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  1. The exercise of creativity: Examining the connection between physical activity and creative ideation performance in real life—A bottom-up approach.

    Article • Sport Exercise and Performance Psychology, May 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christian Rominger

  2. It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, December 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christian Rominger

  3. Experiencing more meaningful coincidences is associated with more real-life creativity? Insights from three empirical studies

    Article • PLOS One, May 2024, PLOS

    Christian Rominger

  4. Step-by-step to more creativity: The number of steps in everyday life is related to creative ideation performance.

    Article • American Psychologist, November 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christian Rominger

  5. Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, October 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christian Rominger

  6. Does contingent biofeedback improve cardiac interoception? A preregistered replication of Meyerholz, Irzinger, Withöft, Gerlach, and Pohl (2019) using the heartbeat discrimination task in a randomised control trial

    Article • PLOS One, March 2021, PLOS

    Christian Rominger

  7. Creative challenge: Regular exercising moderates the association between task-related heart rate variability changes and individual differences in originality

    Article • PLOS One, July 2019, PLOS

    Christian Rominger

  8. Cognitive reappraisal capacity mediates the relationship between prefrontal recruitment during reappraisal of anger-eliciting events and paranoia-proneness

    Article • Brain and Cognition, June 2019, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger

  9. Humor creation during efforts to find humorous cognitive reappraisals of threatening situations

    Article • Current Psychology, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Rominger

  10. Gender Differences in Generating Cognitive Reappraisals for Threatening Situations: Reappraisal Capacity Shields Against Depressive Symptoms in Men, but Not Women

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2019, Frontiers

    Christian Rominger

  11. Learning Unicycling Evokes Manifold Changes in Gray and White Matter Networks Related to Motor and Cognitive Functions

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Rominger

  12. Less differentiated facial responses to naturalistic films of another person's emotional expressions in adolescents and adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, March 2019, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger

  13. Creativity is associated with a characteristic U-shaped function of alpha power changes accompanied by an early increase in functional coupling

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Rominger

  14. Humorous cognitive reappraisal: More benign humour and less "dark" humour is affiliated with more adaptive cognitive reappraisal strategies

    Article • PLOS One, January 2019, PLOS

    Christian Rominger

  15. Impact of humor-related communication elements in natural dyadic interactions on interpersonal physiological synchrony

    Article • Psychophysiology, January 2019, Wiley

    Christian Rominger

  16. Brain and soccer: Functional patterns of brain activity during the generation of creative moves in real soccer decision-making situations

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, September 2018, Wiley

    Christian Rominger

  17. The creative brain in the figural domain: Distinct patterns of EEG alpha power during idea generation and idea elaboration

    Article • Neuropsychologia, September 2018, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger

  18. Creative Thinking in an Emotional Context: Specific Relevance of Executive Control of Emotion-Laden Representations in the Inventiveness in Generating Alternative Appraisals of Negative Events

    Article • Creativity Research Journal, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Christian Rominger

  19. EEG alpha activity during imagining creative moves in soccer decision-making situations

    Article • Neuropsychologia, June 2018, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger

  20. Meaning in meaninglessness: The propensity to perceive meaningful patterns in coincident events and randomly arranged stimuli is linked to enhanced attention in early sensory processing

    Article • Psychiatry Research, May 2018, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger

  21. DSM-5 personality trait domains and withdrawal versus approach motivational tendencies in response to the perception of other people’s desperation and angry aggression

    Article • Biological Psychology, February 2018, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger

  22. Reappraisal inventiveness: impact of appropriate brain activation during efforts to generate alternative appraisals on the perception of chronic stress in women

    Article • Anxiety Stress & Coping, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Christian Rominger

  23. Affective creativity meets classic creativity in the scanner

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, October 2017, Wiley

    Christian Rominger, Corinna Perchtold-Stefan

  24. The Reflecting Brain: Reflection Competence in an Educational Setting Is Associated With Increased Electroencephalogram Activity in the Alpha Band

    Article • Mind Brain and Education, April 2017, Wiley

    Christian Rominger

  25. Different patterns of university students’ integration of lecture podcasts, learning materials, and lecture attendance in a psychology course

    Article • Education and Information Technologies, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Rominger

  26. The Use of Bright and Dark Types of Humour is Rooted in the Brain

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Rominger

  27. Allusive thinking (remote associations) and auditory top-down inhibition skills differentially predict creativity and positive schizotypy

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Christian Rominger

  28. New directions in hypnosis research: strategies for advancing the cognitive and clinical neuroscience of hypnosis

    Article • Neuroscience of Consciousness, January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christian Rominger

  29. Creative ways to well-being: Reappraisal inventiveness in the context of anger-evoking situations

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christian Rominger

  30. Auditory top-down control and affective theory of mind in schizophrenia with and without hallucinations

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, July 2016, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger

  31. The fear of other persons' laughter: Poor neuronal protection against social signals of anger and aggression

    Article • Psychiatry Research, January 2016, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger

  32. Carriers of the COMT Met/Met Allele Have Higher Degrees of Hypnotizability, Provided That They Have Good Attentional Control:A Case of Gene–Trait Interaction

    Article • International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Christian Rominger

  33. Enhancement of figural creativity by motor activation: Effects of unilateral hand contractions on creativity are moderated by positive schizotypy

    Article • Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Christian Rominger

  34. Decrease of prefrontal–posterior EEG coherence: Loose control during social–emotional stimulation

    Article • Brain and Cognition, October 2012, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger

  35. Allusive thinking (cognitive looseness) and the propensity to perceive “meaningful” coincidences

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, December 2011, Elsevier

    Christian Rominger