@article{ZahediOeznurAkalinLawrenceetal.2023,
  author    = {Zahedi, Anoushiravan and {\"O}znur Akalin, Renin and Lawrence, Johanna E. and Baumann, Annika and Sommer, Werner},
  title     = {The nature and persistence of the effects of posthypnotic suggestions on food preferences},
  series = {Frontiers in psychology},
  volume    = {14},
  journal   = {Frontiers in psychology},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {1664-1078},
  doi       = {10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1123907},
  pages     = {19},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {The persistence of food preferences, which are crucial for diet-related decisions, is a significant obstacle to changing unhealthy eating behavior. To overcome this obstacle, the current study investigates whether posthypnotic suggestions (PHSs) can enhance food-related decisions by measuring food choices and subjective ratings. After assessing hypnotic susceptibility in Session 1, at the beginning of Session 2, a PHS was delivered aiming to increase the desirability of healthy food items (e.g., vegetables and fruit). After the termination of hypnosis, a set of two tasks was administrated twice, once when the PHS was activated and once deactivated in counterbalanced order. The task set consisted of rating 170 pictures of food items, followed by an online supermarket where participants were instructed to select enough food from the same item pool for a fictitious week of quarantine. After 1 week, Session 3 mimicked Session 2 without renewed hypnosis induction to assess the persistence of the PHS effects. The Bayesian hierarchical modeling results indicate that the PHS increased preferences and choices of healthy food items without altering the influence of preferences in choices. In contrast, for unhealthy food items, not only both preferences and choices were decreased due to the PHS, but also their relationship was modified. That is, although choices became negatively biased against unhealthy items, preferences played a more dominant role in unhealthy choices when the PHS was activated. Importantly, all effects persisted over 1 week, qualitatively and quantitatively. Our results indicate that although the PHS affected healthy choices through resolve, i.e., preferred more and chosen more, unhealthy items were probably chosen less impulsively through effortful suppression. Together, besides the translational importance of the current results for helping the obesity epidemic in modern societies, our results contribute theoretically to the understanding of hypnosis and food choices.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KorupMohrManga2021,
  author    = {Korup, Oliver and Mohr, Christian Heinrich and Manga, Michael M.},
  title     = {Bayesian detection of streamflow response to earthquakes},
  series = {Water resources research : an AGU journal},
  volume    = {57},
  journal   = {Water resources research : an AGU journal},
  number    = {7},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken, NJ},
  issn      = {0043-1397},
  doi       = {10.1029/2020WR028874},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Detecting whether and how river discharge responds to strong earthquake shaking can be time-consuming and prone to operator bias when checking hydrographs from hundreds of gauging stations. We use Bayesian piecewise regression models to show that up to a fifth of all gauging stations across Chile had their largest change in daily streamflow trend on the day of the M-w 8.8 Maule earthquake in 2010. These stations cluster distinctly in the near field though the number of detected streamflow changes varies with model complexity and length of time window considered. Credible seismic streamflow changes at several stations were the highest detectable in eight months, with an increased variance of discharge surpassing the variance of discharge following rainstorms. We conclude that Bayesian piecewise regression sheds new and unbiased insights on the duration, trend, and variance of streamflow response to strong earthquakes, and on how this response compares to that following rainstorms.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MaruschJaegerNeissetal.2019,
  author    = {Marusch, Tina and J{\"a}ger, Lena Ann and Neiss, Leander and Burchert, Frank and Nickels, Lyndsey},
  title     = {Overt language production of German past participles},
  series = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  volume    = {34},
  journal   = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {2327-3798},
  doi       = {10.1080/23273798.2018.1527936},
  pages     = {289 -- 308},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {We report two experiments and Bayesian modelling of the data collected. In both experiments, participants performed a long-lag primed picture naming task. Black-and-white line drawings were used as targets, which were overtly named by the participants. Their naming latencies were measured. In both experiments, primes consisted of past participle verbs (er tanzt/er hat getanzt "he dances/he has danced") and the relationship between primes and targets was either morphological or unrelated. Experiment 1 additionally had phonologically and semantically related prime-target pairs as well as present tense primes. Both in Experiment 1 and 2, participants showed significantly faster naming latencies for morphologically related targets relative to the unrelated verb primes. In Experiment 1, no priming effects were observed in phonologically and semantically related control conditions. In addition, the production latencies were not influenced by verb type.},
  language  = {en}
}