- Position : Lecturer
- Institution : University of Regensburg
- Department : Institute of Experimental Psychology
- Location : Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
- Website : http://www.uni-regensburg.de/psychologie-paedagogik-sport/psychologie-kudielka/team/schlotz/index.html
Dr. Wolff Schlotz PhD
Main Research Focus
Psychoendocrinology and Health Psychology. I am particularly interested in stress-related psychoendocrine interactions in daily life, diagnostics of perceived stress and endocrine stress responses, stress reactivity, and fetal origins of health and behaviour.
Career
2011-: Lecturer, Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany
2007-2011: Lecturer in Health Psychology, Psychology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
2005-2007: Visiting Research Fellow, MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
2000-2005: Research/Teaching Fellow, University of Trier, Germany
Awards
Publication Highlights
Schlotz, W., Hellhammer, J., Schulz, P., Stone, A.A., 2004. Perceived work overload and chronic worrying predict weekend-weekday differences in the cortisol awakening response. Psychosom. Med. 66, 207-14.
Schlotz, W., Schulz, P., Hellhammer, J., Stone, A.A., Hellhammer, D.H., 2006. Trait anxiety moderates the impact of performance pressure on salivary cortisol in everyday life. Psychoneuroendocrinology 31, 459-472.
Schlotz, W., Kumsta, R., Layes, I., Entringer, S., Jones, A., Wust, S., 2008. Covariance between psychological and endocrine responses to pharmacological challenge and psychosocial stress: a question of timing. Psychosom. Med. 70, 787-96.
Schlotz, W., Phillips, D.I.W., 2009. Fetal origins of mental health: Evidence and mechanisms. Brain. Behav. Immun., 23, 905-916.
Schlotz, W., Hammerfald, K., Ehlert, U., & Gaab, J., 2011. Individual differences in the cortisol response to stress in young healthy men: Testing the roles of perceived stress reactivity and threat appraisal using multiphase latent growth curve modeling. Biol. Psychol., 87, 257-264.
Schlotz, W., 2011. Ambulatory psychoneuroendocrinology: Assessing salivary cortisol and other hormones in daily life. In M.R. Mehl & T.S. Conner (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life (pp. 193-209). New York: Guilford.
