Christoph Scheffel, PhD

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Research Associate

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Mr Dr. rer.nat. Christoph Scheffel (M. Sc.)

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Chair of Differential and Personality Psychology

Chair of Differential and Personality Psychology

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Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg (BZW), BZW A437 Zellescher Weg 17

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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

Sicorello, M., Zaehringer, J., Paschke, L., Steimke, R., Stelzel, C., Gianaros, P. J., LaBar, K. S., Graner, J. L., Kim, S. H., Wessa, M., Sandner, M., Weinmar, F., Derntl, B., Kraynak, T. E., Huneke, N. T. M., Fagan, H., Kohn, N., Fernandez, G., Yan, L., Marin-Morales, A., Verdejo-Roman, J., Steward, T., Harrison, B. J., Davey, C. G., Dorfel, D., Walter, H., Neta, M., Pierce, J., Stolz, D. S., Kissler, J., Benzait, A., Erk, S., Berboth, S., van Reekum, C. M., Tupitsa, E., Mulej Bratec, S., Sorg, C., Muller-Pinzler, L., Sokolowski, A., Dragan, W. L., Folkierska-Zukowska, M., Jentsch, V. L., Merz, C. J., Scheffel, C., Diers, K., Nashiro, K., Heinke, S., Min, J., Mather, M., Gärtner, A., McRae, K., Powers, J. P., Doren, N., Maier, S. U., Nebe, S., Dziobek, I., Gaebler, M., Daniels, J. K., Burghardt, M., Schmidt, S. N. L., Hofhansel, L., Habel, U., & Morawetz, C. (2025). The elusive neural signature of emotion regulation capabilities: Evidence from a large-scale consortium. bioRxiv.    https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.18.670843

Zerna, J., Clay, G., & Scheffel, C. (2025). Feedback is associated with higher subjective values of n-Back levels in effort discounting. PsyArXiv. osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gqudh_v1

Gärtner, A.^§, Scheffel, C.^§, Schweikert, T., & Dörfel, D. (2025, March 13). The FlexER-Scale: A new Self-report Measure of Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation Flexibility. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hprbz_v1

Publications

^§ Shared First-Authorship

Zerna, J., Clay, G., & Scheffel, C. (2026). Feedback is associated with higher subjective values of n-Back levels in effort discounting. Acta Psychologica, 268, Article 107280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107280

Scheffel, C. & Gärtner, A. (2025). The role of cognitive effort in emotion regulation. Affective Science, 575 - 586. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-025-00324-x

Paul, K., Beauducel, A., Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C., Lange, L., Mueller, E. M., Osinsky, R., Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Short, C. A., Stahl, J., Strobel, A., & Wacker, J. (2024). Frontal alpha asymmetry as a marker of approach motivation? Insights from a cooperative forking path analysis. Journal of personality and social psychology, 128(1), 196-210. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000503

Beauducel, A., Scheuble-Cabrera, V., Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C., Leon, L., Müller, E. M., Osinsky, R., Paul, K., Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Short, C. Stahl, J., Strobel, A., Wacker, J. (2024). The association of dispositional anxiety with the NoGo N2 under relaxation instruction versus speed/accuracy instruction. Biological Psychology,  Article 180850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108850

Scheffel, C., Korb, F., Dörfel, D., Eder, J., Möschl, M., Schoemann, M., & Scherbaum, S. (2023). Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis und Open Science im Empiriepraktikum: Wissenschaftlicher Kompetenzerwerb durch Replikationsstudien [Good scientific practice and open science in empirical practical: scientific literacy acquisition through replication studies.]. Psychologische Rundschau. 74(4), 241-243. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000643

Zerna, J.^§, Scheffel, C.^§, Kührt, C., & Strobel, A. (2023). Need for Cognition is associated with a preference for higher task load in effort discounting. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 19501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44349-3| Preprint PsyArXiv | OSF | Github

Scheffel, C.^§, Zerna, J.^§, Gärtner, A., Dörfel, D., & Strobel, A. (2023). Estimating individual subjective values of emotion regulation strategies. Scientific Reports, 13, 13262. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40034-7 | Preprint PsyArXiv | OSF | Github

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. (2022). The methodology and dataset of the Coscience EEG-Personality Project - a large-scale, multi-laboratory project grounded in cooperative forking paths analysis. Personality Science, 3, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7177 | OSF

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). EEG microstate analysis of emotion regulation reveals no sequential processing of valence and emotional arousal. Scientific Reports, 11, 21277. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00731-7 | 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 and Talks

Scheffel, C. & Gärtner, A. (2025). Associations between inhibitory control and subjective values of emotion regulation strategies. Poster presented at the 50th annual conference “Psychology and the brain”, June 18 – 21 2025, Würzburg.

Scheffel, C., Zerna, J., Dörfel, D., & Strobel, A. (2025). Associations between subjective values of emotion regulation strategies and cognitive effort. Talk at the 12th annual conference of the Society for Affective Science (SAS), March 20 – 22 2025, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Scheffel, C., Zerna, J., Gärtner, A., Dörfel, D., & Strobel, A. (2024). The CAD paradigm for estimating individual subjective values of emotion regulation strategies. Talk at the 53rd Congress of the German Society for Psychology, September 16 - 19 2024, Vienna, Austria.

Scheffel, C. (2024). The role of cognitive effort in emotion regulation. Talk at the 49th Annual Conference „Psychologie und Gehirn“, May 29 – June 01 2024, Hamburg.

Scheffel, C., Zerna, J., Gärtner, A., Dörfel, D., & Strobel, A. (2023). Influence of cognitive effort on subjective values of emotion regulation strategies. Talk at the 17th Biennal Conference of the section Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Psychological Assessment, September 24 – 27 2023, Salzburg.

Kräplin, A. & Scheffel, C. (2023). Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis als Voraussetzung für glaubwürdige Forschung [Good scientific practice as a requirement for credible science]. Talk at the 8th Saxonian Data Salon "Fake News", June 29 2023, Dresden.

Scheffel, C., Zerna, J., Gärtner, A., Dörfel, D., & Dörfel, D. (2023). The CAD paradigm for estimating individual subjective values of emotion regulation strategies. Talk at the 48th Annual Conference „Psychologie und Gehirn“, June 08 – 10 2023, Tübingen.

Scheffel, C., Zerna, J., Gärtner, A., Dörfel, D., & Strobel, A. (2022). Estimating individual subjective values of emotion regulation strategies. Talk at the 52nd Congress of the German Society for Psychology, September 10 - 15 2022, Hildesheim.

Scheffel, C., Graupner, S.-T., Gärtner, A., Zerna, J., Strobel, A. & Dörfel, D. (2022). 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

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