60 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news News from the Institute of Psychology en University of Bremen Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:43:19 +0200 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:43:19 +0200 University of Bremen content-678324 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:24:17 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news#c678324 <p>The <em>Society for Mathematical Psychology</em> has awarded Prof. Dr. Markus Janczyk together with his colleagues Prof. Dr. Rolf Ulrich (Uni Tübingen) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Uni Magdeburg) with the <em>Duncan Luce Outstanding Paper Award 2025</em> for their work on predicting response times and choices with time-dependent diffusion models, published 2023 in the <em>Journal of Mathematical Psychology</em>. The paper deals with the mathematical foundations of a current topic in mathematical modeling of cognitive processes and presents possible solutions including their advantages, disadvantages, and efficiency. </p> <p>According to the nomination: "This article provides a rigorous and clear presentation and analysis of methods for obtaining response time and accuracy predictions for diffusion models with time-varying drift rates and decision boundaries...For the researcher asking 'what is the best method to use for my particular problem?' the article provides something of a one-stop shop to answer that question."</p> <p>The Duncan Luce Outstanding Paper Award is awarded for the most outstanding paper published in the last three years in the <em>Journal of Mathematical Psychology</em>. A press release can be found here (Link: <a href="https://mathpsych.org/page/press/23">https://mathpsych.org/page/press/23</a>) and the paper itself can be obtained here (Link: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022249623000123">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022249623000123</a>).</p> Content content-663130 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:24:17 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news#c663130 <p>Dr. Anna Heuer (currently at Humboldt University of Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Markus Janczyk have been granted the project <em>"Visual Working Memory in Action Contexts"</em> by the German Research Foundation (DFG).</p> <p><a class="internal-link" href="t3://page?uid=21113#663138" title="Opens internal link in current window">Further information can be found here.</a></p> Content content-617880 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:24:17 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news#c617880 <p><strong>01.10.2024</strong></p> <p>Why is cognitive-psychological research certainly basic research on the one hand, but also of particular relevance for applied contexts? Prof. Dr. Jan Rummel (Heidelberg) and Prof. Dr. Markus Janczyk have published <em><a class="externalLink" href="https://shop.kohlhammer.de/angewandte-kognitionspsychologie-42015.html#147=19" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Angewandte Kognitionspsychologie</a></em> (engl. "Applied Cognitive Psychology"), the first German-language textbook on this topic. The book first presents and discusses the relation of basic and applied research and their mutual stimulation. The following chapters then introduce cognitive-psychological foundations, their methodological approaches and main results and illustrate them in applied contexts. The covered topics focus on learning, memory, attention, action, deciding, and reasoning. The book thus illustrates how Cognitive Psychology addresses questions such as "How do we learn successful?", "Which principles should be considered when designing cockpits?", "How can we can successfully counter fake-news?" and that Cognitive Pychology has important contributions to offer.</p> Content content-606233 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:24:17 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news#c606233 <p><strong>16.08.2024</strong></p> <p>An essential prerequisite for scientific discourse is that the participants understand each other. Unfortunately, this is often not the case, but researchers from different theoretical camps employ different terms for the same construct or the same term for different constructs. An international team of researchers led by Heinrich Liesefeld and Dominique Lamy (Tel Aviv University) has tackled this problem for research on visual distraction. In extensive discussions, we identified and defined the most central terms in the debate. The <a class="externalLink" href="https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02820-3" target="_blank">resulting paper</a> is not only a reference work for experts but also provides an easy entry point into the topic for junior researchers. Heinrich Liesefeld now receives the <em><a class="externalLink" href="https://www.psychonomic.org/page/2024BestArticleAwards" target="_blank">Psychonomic Society’s 2024 Best Article Award</a></em> for this work.</p> Content content-592037 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:24:17 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news#c592037 <p>Prof. Dr. Christian Kandler was elected to the Executive Committee Members Board of the World Association for Personality Psychology at the World Conference on Personality in April 2024.</p> <p>The WAPP aims to expand personality psychology and the science of individual and cultural differences worldwide, to promote the exchange of information between individuals and between regional and continental organizations, and to establish international cooperation between regional associations.</p> <p>Further information on WAPP can be found on the <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.perpsy.org/" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">homepage</a>.</p> Content content-592039 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:24:17 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news#c592039 <p><strong>The two professorships in Clinical Psychology at Faculty 11 have been filled in time for the 2024 summer semester. Prof. Dr. Barbara Cludius took over the Professorship of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of Adult Ageing on 1 February and Prof. Dr. Lars White took up the Professorship of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescence on 1 April. This means that the “Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy” licensing course, which has been planned for several years, can start in the 2024/25 winter semester.</strong></p> <p><strong>Prof. Dr. Barbara Cludius</strong> moved from LMU Munich to the University of Bremen. There she was awarded the Princess Therese of Bavaria Prize for outstanding scientific achievement in 2023. In her research, she combines (experimental) basic research with psychotherapy research. She investigates the role of transdiagnostic processes, in particular perfectionism and emotion regulation, in the development and maintenance of various mental disorders. A further research focus is in the area of obsessive-compulsive disorder. As a licensed psychological psychotherapist (behavioral therapy), she is co-director of the Psychotherapeutic University Outpatient Clinic across the Lifespan (PULS), which is currently being rebuilt and will be used for practical elements of the licensure program.</p> <p><strong>Prof. Dr. Lars White</strong> moved from the University of Leipzig and the Psychological University of Berlin to the University of Bremen. His research focuses on the biopsychosocial mechanisms that underlie early attachment experiences and trauma and can be the starting point for the development and maintenance of mental disorders in childhood. He also sees these mechanisms as central starting points for the treatment of these disorders, the effectiveness of which he is currently examining in randomized control group studies. He is particularly interested in the mechanisms of action of psychodynamic short-term child therapies. In 2021, he received the New Investigator Award from the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) for his research. As a licensed child and adolescent therapist (specializing in depth psychology), he is co-director of the Psychotherapeutic University Outpatient Clinic across the Lifespan (PULS).</p> Content content-592041 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:24:17 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news#c592041 <p>Julia Stern has been appointed Associate Editor of the journal “Psychological Science”. Her term of office runs from 01.01.2024 to 31.12.2028.</p> Content content-592045 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:24:17 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news#c592045 <p>Jana Instinske receives this year's prize for an outstanding Master's thesis in personality psychology, which is published by the DPPD specialist group and sponsored by Pearson Verlag. A three-member review panel, which evaluated the nominees and theses on a comparative basis, judged the overall standard of the nominated theses to be outstanding. Nevertheless, Instinske's thesis stood out and she was able to assert herself as this year's award winner. The review panel issued the following appraisal (quoted verbatim):</p> <blockquote><p>“In her thesis, Jana Instinske analyzes established operationalizations of the constructs self-esteem, locus of control, self-efficacy and emotional stability in twin pairs using multivariate genetic informative structural equation modeling. She compares so-called common factor models with independent pathway models. The high theoretical and practical relevance of this work is particularly noteworthy, as it examines similarities and differences in fundamental personality traits that are central to many areas of application. On the other hand, her work stands out for its methodological complexity and quality, as complex statistical procedures are successfully applied to quantify genetic and environmental sources of inter-individual differences.”</p></blockquote> <p>The award ceremony will take place on Monday, September 25, from approx. 13:10 to 15:00 at this year's DPPD conference in Salzburg.</p> Content content-592048 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:24:17 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/psychologie/news#c592048 <p>Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Herrmann, head of the Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurobiology working group at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Bremen, was awarded honorary membership of the professional society together with Prof. Dr. Willmes and Prof. Dr. Wallesch at the 38th annual conference of the Society for Neuropsychology (GNP) in Berlin on 31 August 2023 “for his great services in the field of neuropsychology”.</p> <p>With over 1700 members, the GNP is one of the largest international scientific societies in the field of neuropsychology. Since the GNP was founded in 1986, nine scientists from Germany and abroad have been awarded honorary membership of the GNP.</p> Content