Awardees 2023

  • Simon Van Baal, PhD, Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology: Investigating the General Factor of Impulsivity.
  • Alicja Brzozowska, Ph.D., Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology: Neural entrainment to biological motion in infancy.
  • Dr. Claudia Massaccesi, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology: The role of the opioid system in decision-making.

Awardees 2022-02

  • Nida Ali, PhD, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology: Characterizing the salivary alpha-amylase awakening response in healthy humans
  • Dr. Magdalena Boch, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology: Connecting brain structure and function in dog and human neuroimaging
  • Kimberly Doell, PhD, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology: Predicting the success of behavioural interventions designed to stimulate climate action
  • Achiel Fennemann, PhD, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology: Prosocial, empathetic and competitive, or just competitive? Exploring differences in social preferences between students of economics versus the general population
  • Xiaolu Zhang, PhD, Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology: Understanding the Emotional Experiences of First-generation Students

Awardees 2022-01

  • Marlene Kollmayer, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology: The Impostor Phenomenon as a Psychological Barrier to Female University Careers - Disentangling Individual, Institutional and Societal Antecedents.
  • Sari Nijssen, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology: Anthropomorphism as a gateway to environmental care and concern.

Awardees 2021-2

  • Christina Bauer, Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology: Helping teachers see the potential of stigmatized students: Effects of an identity-reframing intervention.
  • Filip Melinšcak, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology: Probing mental representations of arachnophobia-relevant stimuli: a spider is a spider is a spider
  • Ulrich Pomper, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology: SomAtSamp: Testing Rhythmic Attentional Sampling in the Somatosensory Domain.

Awardees 2021-1

  • Eva Specker, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology: The Next Step for the VAIAK: An Item-Response Theory Approach.
  • Jasminka Majdandzic, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology: How music gets under our skin: Effects of music on stress and skin barrier recovery.
  • Matthias Kasper, Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology: Does the audit selection rule explain misperceptions of audit risk? An experimental investigation of the "bomb-crater effect".
  • Mike Schreiber, Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology: The Influence of Implicit Theories of Food Preferences on Promoting Healthier Food Choice.

Awardees 2020

  • Gabriela Markova, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology: Interpersonal Synchrony among Preschool Children.
  • Isabella Wagner, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology: Longitudinal sampling of gut microbiome composition and brain function in a single individual.
  • Marie-Therese Schultes, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology: How to support implementation science in German speaking countries.
  • Slava Dantchev, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology: Friend or Foe? Sibling Relationships Across Time: Links with Family Interactions and Child Wellbeing.