Home

01/10/2023 - A new member joins our team

From the 1st of October Elias Löffl will join our team as a student assistant and support our work in research and teaching. A warm welcome!

28/9/2023 - Former student assistant accepted at RegensburgEXZELLENZ

We are happy to announce that our former student assistant Miriam Witte has been accepted at the female student network RegensburgEXZELLENZ. The network only invites excellent students that must have been nominated by faculty. Congratulations, Miriam! More information: https://www.uni-regensburg.de/chancengleichheit/studentinnen/index.html

01/7/2023 - A new member joins our team

From the 1st of July Sarah Bücker will join our team as a student assistant and support our work in research and teaching. A warm welcome!

21/6/2023 - New publication "Pathways between childhood maltreatment and life satisfaction in adolescents with eating disorders: A network analysis".

This study explored the association between childhood maltreatment experiences and life satisfaction in adolescents with eating disorders before and after hospitalisation. You can read the study here (https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.3000).

09/3/2023 - New preprint "Identification of affective and social reinforcement functions of driven exercise: Evidence from three samples".

A new preprint from the research group has been published on Psyarxiv. This study investigates how reinforcement possibly maintains driven exercise and its associations with ED severity and psychopathology (https://psyarxiv.com/ad3mq/). The paper is currently under review.

20/2/2023 - New preprints from the research group

Two new preprints from the research group have been published on Psyarxiv: The first paper examines the effects of acceptance-based strategies following exposure with disgust-inducing stimuli in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qjtcr ). The second paper aims to understand the relationship between depressive symptoms and weight gain during inpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa (https://psyarxiv.com/j3qb9/ ). Both papers are currently under review.  

09/1/2023 - New members join the work group

We are pleased to announce that four new colleagues will be joining our working group at the beginning of the year. As a research associate and also as the deputy director of the University Outpatient Centre, Dr. Sebastian Ertl, will expand our team and further develop the connection between clinical research and psychotherapy, as well as patient-oriented teaching. In the University Outpatient Clinic Ute Windauer will join our therapy team as a behavioural therapy-oriented child and adolescent psychotherapist. Nicoletta Maderer will support the teaching as student assistant. A warm welcome!

01/12/2022 - Prof. Kolar joins the editorial board of the International Journal of Eating Disorders

With immediate effect, Prof. Kolar becomes a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Eating Disorders (IJED). IJED is the world leading journal for research in the field of eating disorders. In recent years the journal has been highly committed to Open Science principles leading to a high amount of freely available articles and the possibility to submit registered reports.

25/10/2022 - New research project "Food Insecurity"

Together with the research group of Prof. Erin Reilly at Hofstra University, New York, USA, we are starting a new research project to investigate the impact of food insecurity (i.e. lack of availability of food or financial resources for food) on eating behaviour among students. Special about the study is that the data are being collected simultaneously in the US, Germany, UK, Iran and Colombia, among other countries. In the meantime the ethic application for the research project has been submitted in Regensburg and we hope to be able to start collecting data soon. The project is supported by the students Judith Höcherl and Laura Woller.

15/10/2022 - We welcome Silvia Schnorrer and Miriam Witte

We are pleased to announce that as of 01/10/2022 our administrative office will be staffed again. Silvia Schnorrer is a great support for the department and will be the contact person for enquiries regarding teaching and administration of the professorship in the future.
We also welcome Miriam Witte to our team. Miriam Witte supports the team as a research assistant in the experimental laboratory.

22/9/2022 - New preprint "Pathways between child maltreatment, psychological symptoms, and life satisfaction: a network analysis in adolescent inpatients".

A new preprint has been published from the research group. In the study, Prof. Kolar and colleagues from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, the Università Campania L. Vanvitelli and the Università di Salerno, both in Italy, use network analyses to investigate how traumatic childhood experiences are related to life satisfaction in adolescents before and after inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment. The preprint is available for free at https://psyarxiv.com/enpk6/.