Research
In my research, I look at different ways that enhance mental health and foster flourishing. I focus specifically on mind-body practices, such as meditation and yoga, and examine their basic features and working mechanisms. As we are very different as human beings, I also examine what works best for whom. Below you find an overview of my research topics as well as projects I am currently undertaking.
Meditation
Yoga
Traditional context
Mental health
Individual differences
What works best for whom?
Body awareness
How can we measure these changes?
Flourishing
How do we match our evolutionary roots with our current lifestyle?
Cultural Differences
Current research projects
World Meditation Survey – Who practices what and why?: How do meditators from different cultural and traditional contexts vary regarding their meditation practice, motivation and individual characteristics? How might this change over time? – preregistration
- Collaboration with Dr. Heena Kamble (NMIMS Deemed-to-be University, India), Dr. Liudmila Gamaiunova (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland), Dr. Jesús Montero-Marín (University of Oxford, UK), Dr. Ivan Nyklíček (Tilburg University, Netherlands), Dr. Katherine Chen (University of Macao, China), Dr. Marcelo Demarzo (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil), and Dr. Takeshi Hamamura (Curtin University Perth, Australia)
Daily Assessment of Body Awareness (DABA): Evaluation of a short questionnaire to measure state body awareness in repeated-measures designs – preregistration
Conceptual Replication of Gebauer et al. (2018): Does meditation really boost the ego? How are personality, meditation tradition, or previous meditation experience related to self-enhancement? – preregistration
- Collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ivan Nyklíček (Tilburg University, NL)