Wissenschaftliche LiteraturPsychologyPsychologie

Verhaltenswissenschaftlich fundierte Interventionsstrategien im Kontext der Energiewende

Eine Analyse am Beispiel der Elektromobilität

IPMB – Beiträge zur Psychologie

Für viele gesellschaftliche Problembereiche sind Interventionen zur Veränderung individuellen Verhaltens relevant. Doch die etablierten Konzeptionen von Interventionsstrategien haben ihre Schwächen: Während die Einstellungsforschung mit der Einstellungs-Verhaltens-Lücke hadert, stößt der Rational-Choice-Ansatz an…

Trauma After Accident: Studies of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) in Indonesia

Studien zur Stressforschung

Posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen sind ernsthafte Krankheitfolgen eines Verkehrsunfalls. Diese Studie untersucht erstmalig in Indonesien die psychischen Folgen von Verkehrsunfällen mittels Fragebogen und Interviews. Die Ergebnisse bilden die Basis eines psychologischen Interventionsprogramms. Damit wird ein…

Understanding Different Components in Intentional Action

How Understanding Others‘ Mental States Helps to Learn From Others and Predict Their Behaviour

Schriften zur Entwicklungspsychologie

“Is there a human-specific understanding of others’ intentional actions?

It is important to answer this question since this understanding might be seen as the prerequisite for the development of sophisticated forms of social learning that then facilitated the development of human unique culture. The…

The Dawning of the Dragon – A Developmentally Focussed Cross-Cultural Study of Terror Management Theory

Schriften zur Sozialpsychologie

The book focuses on broadening the validity and applicability of Terror Management Theory (TMT); one of today’s most influential psychological theories in intergroup relations. However, until today some aspects have been totally neglected by Terror Management research thereby leaving questions regarding the…

Semantic Influences on Episodic Memory

ERP and fMRI Evidence

Studienreihe psychologische Forschungsergebnisse

Recognition memory based on familiarity judgments is a form of declarative memory that has been repeatedly associated with the anterior medial temporal lobe. It has been argued that this region sustains familiarity-based recognition not only by retrieving item-specific information but also by coding for those…

Error Monitoring in Sequence Learning

An ERP Investigation on the Role of Expectancy Violations

Studienreihe psychologische Forschungsergebnisse

Actions that are followed by positive events are more likely to be repeated in the future, while actions that are followed by negative outcomes are less likely to be repeated. This implies that behavior has to be evaluated in the light of its potential consequences, and non-reward events (i.e., errors) must be…

A Prototype of Borderline Personality Organization

Assessed by the Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO)

Studienreihe psychologische Forschungsergebnisse

The diagnosis of personality disorders is a challenging task for clinicians and researchers, as the appropriate treatment depends to a large degree on a well-founded diagnosis. Examined in this study is the classification of personality pathology according to Otto Kernberg’s psychoanalytic theory of personality…

How Theories About Others Bias Social Memory

Goals of Others and Person Memory

Studienreihe psychologische Forschungsergebnisse

Sowohl Enkodierung als auch der Abruf von Informationen sind in starkem Maße durch Erwartungen geprägt. Dieser Zusammenhang konnte in der bisherigen Forschung für Erwartungen bzgl. stabiler Eigenschaften und bzgl. typischer Abläufe (Skripten) gezeigt werden. In einer Verbindung beider Forschungsstränge wird in der…