MOC Projects
The Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science is currently involved in 18 BMBF and DFG proposals. Here you will find an overview of the respective MOC projects:
LFF-Collaborative 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 Artificial Intelligence to Analyse, 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 (LFF-joint project; DFG Forschergruppe FG 2253, 2nd phase, 2020-2023, sub-project: The scope and development of implicit Theory of Mind: The interplay of cognition, language, and the brain (PI: Prof. Dr. Ulf Liszkowski et al.)
Collaborative Research Center (CRC)
- 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)
Research Collaborations
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
Support of Individual Projects
- 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 grant for the project: Alcohol and gambling behavior (PIs: PD Dr. Timur Sevincer, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Oettingen)
- Swiss Nationalfonds (SNF): Affective influences on goal pursuit (PIs: Prof. Dr. Guido Gendolla, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Oettingen)
- DFG grant for the project: Mental contrasting and the transfer of energization (PIs: PD Dr. Timur Sevincer, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Oettingen)
- DFG Leibniz-Award: Projekt "Mechanisms of Change" (Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder)
- VW Foundation (witihn the initiative “Experiment! – In search of bold research ideas”): Projekt “Learning to move your eardrum: Perceptual plasticity beyond the brain" (PD Dr. Patrick Bruns)
- 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" (ängstliche Erregung und Sorgeneigung); duration: 2018 – 2022, PI: 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)
- 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)