Dr. rer. nat. Josephine Zerna

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Ms Josephine Zerna M.Sc.

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Chair of Differential and Personality Psychology

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BZW, A439 Zellescher Weg 17

01069 Dresden

Germany

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
Poster Presentation "When easy is not preferred: A discounting paradigm to assess load-independent task preference", 48th Annual Conference Psychology & Brain, 2023, Tübingen
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"