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

2026

Künstliche Intelligenz bei Abschlussarbeiten, Dissertationen und Habilitationsschriften in der Psychologie: Eine Perspektive der DGPs-Jungmitglieder und Psychologie-Studierenden
Matthias F. J. Sperl, Luisa Baumgärtner, Katharina M. Bach, Christoph Bamberg, Charlotte Behlau, Barbara Bergmann, Martha Bienefeld, Eva Bleckmann, Sarah K. Danböck, Jana H. Dreston, Valeria C. Eckardt, Susanne Frick, Maria-Therese Friehs, Lisa Handke, Ilka Hein, Fabian Hutmacher, Julien P. Irmer, Astrid Kause, Marcel Kern, George Khder, Julius Klingelhoefer, Alina Koppold, Hannah Menschel, Jonathan Münzing, Claudia Neuendorf, Trinh Nguyen, Julia Reiter, Alea Ruf, Nico Ruhara, Bernd Schaefer, Vanessa Schmidt, Gina Nathalie Schnücker, Brian Schwartz, Özlem Sensoy, Katharina Szota, Anne Voormann, Nora Wegner, Alexander Nicolai Wendt, Nicolas E. Neef
Psychologische Rundschau
Does High-Intensity Exercise Combined with Exposure Sessions Improve Treatment Outcomes in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Inpatients
Mark Mühlbacher, Rebecca Schennach, Thomas Bösl, Christoph Bamberg, Stefan Koch, Ulrich Voderholzer
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
Stable cognitive performance while adapting to intermittent fasting: A randomised controlled trial
Christoph Bamberg, Julia Reichenberger, Jens Blechert
Journal of Health Psychology
Why meat-eaters reject calls for a meat-free diet: Social norm and messenger effects in two meat-eating cultures
J. Lukas Thürmer, Christoph Bamberg, Anton Kurapov, Jens Blechert, Diana Taut, Mihaela Gotea, Sean M. McCrea, Katharina Eichin, Gudrun Sproesser
Environmental Research Communications
Stressors, Emotions and Eating: Evidence for Time‐Pressure‐Driven Snacking Rather Than Emotional Eating
Christoph Bamberg, Jens Blechert, Julia Reichenberger
Stress and Health
Post-Exposure Dynamics in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise and Associations with Treatment Outcome
Mark Mühlbacher, Christoph Bamberg, Stefan Koch, Thomas Bösl, Ulrich Voderholzer, Rebecca Schennach
Preprint

2025

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