In press
2026
Hermesch, N., Konrad, C., Barr, R., Herbert, J. S. & Seehagen, S. (2026). Early childhood screen use and sleep: Evaluating the strength of the evidence. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 21, 100921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100921
Konrad, C., Schneider, S., Zinke, K., Herbert, J. S. & Seehagen, S. (2026). Nap-dependent declarative memory consolidation in 12-month-old infants - A conceptual replication study. Infant Behavior & Development, 83, 102180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2026.102180
Konrad, C., Domoff, S. E. & Schneider, S. (2026). Validation of the German version of the problematic media use measure (PMUM-short form) and its relation to child and parental mental health. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 21, 100911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100911
2025
Ernsten, L., Seehagen, S., Nonnenmacher, N., Tautz, J., Wolf, O. T., Heil, M. et al. (2025). Preliminary findings on the association between maternal salivary and hair cortisol and the mother-infant-interaction during the early postpartum period. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 172, 107266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107266
Hermesch, N., Seehagen, S., Barr, R., Herbert, J. S. & Konrad, C. (2025). Sleep and selective memory consolidation in infants: Exploring the impact of learning contexts. Infancy, 30(5), e70045. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70045.
Lucca, K., Yuen, F., Wang, Y., Alessandroni, N., Allison, O., Alvarez, M. et al. (2025). Infants' social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13581. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13581
Schoppmann, J., Schneider, S. & Seehagen, S. (2025). Relationship between the emotion regulation strategies of parents and toddlers and toddlers’ negative affect. Kindheit und Entwicklung, 34(3), 127–137. https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000499
Seehagen, S., Bartnick, C., Kärtner, J., Krasko, J., Luhmann, M., Schaal, N. et al. (2025). Belong, broaden, and build: The role of positive emotions in early human development. Child Development Perspectives, 19(4), 237–243. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.70002
2024
Hermesch, N., Konrad, C., Barr, R., Herbert, J. S., & Seehagen, S. (2024). Sleep-dependent memory consolidation of televised content in infants. Journal of Sleep Research, 33(4), e14121. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.14121
Konrad, C., Neuhoff, L., Adolph, D., Goerigk, S., Herbert, J. S., Jagusch-Poirier, J., Weigelt, S., Seehagen, S., & Schneider, S. (2024). Associative learning via eyeblink conditioning differs by age from infancy to adulthood. Communications Psychology, 2(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00176-4
Schoppmann, J., Amerkamp, L., Krusche, C., & Seehagen, S. (2024). Does Granny Know Best? Kindheit Und Entwicklung, Article 0942-5403/a000435. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000435
Seehagen, S. (2024). Stress, Entwicklung und psychische Gesundheit. Kindheit Und Entwicklung, 33(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000438
Tisborn, K., & Seehagen, S. (2024). 2-Year-olds' free play during the COVID-19 pandemic. Infancy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12591
2023
Pelz, J. D., Tisborn, K., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2023). Infants’ and young children’s sleep behavior during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Kindheit Und Entwicklung, 32(2), 75–84. https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000416
Schoppmann, J., Severin, F., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2023). The effect of picture book reading on young children's use of an emotion regulation strategy. PloS One, 18(8), e0289403. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289403
Schoppmann, J., Teismann, T., Holleck-Weithmann, V. A., Hundertmark, E., Jandewerth, K., Obereiner, P., Rudolph, D., & Seehagen, S. (2023). Infant carrying is associated with reduced maternal repetitive negative thinking and increased maternal mental health. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 41(4), 456–469. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2021.2012647
Seehagen, S., & Schoppmann, J. (2023). Schlaf und Schlafstörungen. Kindheit Und Entwicklung, 32(2), 69–74. https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000414
Tisborn, K., Kumsta, R., Zmyj, N., & Seehagen, S. (2023). A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds. Infant Behavior & Development, 71, 101810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101810
Witt, S., Seehagen, S., & Zmyj, N. (2023). Stress affects the prediction of others' behavior. PloS One, 18(4), e0283782. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283782
Diop, S., Turmes, L., Specht, C., Seehagen, S., Juckel, G., & Mavrogiorgou, P. (2022). Capacities for meta-cognition, social cognition, and alexithymia in postpartum depression. Psychiatry Research, 309, 114430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114430
Mavrogiorgou, P., Diop, S., Turmes, L., Specht, C., Vanscheidt, S., Seehagen, S., & Juckel, G. (2022). Computer-based mother-infant interaction analysis and mental functioning in postpartum depression. Psychiatry Research, 311, 114506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114506
Schoppmann, J., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2022). Can you teach me not to be angry? Relations between temperament and the emotion regulation strategy distraction in 2-year-olds. Child Development, 93(1), 165–179. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13682
Seehagen, S. (2022). Infant sleep as a cornerstone for cognitive development. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9(1), 104–110. https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322211068006
Tisborn, K., Pelz, J. D., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2022). The mental well-being of young children and families at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Zeitschrift Für Entwicklungspsychologie Und Pädagogische Psychologie, 54(2), 51–66. https://doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000253
Ward, T. B., Curtis, C., & Seehagen, S. (2022). Investigating the effects of perceived student gender on primary school teachers' recognition of autism. Psychology in the Schools, Article pits.22667. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22667
Witt, S., Seehagen, S., & Zmyj, N. (2022). The influence of group membership on false-belief attribution in preschool children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 222, 105467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105467
Zmyj, N., Rausch, A., Schröder, L., & Seehagen, S. (2022). The development of children’s egalitarianism in the context of group membership and resource valence. Zeitschrift Für Entwicklungspsychologie Und Pädagogische Psychologie, 54(3), 93–104. https://doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000255
Seehagen, S., Charlton, S., Starkey, N., Fallaize, A., Brown, J., & Jones, K. (2021). The role of prior sleep for divergent thinking in infants. Journal of Sleep Research, e13457. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13457
Seehagen, S., Herbert, J. S., & Zmyj, N. (2021). Prior sleep timing and visual recognition of emotional faces in 6-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 65, 101655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101655
Seehagen, S., Schneider, S., Sommer, K., La Rocca, L., & Konrad, C. (2021). State-dependent memory in infants. Child Development, 92(2), 578–585. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13444
Konrad, C., Adolph, D., Herbert, J. S., Neuhoff, L., Mohr, C., Jagusch-Poirier, J., Seehagen, S., Weigelt, S., & Schneider, S. (2020). A new 3-day standardized eyeblink conditioning protocol to assess extinction learning from infancy to adulthood. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 135. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00135
Zmyj, N., & Seehagen, S. (2020). A model’s competence influences false-belief attribution in preschoolers. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2018.1545641
Koch, S. C., Riege, R. F. F., Tisborn, K., Biondo, J., Martin, L., & Beelmann, A. (2019). Effects of dance movement therapy and dance on health-related psychological outcomes. A meta-analysis update. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1806. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01806
Konrad, C., Dirks, N. D., Warmuth, A., Herbert, J. S., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2019). Sleep-dependent selective imitation in infants. Journal of Sleep Research, 28(1), e12777. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12777
Müller, D., Teismann, T., Hirschfeld, G., Zmyj, N., Fuths, S., Vocks, S., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2019). The course of maternal repetitive negative thinking at the transition to motherhood and early mother-infant interactions: Is there a link? Development and Psychopathology, 31(4), 1411–1421. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418000883
Schoppmann, J., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2019). Wait and see: Observational learning of distraction as an emotion regulation strategy in 22-month-old toddlers. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47(5), 851–863. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0486-7
Seehagen, S., Zmyj, N., & Herbert, J. S. (2019). Remembering in the context of internal states: The role of sleep for infant memory. Child Development Perspectives, 13(2), 110–115. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12321
Seehagen, S., Dreier, L., & Zmyj, N. (2018). Overrated adults: 4-year-olds' false belief understanding is influenced by the believer's age. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 328–335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.11.007
Fuths, S., Seehagen, S., & Schneider, S. (2017). How a mother processes her infant's distress: Cognitive pathways to maternal insensitivity. Mental Health & Prevention, 6, 19–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhp.2017.03.004
Schmidt, D., Seehagen, S., Hirschfeld, G., Vocks, S., Schneider, S., & Teismann, T. (2017). Repetitive negative thinking and impaired mother–infant bonding: A longitudinal study. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 41(3), 498–507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-016-9823-8
Seehagen, S., Schneider, S., Miebach, K., Frigge, K., & Zmyj, N. (2017). "Should I or shouldn't I?" Imitation of undesired versus allowed actions from peer and adult models by 18- and 24-month-old toddlers. Infant Behavior & Development, 49, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.06.001
Zmyj, N., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2017). Fifteen-month-old infants' cortisol levels decrease after a 30-min-warm-up procedure. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 76, 11–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.11.010.
Konrad, C., Herbert, J. S., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2016). Gist extraction and sleep in 12-month-old infants. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 134 Pt B, 216–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2016.08.021
Konrad, C., Herbert, J. S., Schneider, S., & Seehagen, S. (2016). The relationship between prior night's sleep and measures of infant imitation. Developmental Psychobiology, 58(4), 450–461. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21387
Konrad, C., Seehagen, S., Schneider, S., & Herbert, J. S. (2016). Naps promote flexible memory retrieval in 12-month-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 58(7), 866–874. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21431
Popp, L., Fuths, S., Seehagen, S., Bolten, M., Gross-Hemmi, M., Wolke, D., & Schneider, S. (2016). Inter-rater reliability and acceptance of the structured diagnostic interview for regulatory problems in infancy. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 10, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-016-0107-6
Schmidt, D., Seehagen, S., Vocks, S., Schneider, S., & Teismann, T. (2016). Predictive importance of antenatal depressive rumination and worrying for maternal–foetal attachment and maternal well-being. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40(4), 565–576. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-016-9759-z
Schröder, L., Seehagen, S., Zmyj, N., & Hebebrand, J. (2016). Wie du mir, so ich dir? Die Entwicklung von prosozialem Verhalten und der Zusammenhang mit externalisierenden und internalisierenden Auffälligkeiten [“Tit for Tat?” The development of prosocial behavior and its relationship to externalizing and internalizing problems]. Zeitschrift fur Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 44(1), 31–38. https://doi.org/10.1024/1422-4917/a000396
Seehagen, S., Konrad, C., Herbert, J. S., & Schneider, S. (2015). Timely sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation in infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(5), 1625–1629. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1414000112
Seehagen, S., Schneider, S., Rudolph, J., Ernst, S., & Zmyj, N. (2015). Stress impairs cognitive flexibility in infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(41), 12882–12886. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508345112
Ufkes, E. G., Dovidio, J. F., & Tel, G. (2015). Identity and collective action among European kurds. The British Journal of Social Psychology, 54(1), 176–186. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12084
Müller, D., Teismann, T., Havemann, B., Michalak, J., & Seehagen, S. (2013). Ruminative thinking as a predictor of perceived postpartum mother-infant bonding. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37(1), 89–96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-012-9454-7
Zmyj, N., & Seehagen, S. (2013). The role of a model's age for young children's imitation: A research review. Infant and Child Development, 22(6), 622–641. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1811
Pflug, V., Seehagen, S., & Schneider, S. (2012). Nichts Neues seit dem «kleinen Hans» und dem «kleinen Peter»? [Nothing new since «Little Hans» and «Little Peter»? Psychotherapy for anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence]. Zeitschrift fur Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 40(1), 21–28. https://doi.org/10.1024/1422-4917/a000146
Seehagen, S., & Herbert, J. S. (2012). Selective imitation in 6-month-olds: The role of the social and physical context. Infant Behavior & Development, 35(3), 509–512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.05.002
Seehagen, S., Pflug, V., & Schneider, S. (2012). Psychotherapie und Wissenschaft [Psychotherapy and science - harmony or dissonance?]. Zeitschrift fur Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 40(5), 301–306. https://doi.org/10.1024/1422-4917/a000186
Seehagen, S., & Herbert, J. S. (2011). Infant imitation from televised peer and adult models. Infancy, 16(2), 113–136. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00045.x
Seehagen, S., & Herbert, J. S. (2010). The role of demonstrator familiarity and language cues on infant imitation from television. Infant Behavior & Development, 33(2), 168–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.12.008
Schoppmann, J. & Seehagen, S. (2023). Schlaf und Schlafstörungen. In J. Asbrand & J. Schmitz (Eds.), Lehrbuch klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie und Psychotherapie (pp. 446–465). Kohlhammer.
Konrad, C., & Seehagen, S. (2021). Chapter Three - The effect of napping and nighttime sleep on memory in infants. In S. E. Berger, R. T. Harbourne, & A. Scher (Eds.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relation between Sleep and Learning in Early Development (Vol. 60, pp. 31–56). JAI. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2020.08.003
Seehagen, S., Margraf, J., & Schneider, S. (2014). Developmental psychopathology. In P. Emmelkamp & T. Ehring (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Anxiety Disorders (Vol. 41, pp. 148–171). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118775349.ch10
Schneider, S., Pflug, V., & Seehagen, S. (2012). Angststörungen. In J. M. Fegert, C. Eggers, & F. Resch (Eds.), Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters (Vol. 19, pp. 547–568). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19846-5_19
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