Helena Hruby, M.Sc., studied Psychology at the University of Freiburg. Since 2022 Research Fellow at IGPP and PhD Student at the Medical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University Freiburg on the topic “Health Psychological Stress Reduction through Floatation-REST” with a scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
Professional Career
Fields of Work / Research Interests
Fields of work: Experimental psychology, altered states of consciousness, micro-phenomenological investigation of Floatation-REST.
Current research interests: Altered states of consciousness through Floatation-REST. Clinical-therapeutic application of Floatation-REST.
Publications
Hruby, H., Schmidt, S., Feinstein, J., & Wittmann, M. (2024). Induction of altered states of consciousness during Floatation-REST is associated with the dissolution of body boundaries and the distortion of subjective time. Scientific Reports, 14, 9316. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59642-y
Alvarez Igarzábal, F., Hruby, H., Witowska, J., Khoshnoud, S., & Wittmann, M. (2021). What happens while waiting in virtual reality? A comparison between a virtual and a real waiting situation concerning boredom, self-regulation, and the experience of time. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000038
