Andreas R Schwerdtfeger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1727757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas R Schwerdtfeger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas R |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwerdtfeger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWERDTFEGER A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0371-3730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Listen to Your Body to Control Your Thoughts: The Dynamic Interplay of State Self‐Regulation, Creativity, and Cardiac Interoception in Everyday Life
Trait self‐regulation, as the effort to monitor and alter thoughts, feelings, and behavior using feedback from the body (interoception), is important for creativity. But what about the role of state self‐regulation in everyday life situations? We investigated the dynamic interactions between state self‐regulation, creative idea generation, as well as interoceptive skills in the cardiac domain as a potentially mediating mechanism. In this study, n…
Humor as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Emotional Exhaustion and Depressive Symptoms in University Students and the General Population
The search for resilience factors that could minimize the transition from burnout to depression may offer a valuable approach for depression prevention. The present study investigated whether humor could be such a potential resilience factor in two independent studies. In study 1 ( n = 58, students), we used a performance-based approach integrating linguistic and psychometric methods to investigate whether the ability to produce humor in positive…
At the Heart of Creative Thoughts: Ecological Momentary Assessment of Subjective and Objective Creativity
Creativity research has seldom focused on the neurophysiological dynamics of the subjectively experienced quality of creative ideas. This study reports the reanalysis of an ecological momentary assessment of 157 participants, who previously showed higher heart rate variability (HRV) associated with higher objective creativity in the figural domain and reduced HRV with higher objective creativity in the verbal domain. As a new angle, this study in…
Attachment Patterns Mediate the Relationship Between Primary Emotions and Gaming Disorder Tendencies
Objectives This study investigates the relationship between the primary emotions CARE, LUST, SEEKING, PLAY, SADNESS, ANGER, FEAR and gaming disorder (GD), exploring the potential mediating role of attachment (avoidant/anxious), given its influence in prior research. Methods Data were collected from 490 participants (378 female) via an online survey. Path analysis was used to examine the associations between CARE, LUST and ANGER with GD tendencies…
Neuroception of safety is associated with elevated heart rate variability in the laboratory and more frequent heart rate variability increases in everyday life
OBJECTIVE: Feeling comfortable and safe has been discussed to foster health and well-being. However, the pathways to better health are complex, involving both behavioral and physiological routes. METHODS: In this study, we examined the role of safety perception for cardiac health by (1) examining associations with baseline heart rate variability (HRV; Study 1) and (2) evaluating a novel measure of autonomic cardiac flexibility in daily life, name…
Influence of anxious attachment on the relationship between primary emotions and substance-related addictive behaviors
Objectives To date there is no universally accepted model that describes the development of substance related addictive behavior. In order to address this gap, the study sought to examine whether the association between primary emotions and the inclination toward addictive behavior is mediated by an anxious attachment style. Methods The total sample consisted of 900 German speaking non-clinical adults (age: M = 27; SD = 9.60; 71.6% female). Struc…
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC)
An Investigation of Patients’ and Doctors’ Autonomic Nervous System Responses Throughout News-Focused Medical Consultations
Although it is clear that people experience physiological arousal in anticipation of news-focused medical consultations, our knowledge of people's experiences during and throughout these consultations is scarce. We examine interbeat interval responses (IBI) of patients and doctors during real-life medical consultations to understand how the experiences of both parties change throughout these encounters and whether they differ from each other. We …
Today’s positive affect predicts tomorrow’s experience of meaningful coincidences: A cross-lagged multilevel analysis
The perception of meaningful patterns in random arrangements and unrelated events takes place in our everyday lives, coined apophenia, synchronicity, or the experience of meaningful coincidences.However, we do not know yet what predicts this phenomenon.To investigate this, we re-analyzed a combined data set of two daily diary studies with a total of N = 169 participants (mean age 29.95 years; 54 men).We investigated if positive or negative affect…
The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills
Knowing when perceiving inner bodily signals better and when perceiving them worse is a health relevant but understudied dimension of interoception. Therefore, the present study assessed interoceptive metacognition (IMC) as the skill to adequately monitor interoceptive accuracy in the cardiac domain. We used the Graz Ambulatory Interoception task (GRAIT), which applied two intervals of the heartbeat tracking task 12 times a day for 3 days in tota…
It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring
Psychophysiological stress response after a 6-week Mindful Self-Compassion training in psychiatric rehabilitation inpatients: A randomized post-test only study
In general, our results indicate that MSC is not superior to PMR training. However, more research with clinical randomized controlled trials investigating larger samples are needed to further affirm these initial findings
Step-by-step to more creativity: The number of steps in everyday life is related to creative ideation performance
Research indicated an association of acute and chronic physical activity with creative ideation performance. However, no study to date applied ecologically valid ambulatory methods with the potential to generalize these positive relationships to everyday life contexts. This study assessed acute and chronic physical activity (i.e., number of steps assessed via acceleration sensors) as well as creative ideation performance (in the verbal and figura…
Singing at 0.1 Hz as a Resonance Frequency Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity
Slow breathing at 6 breaths per min (corresponding to ~ 0.1 Hz) has been found to benefit psychological and physical health. In this study, we aimed to examine if paced singing at 0.1 Hz has beneficial acute effects on physiological function as compared to slow breathing. Participants were randomized to one of four experimental interventions prior to performing a mental stress task: paced breathing at 0.1 Hz ( n = 26), paced singing at 0.1 Hz ( n…
Disentangling the Causal Structure Between Social Trust, Institutional Trust, and Subjective Well-Being
Previous research indicates a positive relation between social trust, institutional trust and subjective well-being. Besides theoretical assumptions and cross-sectional relations, only few studies so far examined the causal structure between these concepts. However, previous studies showed contradictory results, possibly due to different methods and datasets used. Hence, we analyzed the causal structure between the three concepts on the aggregate…
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients
These results reveal that, by influencing patients' physiological responses on a moment-to-moment basis, doctors may have even more influence over patients' physiology than previously known
Perceived greenness at home and at university are independently associated with mental health
Future research will have to incorporate objective greenness measures as a means of controlling for the reliability of the measurements and investigate the effects of different environments people are exposed to over the course of a day
Psychological correlates of Covid-19 pandemic in the Austrian population
This study is among the first in Europe on the psychological correlates of the COVID-19 pandemic. 37.7% of the Austrian study population reported a severe psychological impact on the event and 1 in 10 is considered to suffer from severe depression, anxiety or stress. The present findings inform about the identification of protective factors, psychologically vulnerable groups and may guide the development of psychological interventions
Comparing indirect methods of digit ratio (2D: (4D) measurement
The ratio of the lengths of the second and fourth finger (2D:4D) has been proposed to index prenatal exposure to androgens. Different methods have been utilized to measure digit ratio, however, their measurement precision and economy have not been systematically compared yet. Using different indirect methods (plastic ruler, caliper, computer software), three independent raters measured finger lengths of 60 participants. Generally, measurement pre…
Spontaneous emotion regulation during evaluated speaking tasks: Associations with negative affect, anxiety expression, memory, and physiological responding
In these studies, the correlates of spontaneously using expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal during stressful speeches were examined. Spontaneous emotion regulation means that there were no instructions of how to regulate emotions during the speech. Instead, participants indicated after the speech to what extent they used self-motivated expressive suppression or reappraisal during the task. The results show that suppression is associa…
Disentangling the Causal Structure Between Social Trust, Institutional Trust, and Subjective Well-Being
Previous research indicates a positive relation between social trust, institutional trust and subjective well-being. Besides theoretical assumptions and cross-sectional relations, only few studies so far examined the causal structure between these concepts. However, previous studies showed contradictory results, possibly due to different methods and datasets used. Hence, we analyzed the causal structure between the three concepts on the aggregate…
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
Spontaneous emotion regulation during evaluated speaking tasks: Associations with negative affect, anxiety expression, memory, and physiological responding
In these studies, the correlates of spontaneously using expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal during stressful speeches were examined. Spontaneous emotion regulation means that there were no instructions of how to regulate emotions during the speech. Instead, participants indicated after the speech to what extent they used self-motivated expressive suppression or reappraisal during the task. The results show that suppression is associa…
Comparing indirect methods of digit ratio (2D: (4D) measurement
The ratio of the lengths of the second and fourth finger (2D:4D) has been proposed to index prenatal exposure to androgens. Different methods have been utilized to measure digit ratio, however, their measurement precision and economy have not been systematically compared yet. Using different indirect methods (plastic ruler, caliper, computer software), three independent raters measured finger lengths of 60 participants. Generally, measurement pre…
Perceived greenness at home and at university are independently associated with mental health
Future research will have to incorporate objective greenness measures as a means of controlling for the reliability of the measurements and investigate the effects of different environments people are exposed to over the course of a day
Psychological correlates of Covid-19 pandemic in the Austrian population
This study is among the first in Europe on the psychological correlates of the COVID-19 pandemic. 37.7% of the Austrian study population reported a severe psychological impact on the event and 1 in 10 is considered to suffer from severe depression, anxiety or stress. The present findings inform about the identification of protective factors, psychologically vulnerable groups and may guide the development of psychological interventions
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients
These results reveal that, by influencing patients' physiological responses on a moment-to-moment basis, doctors may have even more influence over patients' physiology than previously known
Singing at 0.1 Hz as a Resonance Frequency Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity
Slow breathing at 6 breaths per min (corresponding to ~ 0.1 Hz) has been found to benefit psychological and physical health. In this study, we aimed to examine if paced singing at 0.1 Hz has beneficial acute effects on physiological function as compared to slow breathing. Participants were randomized to one of four experimental interventions prior to performing a mental stress task: paced breathing at 0.1 Hz ( n = 26), paced singing at 0.1 Hz ( n…
Disentangling the Causal Structure Between Social Trust, Institutional Trust, and Subjective Well-Being
Previous research indicates a positive relation between social trust, institutional trust and subjective well-being. Besides theoretical assumptions and cross-sectional relations, only few studies so far examined the causal structure between these concepts. However, previous studies showed contradictory results, possibly due to different methods and datasets used. Hence, we analyzed the causal structure between the three concepts on the aggregate…
Psychophysiological stress response after a 6-week Mindful Self-Compassion training in psychiatric rehabilitation inpatients: A randomized post-test only study
In general, our results indicate that MSC is not superior to PMR training. However, more research with clinical randomized controlled trials investigating larger samples are needed to further affirm these initial findings
Step-by-step to more creativity: The number of steps in everyday life is related to creative ideation performance
Research indicated an association of acute and chronic physical activity with creative ideation performance. However, no study to date applied ecologically valid ambulatory methods with the potential to generalize these positive relationships to everyday life contexts. This study assessed acute and chronic physical activity (i.e., number of steps assessed via acceleration sensors) as well as creative ideation performance (in the verbal and figura…
Influence of anxious attachment on the relationship between primary emotions and substance-related addictive behaviors
Objectives To date there is no universally accepted model that describes the development of substance related addictive behavior. In order to address this gap, the study sought to examine whether the association between primary emotions and the inclination toward addictive behavior is mediated by an anxious attachment style. Methods The total sample consisted of 900 German speaking non-clinical adults (age: M = 27; SD = 9.60; 71.6% female). Struc…
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC)
An Investigation of Patients’ and Doctors’ Autonomic Nervous System Responses Throughout News-Focused Medical Consultations
Although it is clear that people experience physiological arousal in anticipation of news-focused medical consultations, our knowledge of people's experiences during and throughout these consultations is scarce. We examine interbeat interval responses (IBI) of patients and doctors during real-life medical consultations to understand how the experiences of both parties change throughout these encounters and whether they differ from each other. We …
Today’s positive affect predicts tomorrow’s experience of meaningful coincidences: A cross-lagged multilevel analysis
The perception of meaningful patterns in random arrangements and unrelated events takes place in our everyday lives, coined apophenia, synchronicity, or the experience of meaningful coincidences.However, we do not know yet what predicts this phenomenon.To investigate this, we re-analyzed a combined data set of two daily diary studies with a total of N = 169 participants (mean age 29.95 years; 54 men).We investigated if positive or negative affect…
The misjudgment of interoceptive awareness: Systematic overrating of interoceptive awareness among individuals with lower interoceptive metacognitive skills
Knowing when perceiving inner bodily signals better and when perceiving them worse is a health relevant but understudied dimension of interoception. Therefore, the present study assessed interoceptive metacognition (IMC) as the skill to adequately monitor interoceptive accuracy in the cardiac domain. We used the Graz Ambulatory Interoception task (GRAIT), which applied two intervals of the heartbeat tracking task 12 times a day for 3 days in tota…
It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring
Humor as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Emotional Exhaustion and Depressive Symptoms in University Students and the General Population
The search for resilience factors that could minimize the transition from burnout to depression may offer a valuable approach for depression prevention. The present study investigated whether humor could be such a potential resilience factor in two independent studies. In study 1 ( n = 58, students), we used a performance-based approach integrating linguistic and psychometric methods to investigate whether the ability to produce humor in positive…
At the Heart of Creative Thoughts: Ecological Momentary Assessment of Subjective and Objective Creativity
Creativity research has seldom focused on the neurophysiological dynamics of the subjectively experienced quality of creative ideas. This study reports the reanalysis of an ecological momentary assessment of 157 participants, who previously showed higher heart rate variability (HRV) associated with higher objective creativity in the figural domain and reduced HRV with higher objective creativity in the verbal domain. As a new angle, this study in…
Attachment Patterns Mediate the Relationship Between Primary Emotions and Gaming Disorder Tendencies
Objectives This study investigates the relationship between the primary emotions CARE, LUST, SEEKING, PLAY, SADNESS, ANGER, FEAR and gaming disorder (GD), exploring the potential mediating role of attachment (avoidant/anxious), given its influence in prior research. Methods Data were collected from 490 participants (378 female) via an online survey. Path analysis was used to examine the associations between CARE, LUST and ANGER with GD tendencies…
Neuroception of safety is associated with elevated heart rate variability in the laboratory and more frequent heart rate variability increases in everyday life
OBJECTIVE: Feeling comfortable and safe has been discussed to foster health and well-being. However, the pathways to better health are complex, involving both behavioral and physiological routes. METHODS: In this study, we examined the role of safety perception for cardiac health by (1) examining associations with baseline heart rate variability (HRV; Study 1) and (2) evaluating a novel measure of autonomic cardiac flexibility in daily life, name…
Listen to Your Body to Control Your Thoughts: The Dynamic Interplay of State Self‐Regulation, Creativity, and Cardiac Interoception in Everyday Life
Trait self‐regulation, as the effort to monitor and alter thoughts, feelings, and behavior using feedback from the body (interoception), is important for creativity. But what about the role of state self‐regulation in everyday life situations? We investigated the dynamic interactions between state self‐regulation, creative idea generation, as well as interoceptive skills in the cardiac domain as a potentially mediating mechanism. In this study, n…
Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (4 works)