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Girls in detail, boys in shape: Gender differences when drawing cubes in depth
(2013)
The current study tested gender differences in the developmental transition from drawing cubes in two‐ versus three dimensions (3D), and investigated the underlying spatial abilities. Six‐ to nine‐year‐old children (N = 97) drew two occluding model cubes and solved several other spatial tasks. Girls more often unfolded the various sides of the cubes into a layout, also called diagrammatic cube drawing (object design detail). In girls, the best predictor for drawing the cubes was Mental Rotation Test (MRT) accuracy. ...
Dissertation
Intergenerationelle Weitergabe von Traumatisierungen im Kontext von kollektiver Verfolgung und Zwangsmigration
(2019)
Die kumulative Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit Traumatisierungen durch kollektive Verfolgung und Gewalt. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie diese Traumatisierungen sich auf elterliche Fähigkeiten und auf die Kinder der Traumatisierten auswirken. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf den zusätzlichen Herausforderungen von durch Krieg und Verfolgung erzwungener Migration.
Auf eine inhaltliche Einführung zum Thema intergenerationelle Weitergabe von Traumatisierungen werden die beiden Forschungskontexte sowie meine Tätigkeiten ...
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Semantic congruency and the (reversed) Colavita effect in children and adults
(2016)
When presented with auditory, visual, or bimodal audiovisual stimuli in a discrimination task, adults tend to ignore the auditory component in bimodal stimuli and respond to the visual component only (i.e., Colavita visual dominance effect). The same is true for older children, whereas young children are dominated by the auditory component of bimodal audiovisual stimuli. This suggests a change of sensory dominance during childhood. The aim of the current study was to investigate, in three experimental conditions, ...
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Symbolic versus non-symbolic magnitude estimations among children and adults
(2014-07-30)
The ability of children and adults to generate symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude estimations was examined in the light of their familiarity with numbers. Children (6-year-old kindergartners, 7-year-old first graders, and 9-year-old third graders) and adults made symbolic estimations either by saying number words that matched numbers of dots (i.e., perception task) or by generating numbers of dots that matched given number words (i.e., production task). In the non-symbolic estimation task, participants generated the ...
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Mental rotation and the motor system: Embodiment head over heels
(2013-12-13)
We examined whether body parts attached to abstract stimuli automatically force embodiment in a mental rotation task. In Experiment 1, standard cube combinations reflecting a human pose were added with (1) body parts on anatomically possible locations, (2) body parts on anatomically impossible locations, (3) colored end cubes, and (4) simple end cubes. Participants (N = 30) had to decide whether two simultaneously presented stimuli, rotated in the picture plane, were identical or not. They were fastest and made less ...
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Let’s twist again! Embodiment effects in spatial judgments on human figures rotated along a vertical axis
(2017)
We investigated whether individuals used mental rotation and embodiment for arm laterality judgments of human figures that were stepwise rotated from back view to front view along a vertical axis. In Experiment 1, figures’ heads were always shown in profile, while only the bodies were rotated. Judgments were faster and more correct when figures were presented in back view compared to front view, but the relation between reaction times (RTs) and rotation angles was not strictly linear. In addition, judgments on figures ...
Dissertation
Motivation für Gruppenarbeit
(2018)
Gruppenarbeit als Lehr-/Lernform bei der Lernende gemeinsam und relativ selbstgesteuert an einer Aufgabe arbeiten, gibt Anlass zu zahlreichen Forschungsfragen wie beispielsweise der Frage nach der Strukturierung der Gruppenarbeit oder ihren Effekten oder den individuellen Lernervoraussetzungen. Gruppenarbeit kann so strukturiert werden, dass die Lernenden in positiver Weise voneinander in der Zielerreichung abhängen, bzw. die Aufgabe nur gemeinsam erfolgreich bearbeiten können. Neben der Strukturierung des Arbeitssprozesses ...
Dissertation
Die Katamnese der EVA-Studie
(2019-05-02)
Die frühestmögliche Prävention bei den sogenannten Hochrisikokindern in den deutschen Großstädten ist zu einer gesamtgesellschaftlichen Aufgabe geworden. Zahlreiche Erkenntnisse aus den Erziehungswissenschaften, der empirischen Entwicklungspsychologie und der psychoanalytischen Forschung konvergieren in der Einsicht, dass tragende emotionale Beziehungserfahrungen in den ersten Lebensjahren die besten Voraussetzungen für eine gelingende psychosoziale und kognitive Entwicklung einschließlich des Spracherwerbs und des ...
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Giving Is Nicer than Taking: Preschoolers Reciprocate Based on the Social Intentions of the Distributor
(2016-01-25)
Recent research has found that even preschoolers give more resources to others who have previously given resources to them, but the psychological bases of this reciprocity are unknown. In our study, a puppet distributed resources between herself and a child by taking some from a pile in front of the child or else by giving some from a pile in front of herself. Although the resulting distributions were identical, three- and five-year-olds reciprocated less generously when the puppet had taken rather than given resources. ...
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The Dark Triad and the PID-5 Maladaptive Personality Traits: Accuracy, Confidence and Response Bias in Judgments of Veracity
(2017-09-21)
The Dark Triad traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy—have been found to be associated with intra- or interpersonal deception production frequency. This cross-sectional study (N = 207) investigated if the Dark Triad traits are also associated with deception detection accuracy, as implicated by the recent conception of a deception-general ability. To investigate associations between maladaptive personality space and deception, the PID-5 maladaptive personality traits were included to investigate if besides ...