Dr. rer. nat. Josephine Zerna
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Research Assistant
NameMs Josephine Zerna M.Sc.
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Research Interest
- Need for Cognition
- Emotion regulation
- EEG Microstates
- Effort Discounting
Josephine Zerna is member of the local Open Science Initiative of the Faculty of Psychology (OSIP)
Publications
Zerna, J., Strobel, A., & Strobel, A. (2024). The role of Need for Cognition in well-being – Review and meta-analyses of associations and potentially underlying mechanisms. Collabra: Psychology. 10(1): 92885. 10.1525/collabra.92885
Kohrs, F. E., Auer, S., [...] , Zerna, J., Zorbek, D., Zumstein, P., & Weissgerber, T. L. (2023). Eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science training the norm at research institutions. eLife, 12, e89736. 10.7554/elife.89736
Zerna, J.*, Scheffel, C.*, Kührt, C., & Strobel, A. (2023). Need for Cognition is associated with a preference for higher task load in effort discounting. Nature Scientific Reports. 13(19501). doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-44349-3 | OSF
Scheffel, C.*, Zerna, J.*, Gärtner, A., Dörfel, D., & Strobel, A. (2023). Estimating individual subjective values of emotion regulation strategies. Nature Scientific Reports. 13(13262) (2023). doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-40034-7 | OSF
Zerna, J., Engelmann, N., Strobel, A., & Strobel, A. (2022), Need for cognition and burnout in teachers – A replication and extension study. Health Psychology Open. 9(2). doi: 10.1177/20551029221139679 | 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. 58(e13908). doi: 10.1111/psyp.13908 | OSF
Zerna, J., Strobel, A. & Scheffel, C. (2021). EEG microstate analysis of emotion regulation reveals no sequential processing of valence and emotional arousal. Nature Scientific Reports. 11(21277). doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-00731-7 | OSF
* shared first authorship
Projects
- Subproject MGK (CRC 940)
- Cognitive and Affective Discounting (CAD)
- Need for Cognition and Well-Being
Conference Contributions
- Poster Presentation "EEG microstate analysis reveals no sequential processing of valence and emotional arousal", 46th Annual Conference Psychology & Brain, 2021, Online
- Flash Talk "EEG microstate analysis reveals no sequential processing of valence and emotional arousal", Society of Affective Science, 2022, Online
- Pre-Data Talk "When easy is not preferred: A paradigm for estimating load-independent task preference", 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society, 2022, Hildesheim
- Pre-Data Talk "Estimating subjective values of emotion regulation strategies", 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society, 2022, Hildesheim
- Symposium Presentation "Need for Cognition and psychological Well-being", 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society, 2022, Hildesheim
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Poster Presentation "When easy is not preferred: A discounting paradigm to assess load-independent task preference", 48th Annual Conference Psychology & Brain, 2023, Tübingen
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Symposium "Effort and reward in cognitive and affective contexts" (Session Chair & Talk), 17th Conference of the DGPs Section for Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics, 2023, Salzburg
Auszeichnungen
- IGOR Prize for Open and Reproducible Science 2023 for the Registered Report "When easy is not preferred: A discounting paradigm to assess load-independent task preference", awarded at the 48th Annual Conference Psychology & Brain, 2023, Tübingen
- OSIP Open Science Award 2023 for the Registered Report "Need for Cognition is associated with a preference for higher task load in effort discounting"