
Published papers
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P.-Y. & Kliegel, M. (2021). Contemplative Training and Psychological Stress: An Analysis of First-person Accounts. Mindfulness, 2034–2049. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01661-1
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P.-Y., & Gallaz, P. (2021). La méditation pour réduire le stress : Quand méditer soulage l’esprit mais aussi le corps. Psychoscope, 1/2021, 22-24.
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P. Y., Bondolfi, G., & Kliegel, M. (2019). Exploration of psychological mechanisms of the reduced stress response in long-term meditation practitioners. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 104, 143-151.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.02.026
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P. Y., & Kliegel, M. (2016). Meditative insight: Validation of a French version of Ireland’s Insight Scale (2012) and exploration of relationships between meditative insight and perceived stress. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 19(8), 883-896. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2016.1261334
Congress contributions
Gamaiunova, L., Dan-Glauser, E., Pellerin, N., Brandt, P.-Y., Kliegel, M. (2020). The Effects of Two Mindfulness Programs on the Stress-Related Changes in the ANS: Contrasting the Activity of Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Branches During Different Phases of the TSST. Poster presented at the 2020 Contemplative Research Conference (online, 5-8 November 2020).
Gamaiunova, L., Dan-Glauser, E., Pellerin, N., Brandt, P.-Y., Kliegel, M. (2020). Mindfulness programs and prolonged physiological activation during stress: interventions effects on the sympathetic, cardiac parasympathetic and HPA-axis. Poster presented at the 2020 Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Annual Meeting (online, 4-11 October 2020).
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P.-Y., Kliegel, M. (2019). Mindfulness intervention effects on the anticipatory cognitive appraisals and associated cardiovascular profiles. Poster presented at the Contemplative Science Symposium (Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, 25-27 October 2019).
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P.-Y., Kliegel, M. (2018). Recovery from Stress in Long-Term Meditation Practitioners and Matched Controls: Mediative Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies. Poster presented at the 2018 Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Annual Meeting (Quebec-city, Canada, 3-7 October 2018).
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P.-Y., Kliegel, M. (2018). The Phenomenology of Stress Experience in Long-term Meditators and Matched Controls”. Poster presented 2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research. (Phoenix, USA, 8-11 November 2018).
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P.-Y., Kliegel, M. (2018). Stress response to social-evaluative threat in experienced meditators and matched controls. Poster presented at the Brain Mind Institute Symposium, EPFL "Stress in Health and Disease", Lausanne, Switzerland (Lausanne, Switzerland, 14-15 March 2018)
Gamaiunova, L. (2017). Buddhist Meditation Practitioners under a Social-evaluative Threat: A Mix-method Exploration. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (Washington DC, USA, 13-15 October 2017)
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P.-Y., Kliegel, M. (2015). Religious & spiritual coping: Current trends in research. Paper presented at the 14th congress of the Swiss Society of Psychology, Geneva, Switzerland (Geneva, Switzerland, 8-9 September 2015)
Gamaiunova, L. (2015; Chair). Psychology of Religion: Current research in French-speaking Switzerland. Symposium conducted at the 14th congress of the Swiss Society of Psychology, Geneva, Switzerland. (Geneva, Switzerland, 8-9 September 2015)
Gamaiunova, L. (2015). Spiritual/religious factor in mindfulness meditation effectiveness: theoretical considerations. Poster presented at the Mind and Life Europe Summer Research Institute (Chiemsee, Germany 28 August – 3 September 2015)
Gamaiunova, L., Kliegel, M., Brandt, P.-Y. (2015). Meditative Insight: further exploration of construct. Poster presented at the Congress of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (Istanbul, Turkey 17-20 August 2015)
Gamaiunova, L., Mayor, E. (2015). Mindfulness Attention Awareness and Cognitive Appraisal. Poster presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science (Amsterdam, Netherlands 12-14 March 2015)
Gamaiunova, L. (2014). Sufi practice of surrender: Involvement in coping process. Paper presented at the Nineteenth Joint Postgraduate Conference on Religion and Theology (Bristol, UK 7-8 March 2014).
Gamaiunova, L., Brandt, P.-Y. (2013). Surrender as a coping style among dervishes of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order. Poster presented at the Congress of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (Lausanne, Switzerland 27-20 August 2013)