Lena Steindorf

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

8h-index248citations21works1.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Mind wandering and attention(11), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies(6), Sport Psychology and Performance(4), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes(3), Sleep and Wakefulness Research(3)

Publications21 total

Rethinking performance crises in professional soccer: German coaches’ insights into systemic vulnerabilities and escalating dynamics
PLoS ONE·2026Open Access
Investigating the isolated effects of a soccer-specific mental fatigue manipulation on different task types
Frontiers in Psychology·2025Open Access
Demotivated, but still attentive: Text disfluency does not affect mind-wandering and reading comprehension, but reduces motivation
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·2025Open Access
Longitudinal study of mental health in an elite soccer club: Depression and anxiety symptoms across a competitive season
Psychology of sport and exercise·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Leading through performance crises: soccer coaches’ insights on their strategies—a qualitative study
Frontiers in Psychology·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Effects of cognitive load on perceived internal and external distraction and their relationship with attentional control
Journal of Cognitive Psychology·2023· 6 cited
When there is noise on Sherlock Holmes: mind wandering increases with perceptual processing difficulty during reading and listening
Cognitive Research Principles and Implications·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
How consistent is mind wandering across situations and tasks? A latent state–trait analysis.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition·2021· 18 cited
A Fresh Look at the Unconscious Thought Effect: Using Mind-Wandering Measures to Investigate Thought Processes in Decision Problems With High Information Load
Frontiers in Psychology·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
Stockpiling during the COVID-19 pandemic as a real-life social dilemma: A person-situation perspective
2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Stockpiling during the COVID-19 pandemic as a real-life social dilemma: A person-situation perspective
Journal of Research in Personality·2021· 27 citedOpen Access
Three Pillars of Physical Distancing: Anxiety, Prosociality, and Rule Compliance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Collabra Psychology·2021· 18 citedOpen Access
Mind wandering outside the box—About the role of off-task thoughts and their assessment during creative incubation.
Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts·2020· 36 cited
The role of attention for insight problem solving: effects of mindless and mindful incubation periods
Journal of Cognitive Psychology·2020· 15 cited
How consistent is mind wandering across situations and tasks?—A latent state–trait analysis
2020· 4 citedOpen Access
Three pillars of physical distancing: Anxiety, prosociality, and rule compliance during the COVID-19-pandemic
2020· 4 citedOpen Access
Do your eyes give you away? A validation study of eye-movement measures used as indicators for mindless reading
Behavior Research Methods·2019· 72 citedOpen Access
The Unconscious Thought Effect examined using mind-wandering measures
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)·2019Open Access
A Validation Study of the German Complex-Span Tasks and Some General Considerations on Task Translation Procedures in Cognitive Psychology
European Journal of Psychological Assessment·2017· 14 citedOpen Access
“I Should not Forget the Apples!”—Mind‐Wandering Episodes Used as Opportunities for Rehearsal in an Interrupted Recall Paradigm
Applied Cognitive Psychology·2017· 14 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Jan Rummel(13), Mathias Twardawski(4), Isabel Thielmann(4), Stefan Altmann(3), Jan Spielmann(3), Moritz Fischer(2), Dirk Hagemann(2), Anna‐Lena Schubert(2), Julian Fritsch(2), Holly A. Hammerton(1), Franziska Iwan(1), Amory H. Danek(1), Ivan Marevic(1), Daniel Danner(1), Sebastian Pink(1), Jonathan Smallwood(1), Fynn O. Wöstenfeld(1), Jan Philipp Röer(1), Constantin Rausch(1), Darko Jekauc(1)