Academic Education

Professional Experience

Articles (in peer-reviewed journals)

Golbabaei, S., Christensen, J. F., Vessel, E. A., Kazemian, N., & Borhani, K. (2022). The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/aca0000532 

Sojoudi, S., Jahanitabesh, A., Hatami, J., & Christensen, J. F. (2022). Forty-Eight Classical Moral Dilemmas in Persian Language: A Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 22(3-4), 352-382. doi:org/10.1163/15685373-12340139

Christensen, J. F., Farahi, F., Vartanian, M., & Yazdi, S. H. N. (2022). Choice Hygiene for “Consumer Neuroscientists”? Ethical Considerations and Proposals for Future Endeavours. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, Article 612639. doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.612639

Christensen, J. F., Vartanian, M., Sancho-Escanero, L., Khorsandi, S., Yazdi, S. H. N., Farahi, F., Borhani, K., & Gomila, A. (2021). A Practice-Inspired Mindset for Researching the Psychophysiological and Medical Health Effects of Recreational Dance (Dance Sport). Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 588948.  doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588948

Christensen, J. F., Azevedo, R. T., & Tsakiris, M. (2021). Emotion matters: Different psychophysiological responses to expressive and non-expressive full-body movements. Acta Psychologica, 212, Article 103215.  doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103215

Christensen, J. F. (2019). Is war on the arts, war on human psychological systems? A view from experimental psychology and affective neuroscience. Leonardo, 1–11.  doi:10.1162/leon_a_01769

Christensen, J. F., Di Costa, S., & Beck, B. (2019). I just lost it! Fear and anger reduce sense of agency: a study using intentional binding. Experimental Brain Research, 237(5), 1205–1212.  doi:10.1007/s00221-018-5461-6

Christensen, J. F., Lambrechts, A., & Tsakiris, M. (2019). The Warburg Dance Movement Library—The WADAMO Library: A Validation Study. Perception, 48(1), 26–57.  doi:10.1177/0301006618816631

Nicholson, T. M., Williams, D. M., Grainger, C., Christensen, J. F., Calvo-Merino, B., & Gaigg, S. B. (2018). Interoceptive impairments do not lie at the heart of autism or alexithymia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 127(6), 612–622.  doi:10.1037/abn0000370

Racine, E., Dubljević, V., Jox, R. J., Baertschi, B., Christensen, J. F., Farisco, M., Jotterand, F., Kahane, G., &. Müller, S. (2017). Can Neuroscience Contribute to Practical Ethics? A Critical Review and Discussion of the Methodological and Translational Challenges of the Neuroscience of Ethics. Bioethics, 31(5), 328–337.  doi:10.1111/bioe.12357

Christensen, J. F., Gaigg, S. B., & Calvo-Merino, B. (2017). I can feel my heartbeat: Dancers have increased interoceptive accuracy. Psychophysiology, 55 (4), Article e13008.  doi:10.1111/psyp.13008

Christensen, J. F., Cela-Conde, C. J., & Gomila, A. (2017). Not all about sex: neural and biobehavioral functions of human dance. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1400(1), 8–32.  doi:10.1111/nyas.13420

Christensen, J. F. (2017). Pleasure junkies all around! Why it matters and why ‘the arts’ might be the answer: a biopsychological perspective. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1854).  doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2837

Christensen, J. F., Yoshie, M., Di Costa, S., & Haggard, P. (2016). Emotional valence, sense of agency and responsibility: A study using intentional binding. Consciousness and Cognition, 43, 1–10.  doi:10.1016/j.concog.2016.02.016

Christensen, J. F., Gomila, A., Gaigg, S. B., Sivarajah, N., & Calvo-Merino, B. (2016). Dance expertise modulates behavioral and psychophysiological responses to affective body movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(8), 1139–1147. doi:10.1037/xhp0000176

Christensen, J. F., Pollick, F. E., Lambrechts, A., & Gomila, A. (2016). Affective responses to dance. Acta Psychologica, 168, 91–105.  doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.03.008

Christensen, J. F., Yoshie, M., Di Costa, S., & Haggard, P. (2016). Emotional valence, sense of agency and responsibility: A study using intentional binding. Consciousness and Cognition, 43, 1–10.  doi:10.1016/j.concog.2016.02.016

Caspar, E. A., Christensen, J. F., Cleeremans, A., & Haggard, P. (2016). Coercion Changes the Sense of Agency in the Human Brain. Current Biology, 26(5), 585–592.  doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.067

Christensen, J. F., & Gomila, A. (2015). Exploring a new paradigm for empathy research / Explorando un nuevo paradigma para el estudio de la empatía. Estudios de Psicología, 36(2), 481–495.  doi:10.1080/02109395.2015.1028727

Christensen, J. F., Flexas, A., Calabrese, M., Gut, N. K., & Gomila, A. (2014). Moral judgment reloaded: a moral dilemma validation study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(607).  doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00607

Christensen, J. F., Flexas, A., de Miguel, P., Cela-Conde, C. J., & Munar, E. (2014). Roman Catholic beliefs produce characteristic neural responses to moral dilemmas. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9 (2), 240–249.  doi:10.1093/scan/nss121

Christensen, J. F., Gaigg, S. B., Gomila, A., Oke, P., & Calvo-Merino, B. (2014). Enhancing emotional experiences to dance through music: the role of valence and arousal in the cross-modal bias. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8(757).  doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00757

Christensen, J. F., Nadal, M., Cela-Conde, C. J., & Gomila, A. (2014). A Norming Study and Library of 203 Dance Movements. Perception, 43(2–3), 178–206.  doi:10.1068/p7581

Flexas, A., Rossello, J., Christensen, J. F., Nadal, M., La Rosa, A. O., & Munar, E. (2013). Affective Priming Using Facial Expressions Modulates Liking for Abstract Art. Plos One, 8(11), Article e80154.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080154

Christensen, J. F., & Calvo-Merino, B. (2013). Dance as a Subject for Empirical Aesthetics. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, 7(1), 76–88. doi:10.1037/a0031827

Christensen, J. F., & Gomila, A. (2012). Moral dilemmas in cognitive neuroscience of moral decision-making: A principled review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(4), 1249–1264.  doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.02.008

Pearce, M. T., & Christensen, J. F. (2012). Conference report: The Neurosciences and Music-IV—Learning and Memory. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 22(1), 70–73. doi:10.1037/a0027235

Book Chapter

Christensen, J. F., & Borhani, K. (2020). Dance and the Imagination: Be a Butterfly! In A. Abraham (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination (pp. 620–634). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  doi:10.1017/9781108580298.038

Karin, J., Haggard, P., & Christensen, J. F. (2017). Mental Training. In M. V. Wilmerding & D. H. Krasnow (Eds.), Dancer Wellness (pp. 57–70). Champaign, Canada: Human Kinetics.

Christensen, J. F., & Jola, C. (2015). Moving towards ecological validity in empirical aesthetics of dance. In J. P. Houston, M. Nadal, F. Mora, L. F. Agnati & C. J. Cela-Conde (Eds.), Art, Aesthetics and the Brain (pp. 223–262). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Calvo-Merino, B., & Christensen, J. F. (2014). Neuroaesthetics and Dance. In J. O. Lauring (Ed.), Introduction to Neuroaesthetics - The neuroscientific approach to aesthetic experience, artistic creativity and arts appreciation (pp. 293–326). University of Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

Monograph

Christensen, J. F., & Chang, D.-S. (2018). Tanzen ist die beste Medizin: Warum es uns gesünder, klüger und glücklicher macht. Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH.

Editor

Christensen, J. F., & Gomila, A. (Eds.). (2018). The Arts and The Brain: Psychology and Physiology Beyond Pleasure (Vol. 237). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.

Further Writings

Christensen, J. F. (2021). To The Core: A devastating loss can shatter the façade we put up for others, exposing our deepest, rawest self. A work of art can do the same. AEON Magazine. Retrieved on 2021-03-01 https://aeon.co/essays/art-like-loss-can-shock-us-into-our-authentic-self

Christensen, J. F. (2020). Lebenselixier Tanz. Spektrum der Wissenschaft - Gehirn und Geist Psychologie, Hirnforschung, Medizin(4), 12-21. Retrieved from www.spektrum.de/artikel/1704918