Alexander F. Behnke (Dipl.-Psych.)

VITA

Graduation at Martin-Andersen-Nexø Gymnasium Dresden (2008); university studies in psychology and industrial engineering & management at TUD (2008-15); scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) (2009-15); student research assistant at TUD Department of Differential and Personality Psychology (since 2010); internship at the Institute for Work and Health (IAG) of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) (2012-13); Italian studies at the Ca'Foscari Università Venezia, Italy (2014-15); graduation thesis supervised by Dr. Diana Armbruster (2015); research assistant in the CRC 940 at the TUD Department of Differential and Personality Psychology, head by Prof. Dr. Alexander Strobel (since 2015); research assistant at the Department of Clinical & Biological Psychology, University of Ulm, head by Prof. Dr. Iris-Tatjana Kolassa (since 2016)

Research Interests

• Influence of traumatic stress and stressful childhood experiences on cell biology and immunological markers in the context of trauma-spectrum disorder etiology (e.g., PTSD or depression)
• Impact of individual differences in personality, emotion, and cognition on altruistic moral punishment (student thesis are welcome)
• Emotional regulation and anxiety in the etiology of trauma-associated disorders

(more: Research)

PubliCationS

Enge, S., Behnke, A., Fleischhauer, M., Küttler, L., Kliegel, M., & Strobel, A. (2014). No evidence for true training and transfer effects after inhibitory control training in young healthy adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(4), 987-1001. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0036165 

Conference Papers

Gärtner, A., Dimitrov, A., Behnke, A. & Strobel, A. (2015). EREM – a new paradigm to assess cognitive emotion regulation success? Poster presented at CRC 940 Spring School , March 26-27th, Dresden

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