Stefan Scherbaum
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Scherbaum
M.Sc. Cognitive Science
Consultation Hour
For the recognition of module credits and for any other matters, please come to my consultation hour. No appointment is required; a first-come, first-served principle applies within the available time.
Monday (during the lecture period): 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
For credit recognition, please bring the prepared recognition forms in printed form, as well as all documents required for reviewing the recognition (transcript, module descriptions, either printed or digital).
Research
- Open Science Initiative of the Faculty of Psychology
- Signatory of the OSIP Research Transparency Statement
- Empirical recording and computational modeling of the dynamics of mental processes in the areas of
- Cognitive control, attention and action control
- decision-making
- Social coordination
- Investigation of systems-psychological methods for therapy and councelling
- Improvisational methods, conitive flexibility, and mental health
- Environmental psychology & sustainable behavior
Teaching
- Module M1 Methods of Psychology (BSc., 1st & 2nd semester)
- Module coordinator
- Lecture Introduction to the Methods of Psychology (WS)
- LectureExperimental Design and Sampling (SS)
- Module M5 Evaluation and Metaanalysis (BSc. 5th semester)
- Module coordinator
- Lecture & Seminar
- Module CAN6 Advanced Statistical Methods (MSc. CAN, 1st & 2nd semester)
- Module coordinator
- Module seminars in WS and SS
- Module coordination Module M4 Experimental Psychology (BSc., 3rd & 4th semester)
Supervision of theses and research internships
I am constantly offering topics for Bachelor's and Master's theses and research internships and look forward to hearing from you.
Committees and functions
- Chairperson of the Examination Committee of the Bachelor's degree program in Psychology
- Representative of the Faculty of Psychology on the Doctoral Committee of the School of Science
- Substitute representative on the Faculty Board
- Representative of the Faculty
- Contact person for good scientific practice
- Initiator of the Faculty's Open Science Initiative
- Co-founder of the german society for applied improvisation in therapy.
Publications
2020
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Psychometrics of the continuous mind: Measuring cognitive sub-processes via mouse tracking, 1 Apr 2020, In: Memory and Cognition. 48, 3, p. 436-454, 19 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Costly avoidance in anxious individuals: Elevated threat avoidance in anxious individuals under high, but not low competing rewards, Mar 2020, In: Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry. 66, 101524Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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The impact of the verbal instruction and task characteristics on effect-based action control, 21 Feb 2020, In: Cognitive processing : international quarterly of cognitive science. 21, 2, p. 271-285, 15 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Correction to: Validating mouse-tracking: How design factors influence action dynamics in intertemporal decision making (Behavior Research Methods, (2019), 51, 5, (2356-2377), 10.3758/s13428-018-1179-4), 1 Feb 2020, In: Behavior research methods. Vol. 52. p. 446, 1 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to specialist publication > Corrections (errata and retractions)
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An approach to social flexibility: Congruency effects during spontaneous word-by-word interaction, 2020, In: PLoS ONE. 6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Changes-of-mind in the absence of new post-decision evidence, 2020, In: PLoS Computational Biology. 16, 2, e1007149Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Expectancy effects in the EEG during joint and spontaneous word-by-word sentence production in German, 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 1Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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From high- to one-dimensional dynamics of decision making: testing simplifications in attractor models, 2020, In: Cognitive processing : international quarterly of cognitive science. 21, p. 303-313Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Improv to Improve: The Impact of Improvisational Theater on Creativity, Acceptance, and Psychological Well-Being, 2020, In: Journal of creativity in mental health / the Association for Creativity in Counseling, a Division of the American Counseling Association. 18 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Studying brain activity during word-by-word interactions using wireless EEG, 2020, In: PLoS ONE. 3Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article