Open Access Publications of the Institute

Buchberger, E., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Ngo, C. T. (in press). The process structure of memory abilities in early and middle childhood [Registered Report]. Developmental Science.

Ciranka, S., Chevallier, C., & Nettle, D. (2026). Low socioeconomic status amplifies the perceived rarity of large rewards. Cognition, 270, Article 106409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106409

Fraemke, D. (2026). The end of cognitive meritocracy. AI & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02856-7

Müller, V., Delius, J. A. M., & Lindenberger, U. (2026). Recurrence dynamics and nonlinear system analysis of choral singing. Nonlinear Dynamics, 114, Article 76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-025-11933-3

Müller, V., & Lindenberger, U. (in press). Nonlinear coupling dynamics within and between brains during romantic kissing as compared to joint passive tasks. Nonlinear Dynamics.

Onderstal, S., Shalvi, S., & Soraperra, I. (2026). Competition modulates buyers' reaction to sellers' cheap talk. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 242, Article 107403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107403

Peikert, A., Ernst, M. S., & Brandmaier, A. M. (in press). Why does preregistration increase the persuasiveness of evidence? A Bayesian rationalization. Meta-Psychology.

Pohlmann, K., Tawil, N., Brick, T. R., & Kühn, S. (2026). Style mixing houses: The role of high- and low-level visual features in human house facade evaluation. Acta Psychologica, 262, Article 106126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.106126

Slagter, S. K., van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., & van den Bos, W. (2026). The social sources adolescents consult for daily life choices: Variations in age and decision domains. Journal of Adolescence, 98(1), 296–306. https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.70063

Van Lissa, C. J., Peikert, A., Ernst, M. S., Van Dongen, N. N. N., Schönbrodt, F. D., & Brandmaier, A. M. (in press). To be FAIR: Theory specification needs an update. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Vetter, V. M., Drewelies, J., Homann, J., Düzel, S., Deecke, L., Jawinski, P., Kühn, S., Kubala, E., Markett, S., Mülleder, M., Ralser, M., Lindenberger, U., Lill, C. M., Gerstorf, D., Bertram, L., & Demuth, I. (in press). Comprehensive cross-sectional and longitudinal comparison of sixteen markers of biological aging from the Berlin Aging Study II. Communications Medicine.

Willems, Y. E., Rezaki, A. D., Aikins, M., Bahl, A., Wu, Q., Belsky, D. W., & Raffington, L. (in press). Social determinants of health and epigenetic clocks: Meta-analysis of 140 studies. Nature Human Behaviour.

Abels, C. M., Lopez-Lopez, E., Burton, J. W., Holford, D. L., Brinkmann, L., Herzog, S. M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2025). The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. Behavioral Science & Policy, 11(1), 22–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/23794607251347020

Aeschbach, S., Mata, R., & Wulff, D. U. (2025). Measuring individual semantic networks: A simulation study. PLoS ONE, 20(8), Article e0328712. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328712

Aeschbach, S., Mata, R., & Wulff, D. U. (2025). Mapping mental representations with free associations: A tutorial using the R package associatoR. Journal of Cognition, 8(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.407

Ahmed, A. A. A., Alegret, N., Almeida, B., Alvarez-Puebla, R., Andrews, A. M., Ballerini, L., Barrios-Capuchino, J. J., Becker, C., Blick, R. H., Bonakdar, S., Chakraborty, I., Chen, X., Cheon, J., Chilla, G., Conceicao, A. L. C., Delehanty, J., Dulle, M., Efros, A. L., Epple, M., Fedyk, M., Feliu, N., Feng, M., Fernández-Chacón, R., Fernandez-Cuesta, I., Fertig, N., Förster, S., Garrido, J. A., George, M., Guse, A. H., Hampp, N., Harberts, J., Han, J., Heekeren, H. R., Hofmann, U. G., Holzapfel, M., Hosseinkazemi, H., Huang, Y., Huber, P., Hyeon, T., Ingebrandt, S., Ienca, M., Iske, A., Kang, Y., Kasieczka, G., Kim, D.-H., Kostarelos, K., Lee, J.-H., Lin, K.-W., Liu, S., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Lohr, C., Mailänder, V., Maffongelli, L., Megahed, S., Mews, A., Mutas, M., Nack, L., Nakatsuka, N., Oertner, T. G., Offenhäusser, A., Oheim, M., Otange, B., Otto, F., Patrono, E., Peng, B., Picchiotti, A., Pierini, F., Pötter-Nerger, M., Pozzi, M., Pralle, A., Prato, M., Qi, B., Ramos-Cabrer, P., Resch Genger, U., Ritter, N., Rittner, M., Roy, S., Santoro, F., Schuck, N. W., Schulz, F., Şeker Erkin, Skiba, M., Sosniok, M., Stephan, H., Wang, R., Wang, T., Wegner, K. D., Weiss, P. S., Xu, M., Yang, C., Zargarian, S. S., Zeng, Y., Zhou, Y., Zhu, D., Zierold, R., & Parak, W. J. (2025). Interfacing with the brain: How nanotechnology can contribute. ACS Nano, 19(11), 10630–10717. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c10525

Aikins, M. A. N., Ansah, W., Goosby, B., & Raffington, L. (2025). Everywhere and every day: The impact of navigating racialization on Black German children's mental health. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, Article 1658945. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1658945

Aikins, M., Willems, Y., Fraemke, D., Mitchell, C., Goosby, B., & Raffington, L. (2025). Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence. Molecular Psychiatry, 30, 4296–4306. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03010-3

Akbaritabar, A., Dańko, M. J., Zhao, X., & Zagheni, E. (2025). Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(15), Article e2424521122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2424521122

Alonso-Ortiz, E., Papp, D., Barry, R. L., Poëti, K., Seifert, A. C., Gilbert, K. M., Lopez-Rios, N., Paska, J., Eippert, F., Weiskopf, N., Beghini, L., Graedel, N. N., Trampel, R., Callaghan, M. F., Aigner, C. S., Freund, P., Seif, M., Destruel, A., Callot, V., Vannesjo, J., & Cohen-Adad, J. (2025). Multi-center benchmarking of cervical spinal cord RF coils for 7 T MRI: A traveling spines study. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 94(3), 1339–1355. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.30551