Christoph Bamberg

Christoph Bamberg

PostDoc

PLUS Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences

Department of Psychology

Education and Academic Career

Ongoing: PostDoc in an FWF-funded Project "Decomposing Stress Eating and Emotional Eating", Salzburg University

2025: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Psychology, Salzburg University. Thesis: “Intermittent Fasting and Cognition: Short- and medium-term effects”

2019: M.Sc. Cognitive Science, University of the Ruhr, Bochum. Thesis: "Investigating the Influence of Nutrition on the Activity of the Central Serotonergic System"

2017: B.A. Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth

Research Interests

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Further Publications

Bamberg, C., Flasbeck, V., Diop, S., & Brüne, M. (2021). Ecology of cooperation: The influence of fasting and satiety on interpersonal trust. Social Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2021.1876758

Bamberg, C., Flasbeck, V., Juckel, G., & Brüne, M. (2021). Loudness Dependence of Auditory-evoked Potentials, a Marker of Central Serotonergic Activity, is Affected by Fasting and Selective Uptake of Food. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1177/15500594211000925

Flasbeck, V., Bamberg, C., & Brüne, M. (2021). Short-Term Fasting and Ingestion of Caloric Drinks Affect Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials and Autonomic Nervous System Activity in Males. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 720. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.622428

Personal website

http://christophbg.github.io

Publications

2025

Stable cognitive performance while adapting to intermittent fasting: A randomised controlled trial
Christoph Bamberg, Julia Reichenberger, Jens Blechert
Journal of Health Psychology
Reversal learning is influenced by cognitive flexibility and develops throughout early adolescence
Christoph Bamberg, Sarah Weigelt, Klara Hagelweide
NPJ Science of Learning
Bidirectional associations between affect and food craving within and between individuals: A mega-analysis
Matthias Burkard Aulbach, Christoph Bamberg, Julia Reichenberger, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Jens Blechert
Appetite
Taming “hanger” and falling prey to boredom-emotional and stress-eating in 801 healthy individuals using ecological momentary assessment
Matthias Burkard Aulbach, Christoph Bamberg, Julia Reichenberger, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Jens Blechert
Appetite

2024

Cutting Cultural Ties?: Reasons Why Ukrainians Terminate or Continue to Interact With Russian Culture Despite the Ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War
Anton Kurapov, Oleksandra Balashevych, Christoph Bamberg, Pawel Boski
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology