Dr. phil. Lars White
Research focus
- Childhood maltreatment and neurobiological sequelae
- Influence of attachment representations on development
- Developmental neuroscience / psychophysiology
- Psychoanalytic child psychotherapy
Table of contents
Curriculum Vitae
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White, Lars O., Ph.D. |
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Official position |
Leader of the research group (permanent full-time position) |
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Institution |
Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Leipzig University |
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Business address |
Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 20a, 04103 Leipzig |
Academic education and degrees
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2015 |
Ph.D. (Dr. phil.), Psychology, University of Leipzig in collaboration with Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) |
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2009 |
M.Sc. Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology University College London, UK and Yale University, USA |
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2007 |
B.Sc. Psychology, University of Manchester, UK |
Professional career
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2018-present |
Leader of the research group, University of Leipzig |
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2017-present |
IMPRS PhD supervisor and Guest researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive and Brain Science (MPI-CBS) |
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2016-2018 |
Senior Researcher and Clinical Psychologist, University of Leipzig |
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2012-present |
Deputy Consortium Leader of AMIS, University of Leipzig |
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2009-2015 |
Research fellow, University of Leipzig |
Honors, awards and positions
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2020 |
WAIMH New Investigator Award awarded by World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) |
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2020 |
Post-doc supervisor as part of "Pre-doc Award" Program Supervision and funding for prospective PhD student |
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2019 |
SRCD Early Career Travel Award awarded by the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) |
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2018 |
Moderator of the 2nd annual Wilhelm Wundt Dialogue 2018 |
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2007 |
British Psychological Society Undergraduate Award awarded to Valedictorian in Psychology at University of Manchester |
Current journal editorial positions
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2020-2021 |
Attachment & Human Development, Co-Editor of Special Issue on “Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment” to appear in 2021 |
10 most important peer-reviewed papers
(10 out of: 38, SCOPUS h-index: 10)
White LO, Bornemann B, Crowley MJ, Sticca F, Vrticka P et al. Exclusion expected? Cadiac slowing upon peer exclusion links preschool parent representations to school-age peer relationships. Child Development, in press.
von Klitzing K, White LO. Fathers in child psychotherapy. In Fitzgerald H, von Klitzing K, Cabrera N, Scarano de Mendonca J, Skjothaug T. (Eds.), Handbook of Fathers and Child Development: Prenatal to preschool. Springer: New York, 2020.
White LO, Schulz CS, Schött M, Kungl M, Keil J, Borelli JL, Vrticka P. (2020). A Social Neuroscience Approach to Interpersonal Interaction in the Context of Disruption and Disorganization of Attachment. Frontiers in Psychiatry, in press.
Keil J, Perren S, Schlesier-Michel A, Sticca F, Sierau S … White LO. (2019). Getting less than their fair share: Maltreated youth are hyper-cooperative yet vulnerable to exploitation in a public goods game. Dev Sci. 2019;22(3): e12765.
White LO, Ising M, von Klitzing K, Sierau S, Michel A et al. Reduced hair cortisol after maltreatment mediates externalizing symptoms in middle childhood and adolescence. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2017;58(9): 998-1007.
Sierau S, Brand T, Manly JT, Michel A, Klein AM … White LO. A multi-source approach to assessing child maltreatment from records, caregivers, and children. Child Maltreat. 2017;22(1), 45-57.
Keil J, Michel A, Sticca F, Leipold K, Klein AM … White LO. The Pizzagame: A virtual public goods game to assess cooperative behavior in children and adolescents. Behav Res Methods. 2017;49(4): 1432-1443.
White LO, Klein AM, Kirschbaum C, Kurz-Adam M, Uhr M et al. Analyzing pathways from childhood maltreatment to internalizing symptoms and disorders in children and adolescents (AMIS): A study protocol. BMC Psychiatry. 2015;15, 126.
White LO, Wu J, Borelli JL, Mayes LC, Crowley MJ. Play it again: Neural responses to reunion with excluders predicted by attachment patterns. Dev Sci. 2013;16(6): 850-863.
White LO, Wu J, Borelli JL, Rutherford HJV, David DH et al. Attachment dismissal predicts frontal slow-wave ERPs during rejection by unfamiliar peers. Emotion. 2012;12(4), 690-700.