Curriculum Vitae | Publications | Posters | Ad hoc Peer Reviewer | Research interests | Methods | Teaching
Curriculum Vitae
| 09/2021 | PhD in psychology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz; Thesis: Emotion Regulation in Detail – Investigating the Predictors of Effective Cognitive Reappraisal |
| 09/2020 | Licensed Psychotherapist for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| Since 06/2020 | Research assistant, Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Psychological Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| 06/2017 - 09/2021 | PhD student, Department for Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Psychological Institute, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz |
| 06/2015 - 09/2020 | Postgraduate Training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz |
| 2013 - 2015 | M. Sc. Psychology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg Master thesis: The Perils of Aiming too High: Discrepancy between Goals and Performances in People with Mild Depression |
| 2010 - 2013 | B. Sc. Psychology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg Bachelor thesis: Blaming the Victim’s Character: Effects of Construal Level on Trait Causality |
Publications
Zeier, P., Meine, L., & Wessa, M. (2021). It's worth the trouble: Stressor exposure is related to increased cognitive reappraisal ability. Stress and Health, published online: 08 Oct 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3101
Sandner, M., Zeier, P., Lois, G., & Wessa, M. (2021). Cognitive emotion regulation withstands the stress test: An fMRI study on the effect of acute stress on distraction and reappraisal. Neuropsychologia, 157, 107876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107876
Sandner, M., Lois, G., Streit, F., Zeier, P., Kirsch, P., Wüst, S. & Wessa, M. (2020). Investigating individual stress reactivity: High hair cortisol predicts lower acute stress responses. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 118, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104660
Zeier, P., Sandner, M. & Wessa, M. (2019). Script-based Reappraisal Test - Introducing a new paradigm to investigate the effect of reappraisal inventiveness on reappraisal effectiveness. Cognition & Emotion, published online: 09 Sep 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1663153
Arens, E. A., Zeier, P., Schwieren, C., Huisgen, H. & Barnow, S. (2018). The perils of aiming too high: Discrepancy between goals and performance in individuals with depressive symptoms. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 58, 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.07.002
Kowoll, M. E., Meyer-Kühling, I., Degen, C., Gladis, S., Zeier, P. & Schröder, J. (2018). Elderly migrants in outpatient and inpatient care services in Baden-Württemberg/Germany. Psychiatry Research, 260, 130-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.11.059
Posters
Zeier, P., Sandner, M. & Wessa, M. (2019). Being Inventive in Uncharted Territory – Context Familiarity moderates the Influence of Reappraisal Flexibility on Effectiveness. In Conference on Emotions 2019, Tilburg.
Zeier, P., Sandner, M., & Wessa, M. (2018). Emotion Regulation in the Face of Stress – Investigating Reappraisal Inventiveness as a potential Resilience Mechanism. In ISPNE 2018, Irvine, USA.
Zeier, P., Sandner, M. & Wessa, M. (2018). Cognitive emotion regulation scripts – experimental validation of a new paradigm to investigate cognitive reappraisal. In DGPPN Kongress 2018, Berlin.
Ad hoc Peer Reviewer
- Biological Psychology
- Cognition & Emotion
Research interests
- Emotionregulation in the face of stress (CRC 1193)
- Investigating the details of Cognitive Reappraisal
Methods
- Behavioral data assessment
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Development of psychological tests and questionnaires
- Neuropsychological assessment
Teaching
| Winter 2021/22 | Psychotherapy Research (MSc) Experimental Standard Methods in Clinical Psychology |
| Summer 2021 | Clinical Models and Psychotherapy Research (MSc) Disease and Treatment Progressions, Risks, and Decision-making (MSc) |
| Winter 2020/21 | Psychotherapy research (MSc) |