• 2016 – Promotion at Universität zu Köln
  • Mindfulness and error processing
    
• 2021 – Master in Cognitive Science at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• 2012 – Dimploma in Psychology at Universität zu Köln

Career

Since December 2021: Research assistant

Freie Universität Berlin - Department Clinical Psychologial Intervention

2017 - 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher

Brown University, Providence, RI, USA - The Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory -Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

2016: Research Assistant

Universität zu Köln - Social Cognition Center Cologne

2012 - 2015: Research assistant

Universität zu Köln - Differential Psychology and Psychological Diagnostic

2007 - 2011: Student research assistant

Universität zu Köln - Psychological Methods and Experimental Psychology

Psychotherapeutic practice

Since April 2021 Psychological Psychotherapist with limited treatment permit at Zentrum für Systemische Therapie an der GST

Research stays

June to December 2015 Visiting Researcher

Dr. Willoughby Britton, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA -The Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory

Grants

Balancing Hope and Fear: Resourcing Climate Activists for Sustainable Environmental Justice Work (Dr. Brooke D. Lavelle, Zack Walsh, Dr. Kristina Eichel, et. al), Mind & Life PEACE Grant (25.000$). Laufzeit: 2020-2021

Jealousy and Mindfulness, Center for Social and Economic Behavior C-SEB Junior Start-Up Grant (3000€), Universität zu Köln. Laufzeit: 2016

Scholarships

06/ 2015-09/ 2015: Scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Research stay at Brown University

10/ 2012 - 12/ 2015: Scholarship from the graduate school of the faculty of human sciences of the Universität zu Köln. Research stay at Brown University

Practice as expert for journals

Clinical Psychology Review

PLOS ONE

Mindfulness

Computers in Human Behavior

Participations in occupational organisations

Since 2021 elected delegate of the psychotherapists in training of the Psychotherapeutenkammer Berlin

Since 2019 member of Psychologists4Future

Reserach topics

• Effects of mindfulness and meditation on emotional and cognitive components
• Social and general impact factors of psychotherapy
• Systemic therapy, relationship and sexual counseling
• Philosophy of mind, emphasis on theory of mind and empathy
• Interdisciplinary research (philosophy, sociology and psychology)
• Neurophysiological methods (EEG, fMRI)
• Implementation research
• Diversity and publication bias in psychotherapy research
  
  

Peer-reviewed articles

2021

Cullen, B. H., Eichel, K., Lindahl, R. J., Rahrig, H., Kini, N., Flahive, J., & Britton, W. B. (2021). The contributions of focused attention and open monitoring in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for affective disturbances: a 3-armed randomized dismantling trial. PLOS One, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244838

Eichel, K., Gawande, R., Acabchuk, R.L.  (co-first author), … Britton, W. B. (2021). A Retrospective Systematic Review of Diversity Variables in Mindfulness Research, 2000–2016. Mindfulness, 12(5), doi: 10.1007/s12671-021-01715-4

Eichel, K., Canby, N. (co-first author), Lindahl, J. R., Chau, S., Cordova, J., & Britton, W. B. (2021). The Contribution of Common and Specific Therapeutic Factors to Mindfulness-Based Intervention Outcomes. Front. Psychol. 11:603394. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.603394

Yamada, Y., Ćepulić, DB., Coll-Martín, T. [...], Eichel, K. et al. (2021). COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey dataset on psychological and behavioural consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. Sci Data 8, 3, doi:10.1038/s41597-020-00784-9

2020

Brown, L., Rando, A., Eichel, K., Van Dam, N. T., Celano, C., Huffman, J., Morris, M. (2020). The effects of mindfulness and meditation on vagally-mediated heart rate variability: A meta-analysis. Psychosomatic Medicine, doi:10.1097/PSY.0000000000000900

Canby, N., Eichel, K., Peters, S., Rahrig, H., & Britton, W. B. (2020). Predictors of out-of-class mindfulness practice adherence during and after a mindfulness-based intervention. Psychosomatic Medicine, doi:10.1097/PSY.0000000000000873

Eichel, K. & Stahl, J. (2020). Error processing and mindfulness meditation in female students. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 147, 35-43, doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.11.001

Kowal, M., Coll-Martín, T., Ikizer, G., Rasmussen, J., Eichel, K., Studzińska, A., Koszałkowska, K., Karwowski, M., Najmussaqib, A., Pankowski, D., & Ahmed, O. (2020). Who is the most stressed during COVID-19 isolation? Data from 26 countries and areas. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/aphw.12234

2018

Kang, Y., Rahrig, H., Eichel, K., Niles, H. F., Rocha, T., Lepp, N. E., ..., Britton, W. B. (2018). Gender differences in response to a school-based mindfulness training intervention for early adolescents. Journal of School Psychology, 68, 163-176. doi:10.1016/j.jsp.2018.03.004

2016

Eichel, K. & Stahl, J. (2016). The role of mindfulness and emotional stability in error detection. Mindfulness. doi:10.1007/s12671-016-0601-1

2011

Klipp, S., Eichel, K., Billard, A., Chalika, E., Dabrowska, M., Loranc,. . . Assailly, J.P. (2011). European Demerit Point Systems: Overview of their main features and expert opinions.

Conference Presentations

Eichel, K., Cullen, B. H., Britton, W. B. (2018) Effects of focused attention and open monitoring meditation on error-related processing - Behavioral and neurophysiological changes. Vortrag bei der 4th International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Leiden, Niederlande

Eichel, K. (2018) Symposium Chair für “Critical and Social Perspectives on Mindfulness” bei der International Conference on Mindfulness, Amsterdam, Niederlande

Eichel, K., Chao, S., Cheaito, A., Lipsky, J., Pham, A., Zhu, Z., … Britton, W. B. (2018). Exclusion by Omission: A Systematic Review of Diversity Variables in Mindfulness Based Interventions. Vortrag bei der International Conference on Mindfulness, Amsterdam, Niederlande

Eichel, K. & Crusius, J. (2018). Mindfulness and Envy. Vortrag bei dem Consortium of European Research on Emotion, Glasgow, UK

Eichel, K. & Britton, W. B. (2017). Pay Attention to Focused Attention in Mindfulness-Based Interventions. Vortrag bei dem Mindfulness Symposium - Triangulations, Copenhagen, Dänemark

Eichel, K. & Sysalova, H. (2016). Critique on Measurements of “Trait” Mindfulness. Vortrag und Panel bei Theorising on Social and Embodied Aspects of Contemplative Practices, Tampere, Finnland

Eichel, K. & Stahl, J. (2015). The Role of Mindfulness and Emotional Stability in Performance Monitoring. Vortrag bei Mindfulness and Compassion, San Francisco, CA, USA

Eichel, K. & Stahl, J. (2014). The effect of mindfulness on error processing using a dispositional and an experimental approach. Vortrag bei der European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Conference, Dortmund