Lars White, PhD

Research Interests

• Childhood maltreatment and neurobiological sequelae
• Influence of attachment representations on development
• Developmental neuroscience / psychophysiology
• Psychoanalytic child psychotherapy

Selected publications (for a complete up-to-date list see Publications):

• Keil, J., Perren, S., Schlesier-Michel, A., Sticca, F., Sierau, S., Klein, A. M., Steinbeis, N., von Klitzing, K., & White, L. O. (2018). Getting less than their fair share: Maltreated youth are hyper-cooperative yet vulnerable to exploitation in a public goods game. Developmental Science, e12765, Advance Online. doi: 10.1111/desc.12765
• White, L. O., Ising, M., von Klitzing, K., Sierau, S., Michel, A., Klein, A. M., Andreas, A., Keil, J., Quintero Garzón, L., Müller-Myhsok, B., Uhr, M., Gausche, R., Manly, J. T., Crowley, M. J., Kirschbaum, C., & Stalder, T. (2017). Reduced hair cortisol after maltreatment mediates externalizing symptoms in middle childhood and adolescence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, 998-1007.
  Link to the Videoabstract 
• Sierau, S., Brand, T., Manly, J. T., Michel, A., Klein, A. M., Andreas, A., Resch, L., Keil, J., Binser, M.J., von Klitzing, K. & White, L.O. (2017). A multi-source approach to assessing child maltreatment from records, caregivers, and children. Child Maltreatment, 22, 45-57.
• Keil, J., Michel, A., Sticca, F., Leipold, K., Klein, A. M., Sierau, S., von Klitzing, K., & White, L. O. (2017). The Pizzagame: A virtual public goods game to assess cooperative behavior in children and adolescents. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 1432-1443.
• White, L. O., Klein, A. M., von Klitzing, K., Graneist, A., Otto, Y., Hill, J., Over, H., Fonagy, P., & Crowley, M. J. (2016). Putting Ostracism into Perspective: Young Children Tell More Mentalistic Stories after Exclusion, But Not When Anxious. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(1926). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01926
• White, L. O., Klein, A. M., Kirschbaum, C., Kurz-Adam, M., Uhr, M., Müller-Myhsok, B., Hoffmann, K., Sierau, S., Michel, A., Stalder, T., Horlich, J., Keil, J., Andreas, A., Resch, L., Binser, M., Costa, A., Giourgis, E., Neudecker, E., Wolf, C., Scheuer, S., Ising, M., & von Klitzing, K. (2015). Analyzing pathways from childhood maltreatment to internalizing symptoms and disorders in children and adolescents (AMIS): A study protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 15, 1-18. doi: 10.1186/s12888-015-0512-z
• White, L. O., Wu, J., Borelli, J. L., Mayes, L. C., & Crowley, M. J. (2013). Play it again: Neural responses to reunion with excluders predicted by attachment patterns. Developmental Science, 16, 850-863. doi: 10.1111/desc.12035
  Link to the Videoabstract
• White, L. O., Wu, J., Borelli, J. L., Rutherford, H. J. V., David, D. H., Kim–Cohen, J., Mayes, L. C., & Crowley, M. J. (2012). Attachment dismissal predicts frontal slow-wave ERPs during rejection by unfamiliar peers. Emotion, 12, 690 - 700. doi: 10.1037/a0026750

Selected conference papers:

• White, L. O., Bornemann, B., Crowley, M. J., von Klitzing, K., & Klein, A. M. (2017, April). Who's heart brakes when? Cardiac slowing during exclusion differs as a function of  psychiatric risk in school-age children. Symposium paper to be prestend at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Austin, Texas, USA.
• White, L. O., Michel, A., Stalder, T., Keil, J., Andreas, A., Resch, L., Klein, A., von Klitzing, K., & Sierau, S. (2016, March). Social and neurobiological factors in the pathway from early childhood maltreatment to behavioral symptoms in children and adolescents. Symposium paper presented at the 15th World Congress of the World Association of Infant Mental Health, Prague, Czech Republic.
• White, L. O., Stalder, T., Michel, A., Andreas, A., Keil, J., Resch, L., Klein, A., Manly, J. T., Ising, M., Kirschbaum, C., von Klitzing, K., & Sierau, S. (2015, March). Gender-specific patterns of cortisol in children's hair predicted by chronicity of maltreatment. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• White, L. O., Klein, A., Göttken, T., Crowley, M. J., & von Klitzing, K. (2012, April). Child narratives: Making meaning of relational of relational experiences, the role of gender, and the consequences for mental health of children. Paper presented at the 13th World Congress of the World Association of Infant Mental Health, Cape Town, South Africa.
• White, L. O., Klein, A., Hill, J., Crowley, M. J., & von Klitzing, K. (2014, June). Reconnecting after disconnection: The impact of experimental ostracism on perspective-taking in sotries of healthy preschoolers and children referred for emotional disorders Paper presented at the 14th World Congress of the World Association of Infant Mental Health, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• White, L. O., Wu, J., Borelli, J. L., Mayes, L. C., & Crowley, M. J. (2012, September). Neural processes underlying the generalization of attachment patterns in early adolescence: An ERP Study. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Prizes and miscellaneous

• SRCD Early Career Travel Award
  awarded by the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
• Moderator of the 2nd annual Wilhelm Wundt Dialogue
  on "Attachment Theory: Past, Present & Future" between Heidi Keller & Ross Thompson at the Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Develoment (LFE)
  Link to the Video
• German Exchange Service Travel Grant
• British Psychological Society Undergraduate Award
  awarded to the Valedictorian in Psychology at the University of Manchester

Teaching experience:

• University of Leipzig (from 2015)
  Seminars and lectures on Developmental Psychopathology, Childhood Emotional Disorders, and Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapy
• International Psychoanalytic University (2012 - 2015)
  Seminar series &Lectures on Applied Developmental Psychology
• Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Saxony (2012 / 2014)
  Block seminars on Developmental Psychology and Child Psychotherapy