News
2023
October
The english version of the statistics textbook authored by Prof. Markus Janczyk and Prof. Roland Pfister (Universität Trier) has been published with Springer as "Understanding inferential statistics. From A for significance test to Z for confidence interval.".
July
The 2nd funding phase of the DFG Research Unit FOR 2718 “Modal and Amodal Cognition: Functions and Interactions“ approved (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Barbara Kaup, University of Tübingen) was approved. Prof. Dr. Markus Janczyk is PI of the research unit’s projects A2 (“Amodal and modal representations in planning and control of human action“, with Prof. Dr. Volker Franz, University of Tübingen) and A4 ("Executive functions: Are amodal representations involved in proactive control?", with Dr. Carolin Dudschig and Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leuthold, University of Tübingen).
June
Dr. Christian Panitz starts his position as a Research Associate in the Department of Developmental Psychology with Educational Psychology.
Negin Javaheri, member of the IfP group “Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurobiology” (Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Herrmann) and PhD student at the international DFG research training group (GRK 2739 „KD²School - Designing Adaptive Systems For Economic Decision-Making”; https://kd2school.info) was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 19th NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference (NPEC) that took place at the University of Granada, Spain in 2023.
May
PD Dr. Heinrich Liesefeld and Prof. Dr. Markus Janczyk were granted the project "Validating (easy) measures to combine speed and accuracy" from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; 3 years, 100% postdoc position, travel and other funds).
How do colors affect us and what feelings do they arouse? Prof. Kulke answers these and other questions to "buten un binnen" in the following video contribution: https://www.butenunbinnen.de/videos/farben-menschen-macht-gefuehle-pyschologie-100.html
April
Prof. Nadira Faber joins the Department of Psychology as professor for Social Psychology with Work and Organisational Psychology. Prof Nadira Faber got offered associate membership of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Oxford.
2022
May
Bettina von Helversen is invited to join the Wihelm Wundt Society.
2021
May
Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Herrmann and Prof. Dr. Bettina von Helversen together with Prof. Dr. Tanja Schultz (FB 3) were granted the subproject "Decision Making for Cognitive Architectures - Neuronal Signatures and Behavioral Data" by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the context of the continued funding of the Collaborative Research Center "Everyday Activity Science and Engineering" (SFB EASE).
The IfP group “Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurobiology” (Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Herrmann) is member of an international DFG research training group (GRK 2739 „KD²School - Designing Adaptive Systems For Economic Decision-Making) that “focuses on enabling the next generation of scholars to develop adaptive systems that support economic decision-making.
April
Prof Rainer Malaka (FB 3) and Prof Bettina von Helversen receive a Seed-Grant from the science cluster „Mind Media and Machines“ at the University of Bremen to conduct the project "Effects of Control and Directness on Decision-Making in VR“.
Prof. Markus Janczyk was offered and accepted becoming a member of the Wilhelm-Wundt-Gesellschaft, a society dedicated to promote basic research in psychology.
2020
June
Markus Janczyk was awarded the Wilhelm Wundt Society's Science Award for his achievements in basic psychological research. More information can be found here.
2019
December
Valentin Koob has started his position in the Research Methods and Cognitive Psychology group. He is working on the DFG funded project "Revealing mechanisms underlying backward crosstalk effects in multitasking" within the DFG Priority Program SPP 1772 "Human performance under multiple cognitive task requirements: From basic mechanisms to optimized task scheduling".