Publications in international peer review journals:
Petersen, S., von Leupoldt, A., Morenings, M., & Ritz. (accepted for publication). Affective evaluation and cognitive structure of respiratory sensations in healthy individuals. British Journal of Health Psychology.

Petersen, S. & Ritz, T. (2008). The association of respiratory symptom report with depressive mood is distinct from the association with anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 406-411.

Petersen, S., Orth, B., & Ritz, T. (2008). Awareness of breathing: The structure of language descriptors of respiratory sensations. Health Psychology, 27, 122-127

von Leupoldt, A., Balewski, S., Petersen, S., Taube, K., Schubert-Heukeshoven, S., Magnussen, H., & Dahme, B. (2007) Verbal descriptors of dyspnea in patients with COPD at different intensity levels of dyspnea. Chest, 132, 141 – 147.

von Leupoldt, A., Petersen, S., Scheuchl, S., Füllekrug, K., Gerwin, C., Reer, R., Ziegler, M, Braumann, K.M., & Dahme, B. (2006). Reliability of verbal descriptors of dyspnea and their relationship with perceived intensity and unpleasantness. Psicologia Applicata alla Medicina del Lavoro e della Riabilitazione, 28 (Suppl Psicologia 2), 11-16.

Publications under review in international peer review journals:
Petersen, S., Morenings, M.., von Leupoldt, A., & Ritz, T. Variations

in the cognitive representation and affective connotation of respiratory sensations in health, aging and disease. Health Psychology (resubmitted with revisions).

Petersen, S., & Eckloff, T. It does not bother me, it bothers what I am: the role of the self-concept in the relationship of menstrual symptom report and depressive mood. Psychosomatic Medicine.

Petersen, S., Mann, F.C., Matula, W.D., & Ritz, T. The use of network analysis in exploring self-report of physiological sensations. Health Psychology.

Petersen, S., & Ritz, T. Dependency of illness perception on the social comparison context: findings with implicit measurement of

affective evaluation of asthma. Health Psychology.

Abstracts in international peer review journals:
Petersen, S., Bhaskara, L., Seger, C., Knowles, T., Meuret, A.E., & Ritz, T. (2007). Respiratory muscle tension as a determinant of breathlessness in individuals with high and low anxiety sensitivity. Psychophysiology, 44, S71-72. (abstract).

Petersen, S., Orth, B. & Ritz, T. (2005). Association between end-tidal pCO2 and negative affect in healthy individuals. Psychophysiology, 42, s100 (abstract).

Kullowatz, A., Petersen, S., Kanniess, F. & Ritz, T. (2005) Noninvasive Measurement of Airway Inflammation using Exhaled

Nitric Oxide: Temporal Stability and Relationship with Climate, Air Pollution and Lung Function. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, A-48 (abstract).

Petersen, S., Orth, B. & Ritz, T. (2005). Association between end-tidal pCO2 and negative affect in healthy individual. Psychophysiology, 42, 100 (abstract).

Abstracts in German conference publications:
Plum, N., Orth, B., Brodowsky, R., & Petersen, S. (2004). Homogenitätsunterschiede als Effekte der Subkategorisierung (Subcategorization and perceived group homogeneity). in: T. Rammsayer, S. Grabianowski, & S. Troche (Hrsg.), 44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie: 100 Jahre Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Psychologie, 26. bis 30. September 2004, Lengerich, Pabst Science Publishers, 2004 (abstract).

Conference presentations:
Petersen, S., Mann, C., Matula, D., & Ritz, T. (2008). Network analysis of respiratory sensations during stress and sports using flowthrough centrality measurements. Poster presentation at the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, July 20-25.

Petersen, S. & Ritz, T. (2008). The association of respiratory symptoms with depressive mood is distinct from the association with anxiety. Poster presentation at the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, July 20-25.

Petersen, S., Tauber, J., & Orth, B. (2008). The association between perceived group variability and the perception of closeness between social groups in a national context. Poster presentation at the 15th meeting of the European Association for Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia, June 10-14.

Petersen, S., Bhaskara, L., Seger, C., Knowles, T., Meuret, A.E., & Ritz, T. (2008). Hyperinflation of the lungs induced by intercostal muscle EMG biofeedback provokes pronounced dyspnea in healthy individuals. Poster presentation at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Austin, Texas, USA October 1-5.

Petersen, S., Bhaskara, L., Seger, C., Knowles, T., Meuret, A.E., &

Ritz, T. (2007). Respiratory muscle tension as a determinant of breathlessness in individuals with high and low anxiety sensitivity. Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savanna, Georgia, USA September 17-21.

Bhaskara, L., Petersen, S., Meuret, A.E., Ritz, T. (2007, accepted) Evaluation of a respiratory biofeedback procedure in high and low anxious individuals. Poster presentation at the annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, November 15-18.

von Leupoldt, A., Balewski, S., Petersen, S., Taube, K., Schubert-Heukeshoven, S. & Dahme, B.(2007, accepted) Validierung einer

deutschsprachigen verbalen Deskriptorliste zur qualitativen Beschreibung von Atemnot bei COPD. Vortrag auf dem 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pneumologie, Mannheim.

Petersen, S., Morenings, M., von Leupoldt, A., Dahme, B. & Ritz, T. (2006). Similarities and differences of verbal descriptors of respiratory symptoms between healthy individuals and individuals with pulmonary disease in cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and preference analysis. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology, Newport, RI, October 20-22. Winner of the ISARP Award for Student Excellence 2006.

Petersen, S., von Leupoldt, A., Morenings, M., Dahme, B. & Ritz, T. (2006). Frequency and valence of respiratory sensations and their association to everyday life situations for different subgroups of participants. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology, Newport, RI, October 20-22.

Petersen, S., Plum, N., Osterholz, A. & Orth, B. (2006). Der Einfluss von Subkategorisierung auf die Wahrnehmung von Gruppenvariabilität: Ein neuer Erklärungsansatz für den Outgroup Homogeneity Effect (Subcategorization and perceived group variability: a new approach to explain the outgoup homogeneity effect). Vortrag auf dem 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Nürnberg.

Petersen, S., Orth, B. & Ritz, T. (2005). Association between end-tidal pCO2 and negative affect in healthy individuals. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Lisbon, Portugal, September 22-26.

Petersen, S., Orth, B., von Leupoldt, A. & Ritz, T. (2005). Negative affect and end-tidal pCO2 in healthy individuals: The moderating effect of gender. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology, Hamburg, Germany, September 14-16.

Petersen, S. & Ritz, T. (2005). Awareness of breathing: German language descriptors of respiratory sensations and their relationship with ventilatory adaptation to respiratory challenge.

Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology, Hamburg, Germany, September 14-16. Winner of the ISARP Award for Student Excellence 2005.

Petersen, S., Plum, N. & Orth, B. (2005). Der Einfluss von Subkategorisierung auf die Wahrnehmung der Variabilität bei minimalen und natürlichen Gruppen. (Subcategorization and the perception of group variability in minimal and natural groups) Vortrag auf der 10. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie, Jena.