Do indirect measures predict affect-specific automatic behavior - moderated by cogni-tive control resources? An investigation into the domains of disgust, speech anxiety, and liking vs. disliking of a minority group - Axel Zinkernagel; Nita Buchholz; Anna Baumert; Manfred Schmitt (Collabra: Psychology, 2025)

Investigating differential item functioning of the Simplified Beck Depression Inventory using Partial Credit Tree Model - Farshad Effatpanah; Manfred Schmitt; Olga Kunina-Habenicht; Philipp Doebler (Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2025)

Perspektive der AMWF-Kommission auf das Positionspapier „Verlässlichkeit, Verantwortung, Vertrauen - Grundpfeiler einer professionellen Promotionskultur in der Psychologie“ - Nicole Bössel-Debbert; Annette Kluge; Dorothee Mischkowski; Leonie Österle; Le Vy Phan; Manfred Schmitt; Jutta Stahl (Psychologische Rundschau, 2025)

The precarious use of group data to understand individual processes in pain science - Johan W. S. Vlaeyen; Christopher Milde (Pain: The Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain, 2025)

Von A wie Angst bis Z wie Zwang - Teil II: Allgemeine Anwendungshinweise für die Therapieevaluation - Edgar Geissner; Stefan Koch; Manfred Schmitt (Psychotherapeutenjournal, 2025)

A model of moderated convergence between explicit dispositions, implicit dispositions, and behavior - Manfred Schmitt; Wilhelm Hofmann; Tobias Gschwendner; Friederike Gerstenberg; Axel Zinkernagel (The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism, 2024)

Affect regulation as transdiagnostic mechanism - Lea Schemer; Tina In-Albon; Ulrike Basten; Julia Karbach; Tanja Könen; Tanja Lischetzke; Julia A. Glombiewski (Die Psychotherapie, 2024)

Gaining masculine power through guns? The impact of masculinity threat on attitudes toward guns - Sven Kachel; Tibor Bloch; Jennifer K. Bosson; Lea L. Lorenz; Melanie C. Steffens (Frontiers in Psychology, 2024)

Interests and personality matter in the choice of teacher education program - Nikolas Leichner; Charlotte Ottenstein; Susanne Weis; Manfred Schmitt; Tanja Lischetzke (Frontiers in Education, 2024)

Metacognitive therapy versus exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A non-inferiority randomized controlled trial - Cornelia Exner; Alexandra Kleiman; Anke Haberkamp; Jana Hansmeier; Christopher Milde; Julia A. Glombiewski (Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2024)

Morphosyntactic stereotypes of speakers with different genders and sexual orientations: an experimental investigation - Pekka Posio; Sven Kachel; Gloria Uclés-Ramada (Linguistics, 2024)

Originalarbeiten / Original Articles: Entwicklung und Evaluation einer Aufklärungsbroschüre zu Ängsten und Angststörungen für Jugendliche - Chiara Bleich; Lukas Kachel; Christopher Milde; Tina In-Albon (Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, 2024)

Ostracism experiences of sexual minorities: Integrating target perspective and perception by others - Christiane Büttner; Selma C. Rudert; Sven Kachel (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2024)
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people face frequent discrimination, maltreatment, and violence for transgressing gender roles upheld in heteronormative societies. Ostracism (i.e., being excluded and ignored) is likely another, understudied form of discrimination against sexual minorities. In a multi-method approach using a nationally representative panel (N = 4104) and experience sampling data (N = 467, 14 days, k = 926 ostracism experiences), we find that LGB individuals report more ostracism experiences than straight individuals. In line with the idea that ostracism toward sexual minorities occurs as a function of gender role nonconformity, lesbians and gay men are rated by an independent rater sample as more likely to be ostracized (k = 10,760 ratings) when they are also rated as more lesbian/gay and less gender role conforming. Our findings speak in favor of ostracism as a discriminatory experience of LGB individuals that is driven by transgressions of heteronormativity.

Populist Radical-Right Attitudes, Political Involvement and Selective Information Consumption: Who Tunes Out and Who Prefers Attitude-Consonant Information - Michaela Maier; Silke Adam; Teresa Gil Lopez; Mykola Makhortykh; Laurits Bromme; Clara Christner; Ernesto de León; Aleksandra Urman (Mass Communication and Society, 2024)

Social processes - John Rauthmann; Manfred Schmitt (Psychology of Individual Differences: Intelligence and Personality in Action, 2024)

Understanding Biased Expectation Change in Depression - The Influence of State Affect and Affect Regulation - Edith Rapo; Christopher Milde; Julia Anna Glombiewski; Tobias Kube (Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2024)

What time-varying network models based on functional analysis tell us about the course of a patient's problem - Saskia Scholten; Julian A. Rubel; Julia A. Glombiewski; Christopher Milde (Psychotherapy Research, 2024)

Assessing Diversity Dimensions in Environmental Psychology: Challenges and Recommendations - Sven Kachel; Helen Landmann; Laura Kommerscheidt; Florian Lange; Isabell Richter (Umweltpsychologie, 2023)
Representing diversity is a ubiquitous challenge in environmental psychology: Many researchers aim to describe the diversity of their samples by collecting characteristics such as gender, age, and socioeconomic status, and the (lack of ) diversity of participants is often discussed when dealing with the generalizability of environmental psychology findings (e.g., for different ethnic groups). Some standard instruments for measuring sociodemographic characteristics can be problematic because they are based on outdated concepts (e.g., a two-gender system) and are inappropriate for accurately capturing participant heterogeneity. To address this issue, we compare and extend existing approaches for the operationalization of sociodemographic characteristics and provide recommendations for capturing and documenting diversity in environmental psychology in particular. In addition, we discuss measures of specific diversity dimensions (migration/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexual orientation) and provide recommendations for assessing them in general. Thereby, we aim to promote the use of more inclusive measures to assess sociodemographic characteristics and to stimulate an enriching discussion about representing diversity dimensions in environmental psychology.

Change in pain expectations but no open‐label placebo analgesia: An experimental study using the heat pain paradigm - Thilo Friehs; Christopher Milde; Julia A. Glombiewski; Tobias Kube (European Journal of Pain, 2023)

Does Active Inference Provide a Comprehensive Theory of Placebo Analgesia? - Christopher Milde; Laura S. Brinskelle; Julia A. Glombiewski (Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2023)

Dressing through crisis: Examining clothing’s symbolic protection from the psychological consequences of existential threats using the example of the COVID-19 pandemic - Sven Kachel; Robert Gruber (Extended Views. Gesellschafts- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Covid 19-Pandemie, 2023)
Obgleich sich Kleidungsverhalten phylogenetisch aus der Notwendigkeit heraus entwickelt hat, den Körper vor äußeren Einflüssen zu schützen, haben Menschen schon lange vorher Ornamente verwendet, um ihre Gruppenzugehörigkeit abzubilden. In diesem Beitrag argumentieren wir, dass Kleidung nicht nur physischen Schutz bietet, sondern auch symbolischen Schutz vor den psychischen Folgen existenzieller Bedrohungen, wobei der Identifikation durch Kleidung eine zentrale Rolle zukommt. In einer Feldstudie haben wir das Eindrucksmanagement in Social-Media-Posts während der COVID-19-Pandemie mittels einer Bildinhaltsanalyse untersucht (N = 248 Fotos). Erwartungskonform zeigte sich, dass Menschen in Reaktion auf eine akute pandemische Bedrohung vor allem ihre Geschlechtstypikalität mittels Kleidung erhöhen (z. B. Tragen körperbetonterer Kleidung bei Frauen vs. körperfernerer Kleidung bei Männern). Dies ist ein erster Hinweis darauf, dass Kleidung Schutz auf emotionaler Ebene bietet.

Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection - Robert Gruber; Michael Häfner; Sven Kachel (British Journal of Social Psychology, 2023)

Evaluating Foa and Foa’s Social Resource Theory: A data-analytic perspective - Clara Sabbagh; Manfred Schmitt (Social Behavior as Resource Exchange, 2023)

Experimental and Longitudinal Investigations of the Causal Relationship Between Belief in a Just World and Subjective Well-Being - Manfred Schmitt; Lena Heck; Jürgen Maes (Social Justice Research, 2023)

Fug und Unfug in der Auswertung von Psychotherapien - Edgar Geissner; Manfred Schmitt (Verhaltenstherapie und psychosoziale Praxis, 2023)

Individual differences and personality - Manfred Schmitt (International Handbook of Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2023)

Linking the Momentary Processing of Injustice to Intraindividual Change in Dispositional Victim Sensitivity - Anna Baumert; Simona Maltese; Tanja Lischetzke (European Journal of Personality, 2023)

Psychological Factors Predict Higher Odds and Impairment of Post-COVID Symptoms: A Prospective Study - Christopher Milde; Julia A. Glombiewski; Marcel Wilhelm; Lea Schemer (Psychosomatic Medicine, 2023)

Psychotherapieerfolg fair beurteilen: Ausschluss nicht-pathologischer Eingangswerte muss sein - Edgar Geissner; Manfred Schmitt (Verhaltenstherapie & psychosoziale Praxis, 2023)

Queer events, relationships, and sports: Does topic influence speakers’ acoustic expression of sexual orientation? - Sven Kachel; Manuel Pöhlmann; Christine Nussbaum (Interspeeh, 2023)

Speakers’ Vocal Expression of Sexual Orientation Depends on Experimenter Gender - Sven Kachel; Adrian P. Simpson; Melanie C. Steffens (Speech Communication, 2023)

Survival processing occupies the central bottleneck of cognitive processing: A psychological refractory period analysis - Meike Kroneisen; Edgar Erdfelder; Rika M. Groß; Markus Janczyk (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023)

The interplay between explicit and implicit right-wing populism in Germany and Switzerland - Michaela Maier; Teresa Gil-Lopez; Lauritz Bromme; Ines Welzenbach-Vogel; Clara Christner; Axel Zinkernagel; Silke Adam; Manfred Schmitt; Eric Tillman (Political Psychology, 2023)

The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland - Michaela Maier; Teresa Gil‐López; Laurits Bromme; Axel Zinkernagel; Ines C. Welzenbach‐Vogel; Clara Christner; Silke Adam; Manfred Schmitt; Erik R. Tillman (Political Psychology, 2023)

A License to Disrupt? Artistic Activism in Environmental Public Dissent and Protest - Berend Barkela; Teresa G. López; Christian A. Klöckner (Disruptive Environmental Communication, 2022)

Crime Victims’ Belief in a Just World: Moderating Effects of Perceived Fair Treatment in the Criminal Justice Process - Kotryna Stupnianek; Manfred Schmitt (Victims & Offenders, 2022)

Differences in cognitive processing? The role of verbal processes and mental effort in bilingual and monolingual children’s planning performance - Susanne Enke; Catherina Gunzenhauser; Robert Hepach; Julia Karbach; Henrik Saalbach (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2022)

Digital Health Apps in the Context of Dementia: Questionnaire Study to Assess the Likelihood of Use Among Physicians - Markus Schinle; Christina Erler; Mayumi Kaliciak; Christopher Milde; Simon Stock; Marius Gerdes; Wilhelm Stork (JMIR Formative Research, 2022)
Background: Age-related diseases such as dementia are playing an increasingly important role in global population development. Thus, prevention, diagnostics, and interventions require more accessibility, which can be realized through digital health apps. With the app on prescription, Germany made history by being the first country worldwide to offer physicians the possibility to prescribe and reimburse digital health apps as of the end of the year 2020. Objective: Considering the lack of knowledge about correlations with the likelihood of use among physicians, this study aimed to address the question of what makes the use of a digital health app by physicians more likely. Methods: We developed and validated a novel measurement tool—the Digital Health Compliance Questionnaire (DHCQ)—in an interdisciplinary collaboration of experts to assess the role of proposed factors in the likelihood of using a health app. Therefore, a web-based survey was conducted to evaluate the likelihood of using a digital app called DemPredict to screen for Alzheimer dementia. Within this survey, 5 latent dimensions (acceptance, attitude toward technology, technology experience, payment for time of use, and effort of collection), the dependent variable likelihood of use, and answers to exploratory questions were recorded and tested within directed correlations. Following a non-probability-sampling strategy, the study was completed by 331 physicians from Germany in the German language, of whom 301 (90.9%) fulfilled the study criteria (eg, being in regular contact with patients with dementia). These data were analyzed using a range of statistical methods to validate the dimensions of the DHCQ. Results: The DHCQ revealed good test theoretical measures—it showed excellent fit indexes (Tucker-Lewis index=0.98; comparative fit index=0.982; standardized root mean square residual=0.073; root mean square error of approximation=0.037), good internal consistency (Cronbach α=.83), and signs of moderate to large correlations between the DHCQ dimensions and the dependent variable. The correlations between the variables acceptance, attitude toward technology, technology experience, and payment for the time of use and the dependent variable likelihood of use ranged from 0.29 to 0.79, and the correlation between effort of the collection and likelihood of use was −0.80. In addition, we found high levels of skepticism regarding data protection, and the age of the participants was found to be negatively related to their technical experience and attitude toward technology. Conclusions: In the context of the results, increased communication between the medical and technology sectors and significantly more awareness raising are recommended to make the use of digital health apps more attractive to physicians as they can be adjusted to their everyday needs. Further research could explore the connection between areas such as adherence on the patient side and its impact on the likelihood of use by physicians.

Digital Shinrin-Yoku: Do Nature Experiences in Virtual Reality Reduce Stress and Increase Well-Being as Strongly as Similar Experiences in a Physical Forest? - Gerhard Reese; Jasmin Stahlberg; Claudia Menzel (Virtual Reality, 2022)
Shinrin-yoku or forest bathing refers to a therapeutic, immersive nature experience that aids to improve well-being. The goal of the current research was to compare the effects of a physical urban nature versus virtual nature experience on stress, affect, vitality, and restoration. Previous research suggested that an immersive nature experience—such as shinrin-yoku—can be beneficial for health, but direct comparisons between physical and virtual reality (VR) experiences are scarce. In the current study, fifty participants navigated self-paced through a forest scene that was either an urban physical forest or an immersive VR forest with similar characteristics as the physical one. Before and after the intervention, we measured positive and negative affect, subjective vitality, and perceived daily stress. After the intervention, we measured perceived restorative outcomes. Results revealed that both VR and physical nature experience resulted in expected effects on well-being indicators: Affect was more positive and less negative, subjective vitality increased slightly, and stress decreased slightly after both interventions. There were no significant differences between the two settings on any of the variables, but slightly stronger effect sizes over time within the physical condition. Overall, these findings suggest that immersive VR nature experiences can have restoration effects similar to physical nature experiences, suggesting intervention strategies when physical nature options are scarce.

Ein Rahmenmodell zu Entwicklung, Wirkmechanismen und Bewertung von Online-Self-Assessments - Gundula Stoll; Susanne Weis; André Beauducel; Aline Becker; Constanze Barzel; Ralph Delzepich; Sylvia Dietrich; Melanie Ewert; Gabriele Gniewosz; Martin Kersting; Manuel Lange; Julia E. M. Leiner; et al. (Online-Self-Assessments zur Studienfachwahl, 2022)

Examining the congruence hypothesis in vocational interest research: the case of teacher students - Nikolas Leichner; Charlotte Ottenstein; Jan Eckhard; Svenja Matheis; Susanne Weis; Manfred Schmitt; Tanja Lischetzke (Current Psychology, 2022)

Exploring the psychological antecedents of private and public sphere behaviours to reduce household plastic consumption - Lea M. Heidbreder; Josephine Tröger; Manfred Schmitt (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2022)

Feeling lonely during the pandemic: Towards personality-tailored risk profiles - Lea Schemer; Christopher Milde; Tanja Lischetzke; Tina in-Albon; Julia Karbach; Tanja Könen; Julia Anna Glombiewski (Psychology, Health & Medicine, 2022)
This is the first study to disentangle associations of within- and between-person fluctuations in loneliness and their effect on evening mood during a nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19. To contribute to the development of personality-tailored risk profiles, we additionally explored the moderating role of trait neuroticism and extraversion on the association of within- and between-person loneliness and mood. We employed an ambulatory assessment design during 21 days of nationwide lockdown in Germany (13/ 04/2020-03/05/2020) with two interval-based assessments. The final sample comprised 322 participants (74.5% women) aged between 15 and 82 years (M = 30.7, SD = 14.9) providing 6,084 evening assessments. Linear mixed models were used to evaluate the effects of within- and between-person fluctuations in loneliness on evening mood while controlling for unspecific effects of time, sex, and age. Moderation analysis was used to investigate the influence of neuroticism and extraversion on the relation between loneliness and mood, respectively. Results indicate that especially higher between-person loneliness (i.e. participants felt lonelier compared to the average participant) but also higher within-person loneliness (i.e. participants felt lonelier compared to their individual mean) were associated with a more unpleasant mood. Neuroticism augmented the effect of within-person loneliness, while extraversion seemed to buffer the effect of between-person loneliness on mood. Our findings underline the importance of carefully monitoring loneliness during COVID-19. The findings contribute towards the development of personality-tailored risk profiles (e.g. among newly arising risk groups for loneliness due to COVID-19). We discuss how the differential consideration of within- and betweenpsychological processes might help to elucidate currently mixed findings on psychological coping during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Implicit and explicit populist and anti-immigrant attitudes and their explanatory power for populist radical-right party support - Michaela Maier; Ines C. Welzenbach-Vogel; Clara Christner; Erik R. Tillman; Axel Zinkernagel; Manfred Schmitt (Acta Politica, 2022)

Improving research quality: The roles of the timing and scope of changes in the incentive structure and the quality of committee work. In: Open peer commentaries to Leising et al., Ten steps toward a better personality science: How quality may be rewarded more in research evaluation - Manfred Schmitt (Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), 2022)

Individual Differences in Contingencies between Situation Characteristics and Personality States - Niclas Kuper; Simon M. Breil; Kai T. Horstmann; Lena Roemer; Tanja Lischetzke; Ryne A. Sherman; Mitja D. Back; Jaap J. A. Denissen; John F. Rauthmann (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2022)

Into the Wild … or not: Virtual Nature Experiences Benefit Well-Being Regardless of Human-Made Structures in Nature - Gerhard Reese; Marie Mehner; Insa Nelke; Jasmin Stahlberg; Claudia Menzel (Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022)
Immersive nature experiences increase human well-being. There is now an increasing number of studies suggesting that virtual nature experiences—e.g., within a virtual reality (VR) environment—can evoke comparable benefits. In the current study using VR, we tested whether human-made structures within nature settings hinder such effects of virtual nature experience on well-being. To do so, 67 participants were led through a VR nature surrounding that was either wild and untouched by humans, or was characterized by few inconspicuous human structures (i.e., paths, buildings, walls, bridges). Before and after the intervention, we measured subjective vitality and after the intervention, we assessed perceived restorative outcome as two indicators of well-being. Results revealed that both virtual nature experiences improved participants’ subjective vitality. Across both groups, participants reported relatively high—and similar—levels of restoration. These findings suggest that (virtual) nature experiences can be beneficial for well-being even when human-made structures interfere. Thus, irrespective of how pristine the environment is, the beneficial effects of immersive VR nature experiences provide opportunities for well-being when physical nature is inaccessible.

Lehramt-Studienwahlmotivation sagt Zielorientierungen vorher, pädagogisches Wissen und selbst eingeschätzte Kompetenz aber nur teilweise - Nikolas Leichner; Elisabeth Prestele; Svenja Matheis; Susanne Weis; Manfred Schmitt; Tanja Lischetzke (Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie, 2022)

Mapping Political Trust and Involvement in the Personality Space - A Meta‐Analysis and New Evidence - Laurits Bromme; Tobias Rothmund; Flávio Azevedo (Journal of Personality, 2022)

Memory as a cognitive requirement for reciprocal cooperation - Meike Kroneisen; Raoul Bell (Current Opinion in Psychology: Prosociality, 2022)

Naturerfahrungen: Was sie für uns als Individuum und die Gesellschaft bedeuten - Claudia Menzel (Climate Emotions: Klimakrise und psychische Gesundheit, 2022)

Network Models of Cognitive Abilities in Younger and Older Adults - Markus Neubeck; Julia Karbach; Tanja Könen (Intelligence, 2022)

Realistic context doesn't amplify the survival processing effect: Lessons learned from Covid-19 scenarios - Meike Kroneisen; Michael Kriechbaumer; Siri-Maria Kamp; Edgar Erdfelder (Acta Psychologica, 2022)

Remembering cheaters: The influence of social relevance on source memory - Meike Kroneisen (Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms, 2022)

Response to Schradin (2021): Egoism Alone Does not Explain Climate Inaction - Claudia Menzel; Laura S. Loy; Gerhard Reese; Julia Schnepf (Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022)

Responses Toward Injustice Shaped by Justice Sensitivity: Evidence From Germany - Rebecca Bondü; Anna K. Holl; Denny Trommler; Manfred J. Schmitt (Frontiers in Psychology, 2022)

Seeing Nature from Low to High Levels: Mechanisms Underlying the Restorative Effects of Viewing Nature Images - Claudia Menzel; Gerhard Reese (Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2022)
Nature can benefit human well-being and cognitive function. Merely watching images of nature compared to urban scenes, which differ in many lower-level processed properties, can have such effects. In two studies, we investigated the roles of lower- and higher-level processing on restorative effects evoked by nature and urban-related stimuli. In addition to nature and urban photographs, we used 1) versions that lack spatial information but retain certain image properties including those on regularity (i.e., phase-scrambled images), 2) line drawings that contain spatial information and thus allow for higher-level processing while lacking many diagnostic lower-level processed properties, and 3) words that lack any diagnostic image properties but allow higher cognitive processing and provide a mental image of the environment. We examined restoration after participants viewed either original, phase-scrambled, or line drawing versions of nature and urban images (Study 1), or nature- and urban-related words (Study 2). Although nature and urban scenes differed in several image properties, these did not evoke differences in perceived restoration when presented with phase-scrambled images. However, higher-level processing (i.e., recognizing the environment) led to stronger perceived restoration effects for nature compared to urban stimuli (original images, line drawings, and words). These findings contradict assumptions of nature-specific image properties explaining restorative effects and, therefore, have implications for current theories in the field.

Sexual orientation information and hiring: Can individualizing information lead to negative stereotyping of sexual minority group members? - Claudia Niedlich; Sven Kachel; Melanie C. Steffens (Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2022)

The Prevalence and Characteristics of Phantom Limb Pain and Non-Painful Phantom Phenomena in a Nationwide Survey of 3,374 Unilateral Limb Amputees - Martin Diers; Bertram Krumm; Xaver Fuchs; Robin Bekrater-Bodmann; Christopher Milde; Jörg Trojan; Jens Foell; Susanne Becker; Gerhard Rümenapf; Herta Flor (The Journal of Pain, 2022)
The experience of phantom limb pain (PLP) is a common consequence of limb amputation, resulting in severe impairments of the affected person. Previous studies have shown that several factors such as age at or site of amputation are associated with the emergence and maintenance of PLP. In this cross-sectional study we assessed the presence of several phantom phenomena including PLP and other amputation-related information in a sample of 3,374 unilateral upper and lower limb amputees. Clinical and demographic variables (age at amputation, level of amputation) explained 10.6% of the variance in PLP and perceptual variables (intensity of phantom limb sensation [PLS], referred sensations, intensity of telescoping, residual limb pain [RLP] intensity) explained 16.9% of the variance. These variables were specific for PLP and not for RLP. These results suggest that distinct variables are associated with PLP (age at amputation, level of amputation, PLS intensity, referred sensations, intensity of telescoping, RLP intensity) and RLP (PLP intensity) and point at partly different mechanisms for the emergence and maintenance of PLP and RLP. Perspective Clinical/demographic variables as well as perceptual variables are 2 major components related to PLP and explain ∼11% and ∼17% of the variance. These results could potentially help clinicians to understand which factors may contribute to chronic phantom limb pain.

Uninterested, disenchanted, or overwhelmed? An analysis of motives behind intentional and unintentional news avoidance - Lea C. Gorski (Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 2022)

Validation of a digital, tablet-based version of the Trail-Making-Test in the ∆elta platform - Ebru Baykara; Caroline Kuhn; Nicklas Linz; Johannes Tröger; Julia Karbach (European Journal of Neuroscience (FENS), 2022)
Using digital technology for neuropsychological assessment is gaining popularity in both clinical and research settings. Digital neuropsychology offers many benefits over the traditional paper-pencil assessments; however, their comparability requires further validation. The aim of this study was to compare a digital, tablet-based Trail Making Test to the standard paper version. In a within-subject design, 108 healthy adults completed both digital and paper Trail Making Test in a counterbalanced order. Each participant also performed other tasks measuring core executive abilities (inhibition, working memory, and flexibility) on the tablet. Our findings indicated that the Trail Making Test performance on the two different modalities correlated significantly. Furthermore, correlations of Trail Making Test performance with other cognitive tasks revealed that digital Trail Making Test is comparable with the paper version. However, the modality had a significant effect on Trail Making Test performance; that is, participants were generally faster on the digital platform. Taken together, our findings suggest that with new normative data, traditional Trail Making Test can be adapted successfully to a digital platform.

Selbstverletzendes Verhalten bei sozial ängstlichen Jugendlichen - Tina In-Albon; Daniela Schwarz (Schüchterne und sozial ängstliche Kinder in der Schule: Erkennen, verstehen, begleiten, 2021)

A school rampage threatens beliefs in justice: A longitudinal study of the belief in a just world among Chinese adolescents - Kotryna Stupnianek; Michael Shengtao Wu; Manfred Schmitt (Journal of Personality, 2021)

A video intervention for every straight man: The role of preattitudes and emotions in vicarious-contact effects - Sabine Preuß; Melanie C. Steffens (Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2021)

An attentional perspective on differential fear conditioning in chronic pain: The informational value of safety cues. - Stephan Koenig; Karoline Körfer; Harald Lachnit; Julia Anna Glombiewski (Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2021)

Analyzing Individual Differences in Intervention-Related Changes - Tanja Könen; Julia Karbach (Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2021)
Intervention studies can be expensive and time-consuming, which is why it is important to extract as much knowledge as possible. We discuss benefits and limitations of analyzing individual differences in intervention studies in addition to traditional analyses of average group effects. First, we present a short introduction to latent change modeling and measurement invariance in the context of intervention studies. Then, we give an overview on options for analyzing individual differences in intervention-related changes with a focus on how substantive information can be distinguished from methodological artifacts (e.g., regression to the mean). The main topics are benefits and limitations of predicting changes with baseline data and of analyzing correlated change. Both approaches can offer descriptive correlational information about individuals in interventions, which can inform future variations of experimental conditions. Applications increasingly emerge in the literature—from clinical, developmental, and educational psychology to occupational psychology—and demonstrate their potential across all of psychology.

Behavioral Test (BAT-Back) - Sebastian Holzapfel; Lea Schemer; Jenny Riecke; Julia A. Glombiewski (The Clinical Journal of Pain, 2021)

Changes in quality of life, depression, general anxiety, and heart-focused anxiety after defibrillator implantation - I. Kindermann; S. M. Wedegärtner; B. Bernhard; J. Ukena; D. Lenski; J. Karbach; I. Schwantke; C. Ukena; M. Böhm (ESC Heart Failure, 2021)

Coaching for a Sustainability Transition: Empowering Student-Led Sustainability Initiatives by Developing Skills, Group Identification, and Efficacy Beliefs - Karen R. S. Hamann; Jana R. Holz; Gerhard Reese (FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 2021)
Self-, collective, and participative efficacy are strong predictors of sustainability action. Yet, few studies have investigated the dynamics and variability of efficacy beliefs. In this transdisciplinary study, we tested such factors in the context of a peer-to-peer coaching program for sustainability volunteers, embedded in a structured-educational context. Over weekends, 2 qualified coaches trained 36 German bottom-up, student-led sustainability initiatives. These coaches instructed students in team building, envisioning, project planning, and on-campus sustainability practice. While 317 participants completed our pre-questionnaire, N = 165 completed both the pre- and post-questionnaire. As hypothesized, after having participated in the coaching weekend, action skills, collaboration skills, group identification, and self-, collective, and participative efficacy all increased. The latter of these increased, to our knowledge, for the first time in environmental psychology research. Group identification and having a vision emerged as important efficacy predictors, and participative efficacy beliefs in turn predicted volunteering. Moreover, we took initial steps in investigating the interaction of psychological and structural factors from a multilevel perspective. Our analyses revealed that efficacy beliefs on the individual level were higher when the university had a green office and when the student initiative was at a small university. We conclude by proposing an empowerment model for sustainability volunteers and by discussing the practical implications of our findings.

Cognitive training: An overview of features and applications - Tilo Strobach; Julia Karbach (Springer, 2021)

Coping under a COVID-19 lockdown: patterns of daily coping and individual differences in coping repertoires - Tanja Lischetzke; Lea Schemer; Tina In-Albon; Julia Karbach; Tanja Könen; Julia Anna Glombiewski (Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 2021)

Effects of a Single Physical or Mindfulness Intervention on Mood, Attention, and Executive Functions: Results from two Randomized Controlled Studies in University Classes - C. Müller; D. Dubiel; E. Kremeti; M. Lieb; E. Streicher; N. S. Oglou; C. Mickel; J. Karbach (Mindfulness, 2021)

Eingangsmerkmale und Studienerfolg von Lehramtsstudierenden - A. Biermann; J. Karbach; F. M. Spinath; R. Brünken (Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht, 2021)

Empathy, compassion, and theory of mind in obsessive‐compulsive disorder - Maike Salazar Kämpf; Philipp Kanske; Alexandra Kleiman; Anke Haberkamp; Julia Glombiewski; Cornelia Exner (Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 2021)

Explicitly and implicitly measured valence and risk attitudes towards plastic packaging, plastic waste, and microplastic in a German sample - Claudia Menzel; Julia Brom; Lea Marie Heidbreder (Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2021)

Fasting Plastic—The Role of Media Reports in a ‘Window of Opportunity’ to Reduce Plastic Consumption - Berend Barkela; Kristen Werling; Signe Elisa Filler; Lea Marie Heidbreder (Sustainability, 2021)

Geeignete Messzeitpunkte in der Psychotherapieevaluation: Ein Vorschlag - Edgar Geissner; Petra Maria Ivert; Manfred Schmitt (Verhaltenstherapie, 2021)

Global Citizens - Global Jet Setters? The Relation Between Global Identity, Sufficiency Orientation, Travelling, and a Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Mobility System - Laura S. Loy; Josephine Troeger; Paula Prior; Gerhard Reese (FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 2021)
Global crises such as the climate crisis require fast concerted action, but individual and structural barriers prevent a socio-ecological transformation in crucial areas such as the mobility sector. An identification with people all over the world (i.e., global identity) and an openness toward less consumption (i.e., sufficiency orientation) may represent psychological drivers of a socio-ecological transformation. We examined the compatibility of both concepts as well as their relation to people's support of a decarbonised mobility system and their flight mobility behaviour - a CO2-intensive behaviour that may be particularly difficult to refrain from for globally identified people, but less so for sufficiency-oriented people. In an online study conducted in Germany (N = 317), we found that global identity and sufficiency orientation were positively related. Both were negatively related to past flight-related CO2 emissions and positively related to refraining from flying and the support of decarbonised mobility policies. Accounting for both showed that sufficiency orientation in particular was related to fewer flight-related CO2 emissions and refraining from flying. Furthermore, we examined people's travel experiences. While global identity was unrelated to the frequency and duration of international travelling, it was positively related to the frequency and quality of contact with local people met on journeys. An experimental variation of whether participants first answered questions on global identity or on travel experiences revealed that remembering past international travelling led to higher reported levels of global identity. Taken together, global identity seems to profit from in-depth international contact with people, but can be decoupled from resource-intensive travel behaviour. Globally identified and sufficiency-oriented people may support a socio-ecological transformation. Our results indicate a compatibility of global identity and sufficiency orientation. Experimental and longitudinal research should examine causal links to foster our understanding of the conditions under which both can be strengthened.

How Negative Mood Hinders Belief Updating in Depression: Results from two Experimental Studies - Tobias Kube; Lukas Kirchner; Thomas Gärtner; Julia A. Glombiewski (Center for Open Science, 2021)

How the Discrepancy Between Prior Expectations and New Information Influences Expectation Updating in Depression—The Greater, the Better? - Tobias Kube; Lukas Kirchner; Gunnar Lemmer; Julia Anna Glombiewski (Clinical Psychological Science, 2021)

How the positivity of new information influences belief updating in depression: The more, the better? - Tobias Kube; Lukas Kirchner; Gunnar Lemmer; Julia A. Glombiewski (Center for Open Science, 2021)

Implicit Associations With Nature and Urban Environments: Effects of Lower-Level Processed Image Properties - Claudia Menzel; Gerhard Reese (FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 2021)
Nature experiences usually lead to restorative effects, such as positive affective states and reduced stress. Even watching nature compared to urban images, which are known to differ in several image properties that are processed at early stages, can lead to such effects. One potential pathway explaining how the visual input alone evokes restoration is that image properties processed at early stages in the visual system evoke positive associations. To study these automatic bottom-up processes and the role of lower-level visual processing involved in the restoring effects of nature, we conducted two studies. First, we analyzed nature and urban stimuli for a comprehensive set of image properties. Second, we investigated implicit associations in a dichotomous set of nature and urban images in three domains, namely, valence, mood, and stress restoration. To examine the role of lower-level processing in these associations, we also used stimuli that lacked the spatial information but retained certain image properties of the original photographs (i.e., phase-scrambled images). While original nature images were associated with "good," "positive mood," and "restoration," urban images were associated with "bad" and "stress." The results also showed that image properties differ between our nature and urban images and that they contribute to the implicit associations with valence, although spatial information and therefore recognition of the environment remained necessary for positive associations. Moreover, lower-level processed image properties seem to play no or only minor roles for associations with mood and stress restoration.

Integrating theory-based and data-driven methods to case conceptualization: A functional analysis approach with ecological momentary assessment - S. Scholten; T. Lischetzke; J.A. Glombiewski (Psychotherapy Research, 2021)

Is Artistic Composition in Abstract Art Detected Automatically? - Claudia Menzel; Gyula Kovács; Gregor U. Hayn-Leichsenring; Christoph Redies (Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus, 2021)

Leadership Communication and Knowledge Integration across the Artistic, Technical and Administration Area in Theaters - Berend Barkela (The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 2021)

Leadership Communication with Multiple Managers and Its Influence on Internal Integration of Different Functional Areas - Berend Barkela (Conference Proceedings Trends in Business Communication 2020, 2021)

Maintenance or change? Examining the reinforcing spiral between social media news use and populist attitudes - Sandy Schumann; Fabian Thomas; Franziska Ehrke; Tisa Bertlich; Julia C. Dupont (Information, Communication & Society, 2021)

Metacognitive Change During Exposure and Metacognitive Therapy in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Jana Hansmeier; Anke Haberkamp; Julia A. Glombiewski; Cornelia Exner (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021)

Metacognitive therapy versus exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder - A pilot randomized trial - Julia Anna Glombiewski; Jana Hansmeier; Anke Haberkamp; Winfried Rief; Cornelia Exner (Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2021)

Mood - Tanja Lischetzke; Tanja Könen (Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 2021)

MRI Predictors of Cognitive Training Outcomes - Ebru Baykara; Tanja Könen; Kerstin Unger; Julia Karbach (Cognitive Enhancement, 2021)

Multiple mental representations in picture processing - Wolfgang Schnotz; Georg Hauck; Neil Schwartz (Psychological Research, 2021)
This article investigates whether goal-directed learning of pictures leads to multiple mental representations which are differently useful for different purposes. The paper further investigates the effects of prompts on picture processing. 136 undergraduate students were presented maps of a fictitious city. One half of the participants were instructed to learn their map as preparation to draw it from memory as precisely as possible (PrepDraw), which should stimulate the creation of an elaborated surface representation. The other half were instructed to learn the map as preparation for finding the shortest traffic connection from various locations to other locations (PrepConnect), which should stimulate the construction of a task-oriented deep-structure representation (mental model). Within both experimental groups, one third of the participants received the map without prompts. Another third received the map with survey prompts (stimulating processing of what is where), and the final third received the map with connect prompts (stimulating processing of how train stations are connected). In the following test phase, participants received a recognition task, a recall task, and an inference task. For recognition and recall, two surface structure scores (extent, accuracy) and two deep structure scores (extent, accuracy) were calculated. The inference task served also to indicate deep structure accuracy. The PrepDraw group outperformed the PrepConnect group in terms of surface structure related variables, whereas the PrepConnect group outperformed the PrepDraw group in terms of deep structure related variables. Map processing was not enhanced by prompts aligned with the instruction, but non-aligned prompts tended to interfere with learning.

Negative emotion differentiation attenuates the within-person indirect effect of daily stress on nightly sleep quality through calmness - Tanja Lischetzke; Lea Schemer; Julia A. Glombiewski; Tina In-Albon; Julia Karbach; Tanja Könen (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021)

Nicht repräsentiert und trotzdem dabei? Rezeption und Verarbeitung des TV-Duells durch Anhängerinnen und Anhänger nicht vertretener Parteien am Beispiel der AfD und der Linken - Lea C. Gorski; Michaela Maier (Wahlen und Wähler, 2021)

No Evidence for the Involvement of Cognitive Immunisation in Updating Beliefs About the Self in Three Non-Clinical Samples - Tobias Kube; Julia Anna Glombiewski (Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2021)

Parent and teacher support of elementary students’ remote learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany - C. Gunzenhauser; S. Enke; V. Johann; J. Karbach; H. Saalbach (AERA Open, 2021)

Personality processes: From description to explanation - Gabriela Blum; Anna Baumert; Manfred Schmitt (The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes, 2021)

Personalized Assessment of Anxiety and Avoidance in Children and Their Parents—Development and Evaluation of the Anxiety and Avoidance Scale for Children - Michael W. Lippert; Katharina Sommer; Tabea Flasinski; Verena Pflug; Angela Rölver; Hanna Christiansen; Tina In-Albon; Susanne Knappe; Marcel Romanos; Brunna Tuschen-Caffier; Silvia Schneider (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021)

Phantom limb pain after unilateral arm amputation is associated with decreased heat pain thresholds in the face - Xaver Fuchs; Martin Diers; Jörg Trojan; Pinar Kirsch; Christopher Milde; Robin Bekrater‐Bodmann; Mariela Rance; Jens Foell; Jamila Andoh; Susanne Becker; Herta Flor (European Journal of Pain, 2021)
Background: The mechanisms underlying chronic phantom limb pain (PLP) are complex and insufficiently understood. Altered sensory thresholds are often associated with chronic pain but quantitative sensory testing (QST) in PLP has so far been inconclusive due to large methodological variation between studies and small sample sizes. Methods: In this study, we applied QST in 37 unilateral upper-limb amputees (23 with and 14 without PLP) and 19 healthy controls. We assessed heat pain (HPT), pressure pain, warmth detection and two-point discrimination thresholds at the residual limb, a homologous point and the thenar of the intact limb as well as both corners of the mouth. Results: We did not find significant differences in any of the thresholds between the groups. However, PLP intensity was negatively associated with HPT at all measured body sites except for the residual limb, indicating lower pain thresholds with higher PLP levels. Correlations between HPT and PLP were strongest in the contralateral face (r = −0.65, p < 0.001). Facial HPT were specifically associated with PLP, independent of residual limb pain (RLP) and various other covariates. HPT at the residual limb, however, were significantly associated with RLP, but not with PLP. Conclusion: We conclude that the association between PLP and, especially facial, HPT could be related to central mechanisms. Significance: Phantom limb pain (PLP) is still poorly understood. We show that PLP intensity is associated with lower heat pain thresholds, especially in the face. This finding could be related to central nervous changes in PLP.

Physical Fitness and Motor Competence in Chinese and German Elementary School Children in Relation to Different Physical Activity Settings - Andreas Hohmann; Xinchi Yuan; Manfred Schmitt; Hui Zhang; Micha Pietzonka; Maximilian Siener (Children, 2021)

Plastics in Mass Media. A Content Analysis of German Media Coverage of Plastic-Associated Risks and Sustainable Alternatives to Plastics - Ines C. Welzenbach-Vogel; Kristen Werling; Berend Barkela; Jutta Milde (Environmental Communication, 2021)

Proposal of Measurement Occasions for Unbiased Evaluation of Psychotherapy - Edgar Geissner; Petra Maria Ivert; Manfred Schmitt (Verhaltenstherapie, 2021)

Providing open-label placebos remotely—A randomized controlled trial in allergic rhinitis - Tobias Kube; Verena E. Hofmann; Julia A. Glombiewski; Irving Kirsch (PLOS ONE, 2021)

Psychopathology and parental stress in 3-6-year-old children with incontinence - Hannah K. Mattheus; Kathrin Kiefer; Rebecca Freund; Justine Hussong; Catharina Wagner; Monika Equit; Tina In-Albon; Margarete I. Bolten; Alexander von Gontard (Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 2021)

Remembering the bad ones: Does the source memory advantage for cheaters influence our later actions positively? - Meike Kroneisen; Franziska M. Bott; Maren Mayer (Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2021)

Remotely provided open-label placebo reduces frequency of and impairment by allergic symptoms - Tobias Kube; Irving Kirsch; Julia A. Glombiewski; Michael Witthöft; Anne-Kathrin Bräscher (Center for Open Science, 2021)

Restore or Get Restored: The Effect of Control on Stress Reduction and Restoration in Virtual Nature Settings - Gerhard Reese; Elias Kohler; Claudia Menzel (SUSTAINABILITY, 2021)
Virtual nature experiences can improve physiological and psychological well-being. Although there is ample research on the positive effects of nature, both in virtual and physical settings, we know little about potential moderators of restoration effects in virtual reality settings. According to theories of needs and control beliefs, it is plausible to assume that control over one's actions affects how people respond to nature experiences. In this virtual reality (VR) experiment, 64 participants either actively navigated through a VR landscape or they were navigated by the experimenter. We measured their perceived stress, mood, and vitality before and after the VR experience as well as the subjective restoration outcome and the perceived restorativeness of the landscape afterwards. Results revealed that participants' positive affective states increased after the VR experience, regardless of control. There was a main effect such that participants reported lower stress after the VR experience; however, this was qualified by an interaction showing that this result was only the case in the no control condition. These results unexpectedly suggest that active VR experiences may be more stressful than passive ones, opening pathways for future research on how handling of and navigating in VR can attenuate the effects of virtual nature.

Schulbasierte Prävention - Tina In-Albon; Laura Kraus (Suizidales Erleben und Verhalten : ein Handbuch, 2021)

Staying Tuned or Tuning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of News-Avoiders on the Micro and Macro-Level - Lea C. Gorski; Fabian Thomas (Communication Research, 2021)

Talkin' bout a revolution: an expert interview study exploring barriers and keys to engender change towards societal sufficiency orientation - Josephine Troger; Gerhard Reese (SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE, 2021)
Representative studies report high levels of acceptance of environmental protection and approval for stricter political measures to ensure a liveable future. However, in the last years, climate-damaging emissions did not decrease in accordance with the Paris Agreement, and important societal actors failed to implement effective strategies that could promote a socio-ecological transformation. Sufficiency with its underlying 'mind-set' can be a seen as leverage point for transformation and thus is targeted within our qualitative study. To explore barriers that prevent the implementation of knowledge about the sufficiency approach and ways to encourage sufficiency orientation on a societal level, we conducted interviews with experts from science, politics and economy (N = 21). Using qualitative content analysis, we identified keys for change, i.e., narratives, rewards and recognition, time structures and responsibilities that could have a leveraging effect towards system transformation. We propose an exploratory framework that points out main barriers, keys in terms of levers and experts' visions towards a sufficiency-oriented society. Furthermore, we outline that the sufficiency discourse contains ambiguities and varieties concerning the experts' perceptions regarding effective levers for a transformation. Through brief discourse pattern analysis, we highlight different perceptions regarding the role of technology, social responsibility and the societal change and time. The proposed framework can inspire future research and policy-making on sufficiency.

The Avoidance of News in a Changing Media Environment: An investigation into the Concept of News Avoidance from a Longitudinal and Short-term Perspective - Lea Gorski (2021)
Research has suggested that high-choice media environments allow individuals to fit their media diets to their preferences, effectively decreasing the number of news viewers to those interested in it. The dissertation examines the proposed mechanisms of changes in news behavior connected to environmental developments on the one hand and explores the group of news-avoiders on the other. As a theoretical basis, the concept of news avoidance is defined as well as the high-choice thesis and its criticism delineated. The first manuscript asks whether two phases of increasing media choice led to increases in news avoidance and what role public service broadcasting and political interest played. The results point towards an increasing number of news-avoiders when the Internet offered an abundance of media choices. Only political interest had an impact on news avoidance, although not increasing over time. The second manuscript asks whether different news user groups, among them news-avoiders, adapt their news behavior in the context of short-term changes in the media environment, namely election campaigns. The results show that news-avoiders react to changing conditions of their environment in most years, increasing their use as the election date approaches. In the third manuscript, the focus is laid on news-avoiders motivation and the intentionality of their behavior. The findings show, that dependent on whether avoiders stay away from the news intentionally or unintentionally, their motives vary and that, motives are driven by different characteristics. Taken together, the manuscripts show that long-term, as well as short-term environmental changes, can be connected to changes in news use or avoidance and that news avoidance is a complex phenomenon, where intentionality plays an important role. The dissertation then turns to an overarching discussion of findings, as well as an assessment of theoretical and practical implications. Finally, the work offers a look into limitations and directions of future research.

The Behavior Avoidance Test: Association With Symptom Severity and Treatment Outcome in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Jana Hansmeier; Anke Haberkamp; Julia A. Glombiewski; Cornelia Exner (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021)

The cooperative revolution reaches clinical psychology and psychotherapy: an example from Germany - Jürgen Margraf; Jürgen Hoyer; Thomas Fydrich; Tina In-Albon; Tania Lincoln; Wolfgang Lutz; Angelika Schlarb; Henning Schöttke; Ulrike Willutzki; Julia Velten (Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2021)

The Effectiveness of the Loci Method as a Mnemonic Device: Meta-Analysis - Meike Kroneisen; Conal Twomey (Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2021)
The "loci method" is a popular mnemonic device that involves visualising and recalling items at specific points along a familiar route. The loci method has been used for thousands of years, and by many successful memory athletes; yet there have been relatively few educational and clinical applications, possibly owing to empirical uncertainty. The current meta-analysis of 13 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) mostly based in university settings demonstrated the effectiveness of the loci method as a mnemonic device, with a medium effect size (g = 0.65, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.45, 0.85]; I2 = 45.5%). The effect size remained at similar levels in further analyses adjusting for publication bias, the impact of removing each study, setting, control conditions, outliers, and number of loci method sessions. High risk of experimental bias was indicated, however, as the vast majority of studies did not report procedures to minimise biases relating to random sequence generation and allocation concealment. Overall, this meta-analysis of predominantly university-based RCTs has provided good initial support for the loci method as a mnemonic device and this may encourage future investigations and applications, particularly in educational settings, where it has the potential to improve recall of information relevant to academic success.

The effects of assessment intensity on participant burden, compliance, within-person variance, and within-person relationships in ambulatory assessment - Kilian Hasselhorn; Charlotte Ottenstein; Tanja Lischetzke (Behavior Research Methods, 2021)

Therapieprozesse in der Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie - Tina In-Albon; Simone Munsch; Eva Vonderlin; Julia Kalmar; Fabrice Brodard; Christoph Flückiger; Raphael Gutzweiler; Andrea Kircher; Johannes Mander (Kindheit und Entwicklung, 2021)

Trust and Involvement as Higher‐Order Factors of General Attitudes Towards Politics. Testing a Structural Model Across 26 Democracies - Laurits Bromme; Tobias Rothmund (Political Psychology, 2021)
Interindividual differences in how people think and feel about politics have been investigated for decades. However, the great number of attitudinal concepts that has been developed to describe these differences is likely to distract from their conceptual overlap and dimensional structure. In addition, not much is known about the cross-cultural invariance of their interrelation. We propose that attitudes towards politics can be structured by two broad higher-order factors, a factor of general political involvement and a factor of general political trust. In two studies (N1 = 767; N2 = 29,018), including representative samples from 26 democracies, we first conduct several confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) to show that the higher-order model is a well-fitting and parsimonious alternative to a baseline model without higher-order factors in most samples. Second, we present evidence from multigroup CFA that the overall patterns of factor loadings are the same across all 26 countries. We interpret this structural equivalence across different democracies as support for the assumption that general political involvement and general political trust reflect basic orientations towards politics that are based on (1) demands of democratic political systems and (2) universal principles in human trait structure.

Wie häufig werden Diagnosen aus dem Bereich der sexuellen Funktionsstörungen an deutschen Hochschulambulanzen für Psychotherapie an psychologischen Instituten vergeben? - Julia Velten; Pierre Pantazidis; Andrea Benecke; Anne-Kathrin Bräscher; Lydia Fehm; Anne-Katharina Fladung; Thomas Fydrich; Jens Heider; Alfons Hamm; Tina In-Albon; Julia Lange; Tania Lincoln; et al. (Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, 2021)
Sexuelle Funktionsstörungen gelten als häufig. Gleichzeitig fehlen epidemiologische Daten zur Behandlungsprävalenz sexueller Funktionsstörungen in der ambulanten Psychotherapie. Im Rahmen eines Projekts zur Koordination der Datenerhebung an den deutschen Hochschulambulanzen für Psychotherapie wird erstmals eine Schätzung für dieses Behandlungssegment möglich. Sexual dysfunctions are considered to be common. However, there is a lack of epidemiological data on the prevalence of sexual dysfunction in outpatient psychotherapy. For the first time, a robust estimate is possible based on coordinated data collection at German university outpatient clinics for psychotherapy.

Survival processing modulates the neurocognitive mechanisms of episodic encoding. - Glen Forester; Meike Kroneisen; Edgar Erdfelder; Siri, M. Kamp (Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020)

The influence of decision time on sensitivity for consequences, moral norms, and preferences for inaction: Time, moral judgments, and the CNI model - Meike Kroneisen; Sarah Steghaus (Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2020)

#Opinionleaders: a comparison of self-reported and observable influence of Twitter users - Stephan Winter; German Neubaum; Stefan Stieglitz; Björn Ross (Information, Communication & Society, 2020)

A brief diversity training: Raising awareness of ingroup privilege to improve attitudes towards disadvantaged outgroups - Franziska Ehrke; Aysan Ashoee; Melanie C. Steffens; Eva Louvet (International Journal of Psychology, 2020)

A Cross-Cultural Study of Justice Sensitivity and Its Consequences for Cooperation - Anna Baumert; Simona Maltese; Dorota Reis; Colin MacLeod; Roseann Tan-Mansukhani; Adrianne J. R. Galang; Maria G. C. Salanga; Manfred Schmitt (Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2020)

A Double‐Edged Sword: How Social Diversity Affects Trust in Representatives via Perceived Competence and Warmth - Franziska Ehrke; Susanne Bruckmüller; Melanie C. Steffens (European Journal of Social Psychology, 2020)

A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect - Junhua Dang; Paul Barker; Anna Baumert; Margriet Bentvelzen; Elliot Berkman; Nita Buchholz; Jacek Buczny; Zhansheng Chen; Valeria De Cristofaro; Lianne de Vries; Siegfried Dewitte; Mauro Giacomantonio; et al. (Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2020)

A translation and validation of the Perceived Political Self-Efficacy (P-PSE) Scale for the use in German samples - Laurits Bromme; Tobias Rothmund; Gian Vittorio Caprara (Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2020)

An Experimental Analogue Study on the “Dose-Response Relationship” of Different Therapeutic Instructions for Pain Exposures: The More, The Better? - Karoline Körfer; Lea Schemer; Tobias Kube; Julia A Glombiewski (Journal of Pain Research, 2020)

Angststörungen in der Kindheit - Tina In-Albon; Simone Pfeiffer (Handbuch Klinische Psychologie, 2020)

Ansteckungseffekte bei selbstverletzendem Verhalten: Einfluss der Medien und persönlicher Kontakte. - Tina In-Albon; Laura Kraus (Verhaltenstherapie mit Kindern und Jugendlichen - Zeitschrift für die psychosoziale Praxis, 2020)

Anti-Suicide Function of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Female Inpatient Adolescents - Laura Kraus; Marc Schmid; Tina In-Albon (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020)

Are Those Who Tend to Mimic Facial Expressions Especially Vulnerable to Emotional Contagion? - Tanja Lischetzke; Michael Cugialy; Tanja Apt; Michael Eid; Michael Niedeggen (Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2020)

Bericht des Fachkollegiums Psychologie in der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Brunna Tuschen-Caffier; Julia Engel; Stefa Koch; Tanja Kollei; Arndt Bröder; Werner Greve; Iring Koch; Barbara Krahé; Wilfried Kunde; Jens Möller; Winfried Rief; Manfred Schmitt; et al. (Psychologische Rundschau, 2020)

Can Accepting Criticism Be an Effective Impression Management Strategy for Public Figures? A Comparison with Denials and a Counterattack - Nicole Methner; Susanne Bruckmüller; Melanie C. Steffens (Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2020)

Can Accepting Criticism Be an Effective Impression Management Strategy for Public Figures? A Comparison with Denials and a Counterattack - S. Bruckmüller; M.C. Steffens; N. Methner (Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2020)

Consistent use of proactive control and relation with academic achievement in childhood - M. Kubota; L. Hadley; S. Schäffner; T. Könen; J.-A. Meaney; B. Auyeung; C. Morey; J. Karbach; N. Chevalier (Cognition, 2020)

Daily Diary Methodology - Tanja Lischetzke; Tanja Könen (Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 2020)

Das DC: 0 - 5 Klassifikationssystem zur Diagnose von psychischen Störungen bei Säuglingen, Klein- und Vorschulkindern - Alexander von Gontard; Margarete Bolten; Tina In-Albon; Monika Equit; Justine Hussong (Kindheit und Entwicklung, 2020)

Das Strukturierte Interview für das Vorschulalter (SIVA: 0 - 6) - Tina In-Albon; Monika Equit; Alexander von Gontard; Daniela Schwarz; Jörg M. Müller; Margarete Bolten (Kindheit und Entwicklung, 2020)

Der Teufelskreis aus Schmerz, Angst und Bewegungsvermeidung: Ursachen und mögliche Auswege - Juliane Traxler; Julia Glombiewski; Johan W.S. Vlaeyen (Der Schmerzpatient, 2020)

Development of a Novel Method of Emotion Differentiation That Uses Open-Ended Descriptions of Momentary Affective States - Charlotte Ottenstein; Tanja Lischetzke (Assessment, 2020)

Die zukünftige Weiterbildung aus Sicht der Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie-Verbände - Beate Leinberger; Tina In-Albon; Helene Timmermann (Psychotherapeutenjournal, 2020)

Distorted Cognitive Processes in Major Depression: A Predictive Processing Perspective - Tobias Kube; Rainer Schwarting; Liron Rozenkrantz; Julia A. Glombiewski; Winfried Rief (Biological Psychiatry, 2020)

Do anticipated Facebook discussions diminish the importance of argument quality? An experimental investigation of attitude formation in social media - Stephan Winter (Media Psychology, 2020)

Do People Remember What Is Prototypical? The Role of Accent-Religion Intersectionality for Individual and Category Memory - Tamara Rakić; Melanie C. Steffens; Atena Sazegar (Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2020)

Do Perceiver Effects in Interpersonal Perception Predict Cooperation in Social Dilemmas? - Richard Rau; Isabel Thielmann; Simon M. Breil; Katharina Geukes; Sascha Krause; Lucie Nikoleizig; Mitja D. Back; Steffen Nestler (Collabra: Psychology, 2020)

Does the survival processing memory advantage translate to serial recall? - F, O Wöstenfeld; S Ahmad; Meike Kroneisen; Jan Rummel (Collabra: Psychology, 2020)

Easy on the mind, easy on the wrongdoer? No evidence for perceptual fluency effects on moral wrongness ratings - Lena Nadarevic; Meike Kroneisen (Cognition, 2020)

Effects of game-based and standard executive control training on cognitive and academic abilities in elementary school children - Verena E. Johann; Julia Karbach (Developmental Science, 2020)

Entwicklung einer Online-Intervention für die Versorgung von sich selbstverletzenden Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen - Alexandra Edinger; Julian Koenig; Stephanie Bauer; Markus Moessner; Gloria Fischer-Waldschmidt; Sabine C. Herpertz; Franz Resch; Tina In-Albon; Michael Koelch; Paul L. Plener; Christian Schmahl; Michael Kaess (Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, 2020)

Expectation-induced placebo effect on acute sadness in women with major depression: An experimental investigation - Julia W. Haas; Winfried Rief; Julia A. Glombiewski; Alexander Winkler; Bettina K. Doering (Journal of Affective Disorders, 2020)

Expositionstherapie bei chronischen Rückenschmerzen: Nicht ohne Verhaltensexperimente - Lea Schemer; Jenny Riecke; Julia Anna Glombiewski (Verhaltenstherapie, 2020)

Fallseminare in der klinischen Psychologie und Psychotherapie - Julia Anna Glombiewski; Anja Carina Emmerich; Winfried Rief (Verhaltenstherapie, 2020)

Fasting plastic: An intervention study to break habits of plastic consumption (Ayuno de plástico: Una intervención para cambiar los hábitos de consumo de plásticos) - Lea M. Heidbreder; Manfred Schmitt (PsyEcology, 2020)

Feeling Stressed and Ugly? Leave the City and Visit Nature! An Experiment on Self- and Other-Perceived Stress and Attractiveness Levels - Claudia Menzel; Fiona Dennenmoser; Gerhard Reese (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 2020)
Natural environments, compared to urban environments, usually lead to reduced stress and positive body appreciation. We assumed that walks through nature and urban environments affect self- and other-perceived stress and attractiveness levels. Therefore, we collected questionnaire data and took photographs of male participants' faces before and after they took walks. In a second step, female participants rated the photographs. As expected, participants felt more restored and attractive, and less stressed after they walked in nature compared to an urban environment. A significant interaction of environment (nature, urban) and time (pre, post) indicated that the men were rated by the women as being more stressed after the urban walk. Other-rated attractiveness levels, however, were similar for both walks and time points. In sum, we showed that the rather stressful experience of a short-term urban walk mirrors in the face of men and is detectable by women.

Führungskommunikation in Theatern: Eine Untersuchung der Kommunikationsbeziehungen von Führungskräften und Mitarbeiter*innen zwischen konfligierenden Bereichen in Organisation sowie deren Integration - Berend Barkela (2020)
In Theatern gibt es künstlerische und nicht-künstlerische Organisationsbereiche, deren Integration eine Herausforderung sein kann: Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter*innen in den verschiedenen Bereichen sind von unterschiedlichen Denkweisen geprägt, die konfligieren können. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde untersucht, welche Rolle die Qualität in der Kommunikationsbeziehung zwischen Führungskräften und Mitarbeiter*innen bei der Integration verschiedener Bereiche (Kunst, Technik, Verwaltung) in Theatern spielt. In einer qualitativen Befragung wird zunächst gezeigt, dass Führungskräfte der ersten und zweiten Führungsebene die Integration der verschiedenen Bereiche für eine zentrale kommunikative Führungsaufgabe halten. Die Ergebnisse einer anschließenden Querschnittsbefragung unter Führungskräften und Mitarbeiter*innen deutscher Theater zeigen, dass Führungskräfte ihre eigene Kommunikation mit allen Bereichen als gut, aber besonders gut in ihrem eigenen Bereich wahrnehmen. Dagegen beurteilen die Mitarbeiter*innen die Qualität der Führungskommunikation heterogener und insbesondere die Führungskommunikation aus dem künstlerischen Bereich eher mittelmäßig. Allerdings hängt die Qualität der Führungskommunikation zwischen verschiedenen Bereichen positiv mit der Integration von Wissen zusammen. Weiterhin ist eine als gut und konsistent wahrgenommene Führungskommunikation aus allen Bereichen positiv mit der internen Integration der verschiedenen Bereiche assoziiert. Die Studien zeigen Erfolge guter Führungskommunikation aber auch Entwicklungspotentiale. Diese Potentiale und die Bedeutung der Ergebnisse für Theater, Kulturbetriebe und Organisationen in anderen Sektoren werden diskutiert.

Gender (Conformity) Matters: Cross-Dimensional and Cross-Modal Associations in Sexual Orientation Perception - Sven Kachel; Melanie C. Steffens; Sabine Preuß; Adrian P. Simpson (Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2020)

Generalizability of harm and pain expectations after exposure in chronic low back pain patients - Jenny Riecke; Winfried Rief; Johan W.S. Vlaeyen; Julia A. Glombiewski (European Journal of Pain, 2020)

How Can I Use It? The Role of Functional Fixedness in the Survival-Processing Paradigm - Meike Kroneisen; Michael Kriechbaumer; Siri-Maria Kamp; Edgar Erdfelder (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2020)
After imagining being stranded in the grasslands of a foreign land without any basic survival material and rating objects with respect to their relevance in this situation, participants show superior memory performance for these objects compared to a control scenario. A possible mechanism responsible for this memory advantage is the richness and distinctiveness with which information is encoded in the survival-scenario condition. When confronted with the unusual task of thinking about how an object can be used in a life-threatening context, participants will most likely consider both common and uncommon (i.e., novel) functions of this object. These ideas about potential functions may later serve as powerful retrieval cues that boost memory performance. We argue that objects differ in their potential to be used as novel, creative survival tools. Some objects may be low in functional fixedness, meaning that it is possible to use them in many different ways. Other objects, in contrast, may be high in functional fixedness, meaning that the possibilities to use them in non-standard ways is limited. We tested experimentally whether functional fixedness of objects moderates the strength of the survival-processing advantage compared to a moving control scenario. As predicted, we observed an interaction of the functional fixedness level with scenario type: The survival-processing memory advantage was more pronounced for objects low in functional fixedness compared to those high in functional fixedness. These results are in line with the richness-of-encoding explanation of the survival-processing advantage.

How Depressive Symptoms Hinder Positive Information Processing: An Experimental Study on the Interplay of Cognitive Immunisation and Negative Mood in the Context of Expectation Adjustment - Tobias Kube; Julia Anna Glombiewski (Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2020)

How reappraisal of new information contributes to optimistic belief updating - Tobias Kube; Julia Glombiewski (Center for Open Science, 2020)

Impaired memory for cooperative interaction partners in borderline personality disorder - Meike Kroneisen; Inga Niedtfeld (Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 2020)

Individualized Augmented Reality Training Reduces Phantom Pain and Cortical Reorganization in Amputees: A Proof of Concept Study - Mikkel Thøgersen; Jamila Andoh; Christopher Milde; Thomas Graven-Nielsen; Herta Flor; Laura Petrini (The Journal of Pain, 2020)
Phantom limb pain (PLP) may be relieved using a visual representation of an intact limb. However, patients with distorted (telescoped) phantoms seem unable to associate with visualizations of intact limbs. A virtual arm visualization was matched to the individual's phantom perception and controlled in an augmented reality (AR) intervention. Seven PLP participants with telescoped phantoms performed 8 supervised home-based AR-training sessions (45 minutes each) within 2 weeks. The virtual arm was superimposed in AR onto their residual limb and controlled using electromyography from the residual limb. AR-training sessions included 3 AR tasks aimed at reengaging the neural circuits related to the lost limb. Agency (Rubber hand illusion questionnaire) and telescoping (proprioceptive drift and felt telescoping) were monitored after individual training sessions. fMRI during lip pursing was assessed before and after intervention. Pain rating index scores were reduced by 52% (mean change = -1.884, P = .032, d = 1.135). Numerical rating scale scores of PLP severity (0-6) in patients benefitting from the intervention were reduced by 41% (mean change = .93 P = .022, d = 1.334). The lip pursing task illustrated decreased cortical activity in the primary somatosensory cortex, which correlated to the reduced numerical rating scale scores of PLP severity. PERSPECTIVE: Two weeks of novel AR interventions in patients with telescoped phantoms demonstrated reduced PLP and reversal of cortical reorganization. This research highlights the potential of individualized AR interventions for PLP and indicate the importance of agency in this type of treatments.

Integrated Model of Text and Picture Comprehension - Wolfgang Schnotz (The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning, 2020)
An integrated model of text and picture comprehension is presented in this chapter which takes into account that learners can use multiple sensory modalities combined with different forms of representation. The model encompasses listening comprehension, reading comprehension, visual picture comprehension, and auditory picture comprehension (i.e., sound comprehension). The model’s cognitive architecture consists of modality-specific sensory registers, working memory, and long-term memory. Within this architecture, a distinction is made between perception-bound processing of text surface or picture surface structures, on the one hand, and cognitive processing of semantic deep structures, on the other hand. The perception-bound processing of text surface structures includes phonological and graphemic input analyses with graphemic-phonemic conversion, leading to lexical patterns. The perception-based processing of picture surface structures includes visual or acoustic feature analyses, leading to visual and acoustic perceptual representations. The descriptive cognitive processing deals with lexical patterns; it includes parsing and access to a mental lexicon and leads to propositional representations. The depictive cognitive processing deals with visual and acoustic perceptual representations; it includes object recognition and structure mapping and leads to the construction of mental models. Propositional representations and mental models interact via model construction and model inspection processes. After presenting the theoretical model, the chapter derives predictions, which can be empirically tested. It reports research findings that can be explained by the model, and it derives practical suggestions for instructional design. Finally, the chapter discusses limitations of the model and suggests possible further research.

Interindividual differences in the sensitivity for consequences, moral norms, and preferences for inaction: Relating basic personality traits to the CNI model - Meike Kroneisen; Daniel Heck (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2020)

Investigating dual-task interference in children versus young adults with the overlapping task paradigm - T. Strobach; J. Karbach (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2020)

Is it better not to think about it? Effects of positive and negative perfectionistic cognitions when there is increased pressure to perform - Elisabeth Prestele; Christine Altstötter‐Gleich; Tanja Lischetzke (Stress and Health, 2020)

Karli, der kribbelige Kugelfisch : Eine Geschichte für ausgeprägte Trotzköpfe - Joan Schaaf; Pia Eitenmüller; Milena Schultz; Aleksandra Emilova Stefcheva (Hogrefe, 2020)

Kein Samstag ohne rote Grütze: Eine Geschichte von unsichtbaren Verletzungen - Elizaveta Tusheva; Chiara Battisti; Luisa Mohme; Franziska Roth (Hogrefe, 2020)

Klimawandel und psychische Gesundheit: Handeln, nicht hadern! - Gerhard Reese; Claudia Menzel (Public Health Forum, 2020)

Learning the Concept of Function With Dynamic Visualizations - Tobias Rolfes; Jürgen Roth; Wolfgang Schnotz (Frontiers in Psychology, 2020)
In this paper we present a laboratory experiment in which 157 secondary-school students learned the concept of function with either static representations or dynamic visualizations. We used two different versions of dynamic visualization in order to evaluate whether interactivity had an impact on learning outcome. In the group learning with a linear dynamic visualization, the students could only start an animation and run it from the beginning to the end. In the group using an interactive dynamic visualization, the students controlled the flow of the dynamic visualization with their mouse. This resulted in students learning significantly better with dynamic visualizations than with static representations. However, there was no significant difference in learning with linear or interactive dynamic visualizations. Nor did we observe an aptitude-treatment interaction between visual-spatial ability and learning with either dynamic visualizations or static representations

Linns Licht : ein Mutmach-Buch für Kinder mit einer Depression - Mira Rzany; Leonie Heindel; Lukas Maelger; Alina Senßfelder (Hogrefe, 2020)

Measuring Anxiety in Older Adults: Development, Diagnostic Accuracy, and Preliminary Validation of a Short-Form of the German Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS-G-SF) - J. Gottschling; J. Dörendahl; T. Prell; J. Karbach; M. Bunz; I. Kindermann; J. Moussaoui; F. M. Spinath; S. Wedegärtner; O. W. Witte; S. Greiff; D. S. Segal (Journal of Personality Assessment, 2020)

Meta-analytic use of balanced identity theory to validate the Implicit Association Test - D. Cvencek; A. N. Meltzoff; C. D. Maddox; B. A. Nosek; L. A. Rudman; T. Devos; Y. Dunham; A. S. Baron; M. C. Steffens; L. Ashburn-Nardo; A. Quinby; S. B. Srivastava; et al. (Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2020)

Mimicry in psychotherapy: An actor partner model of therapists’ and patients’ non-verbal behavior and its effects on the working alliance - Maike Salazar Kämpf; Steffen Nestler; Jana Hansmeier; Julia Glombiewski; Cornelia Exner (Psychotherapy Research, 2020)

Modeling individual differences in emotion regulation repertoire in daily life with multilevel latent profile analysis. - Gloria Grommisch; Peter Koval; Jordan D. X. Hinton; John Gleeson; Tom Hollenstein; Peter Kuppens; Tanja Lischetzke (Emotion, 2020)

My Influence on the World (of Others): Goal Efficacy Beliefs and Efficacy Affect Predict Private, Public, and Activist Pro-environmental Behavior - Karen R. S. Hamann; Gerhard Reese (JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, 2020)
Efficacy beliefs are important drivers of human behavior. In the sustainability domain, self-, collective, and participatory efficacy tend to predict pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Yet, few studies consider efficacy actors and goals simultaneously, and it is uncertain whether specific efficacy beliefs are more or less predictive of specific PEB types (i.e., private, public, or activist). Therefore, we implemented a 2 x 2 plus baseline design (Study 1, N = 259), presenting participants with success stories and imagination tasks that highlighted either self- or collective efficacy (I vs. we) and either a direct or indirect goal (act environmentally friendly vs. encourage others to act). Although the manipulations did not affect goal efficacy beliefs or PEB intentions, goal efficacy beliefs and positive affect predicted PEB intentions, and specific efficacy behavior patterns occurred. Study 2 (N = 1,143) replicated most of the findings from Study 1: Self-efficacy predicted private PEB, and participatory efficacy predicted activist PEB. The relationship between collective efficacy and public PEB remains unclear. Our results highlight the importance of differentiating actors and goals in efficacy research and behavior types in general.

Navigating through the jungle of information. Informational self-efficacy predicts climate change-related media exposure, knowledge, and behaviour - Laura S. Loy; Karen R. S. Hamann; Gerhard Reese (CLIMATIC CHANGE, 2020)
Climate change is a complex issue and understanding it is not an easy endeavour. An abundance of information is available through media and a lot of research has dealt with the question of how to best communicate this issue to the public. However, uncertainty and scepticism remain. In this paper, we argue that the subjective capability of informing oneself satisfactorily about climate change (i.e. informational self-efficacy) to reach goals like forming an opinion, evaluating political decisions regarding climate change, or behaving in a climate protective manner might be a crucial determinant of people's engagement with the issue. In an online survey with a quota sample of German residents (N = 498), informational self-efficacy positively predicted people's exposure to climate change communication in the media, their knowledge about the climate system and climate protective behaviours, and the extent to which they actually engaged in climate protective actions. Moreover, informational self-efficacy positively predicted climate protective behaviour and climate system knowledge indirectly through media exposure-but not behavioural knowledge. Hence, next to optimising the provided climate change communication, we suggest to strengthen people's confidence in dealing with it through media literacy trainings and examine the causal effect of these trainings on informational self-efficacy and climate change engagement. Furthermore, the impact of different behaviours on climate change should be more often and more concretely discussed in media coverage.

New Insights into the Role of the Phonological Loop in Task Switching: Evidence from Three Different Age Groups - S. Schäffner; T. Könen; J. Karbach (Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2020)

Nicht-suizidale Selbstverletzungen im Jugend- und jungen Erwachsenenalter. - Tina In-Albon (Verhaltenstherapie mit Kindern und Jugendlichen - Zeitschrift für die psychosoziale Praxis, 2020)

Nichtsuizidale Selbstverletzungen im Jugend- und jungen Erwachsenenalter: Aktuelle Empfehlungen zur Diagnostik und Psychotherapie - Tina In-Albon; Laura Kraus; Rebecca Brown; Alexandra Edinger; Michael Kaess; Michael Koelch; Julian Koenig; Paul L. Plener; Christian Schmahl; STAR Konsortium (Psychotherapeutenjournal, 2020)

Nichtsuizidales selbstverletzendes Verhalten bei einer Jugendlichen mit einer Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung: Eine Falldarstellung. - Laura Schultis; Tina In-Albon (Verhaltenstherapie mit Kindern und Jugendlichen - Zeitschrift für die psychosoziale Praxis, 2020)

On the Limited Generality of Air Pollution and Anxiety as Causal Determinants of Unethical Behavior: Commentary on Lu, Lee, Gino, and Galinsky (2018) - Daniel W. Heck; Isabel Thielmann; Sina A. Klein; Benjamin E. Hilbig (Psychological Science, 2020)

On the robustness of the association between Honesty-Humility and dishonest behavior for varying incentives - Sina A. Klein; Isabel Thielmann; Benjamin E. Hilbig; Daniel W. Heck (Journal of Research in Personality, 2020)

Pain psychology in the 21st century: lessons learned and moving forward - Ida K. Flink; Silje Reme; Henrik Børsting Jacobsen; Julia Glombiewski; Johan W.S. Vlaeyen; Michael K. Nicholas; Chris J. Main; Madelon Peters; Amanda C. de C. Williams; Martien G.S. Schrooten; William Shaw; Katja Boersma (Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 2020)

Peripheral input and phantom limb pain: A somatosensory event‐related potential study - Hongcai Liu; Jamila Andoh; Yuanyuan Lyu; Christopher Milde; Simon Desch; Francesca Zidda; Martin Schmelz; Gabriel Curio; Herta Flor (European Journal of Pain, 2020)

Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis. - Isabel Thielmann; Giuliana Spadaro; Daniel Balliet (Psychological Bulletin, 2020)

Plastic-Free July: An Experimental Study of Limiting and Promoting Factors in Encouraging a Reduction of Single-Use Plastic Consumption - Lea M. Heidbreder; Julia Steinhorst; Manfred Schmitt (Sustainability, 2020)

Pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion and their relationships to personality traits and learning opportunities - Carla Bohndick; Natalie Ehrhardt-Madapathi; Susanne Weis; Tanja Lischetzke; Manfred Schmitt (European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020)

Predictors of Heart-Focused Anxiety in Patients with stable Heart Failure - S.M. Wedegärtner; I. Schwantke; I. Kindermann; J. Karbach (Journal of Affective Disorders, 2020)

Psychische Störungen bei Vorschulkindern - Justine Hussong; Cornelia Overs; Frank W. Paulus; Margarete Bolten; Tina In-Albon; Monika Equit; Alexander von Gontard (Kindheit und Entwicklung, 2020)

Psychische Störungen im Säuglings-‍, Kleinkind- und Vorschulalter - DC: 0 - 5 - Alexander von Gontard; Margarete Bolten; Monika Equit; Tina In-Albon (Kindheit und Entwicklung, 2020)

Punishment goals in classroom interventions: An attributional approach - Mathias Twardawski; Benjamin E. Hilbig; Isabel Thielmann (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2020)

Reactions to Environmental Changes: Place Attachment Predicts Interest in Earth Observation Data - Marlis Charlotte Wullenkord; Lea Marie Heidbreder; Gerhard Reese (FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 2020)
Environmental changes such as extreme weather events become increasingly noticeable worldwide. Earth observation (EO) data provide information about such changes, but little is known about citizens' perceptions of and responses to such changes. Across three studies, we assess whether people's place attachment on different regional levels predicts interest in EO data, and whether perceived environmental change affects emotional responses and place attachment. Two survey studies (N= 118 students andN= 197 citizens from the Palatinate in Southern Germany) revealed that place attachment predicts interest in EO data, especially when people felt strongly attached to the region or place in question. A third experimental study (N= 600) with repeated measures (N= 203) revealed that visualized environmental change - using satellite images of local vs. non-local environmental change - did not affect place attachment but elicited stronger emotional responses than visualizing no change. Policy support measures across Studies 2 and 3 suggest that place attachment and emotional responses are important predictors for action to mitigate consequences of environmental change.

Recall bias in emotional intensity ratings: investigating person-level and event-level predictors - Charlotte Ottenstein; Tanja Lischetzke (Motivation and Emotion, 2020)

Regulating distance to the screen while engaging in difficult tasks - Fang Zhao; Robert Gaschler; Wolfgang Schnotz; Inga Wagner (Frontline Learning Research, 2020)
Regulation of distance to the screen (i.e., head-to-screen distance, fluctuation of head-to-screen distance) has been proved to reflect the cognitive engagement of the reader. However, it is still not clear (a) whether regulation of distance to the screen can be a potential parameter to infer high cognitive load and (b) whether it can predict the upcoming answer accuracy. Configuring tablets or other learning devices such that distance to screen can be analyzed by the learning software is in close reach. The software might use the measure as a person-specific indicator of need for extra scaffolding. In order to better gauge this potential, we analyzed eye-tracking data of children (N = 144, Mage = 13 years, SD = 3.2 years) engaging in multimedia learning, as distance to screen is estimated as a by-product of eye-tracking. Children were told to maintain a still seating posture while reading and answering questions at three difficulty levels (i.e., easy vs. medium vs. difficult). Results yielded that task difficulty influences how well the distance to the screen can be regulated, supporting that regulation of distance to screen is a promising measure. Closer head-to-screen distance and larger fluctuation of head-to-screen distance can reflect that participants are engaging in a challenging task. Only large fluctuation of head-to-screen distance can predict the future incorrect answers. The link between distance to screen and processing of cognitive task can obtrusively embody reader’s cognitive states during system usage, which can support adaptive learning and testing.

Research Review: Recommendations for reporting on treatment trials for child and adolescent anxiety disorders - an international consensus statement - Cathy Creswell; Maaike H. Nauta; Jennifer L. Hudson; Sonja March; Tessa Reardon; Kristian Arendt; Denise Bodden; Vanessa E. Cobham; Caroline Donovan; Brynjar Halldorsson; Tina In‐Albon; Shin‐ichi Ishikawa; et al. (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2020)

SARS-Cov-2 and environmental protection: A collective psychology agenda for environmental psychology research - Gerhard Reese; Karen R. S. Hamann; Lea M. Heidbreder; Laura S. Loy; Claudia Menzel; Sebastian Neubert; Josephine Troeger; Marlis C. Wullenkord (JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2020)
While the virus SARS-CoV-2 spreads all over the world, most countries have taken severe measures to protect their citizens and slow down the further spread of the disease COVID-19. These measures affect individuals, communities, cities, countries, and the entire planet. In this paper, we propose that the tremendous consequences of the corona crisis invite environmental psychology to focus more strongly on research questions that address major societal challenges from a collective psychology perspective. In particular, we stress that the corona crisis may affect how people appraise - and potentially respond to - the looming climate crisis. By consistently pointing out systemic links and their human factor, environmental psychology can become central to a scientific agenda of a sustainable 'post-corona society'. In order to provide a framework for future research towards a sustainable societal transformation, we build on the Social Identity Model of Pro-Environmental Action (SIMPEA) and extend its scope to understand people's responses following the corona crisis. The model allows predictions of previously not explicitly included concepts of place attachment, nature connectedness, basic psychological needs, and systems thinking. It may serve as a guiding framework for a better understanding of the transformation towards a sustainable future.

Seeing me, seeing you: Testing competing accounts of assumed similarity in personality judgments. - Isabel Thielmann; Benjamin E. Hilbig; Ingo Zettler (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2020)

Selbstverletzendes Verhalten - Tina In-Albon; Paul L. Plener (Verhaltenstherapiemanual: Kinder und Jugendliche, 2020)

Self‐compassion predicting pain, depression and anger in people suffering from chronic pain: A prospective study - Anja Carina Emmerich; Thilo Friehs; Geert Crombez; Julia Anna Glombiewski (European Journal of Pain, 2020)