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Wolff Schlotz

Wolff Schlotz

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Psychology

D-Index
51
Citations
10640
World Ranking
5219
National Ranking
242

Overview

Wolff Schlotz was affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research primarily focused on experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's main research topics included stress responses and cortisol, aesthetic perception and analysis, mental health research topics, behavioral health and interventions, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, multisensory perception and integration, and flow experience in various fields.

Wolff Schlotz had several frequent coauthors who collaborated on multiple studies. These included Robert Kumsta, Winfried Menninghaus, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Dennis Golm, and Michael Rutter.

Their work appeared in a variety of academic venues, with repeated publications in the following journals:

  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports

Notable publications by Wolff Schlotz included:

  • "The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German." (2020, Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts)
  • "Early childhood deprivation is associated with alterations in adult brain structure despite subsequent environmental enrichment" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Self-soothing touch and being hugged reduce cortisol responses to stress: A randomized controlled trial on stress, physical touch, and social identity" (2021, Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology)
  • "Why does early childhood deprivation increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adulthood? A developmental cascade model" (2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • "Psychological stress, cognitive decline and the development of dementia in amnestic mild cognitive impairment" (2020, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • Determinants of the diurnal course of salivary alpha-amylase

    Urs M. Nater;Urs M. Nater;Nicholas Rohleder;Nicholas Rohleder;Wolff Schlotz;Ulrike Ehlert

  • Several daily measurements are necessary to reliably assess the cortisol rise after awakening: State- and trait components

    J. Hellhammer;E. Fries;O.W. Schweisthal;W. Schlotz

  • The past makes the present meaningful: nostalgia as an existential resource.

    Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides

  • Perceived work overload and chronic worrying predict weekend-weekday differences in the cortisol awakening response

    Wolff Schlotz;Juliane Hellhammer;Peter Schulz;Arthur A. Stone

  • Fetal origins of mental health: Evidence and mechanisms

    Wolff Schlotz;David I.W. Phillips

  • Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study

    Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Mark Kennedy;Robert Kumsta;Nicky Knights

  • Trierer Inventar zur Erfassung von chronischem Streß (TICS): Skalenkonstruktion, teststatistische Überprüfung und Validierung der Skala Arbeitsüberlastung

    Peter Schulz;Wolff Schlotz

  • Covariance between psychological and endocrine responses to pharmacological challenge and psychosocial stress: a question of timing.

    Wolff Schlotz;Robert Kumsta;Irmgard Layes;Sonja Entringer

  • Transformational and transactional leadership and followers’ chronic stress

    Jens Rowold;Wolff Schlotz

  • Salivary cortisol in ambulatory assessment--some dos, some don'ts, and some open questions.

    Brigitte M. Kudielka;Andrea Gierens;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Stefan Wüst

  • Delay and reward choice in ADHD: an experimental test of the role of delay aversion.

    Rafaela Marco;Ana Miranda;Wolff Schlotz;Amanda Melia

  • The perceived stress reactivity scale: Measurement invariance, stability, and validity in three countries

    Wolff Schlotz;Ilona S. Yim;Peggy M. Zoccola;Lars J. Jansen

  • Intra-individual psychological and physiological responses to acute laboratory stressors of different intensity

    Nadine Skoluda;Jana Strahler;Wolff Schlotz;Larissa Niederberger

  • Trierer Inventar zum Chronischen Stress (TICS) [Trier Inventory for Chronic Stress (TICS)]

    Peter Schulz;Wolff Schlotz;Peter Becker

  • Deprivation-Specific Psychological Patterns: Effects of Institutional Deprivation

    M. Rutter;E. Sonuga-Barke;C. Beckett;J. Castle

  • Ambulatory psychoneuroendocrinology: Assessing salivary cortisol and other hormones in daily life

    Wolff Schlotz

  • Dissociative symptoms are positively related to stress in borderline personality disorder

    C. E. Stiglmayr;U. W. Ebner-Priemer;J. Bretz;R. Behm

  • Lower maternal folate status in early pregnancy is associated with childhood hyperactivity and peer problems in offspring.

    Wolff Schlotz;Alexander Jones;Alexander Jones;David I.W. Phillips;Catharine R. Gale

  • Birth weight is associated with salivary cortisol responses to psychosocial stress in adult life

    Stefan Wüst;Sonja Entringer;Ilona S. Federenko;Wolff Schlotz

  • Daily life stress and the cortisol awakening response: testing the anticipation hypothesis.

    Daniel J. Powell;Wolff Schlotz;Wolff Schlotz

  • Oily fish intake during pregnancy – association with lower hyperactivity but not with higher full‐scale IQ in offspring

    Catharine R. Gale;Sian M. Robinson;Keith M. Godfrey;Catherine M. Law

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Robert Kumsta
Robert Kumsta Ruhr University Bochum
Jana Kreppner
Jana Kreppner University of Southampton
Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter King's College London
Stefan Wüst
Stefan Wüst University of Regensburg
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen University of Southern Denmark
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Barbara Maughan
Barbara Maughan King's College London
Rona Moss-Morris
Rona Moss-Morris King's College London
Arthur A. Stone
Arthur A. Stone University of Southern California

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