Dr. Aleksandra Kaurin | Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology

Since 01/2019 employee at the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research

Curriculum Vitae

08/2019 - 05/2021	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (Prof. Dr. Aidan Wright)
since 04/2019	Additional Training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (CBT), Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
02/2019	PhD in Clinical Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Thesis: "Interpersonal impression formation in the context of developmental dimensional psychopathology“ (summa cum laude)
since 04/2015	Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
04/2017	Visiting researcher at the National Intitute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, Mood Brain & Development Unit (Argyris Stringaris)
01-05/2017	Visiting researcher at the University of California Riverside, Department of Psychology (David Funder, Kalina Michalska, Brent Hughes)
04/2015 - 02/2019	PhD Student, Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Insitute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
since 04/2015	Professional training in cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy at the Centre for Psychological Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
09/2014 – 03/2015	Research Fellow at King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mood and Development Lab (Argyris Stringaris, Emily Simonoff)
03/2015	MSc (Clinical Psychology), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, MSc Thesis: Does an observational approach to the assessment of anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorders increase diagnostic accuracy?
06/2012	BSc (Psychology), Trier University, BSc Thesis: Flanker effects in gifted children – the moderating role of working memory capacity

Awards and Grants

2020	Best Dissertation Award, Friends of the University Mainz (2500€)
2019	Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2018	Rosenthal Nonverbal Preconference Poster Award, Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2018	Foreign travel award for the 19th Annual Meeting of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2016/2017	Graduate Student Travel Award for the 18th Annual Meeting of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2017 in San Antonio, Texas, USA
01 – 05 2017	Visiting Scholars Program, Fulbright Commission
01/2016 – present	Junior Member of the Gutenberg Academy for Young Researchers, University of Mainz, Germany
04/2010 – 04/2015	Student Scholarship, Heinrich Böll-Foundation (Green Political Foundation),
09/2014 – 03/2015	Research Fellowship at King’s College London, United Kingdom, Heinrich Böll-Foundation

Publications

Kaurin, A., Wright, A. G., Hallquist, M., & Dombrovski, A. (in press). Momentary Interpersonal Processes of Suicidal Surges in Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychological Medicine.
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/es35w

Kaurin, A., S. L. Sequeira, S., Ladouceur, C.D., McKone, K.M.P., Rosen, D., Jones, N., Wright, A.G.C., & Jennifer S. Silk. (in press). Modeling Sensitivity to Social Threat in Adolescent Girls: A Psychoneurometric Approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/489k3/

Lois, G., Schneider E.E., Kaurin, A., & Wessa, M. (2020). Altered Neural Responses to Social Fairness in Bipolar Disorder. NeuroImage: Clinical, 102487.

Kaurin, A., Hisler, G., Dombrovski, A.Y., & Wright, A.G.C. (2020). Sleep Predicts Momentary Suicidal Ideation in Persons with Borderline Personality Disorder. https://osf.io/4vugk/

Kaurin, A., Wright, A. G., & Kamarck, T. (2020, January 31). Daily Stress Reactivity: The Unique Roles of Personality and Social Context. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/4nvf3

Kaurin, A., Beeney, J. E., Stepp, S. D., Scott, L. N., Woods, W. C., Pilkonis, P. A., & Wright, A. G. (2020). Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder: Differential Effects on Situational Socio-Affective Processes. Affective Science, 1(3), 117-127.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fncjg

Wright, A. G., & Kaurin, A. (2020). Integrating Structure and Function in Conceptualizing and Assessing Pathological Traits. Psychopathology, 1-9. doi: 10.1159/000507590

Kaurin, A. & Funder, D. (2018). From situational construal to interpersonal dynamics. European Journal of Personality. http://10.1002/per.2174

Kaurin, A., Heil, L., Wessa, M., Egloff, B., & Hirschmüller, S. (in press). Selfies reflect actual personality – just like portraits, full-body images and videos in standardized in-lab conditions. Journal of Research in Personality. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2018.08.007

Kaurin, A., Sauerberger, K., & Funder, D. (2018). Associations between Informant Ratings of Personality Disorder Traits, Self‐reports of Personality and Directly Observed Behavior. Journal of Personality. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12376

Kaurin, A., Schönfelder, S. & Wessa, M. (2018). Self-compassion buffers the link between self-criticism and depression in trauma-exposed firefighters. Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 65(4), 453-462. doi: 10.1037/cou0000275

Kaurin, A., Egloff, B., Stringaris, A. & Wessa, M. (2016). Only complementary voices tell the truth: A reevaluation of validity in multi-informant approaches. Journal of Neural Transmission, 123, 981–990. doi: 10.1007/s00702-016-1543-4

Bossert, M., Kaurin, A., Preckel, F. & Frings, C. (2014). Response-compatibility effects in children. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 11(1), 90-101. doi: 10.1080/17405629.2013.819286

Talks and Posters

Kaurin, A., Dombrovski, A.Y., Hallquist, M. N., & Wright, A.G.C. (Nov 2020). Modelling Suicidality in response to Daily Interpersonal Stress using Real-Time Micro-Trajectories. In Kaurin, A. & Coppersmith, D. (Chairs), Nock, M. K. (Discussant): Real-Time Monitoring of Suicide Risk To Understand, Predict, and Prevent Suicide. 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (virtual conference).

Invited Talk at the 48th Meeting of the der Ärztekammer Niedersachsen at Langeoog (2019): Evidenzbasierte Resilienzförderung in der Psychotherapie.

Schneider, E. E., Kaurin, A., Witthöft, M., Bräscher, A., & Wessa (2019). Latent change trajectories of subjective stress throughout cognitive-behavioral therapy: Evidence for a transdiagnostic construct. 9th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Berlin.

Lois, G., Schneider, E. E., Kaurin, A., & Wessa (2019). Neural basis of ambiguous unfairness in Bipolar Disorder: an fMRI study using the Ultimatum Game. 45th Annual Meeting “Psychologie und Gehirn”, Dresden.

Kaurin, A., & Wessa (2019). Endocrinological and subjective stress responses to assess the efficacy of emotion regulation in children. Talk at the 11th Workshopkongress für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie and 37th Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie der DGPs, Erlangen.

Kaurin, A., & Wessa (2019). How we perceive clinically relevant characteristics of children and adolescents. Poster at the 11th Workshopkongress für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie and 37th Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie der DGPs, Erlangen.

Kaurin, A. (2018, October). How social networks affect psychological wellbeing: A community-level, interpersonal affect regulation approach. Talk at the Relationships and Social Cognition Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley.

Kaurin, A., Sauerberger, K., & Funder, D. (2018). Associations between Informant Ratings of Personality Disorder Traits, Self-reports of Personality and Directly Observed Behavior. Poster at the 19th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Kaurin, A., Heil, L., Egloff, B., Wessa, M., & Hirschmüller, S. (2018). Selfies reflect actual personality – just like photos or short videos in standardized lab conditions. Poster at Non-Verbal Preconference of 19th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Kaurin, A., Vidal-Ribas Belil, P., Wessa, M., Simonoff, E., & Stringaris, A. (2017). Unlocking anxiety expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence from the lab and clinical settings. Poster at the 47th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE), Zürich, Switzerland, September 2017.

Kaurin, A., Müller, H., Schunk, D., Dziobek, I., Wessa, M. (2017). To perceive is to suffer? Associations of empathy and negative affectivity. Poster at the 18th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Kaurin, A., Mikita, N., Hollocks, M., Carter Leno, V., Aslani, A., Papadopoulos, A. S., Harrison, S., Vidal-Ribas Belil, P., Mc Duff, D., Simonoff, E. & Stringaris, A. (2016, Mai).
Verhaltensbeobachtung und computerbasierte Affekterkennung im Rahmen der Angstdiagnostik bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen. Poster beim 34. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der DGPs, Bielefeld.

Kaurin, A., Mikita, N., Hollocks, M., Carter Leno, V., Aslani, A., Papadopoulos, A. S., Harrison, S., Vidal-Ribas Belil, P., Mc Duff, D., Simonoff, E. & Stringaris, A. (2016, March/April). A human and machine based observational approach in ASD. Talk at the 2nd World Conference on Personality Psychology, Búzios, Brazil.

Research Interests

For an overview, please visit https://aleksandrakaurin.com

Methods / Workshops

(Network-)Metaanalysis, Structural Equation Modelling, Multilevel Models, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Eye-Tracking, EEG

Reviewer for

Biological Psychology
Clinical Psychological Science
Journal of Personality Disorders
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Psychological Medicine
European Journal of Psychological Assessment
Frontiers Psychology
Journal of Personality Assessment
Addictive Behaviors
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Teaching

Summer 2019	Mechanisms of psychological disorders
Winter 2018/19	Clinical Personality Psychology
Summer 2018	Biological Psychology: A developmental perspective on our social brain
Winter 2017/18	Biological Psychology: A developmental perspective on our social brain
Winter 2016/17	Introduction to psychological experiments
Summer 2015	Introduction to Psychological Experiments, B. Sc. Psychology: Me, Me, Me: Selfie – Effects and interindividual differences