhancing exposure therapy for anxiety disorders with glucocorticoids: From basic mechanisms of emotional learning to clinical applications

    Dorothée Bentz;Tanja Michael;Dominique J.-F. de Quervain;Frank H. Wilhelm

  • Intrusive images in PTSD and in traumatised and non-traumatised depressed patients: a cross-sectional clinical study.

    Eva Birrer;Tanja Michael;Simone Munsch

  • Enhanced priming for trauma-related material in posttraumatic stress disorder

    Tanja Michael;Anke Ehlers;Sarah L. Halligan

  • Subtypes of social phobia: Are they of any use?

    Noortje Vriends;Eni S. Becker;Andrea Meyer;Tanja Michael

  • The relationship between sense of coherence and post-traumatic stress: a meta-analysis.

    S. K. Schäfer;N. Becker;L. King;A. Horsch

  • Memory control ability modulates intrusive memories after analogue trauma

    Markus Streb;Axel Mecklinger;Michael C. Anderson;Michael C. Anderson;Johanna Lass-Hennemann

  • Presence of a dog reduces subjective but not physiological stress responses to an analog trauma.

    Johanna Lass-Hennemann;Peter Peyk;Markus Streb;Elena Holz

  • Enhanced perceptual priming for neutral stimuli occurring in a traumatic context: two experimental investigations.

    T. Michael;A. Ehlers

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank H. Wilhelm
Frank H. Wilhelm University of Salzburg
Jürgen Margraf
Jürgen Margraf Ruhr University Bochum
Anke Ehlers
Anke Ehlers University of Oxford
Jens Blechert
Jens Blechert University of Salzburg
Sarah L. Halligan
Sarah L. Halligan University of Bath
Dominique J.-F. de Quervain
Dominique J.-F. de Quervain University of Basel
David M. Clark
David M. Clark University of Oxford
Paul Grossman
Paul Grossman University Hospital of Basel
Axel Mecklinger
Axel Mecklinger Saarland University
Andreas Maercker
Andreas Maercker University of Zurich

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