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2025​

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Fox, J., Gaul, C., Kuhlencord, M., Peperkorn, N., Ohse, J., Krutzki, J. & Shiban, Y. (in revision). Identifying cognitive-affective mechanisms underlying disability in episodic migraine: Using the Fear Avoidance Model to examine interactions. Headache.

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Mohammed, P., Hadžić, B., Alkostantini, M. E., Kubota, N., Shiban, Y., & Rätsch, M. (2025, February). Hearing emotions: fine-tuning speech emotion recognition models. In Fifth Symposium on Pattern Recognition and Applications (SPRA 2024) (Vol. 13540, pp. 26-33). SPIE.

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Hadžić, B., Ohse, J., Alkostantini, M.E., Peperkorn, N., Yorita, A., Weber, T., Kubota, N., Shiban, Y. & Rätsch, M. (2025, April). Emotional Dynamics in Semi-Clinical Settings: Speech Emotion Recognition in Depression-Related Interviews. [Paper presentation]. 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE 2025), Porto, Portugal.​​

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Obergrießer, S., Schütz, S., Voigt-Antons, J.-N., Ashrafi, N., Shiban, Y., Ohse, J., & Peperkorn, N.-L. (2025). Nutzende im Fokus! Ein Weg zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung von Gesundheits-Apps. In C. Heese, S. Schütz, & S. Obergrießer (Eds.), Die Nachhaltigkeitsziele der UN im Spiegel der Wissenschaft (pp. 179–196). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43334-5_11

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Peperkorn, N. L., Ohse, J., Fox, J., Limberg, S., Hadžić, B., Rätsch, M., Voigt-Antons, J.-N., Witthöft, M., & Shiban, Y. (under revision). Effects of change in dysfunctional beliefs and self-esteem in avatar-based cognitive therapy for symptoms of social anxiety disorder: A randomized parallel trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy.

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2024

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Ashrafi, N., Neuhaus, V., Vona, F., Peperkorn, N. L., Shiban, Y., & Voigt-Antons, J.-N. (2024). Effect of external characteristics of a virtual human being during the use of a computer-assisted therapy tool. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (S. 3–21). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60428-7_1

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Fox, J., Gaul, C., Slijepcevic, M., Ohse, J., Peperkorn, N., Shiban, Y. (in press). The impact of fear of attacks on pain-related disability in cluster headache: insights from the Fear Avoidance Model. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain. https://doi.org/10.1111/head.14823

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Fox, J., Gaul, C., Slijepcevic, M., Shiban, Y. (2024). Attackenangst als Prädiktor für schmerzbedingte Beeinträchtigung bei Clusterkopfschmerz. [Poster Presentation]. 9. Dreiländertagung Kopfschmerz, Interlaken, Switzerland

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Hadžić, B., Ohse, J., Danner, M., Peperkorn, N., Mohammed, P., Shiban, Y., & Rätsch, M. (2024). AI-Supported Diagnostic of Depression Using Clinical Interviews: A Pilot Study. Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 500–507. https://doi.org/10.5220/0012439700003660

 

Hadžić, B., Mohammed, P., Danner, M., Ohse, J., Zhang, Y., Shiban, Y., & Rätsch, M. (2024). Enhancing early depression detection with AI: a comparative use of NLP models. SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, 17(1), 135–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/18824889.2024.2342624

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Kuhlencord, M., Ohse, J., Fox, J., Peperkorn, N. , Rätsch, M., Voigt-Antons, J.-N., & Shiban, Y. (2024). Der Einsatz von vielversprechenden Technologien in der klinisch-psychologischen Diagnostik: Focus auf KI und XR [Manuscript accepted for publication]. Psychologie in Österreich.

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Mohammed, P., Hadžić, B., Alkostantini, M. E., Kubota, N., Shiban, Y., & Rätsch, M. (2024, October 10). Hearing Emotions: Fine-Tuning Speech Emotion Recognition Models. MV24 Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2024). Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2024), Edinburgh.

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Ohse, J., Hadžić, B., Mohammed, P., Peperkorn, N., Danner, M., Yorita, A., Kubota, N., Rätsch, M., & Shiban, Y. (2024). Zero-Shot Strike: Testing the generalisation capabilities of out-of-the-box LLM models for depression detection. Computer Speech & Language, 88, 101663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2024.101663

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Ohse, J., Hadžić, B., Mohammed, P., Peperkorn, N., Fox, J., Krutzki, J., Lyko, A., Mingyu, F., Zheng, X., Rätsch, M., & Shiban, Y. (2024). GPT-4 shows potential for identifying social anxiety from clinical interview data. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 30498. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82192-2

 

Peperkorn, N., Ohse, J., Fox, J., Kuhlencord, M., Grevenhaus, C. J., Krutzki, J., Witthöft, M., & Shiban, Y. (2024). Effects of Change in Dysfunctional Beliefs in Avatar-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A Randomized Parallel Trial [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Scientific Reports.​​

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2023

 

Danner, M., Hadzic, B., Gerhardt, S., Ludwig, S., Uslu, I., Shao, P., Weber, T., Shiban, Y., Rätsch, M., (2023, September ,6 – 9) Advancing Mental Health Diagnostics: GPT-Based Method for Depression Detection [Paper presentation]. SICE 2023, Tsu, Japan

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Fey, M., Meyer, M., Borchert, T., Peric, N.,  Raacke, J., & Shiban, Y. (2023). Computer-Assisted Avatar-Based Treatment for Dysfunctional Beliefs and Eating-Disorder Symptomatology: A randomized control pilot study. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 17(2), 251–278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41811-023-00186-w​

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Riva, G., Di Lernia, D., Tuena, C., Bernardelli, L., Gutiérrez Maldonado, J., Ferrer Garcia, M., Meyer, M., Shiban, Y., Castelnuovo, G., Pagnini, F., Pedroli, E., Sforza, F., Clementi, A., Wiederhold, B. K., Serino, S. (2023). A self-help virtual therapeutic experience intervention for overcoming psychological distress related to the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from the European multicentric COVID Feel Good trial. Psychosomatic Medicine, 85(7), 639-650. https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001198

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2022​

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Ecker, A., Jarvers, I., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Schelhorn, I., Meyer, M., ... & Shiban, Y. (2022). Problems or prospects? Being a parent in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901249

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Meyer, M. L., Kaesler, A., Wolffgramm, S., Perić, N. L., Bunjaku, G., Dickmann, L., Serino, S., Di Lernia, D., Tuena, C., Bernardelli, L., Pedroli, E., Wiederhold, B. K., Riva, G., & Shiban, Y. (2022). COVID Feel Good: Evaluation of a Self-Help Protocol to Overcome the Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a German Sample. Journal of clinical medicine, 11(8), 2080. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11082080

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Schelhorn, I., Schlüter, S., Paintner, K., Shiban, Y., Lugo, R., Meyer, M., & Sütterlin, S. (2022). Emotions and emotion up-regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Plos one, 17(1), e0262283. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262283.

 

 

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2021​

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Dechant, M., Birk, M., Shiban, Y., Schnell, K., & Mandryk, R. (2021). How Avatar Customization Affects Fear in a Game-based Digital Exposure Task for Social Anxiety. Proceedings Of The ACM On Human-Computer Interaction, 5, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1145/3474675

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Kocur, M., Dechant, M., Wolff, C., Nothdurfter, C., Wetter, T. C., Rupprecht, R., & Shiban, Y. (2021). Computer-Assisted Avatar-Based Treatment for Dysfunctional Beliefs in Depressive Inpatients: A Pilot Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 1133. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.608997

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Leisten, L., Findling, F., Bellinghausen, J., Czerwinska, S., Lion, D., Probst, T., Kinateder, M., & Shiban, Y. (2021.). The Effect of Non-lexical Verbal Signals on the Perceived Authenticity, Empathy and Understanding of a Listener. The European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.46853/001c.27434​

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Portêlo. A., Shiban, Y., & Tiago, V. M. (2021). Mathematical Characterization of Changes in Fear during Exposure Therapy. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience And Neuroimaging, 6(11), 1090–1099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.01.005

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Reitmaier, J., Schiller, A., Mühlberger, A., Pfaller, M., Meyer, M., & Shiban, Y. (2022). Effects of rhythmic eye movements during a virtual reality exposure paradigm for spider-phobic patients. Psychology and psychotherapy, 95(1), 57–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12363

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Schelhorn, I., Buchner, E., Kosak, F., Hutmacher, F., Kinateder, M., & Shiban, Y. (2022). The effect of induced COVID-19-related fear on psychological distance and time perception. Cognition & emotion, 36(1), 82–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.2005543

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Schelhorn, I., Ecker, A., Lüdtke, M. N., Rehm, S., Tran, T., Bereznai, J. L., ... & Shiban, Y. (2021). Psychological burden during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.640518​

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Schweiger, T., Meyer, M. L., & Shiban, Y. (2021). Trauma und Dissoziation – Untersuchung des aktuellen Kenntnisstands polizeilicher VernehmungsbeamtInnen. Polizei & Wissenschaft. 1, 2-15.​

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2020​​

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Kocur, M., Dechant, M., Wolff, C., Nothdurfter, C., Wetter, T., Rupprecht, R., & Shiban, Y. (Sub.) Computer- Assisted Exposure-Based Treatment for Dysfunctional Beliefs in Depressive Inpatients. Computers in Human Behavior.​

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Wagner, A., Shiban, Y., Zeller, L., Aftahy, K., Lange, N., Motov, S., Jörger, A., Meyer, B., & Shiban, E. (Sub.). Psychological predictors of quality of life after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for degenerative cervical spine disease. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70437-9

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2019​

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Raber, J., Arzy, S., Bertolus, J. B., Depue, B., Haas, H. E., Shiban., Y., ... & Mouly, A. M. (2019). Current understanding of fear learning and memory in humans and animal models and the value of a linguistic approach for analyzing fear learning and memory in humans. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105, 136–177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.03.015

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Reichenberger, J., Pfaller, M., Shiban, Y., & Mühlberger, A. (2019). Men scare me more: Gender Differences in Social Fear Conditioning in Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01617

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Ronchi, E., Corbetta, A., Galea, E. R., Kinateder, M., Kuligowski, Shiban, Y. ... & Toschi, F. (2019). New approaches to evacuation modelling for fire safety engineering applications. Fire Safety Journal, 106, 197–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2019.05.002

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Santl, J., Shiban, Y., Plab, A., Wüst, S., Kudielka, B. M. & Mühlberger, A. (2019). Gender Differences in Stress Responses during a Virtual Reality Trier Social Stress Test. International Journal Of Virtual Reality, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.20870/ijvr.2019.19.2.2912

 

Shiban, Y. (2019). Virtuelle Expositionstherapie zur Behandlung von Angststörungen. In Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (Eds.), Schöne neue Welten. Virtuelle Realität in der zeitgenössischen Kunst (S. 212-217). Friedrichshafen: Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen.

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Wagner, A., Shiban, Y., Kapp, C., Aftahy, K., Jörger, A. & Meyer, B. (submitted). Psychological predictors of quality of life and functional outcome in patients undergoing elective surgery for degenerative lumbar spine disease. European Spine Journal, 29(2), 349–359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-019-06106-x

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Wagner, A., Shiban, Y., Lange, N., Joerger, A. K., Hoffmann, U., Meyer, B., & Shiban, E. (2019). The relevant psychological burden of having a benign brain tumor: a prospective study of patients undergoing surgical treatment of cranial meningiomas. Journal Of Neurosurgery, 131(6), 1840–1847. https://doi.org/10.3171/2018.8.jns181343

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2018​

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Fehlner, K., Zimmermann, V., Wittmann, J., Mühlberger, A., & Shiban, Y. (2018). The premenstrual syndrome and the partner relationship: How it affects both partners in different ways. Journal Of Pregnancy And Reproduction, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.15761/jpr.1000134

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Shiban, E., Lehmberg, J., Hoffmann, U., Thiel, J., Probst, T., Friedl, M., ... Shiban, Y. (2018).  Peritraumatic distress fully mediates the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms  preoperative and three months postoperative in patients undergoing spine surgery. European Journal Of Psychotraumatology, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2018.1423824

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Shiban, Y. (2018). Virtuelle Expositionstherapie bei Angststörungen. Der Nervenarzt, 89(11), 1227–1231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00115-018-0596-z

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Shiban, Y., Brüttig-Schick, J., Pauli, P., Domschke, K. & Mühlberger, A. (2018). Does caffeine facilitate exposure therapy for specific phobia? A randomized trial. Resonanzen – E-Journal für biopsychosoziale Dialoge in Psychosomatischer Medizin, Psychotherapie, Supervision und Beratung, 6(2), 3-25.

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2017​

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Dechant, M., Trimpl, S., Wolff, C., Mühlberger, A., & Shiban, Y. (2017). Potential of virtual reality as a diagnostic tool for social anxiety: A pilot study. Computers in Human Behavior, 76, 128–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.07.005

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Levine, S. M., Pfaller, M., Reichenberger, J., Shiban, Y., Mühlberger, A., Rupprecht, R., & Schwarzbach, J. V.(2017). Relating experimentally-induced fear to pre-existing phobic fear in the human brain. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience, 13(2), 164–172. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx147

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Lonsdorf, T. B., Menz, M. M., Andreatta, M., Fullana, M. A., Golkar, A., Haaker, J., ..., Shiban, Y., … & Merz, C. J.(2017). Don’t fear ‘fear conditioning’: Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 77, 247–285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.02.026

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Proescholdt, M., Doenitz, C., Shiban, Y., Hau, P., Putnik, K., & Andreas, M. (2017). Actr-20. Finding A predictive Marker for Compliance to Ttfields Therapy – the Comptune Study. Neuro-Oncology, 19(6). https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/nox168.015

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Reichenberger, J., Porsch, S., Wittmann, J., Zimmermann, V., & Shiban, Y. (2017). Social fear conditioning paradigm in virtual reality: Social vs. electrical aversive conditioning. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01979

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Shiban, E., Bruckbauer, F., Shiban, Y., Hoffmann, U., Meyer, B., & Lehmberg, J. (2017). Affective disorders in skull base surgery: A comparison between endonasal and open transcranial approaches. Journal Of Neurological Surgery Part B Skull Base, 78(S 01), S1–S156. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1600842

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Shiban, Y., Diemer, J., Müller, J., Brütting-Schick, J., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2017). Diaphragmatic breathing during virtual reality exposure therapy for aviophobia: Functional coping strategy or avoidance behavior? A pilot study. BMC Psychiatry, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1181-2

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Weeth, A., Mühlberger, A. & Shiban, Y. (2017). Was it less painful for knights? Influence of appearance on pain perception. European Journal Of Pain, 21(10), 1756–1762. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1087

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Zimmermann, V., Wittmann, J., Sparrer, D., Mühlberger, A., & Shiban, Y. (2017). The generalization of conditioned startle responses from known to unknown lies. Learning And Motivation, 59, 64–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2017.05.002

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2016​

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Shiban, Y., Diemer, J., Brandl, S., Zack, R., Mühlberger, A., & Wüst, S. (2016). Trier social stress test in vivo and in virtual reality: Dissociation of response domains. International Journal Of Psychophysiology, 110, 47–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.10.008

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Shiban, Y., Fruth, M. B., Pauli, P., Kinateder, M., Reichenberger, J., & Mühlberger, A. (2016). Treatment effect on biases in size estimation in spider phobia. Biological Psychology, 121, 146–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.03.005

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2015

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Diemer, J. E., Alpers, G. W., Peperkorn, H. M., Shiban, Y., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). The impact of perception and presence on emotional reactions: A review of research in virtual reality. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00026

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Shiban, Y., Peperkorn, H., Alpers, G. W., Pauli, P. & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Influence of perceptual cues and conceptual information on the activation and reduction of claustrophobic fear. Journal Of Behavior Therapy And Experimental Psychiatry, 51, 19–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.11.002

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Shiban, Y., Reichenberger, J., Neumann, I. D., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Social conditioning and extinction paradigm: A translational study in virtual reality. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00400

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Shiban, Y., Schelhorn, I., Jobst, V., Hörnlein, A., Puppe, F., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). The appearance effect: Influences of virtual agent features on performance and motivation. Computers in Human Behavior, 49, 5–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.01.077

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Shiban, Y., Schelhorn, I., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Effect of combined multiple contexts and multiple stimuli exposure in spider phobias: a randomized clinical trial in virtual reality. Behaviour Research And Therapy, 71, 45–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2015.05.014

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Shiban, Y., Wittmann, J., Weißinger, M. & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Gradual extinction reduces reinstatement. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00254

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2014

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Shiban, Y., Brütting, J., Pauli, P. & Mühlberger, A. (2014). Fear reactivation prior to exposure therapy: Does it facilitate the effects of VR exposure in a randomized clinical sample? Journal Of Behavior Therapy And Experimental Psychiatry, 46, 133–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.09.009

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Shiban, E.*, Shiban, Y.*, Pauli, P., Lehmberg, J., Mühlberger, A., & Meyer, B. (2014). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms in elective spine surgery. A misattributed disorder? Paper presented at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie. Dresden. 
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Shiban, E., Shiban, Y., Sahinovic, L., Kapp, C., Mühlberger, A., Meyer, B., & Lehmberg, J. (2014). Incidence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms in Skull Base Surgery. Journal Of Neurological Surgery Part B Skull Base, 75(S 02). https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1384050

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2013

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Shiban, Y. (2013). Attenuating Renewal following Exposure Therapy: Mechanisms of Exposure in Multiple Contexts and its Influence on the Renewal of Fear: Studies in Virtual Reality. Würzburg, Universität Würzburg, Diss., 2013. opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6467

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2012

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Shiban, Y., Pauli, P. & Mühlberger, A. (2012). Effect of multiple context exposure on renewal in spider phobia. Behaviour Research And Therapy, 51(2), 68–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2012.10.007

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