Sebastian Ocklenburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1662091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Ocklenburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ocklenburg |
| SIGNATURE | OCKLENBURG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | MSH Medical School Hamburg – University of Applied Sciences and Medical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5882-3200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Three-Dimensional Movement Analysis of Hugging in Romantic Couples and Platonic Friends Using Markerless Motion Capture
Hugs are an important nonverbal social-affective behavior that plays a crucial role in romantic relationships. Unfortunately, little is known about how movement biomechanics during hugging relate to relationship status and personality factors. To address these open questions, the present proof-of-principle project focused on three-dimensional movement analyses of hugs in different imagined emotional situations (positive, negative, or neutral) pro…
Handedness in mental and neurodevelopmental disorders
Several meta-analyses on hand preference in mental and neurodevelopmental disorders have been published in the last decade. Some disorders, like schizophrenia, have been associated with increased rates of atypical hand preference (i.e., non-right-, left-, or mixed-hand preference)-but others, like depression, have not. To identify overarching patterns between hand preference and psychopathology and estimate the influence of potential moderators i…
The Psychology and Neuroscience of the Climate Crisis
A Comparison of Hugging Frequency and Its Association with Momentary Mood Before and During Covid-19 Using Ecological Momentary Assessment
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a drastic decrease in human social interactions including social touch. One of the most prevalent forms of touch is hugging. Hugging has been demonstrated to benefit both physical and mental well-being. In the present study, we used an ecological momentary assessment approach to assess the relationship between hugging and momentary mood in two independent cohorts sampled prior or during the pandemic. We foun…
Social touch in the age of computational ethology
Social affective touch is an important aspect of close relationships in humans. It has been also observed in many non-human primate species. Despite the high relevance of behaviours like embraces for personal wellbeing and mental health, they remain vastly under-investigated in psychology. This may be because psychology often relies on a limited repertoire of behavioural measurements such as error rates and reaction time measurements. These are, …
A single dose of hydrocortisone does not alter interhemispheric transfer of information or transcallosal integration
Stress has been suggested as a factor that may explain the link between altered functional lateralization and psychopathology. Modulation of the function of the corpus callosum via stress hormones may be crucial in this regard. Interestingly, there is evidence that interhemispheric integration and hemispheric asymmetries are modifiable by endocrinological influences. In previous studies, our group could show an enhancing effect of acute stress on…
Toast Hawaii
Few dishes have sparked as much debate as so-called Hawaiian pizza (pizza topped with tomato sauce, pineapple, ham, and cheese) (Dixon 2019). However, Hawaiian pizza is neither the first nor the only dish named after the Hawaiian Islands that contains the combination of pineapple, ham, and cheese. In 1950s Germany, TV-cook Clemens Wilmenrod popularized a dish he named “Toast Hawaii,” an open-faced sandwich quite similar to Hawaiian pizza, the onl…
The Association of Embracing with Daily Mood and General Life Satisfaction
Embracing has several positive health effects, such as lowering blood pressure and decreasing infection risk. However, its association with general life satisfaction and daily mood has not been researched in detail. Here, we used a smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) approach to monitor the daily number of embraces and daily mood in a sample of 94 adults over the course of seven days. We found that embracing frequency differed …
Distractibaking
Research Article| August 01 2020 Distractibaking: A Note on the Psychology of Baking in Times of the COVID-19 Crisis Sebastian Ocklenburg Sebastian Ocklenburg Sebastian Ocklenburg teaches psychology and neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is author of The Lateralized Brain: The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries (Elsevier, 2017) and has published in scientific journals such as Neuron, Psychological Bulletin, and…
Human handedness
Across time and place, right hand preference has been the norm, but what is the precise prevalence of left- and right-handedness? Frequency of left-handedness has shaped and underpinned different fields of research, from cognitive neuroscience to human evolution, but reliable distributional estimates are still lacking. While hundreds of empirical studies have assessed handedness, a large-scale, comprehensive review of the prevalence of handedness…
Brain Asymmetry
Human handedness
Across time and place, right hand preference has been the norm, but what is the precise prevalence of left- and right-handedness? Frequency of left-handedness has shaped and underpinned different fields of research, from cognitive neuroscience to human evolution, but reliable distributional estimates are still lacking. While hundreds of empirical studies have assessed handedness, a large-scale, comprehensive review of the prevalence of handedness…
Brain Asymmetry
Distractibaking
Research Article| August 01 2020 Distractibaking: A Note on the Psychology of Baking in Times of the COVID-19 Crisis Sebastian Ocklenburg Sebastian Ocklenburg Sebastian Ocklenburg teaches psychology and neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is author of The Lateralized Brain: The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries (Elsevier, 2017) and has published in scientific journals such as Neuron, Psychological Bulletin, and…
Human handedness
Across time and place, right hand preference has been the norm, but what is the precise prevalence of left- and right-handedness? Frequency of left-handedness has shaped and underpinned different fields of research, from cognitive neuroscience to human evolution, but reliable distributional estimates are still lacking. While hundreds of empirical studies have assessed handedness, a large-scale, comprehensive review of the prevalence of handedness…
Toast Hawaii
Few dishes have sparked as much debate as so-called Hawaiian pizza (pizza topped with tomato sauce, pineapple, ham, and cheese) (Dixon 2019). However, Hawaiian pizza is neither the first nor the only dish named after the Hawaiian Islands that contains the combination of pineapple, ham, and cheese. In 1950s Germany, TV-cook Clemens Wilmenrod popularized a dish he named “Toast Hawaii,” an open-faced sandwich quite similar to Hawaiian pizza, the onl…
The Association of Embracing with Daily Mood and General Life Satisfaction
Embracing has several positive health effects, such as lowering blood pressure and decreasing infection risk. However, its association with general life satisfaction and daily mood has not been researched in detail. Here, we used a smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) approach to monitor the daily number of embraces and daily mood in a sample of 94 adults over the course of seven days. We found that embracing frequency differed …
Social touch in the age of computational ethology
Social affective touch is an important aspect of close relationships in humans. It has been also observed in many non-human primate species. Despite the high relevance of behaviours like embraces for personal wellbeing and mental health, they remain vastly under-investigated in psychology. This may be because psychology often relies on a limited repertoire of behavioural measurements such as error rates and reaction time measurements. These are, …
A single dose of hydrocortisone does not alter interhemispheric transfer of information or transcallosal integration
Stress has been suggested as a factor that may explain the link between altered functional lateralization and psychopathology. Modulation of the function of the corpus callosum via stress hormones may be crucial in this regard. Interestingly, there is evidence that interhemispheric integration and hemispheric asymmetries are modifiable by endocrinological influences. In previous studies, our group could show an enhancing effect of acute stress on…
The Psychology and Neuroscience of the Climate Crisis
A Comparison of Hugging Frequency and Its Association with Momentary Mood Before and During Covid-19 Using Ecological Momentary Assessment
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a drastic decrease in human social interactions including social touch. One of the most prevalent forms of touch is hugging. Hugging has been demonstrated to benefit both physical and mental well-being. In the present study, we used an ecological momentary assessment approach to assess the relationship between hugging and momentary mood in two independent cohorts sampled prior or during the pandemic. We foun…
Three-Dimensional Movement Analysis of Hugging in Romantic Couples and Platonic Friends Using Markerless Motion Capture
Hugs are an important nonverbal social-affective behavior that plays a crucial role in romantic relationships. Unfortunately, little is known about how movement biomechanics during hugging relate to relationship status and personality factors. To address these open questions, the present proof-of-principle project focused on three-dimensional movement analyses of hugs in different imagined emotional situations (positive, negative, or neutral) pro…
Handedness in mental and neurodevelopmental disorders
Several meta-analyses on hand preference in mental and neurodevelopmental disorders have been published in the last decade. Some disorders, like schizophrenia, have been associated with increased rates of atypical hand preference (i.e., non-right-, left-, or mixed-hand preference)-but others, like depression, have not. To identify overarching patterns between hand preference and psychopathology and estimate the influence of potential moderators i…
Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience (3 works) · Neuroscience (3 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works)