MOC Projects

• Mechanisms of change in dynamic social interactions (LFF project, 2020-2023; lead: Prof- Dr. Juliane Degner).
• Emotional learning and memory (DFG Post Graduate Programme, lead: Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe)
• MEET.AI Using AI to analyze, understand and improve virtual group meetings (DFG Research Group initiative, lead: Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke & Prof. Dr. Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock)
• Sensitive periods for cognitive change (DFG Research Group initiative, lead: Prof. Dr. Tania Lincoln)
• HIVAM (BMBF joint project, lead: Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke)
• EXGAVINE (BMBF joint project, lead: Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke)
• VITALab (BMBF joint project; PI: Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke)
• Mechanisms of excitation and inhibition in the brain (LFF-joint project; speaker: Prof. Dr. Matthias Kneussel; duration: 2020-2023; sub-project: Changes in the balance between arousal and inhibition during human development, PI Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder)
• Pregnancy, immunity and health risks for mother and child (LFF-joint project, lead: Prof. Dr. Petra Arck; duration: 2020-2023; sub-project: Modulation and immunological and neural mechanisms of fetal programming of neurocognitive performance, PI  Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder)
• Cycling for rehabilitation using 3D-force measurement at the bicycle pedal and sonification (BMBF joint project; sub-project: Analysis of the 3D-force measurement at the bicycle pedal and evaluation of the measurement and real-time audio feedback system, duration: 2019-2021; PI: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mattes)
• Crossing the Borders: The interplay of language, cognition, and the brain in early human development (DFG Forschergruppe FG 2253, sub-project: The scope and development of implicit Theory of Mind: The interplay of cognition, language, and the brain (PIs: Prof. Dr. Ulf Liszkowski et al.)

• SFB / Transregio 169 (DFG) Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivität, Prädiktion und Interaktion.
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jianwei Zhang; duration: 2020-2023; sub-project A1: Adaptation of multisensory processing to changing priors and sensory evidence. PIs: Dr. Patrick Bruns, Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder und Xiaolan Fu (Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, Beijing).
• SFB 936 (DFG) Multisite communication in the brain – Funktionelle Kopplung neuronaler Aktivität im ZNS.
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel und Prof. Dr. Christian Gerloff; duration: 2019-2023; project B11: Development of bottom-up and top-down communication in visual and multisensory cortical networks in humans (PI: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder); project B10: "Stress-induced modulation of reconsolidation-related memory network dynamics" (PI: Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe)
• Transregio/SFB „Furcht, Angst, Angsterkrankung” (INST 211/754-1; sub-project-PI: Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe)

Interdisciplinary research cooperation on MoC within the University of Hamburg

• Performance and personality development in the school context (Prof. Dr. Jenny Wagner & Prof. Dr. Jan Retelsdorf)
  • Deventer, J., Lüdtke, O., Nagy, G., Retelsdorf, J., & Wagner, J. (2019). Against all odds - is a more differentiated view of personality development in emerging adulthood needed? The case of young apprentices. British Journal of Psychology, 110(1), 60–86. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12336;
  • Deventer, J., Humberg, S., Lüdtke, O., Nagy, G., Retelsdorf, J., & Wagner, J. (2019). Testing Competing Hypotheses on the Interplay of Importance and Support of the Basic Psychological Needs at Work and Personality Development with Response Surface Analysis. Collabra: Psychology, 5(1), 39. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.214;
  • Muntoni, F., Wagner, J., & Retelsdorf, J. (2020). Beware of Stereotypes: Are Classmates’ Stereotypes Associated With Students’ Reading Outcomes?: Classmates’ Reading-Related Gender Stereotypes. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13359
• Collaborative interaction dynamics in agile meetings (Prof. Dr. Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock & Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost)
  • Redlbacher, F., Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., & Frost, J. (forthcoming). How “mms” contribute to novel ideas: Collaborative interaction dynamics in agile meetings. In Dirk Deichmann, Gino Cattani, & Simone Ferriani (Eds.), The emergence, evaluation, and legitimation of novelty.
• Evidence accumulation in memory and decision-making (Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe & Prof. Dr. Tobias Donner)
  • de Gee, J. W., Tsetsos, K., Schwabe, L., Urai, A. E., McCormick, D., McGinley, M., & Donner, T. H. (2020). Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains. eLife, 9, e54014.
  • Bergt, A., Urai, A. E., Donner, T. H., & Schwabe, L. (2018). Reading memory formation from the eyes. European Journal of Neuroscience, 47, 1525-1533.
• Emotional memory formation (Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe & Dr. Tobias Sommer)
  • Joint DFG funding for a project on Characterization of long-term memory formation for experimental, real-life-like stressful events on the behavioral and neural level - from encoding, over early to long-term consolidation

• ERC Starting Grant "TrackingMinds – Tracking the decisions of others with the own mind" (PI: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gluth)
• DFG grant for the project: “State Inferences in Impression Formation from Behavior" (PI: Prof. Dr. Juliane Degner)
• DFG grant for the project: “Gewohnheiten unter Stress: veränderte Repräsentation von Handlungskonsequenzen?” (PI: Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe)
• DFG grant for the project: “Episodische Integration unter Stress” (PI: Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe)
• DFG grant for the project: “Noradrenerge Aktivität und systemische Konsolidierung: Aufrechterhaltung der Gedächtnisspezifität?“ (PI: Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe)
• DFG grant for the project: ICThos – Implicit Citizenship Theories: Inhalt und Struktur, Bedingungen und Folgen impliziter Annahmen über Bürger*innen im öffentlichen Sektor (Pis: Prof. Dr. Rick Vogel, Prof. Dr. Dominik Vogel)
• DFG Leibniz-Award: Projekt "Mechanisms of Change" (Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder)
• Funding as part of the federal and state government's excellence strategy for the project “Dealing with stigma and minority pride? Ingroup and intergroup attitudes in members of stigmatized groups" (PI: Prof. Dr. Juliane Degner)
• DFG grant for the project: "Ein neuer kollaborativer Ansatz für die neurowissenschaftliche EEG-Persönlichkeitsforschung" (PI: Prof. Dr. Jan Wacker)
• DFG grant for the project: „RELATE - Eine randomisiert kontrollierte Studie zur Evaluation eines kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutischen Moduls für belastende verbale Halluzinationen“ (PI: Prof. Dr. Tania Lincoln)
• DFG grant for the project: „Psychophysiologische Indikatoren von transdiagnostischen Angstdimensionen" (PI: Prof. Dr. Anja Riesel).
• DFG grant for the project: „Psychophysiologische Adaptivität und die Entstehung von paranoidem Wahn“ (PI: Dr. Annika Clamor)
• Volkswagen Foundation: „Fostering mental health during social distancing - from longitudinal surveys to online self-help interventions“ (PI: Dr. Björn Schlier)
• Volkswagen Foundation (Experiment! – In search of bold research ideas), project: “Learning to move your eardrum: Perceptual plasticity beyond the brain" (PD Dr. Patrick Bruns)
• DFG grant for the project: "Disentangling timing and conditions: Trajectories of micro- and macro-processes of self-esteem change across the adult lifespan" (PI: Prof. Dr.  Jenny Wagner)
• Leibniz grant: "Bildungsverläufe und psychosoziale Entwicklung im Jugend- und Erwachsenenalter (BIJU)" (PI: Prof. Dr.  Jenny Wagner)
• DFG grant for the project: "Veränderungsmechanismen psychotischer Störungen: Die Lücke zwischen Symptomentstehung und Interventionen im Alltagskontext überbrücken“ (PI: Dr. Annika Clamor)
• DFG grant for the project: "Mentalisierung unter Stress: Aufklärung der neurocomputationalen Mechanismen" (PI: Dr. Stefan Schulreich)
• DFG international conference funding: INGRoup 2022 (PI: Prof. Dr. Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock)