Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens

Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens Postdoctoral Researcher UKE Hamburg

Bio

Maren has been a PhD student in our team as part of the transregional CRC “Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders”. Maren worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Hamburg team on meta-science projects as well as on longitudinal projects focusing on life adversity and childhood adversity. Since August 2026 Maren is the team lead in the fearbase project.

Projects

Associations between childhood maltreatment and responding to signals of threat and safety in a fear conditioning paradigm
Longitudinal and multimodal investigations of the modulation of fear- and anxiety-related processes by life adversity – predictive and buffering factors. (B07)
Meta Science in Fear conditioning research
fearbase

Publications

2026

Recent Adversity Shapes Autonomic and Neural Threat Learning and Retrieval Under Imminent Threat: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

Maren Klingelhoefer-Jens , Manuel Kuhn , Tobias Sommer, Tina B. Lonsdorf

openRxiv · 24 Jul 2026 · doi: https://doi.org/hccswr

2025

Assessing the Long-Term Stability of the Spielberger State-Trait Inventory Trait Scale over 3.5 Years

Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Franziska Reiser, Naemi D. Brandt, Dirk Schümann, Matthias Gamer, Raffael Kalisch, Tobias Sommer, Tina B. Lonsdorf

Journal of Personality Assessment · 24 Jun 2025 · doi: https://doi.org/g9rsbk

2024

How adverse childhood experiences get under the skin: A systematic review, integration and methodological discussion on threat and reward learning mechanisms

Julia Ruge , Mana R Ehlers , Alexandros Kastrinogiannis , Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Alina Koppold , Rany Abend, Tina B Lonsdorf

eLife · 16 Jul 2024 · doi: https://doi.org/g84qqz

2022

Robust group- but limited individual-level (longitudinal) reliability and insights into cross-phases response prediction of conditioned fear

Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Mana R Ehlers , Manuel Kuhn , Vincent Keyaniyan, Tina B Lonsdorf

eLife · 13 Sep 2022 · doi: https://doi.org/g36c9v

Multiverse analyses in fear conditioning research

Tina B. Lonsdorf , Anna Gerlicher, Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos

Behaviour Research and Therapy · 01 Jun 2022 · doi: https://doi.org/grtxfz

2021

Effects of intolerance of uncertainty on subjective and psychophysiological measures during fear acquisition and delayed extinction

Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Jayne Morriss, Tina B Lonsdorf

PsyArXiv · 25 Nov 2021 · doi: https://doi.org/g84qrj

2020

Revisiting potential associations between brain morphology, fear acquisition and extinction through new data and a literature review

Mana R. Ehlers , Janne Nold, Manuel Kuhn , Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Tina B. Lonsdorf

Scientific Reports · 16 Nov 2020 · doi: https://doi.org/g84qrr

2019

Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research

Tina B Lonsdorf , Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Marta Andreatta, Tom Beckers, Anastasia Chalkia, Anna Gerlicher, Valerie L Jentsch, Shira Meir Drexler, Gaetan Mertens, Jan Richter, Rachel Sjouwerman , Julia Wendt, Christian J Merz

eLife · 16 Dec 2019 · doi: https://doi.org/gj6d76

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