Dr. Kornelia Godenschwege-Gentsch | Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology

Curriculum Vitae

since 2025	Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Neuropsychology and Psychological Resilience Research, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany Supervision: Prof. Dr. Michèle Wessa
2021-2025	Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Supervision: Prof. Dr. Michèle Wessa
2015-2021	Training in Psychological Psychotherapy, with a focus on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), AfP Erfurt Licensed Psychological Psychotherapist (Approbation) with certification in group therapy (CBT)
2013-2016	Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives, CISA), University of Geneva, Switzerland Supervision: Prof. Dr. Klaus Scherer, Prof. Dr. Didier Grandjean, Prof. Dr. David Sander Also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva Supervision: Prof. Dr. Camille Piguet, Prof. Dr. Jean-Michel Aubry
2009-2013	Doctoral Researcher, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland Supervision: Prof. Dr. Klaus Scherer, Prof. Dr. Didier Grandjean PhD in Psychology (docteure en psychologie, summa cum laude)
2004-2009	Diploma in Psychology, University of Würzburg, Germany, and Cardiff University, UK

Publications

Kolnes, M., Gentsch, K., Steenbergen, H., & Uusberg, A. (2022). The mystery remains: Breadth of attention in Flanker and Navon tasks unaffected by affective states induced by an appraisal manipulation. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2056580

Murray, R. J., Gentsch, K., Pham, E., Celen, Z., Castro, J., Perroud, N., Van De Ville, D., Vuilleumier, P., & Piguet, C. (2021). Identifying disease-specific neural reactivity to psychosocial stress in borderline personality disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.11.015

Gentsch, K., Beermann, U., Wu, L. D., Trznadel, S., & Scherer, K. R. (2020). Temporal unfolding of micro-valences in facial expression evoked by visual, auditory, and olfactory stimuli. Affective Science. doi: 10.1007/s42761-020-00020-y

Loderer, K., Gentsch, K., Duffy, M., Zhu, M., Xie, X., Chavarría, J. A., Vogl, E., Soriano, C., Scherer, K. R. & Pekrun, R. (2020). Are concepts of achievement-related emotions universal across cultures? A semantic profiling approach. Cognition & Emotion, 34. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2020.1748577

Coutinho, E., Gentsch, K., Van Peer, J., Scherer, K. R., & Schuller, B. (2018). Evidence of emotion-antecedent appraisal checks in electroencephalography and facial electromyography. PLoS One, 13, e0189367. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189367

Rügamer, D., Brockhaus, S., Gentsch, K., Scherer, K. R., & Greven, S. (2017). Boosting factor-specific functional historical models for the detection of synchronisation in bioelectrical signals. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. doi: 10.1111/rssc.12241

Berchio, C., Piguet, C., Gentsch, K., Küng, A., Rihs, T. A., Hasler, R. F., Aubry, J., Dayer, A., Michel, C. M., & Perroud, N. (2017). Face and Gaze perception in borderline personality disorder: an electrical neuroimaging study. Journal: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 269, 62–72. https://doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.08.011

Gentsch, K., Loderer, K., Soriano, C., Fontaine, J., Eid, M. Pekrun, R., & Scherer, K. R. (2017). Effects of Achievement Contexts on the Meaning Structure of Emotion Words. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 379–388. https://doi:10.1080/02699931.2017.1287668

Gentsch, K., Grandjean, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2015). Temporal dynamics and potential neural sources of goal conduciveness, control, and power appraisal. Biological Psychology, 112, 77–93. https://doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.10.001

Gentsch, K., Grandjean, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2015). Appraisals generate specific configurations of facial muscle movements in a gambling task: evidence for the component process model of emotion. Plos One, 10, e0135837. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135837

Gentsch, K., Grandjean, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2014). Coherence explored between emotion components: Evidence from event-related potentials and facial electromyography. Biological Psychology, 98, 70–81. https://doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.11.007

Gentsch, K., Grandjean, D., & Scherer, K. (2013). Temporal dynamics of event-related potentials related to goal conduciveness and power appraisals. Psychophysiology, 50, 1010–1022. https://doi:10.1111/psyp.12079

Research Topics

Emotion and emotion regulation
Mechanisms of coping and of resilience
Appraisal processes in emotion and coherence of emotion components in healthy and clinical population
Cognitive biases and emotion dysregulation in psychopathology
Central and peripheral psychophysiological measures (EEG, EMG, fMRI)
Emotional facial expressions and facial mimicry
Semantic structure of emotion words and context effects

Teaching

Summer 2021

Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (M.Sc.)

Scientific Memberships

International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE)
Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS)
European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN)
American Psychological Association (APA)

Scholarships and Funding

05/2015	Travel grant by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
2014-2015	Mentorat relève for promoting female researchers, mentor Prof. Dr. M. Betrancourt, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
2009-2013	Swiss Doctoral School in Affective Sciences, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
2008-2009	Erasmus Scholarship for student mobility at Cardiff University, United Kingdom, awarded by the European Commission