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Maria Meier

Bürgin, D., Witt, A., Seker, S., d’Huart, D., Meier, M., Jenkel, N., Boonmann, C., Schmeck, K., Fegert, J. M., & Schmid, M. (2025). Childhood maltreatment and mental health problems in a 10-year follow-up study of adolescents in youth residential care: A latent transition analysis. Development and Psychopathology, 37(1), 68–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423001426
Bentele, U. U., Strobel, P., Meier, M., Benz, A. B. E., Gaertner, R. J., Klink, E. S. C., Denk, B. F., Dimitroff, S. J., Unternaehrer, E., & Pruessner, J. C. (2025). The effect of mortality salience and early-life maternal care on neuroendocrine, autonomic, and psychological stress responses. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85380-w
Meier, M., Kantelhardt, S., Gurri, L., Stadler, C., Schmid, M., Clemens, V., O’Donovan, A., Boonmann, C., Bürgin, D., & Unternaehrer, E. (2024). Childhood trauma is linked to epigenetic age deceleration in young adults with previous youth residential care placements. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2379144. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2024.2379144
Gaertner, R. J., Burkart, M., Richter, L., Schnell, P., Finkhäuser, M., Klink, E. S. C., Denk, B. F., Meier, M., Bentele, U. U., Wienhold, S., Kossmann, K. E., & Pruessner, J. C. (2024). Early life adversity blunts the subjective and physiological relaxation response in healthy adults. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 27992. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78340-3
Bentele, U. U., Klink, E. S. C., Benz, A. B. E., Meier, M., Gaertner, R. J., Denk, B. F., Dimitroff, S. J., Unternaehrer, E., & Pruessner, J. C. (2024). The effect of cognitive reappraisal and early-life maternal care on neuroendocrine stress responses. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 6837. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57106-x
Meier, M., Vinkers, C. H., Pruessner, J. C., & Sep, M. S. C. (2024). Open science needs a standardized data format: Suggestions for the field of psychoneuroendocrinology. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 169, 107170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107170
Sep, M. S. C., Veenman, K., Vinkers, C., Sep, M. S. C., Veenman, K., Habets, P. C., Bonapersona, V., Bakvis, P., Bentele, U., Binder, E., Branje, S. J. T., Brückl, T., Cornelisse, S., Dickinson, P., Elzinga, B. M., Evers, A. W. M., Fernández, G., Geuze, E., Hartman, C. A., … Vinkers, C. (2024). The STRESS-EU database: A European resource of human acute stress studies for the worldwide research community. Neuroscience Applied, 3, 104063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nsa.2024.104063
Nebe, S., Reutter, M., Baker, D. H., Bölte, J., Domes, G., Gamer, M., Gärtner, A., Gießing, C., Gurr, C., Hilger, K., Jawinski, P., Kulke, L., Lischke, A., Markett, S., Meier, M., Merz, C. J., Popov, T., Puhlmann, L. M., Quintana, D. S., … Feld, G. B. (2023). Enhancing precision in human neuroscience. ELife, 12, e85980. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85980
Benz, A. B. E., Dimitroff, S. J., Jeggle, C., Gaertner, R. J., Meier, M., Unternaehrer, E., Bentele, U. U., Denk, B. F., Klink, E. S. C., & Pruessner, J. C. (2023). Increased empathic distress in adults is associated with higher levels of childhood maltreatment. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 4087. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30891-7
Dimitroff, S. J., Würfel, L., Meier, M., Faig, K. E., Benz, A. B. E., Denk, B., Bentele, U. U., Unternaehrer, E., & Pruessner, J. C. (2023). Estimation of antibody levels after COVID-19 vaccinations: Preliminary evidence for immune interoception. Biological Psychology, 182, 108636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108636
Gaertner, R. J., Kossmann, K. E., Benz, A. B. E., Bentele, U. U., Meier, M., Denk, B. F., Klink, E. S. C., Dimitroff, S. J., & Pruessner, J. C. (2023). Relaxing effects of virtual environments on the autonomic nervous system indicated by heart rate variability: A systematic review. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 88, 102035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102035
Hu, X., Meier, M., & Pruessner, J. (2023). Challenges and opportunities of diagnostic markers of Alzheimer’s disease based on structural magnetic resonance imaging. Brain and Behavior, 13(3), e2925. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2925
Benz, A. B. E., Gaertner, R. J., Meier, M., Unternaehrer, E., Scharndke, S., Jupe, C., Wenzel, M., Bentele, U. U., Dimitroff, S. J., Denk, B. F., & Pruessner, J. C. (2022). Nature-Based Relaxation Videos and Their Effect on Heart Rate Variability. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 866682. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866682
Meier, M., Haub, K., Schramm, M.-L., Hamma, M., Bentele, U. U., Dimitroff, S. J., Gärtner, R., Denk, B. F., Benz, A. B. E., Unternaehrer, E., & Pruessner, J. C. (2022). Validation of an online version of the trier social stress test in adult men and women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 142, 105818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105818
Meier, M., Lonsdorf, T. B., Lupien, S. J., Stalder, T., Laufer, S., Sicorello, M., Linz, R., & Puhlmann, L. M. C. (2022). Open and reproducible science practices in psychoneuroendocrinology: Opportunities to foster scientific progress. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 11, 100144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpnec.2022.100144
Benz, A. B. E., Kloker, L. V., Kuhlmann, T., Meier, M., Unternaehrer, E., Bentele, U. U., Dimitroff, S. J., Denk, B. F., Reips, U.-D., & Pruessner, J. C. (2022). Psychometrische Kennwerte einer deutschen Übersetzung des Parental Bonding Instrument. PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie, 72(01), 34–44. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1503-5328
Bentele, U. U., Meier, M., Benz, A. B. E., Denk, B. F., Dimitroff, S. J., Pruessner, J. C., & Unternaehrer, E. (2021). The impact of maternal care and blood glucose availability on the cortisol stress response in fasted women. Journal of Neural Transmission. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-021-02350-y
Meier, M., Wirz, L., Dickinson, P., & Pruessner, J. C. (2021). Laughter yoga reduces the cortisol response to acute stress in healthy individuals. Stress, 24(1), 44–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253890.2020.1766018
Meier, M., Bentele, U. U., Benz, A. B. E., Denk, B., Dimitroff, S., Pruessner, J. C., & Unternaehrer, E. (2021). Effects of psychological, sensory, and metabolic energy prime manipulation on the acute endocrine stress response in fasted women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 134, 105452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105452
Denk, B., Dimitroff, S. J., Meier, M., Benz, A. B. E., Bentele, U. U., Unternaehrer, E., Popovic, N. F., Gaissmaier, W., & Pruessner, J. C. (2021). Influence of stress on physiological synchrony in a stressful versus non-stressful group setting. Journal of Neural Transmission, 128(9), 1335–1345. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-021-02384-2
Unternaehrer, E., Meier, M., Bouvette-Turcot, A.-A., & Hari Dass, S. A. (2021). Long-term epigenetic effects of parental caregiving. In Developmental Human Behavioral Epigenetics (pp. 105–117). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819262-7.00006-4
Meier, M., Unternaehrer, E., Schorpp, S. M., Wenzel, M., Benz, A., Bentele, U. U., Dimitroff, S. J., Denk, B., & Prüssner, J. C. (2020). The Opposite of Stress: The Relationship Between Vagal Tone, Creativity, and Divergent Thinking. Experimental Psychology, 67(2), 150–159. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000483
Wunsch, K., Meier, M., Ueberholz, L., Strahler, J., & Kasten, N. (2019). Acute psychosocial stress and working memory performance: the potential of physical activity to modulate cognitive functions in children. BMC Pediatrics, 19(1), 271. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1637-x
Benz, A. B. E., Meier, M., Mankin, M., Unternaehrer, E., & Pruessner, J. C. (2019). The duration of the cortisol awakening pulse exceeds sixty minutes in a meaningful pattern. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 105, 187–194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.12.225