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2025 

Fox, J., Gaul, C., Kuhlencord, M., Peperkorn, N., Ohse, J., Krutzki, J., & Shiban, Y. (2025). Identifying cognitive-affective mechanisms underlying disability in episodic migraine: Using the Fear Avoidance Model to examine interactions. Headache, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s10194-025-02101-4 

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Fox, J., Gaul, C., Kuhlencord, M., Peperkorn, N., Ohse, J., Krutzki, J., & Shiban, Y. (2025). Kognitiv-affektive Mechanismen migräne-bedingter Beeinträchtigung: Untersuchung von Wechselwirkungen anhand des Fear Avoidance-Modells. Nervenheilkunde, 44(7). https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1809281 [Conference Paper, 2. Kopfschmerzkongress der DMKG, Köln] 

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Fox, J., Gaul, C., Peperkorn, N., Ohse, J., Krutzki, J., & Shiban, Y. (2025, July). Prädiktoren von migräne-bedingter Beeinträchtigung: Vorläufige Ergebnisse der Migräne-Avatar-Studie. Nervenheilkunde, 44(7). https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1809282 [Conference Paper, 2. Kopfschmerzkongress der DMKG, Köln] 

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Fox, J., Gaul, C., Ohse, J., Peperkorn, N., Krutzki, J., & Shiban, Y. (2025). Psychological transdiagnostic factors and migraine characteristics as predictors of migraine-related disability. The Journal of Headache and Pain, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s10194-025-02101-4 

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Hadžić, B., Ohse, J., Alkostantini, M. E., Peperkorn, N., Yorita, A., Weber, T., Kubota, N., Shiban, Y., & Rätsch, M. (2025). 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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Hallmann, M. C., Peperkorn, N. L., Vona, F., Shiban, Y., & Voigt-Antons, J.-N. (submitted). User experience and therapist effectiveness of different virtual character types in virtual reality exposure therapy: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.81537 

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Mohammed, P., Hadžić, B., Alkostantini, M. E., Kubota, N., Shiban, Y., & Rätsch, M. (2025). Hearing emotions: Fine-tuning speech emotion recognition models. In Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Pattern Recognition and Applications, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3057659 

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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

 

Peperkorn, N. L., Ohse, J., Fox, J., Kuhlencord, M., Grevenhaus, C., Krutzki, J., Witthöft, M., & Shiban, Y. (2025). Effects of change in dysfunctional beliefs in avatar-based cognitive therapy for depressive symptoms: A randomized parallel trial. Scientific Reports, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-96228-8 

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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 review). Effects of change in dysfunctional beliefs and self-esteem in avatar-based cognitive therapy for symptoms of social anxiety disorder: A randomized parallel trial. Scientific Reports 

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Ohse, J., Hadžić, B., Peperkorn, N. L., Ploen, M., Fox, J., Neukirch, J., Rätsch, M., & Shiban, Y. (under review). Human vs. machine: Evaluating GPT-4, GPT-4o, and GPT-4o-Mini in rating depression interviews in a convenience sample of the German population. Computers in Human Behavior Reports  

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Fox, J., Gaul, C., Peperkorn, N. L., Ohse, J., Krutzki, J., Körber, J., & Shiban, Y. (submitted). Targeting pain catastrophizing to reduce migraine-related disability: A randomized controlled trial. Headache 

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2024

 

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 

 

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  

 

Fox, J., Gaul, C., Slijepcevic, M., Ohse, J., Peperkorn, N., & Shiban, Y. (2024). 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, head.14823. https://doi.org/10.1111/head.14823  

 

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. 

 

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. 

 

 

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 [in Revision]. Scientific Reports. 

 

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. Psychologie in Österreich, 2024 (4&5), 278-285. 

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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