Christoph Scheffel, M.Sc.

Research Associate
NameChristoph Scheffel (M.Sc.)
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Chair of Differential and Personality Psychology
Chair of Differential and Personality Psychology
Visiting address:
Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg (BZW), BZW A437 Zellescher Weg 17
01069 Dresden
Office hours:
By arrangement
Research Interests
- Cognitive effort of emotion regulation strategies
- Individual differences of neural correlates of intentional emotion regulation
- Individual subjective values of emotion regulation strategies and their prediction
- Associations between individual differences in EEG and variations in personality
Preprints
§ Shared First-Authorship
Scheffel, C.§, Zerna, J.§, Gärtner, A., Dörfel, D., & Strobel, A. (2022). Estimating individual subjective values of emotion regulation strategies. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/wr8qx
Zerna, J.§, Scheffel, C.§, Kührt, C., & Strobel, A. (2022). When easy is not preferred: An effort discounting paradigm for estimating subjective values of tasks. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/ysh3q
Publications
Paul, K., Short, C. A., Beauducel, A., Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C., Mueller, E. M., Osinsky, R., Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Stahl, J., Strobel, A. & Wacker, J. (in press). The methodology and dataset of the Coscience EEG-Personality Project - a large-scale, multi-laboratory project grounded in cooperative forking paths analysis. Personality Science.
Scheffel, C., Graupner, S., Gärtner, A., Zerna, J., Strobel, A., & Dörfel, D. (2021). Effort beats effectiveness in emotion regulation choice: Differences between suppression and distancing in subjective and physiological measures. Psychophysiology. doi:10.1111/psyp.13908 | Preprint PsyArXiv | OSF
Zerna, J., Strobel, A., & Scheffel, C. (2021). Effects of emotion regulation on EEG microstates - Valence and arousal are not processed sequentially. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/kcp2z | OSF
Dörfel, D.*, Gärtner, A.*, & Scheffel, C.* (2020). Resting state cortico-limbic functional connectivity and dispositional use of emotion regulation strategies: A replication and extension study. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 128. *All authors contributed equally and are listed in alphabetical order. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00128 | Preprint PsyArXiv | Präregistrierung | OSF
Scheffel, C., Diers, K., Schönfeld, S., Brocke, B., Strobel, A., & Dörfel, D. (2019). Cognitive emotion regulation and personality: an analysisof individual differences in the neural and behavioral correlates of successful reappraisal. Personality Neuroscience, 2(e11), 1-13. doi:10.1017/pen.2019.11
Kuitunen-Paul, S., Kuitunen, P.T., Kadric, F., Lachenmeier, D.W., Colic, J., Leonhardt, L., & Scheffel, C. (2019). Assignment of Alcoholic Beverages in the Munich Composite International Diagnostic Interview (M-CIDI): an Online Survey Among German Students and Non-students. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. doi:10.1007/s11469-019-00059-4
Kuitunen-Paul, S.*, Scheffel, C.*, Böhme, F., Kroemer, N.B., Kuipers, L.Y., Kuitunen,P.T., Smolka, M.N., & Bühringer, G. (2019). Interpersonal and intrapersonal relapse predictors in a structured group intervention for smoking cessation. Journal of Substance Use, 24(1), 29-35. doi:10.1080/14659891.2018.1489904
Conference Contributions
Scheffel, C., Graupner, S.-T., Gärtner, A., Zerna, J., Strobel, A. & Dörfel, D. (2021). Impact of subjective effort and personality traits on emotion regulation choice. Talk at the 47th Annual Conference Psychology and Brain, June 16–18 2022, Freiburg.
Scheffel, C.*, Zerna, J.*, Gärtner, A., Strobel, A., & Dörfel, D. (2022). Estimating individual subjective values of emotion regulation strategies. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Affective Sciences, March 30 - April 02 2022, Virtual Conference. Poster auf OSF
Scheffel, C., Graupner, S.-T., Gärtner, A., Zerna, J., Strobel, A. & Dörfel, D. (2021). Effort beats effectiveness in emotion regulation choice. Poster presented at the 46. conference "Psychology and Brain", June 02 to 04, 2021
Scheffel, C., Graupner, S.-T., Gärtner, A., Zerna, J., Strobel, A. & Dörfel, D. (2021). On the Selection of Alternative Emotion Regulation Strategies: Effort beates Effectiveness. Talk at the 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Affective Science, April 13–16 2021, Virtual Conference. Talk and Slides available on OSF
Scheffel, C., Gärtner, A., Diers, K., Dörfel, D. & Strobel, A. (2019). Neural correlates of emotion regulation efficiency in EEG measurements. Poster presented at the 45. conference "Psychology and Brain", June 20 to 22, 2019, Dresden
Scheffel, C., Schönfeld, S., Diers, K., Brocke, B., Strobel A., & Dörfel, D. (2019). Personality and individual differences in emotion regulation. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Affective Sciences, March 21 to 23, 2019, Boston, MA, USA. OSF-Link: https://osf.io/bhge4/
Scheffel, C., Dörfel, D., Schönfeld, S., Diers, K., Brocke, B., & Strobel, A. (2018). Inter-individual differences in neural correlates of emotion regulation. Poster presented at the 44. conference "Psychology and Brain", May 31 to June 2, 2018, Gießen
Awards and funding
2022 | IGOR Prize for Open and Reproducible Science 2022 (2nd Place) |
2022 | Funding through centralised funding of the faculty psychology at TU Dresden (together with Josephine Zerna; 2400 €) |
2022 | Karl-und-Charlotte-Bühler Prize for excellent teaching, awarded by the faculty psychology at TU Dresden |
2021 | Karl-und-Charlotte-Bühler Prize for excellent teaching, awarded by the faculty psychology at TU Dresden |
2020 | OSIP Open Science Award of the faculty psychology at TU Dresden |
2020 | Karl-und-Charlotte-Bühler Prize for excellent teaching, awarded by the faculty psychology at TU Dresden |
2019 | Funding through centralised funding of the faculty psychology at TU Dresden (600 €) |
2019 | Karl-und-Charlotte-Bühler Prize for excellent teaching, awarded by the faculty psychology at TU Dresden |
Scientific Education
2018 |
Master of Science in Psychology: Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience | Technische Universität Dresden |
2015 |
Bachelor of Science in Psychology | Technische Universität Dresden |
Professional Experience
seit 2018 |
Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Differential and Personality Psychology | Technischen Universität Dresden |
2015 - 2018 | Student Research Assistent: project "Mechanisms of Self-Control: The role of anticipated emotions and future thinking in reward regulation" of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 940 of the DFG |
2017 |
Student Research Assistent: work group "Addictive Behaviors, Risk Analysis, and Risk Management" at the Chair of Addiction Research | Technische Universität Dresden |