Nicola Baumann
My main research interest is self-determination: Personal and social determinants, neuropsychological correlates and health outcomes. Other research interests are affect regulation, terror management, resistance to temptation, goal-motive congruence, rumination and flow.
On a broader level, I am interested in the interplay between cognitive and emotional processes in many different domains. My work is based on the functional framework of Personality Interactions Theory (PSI) in which personality is defined as the typical interaction between cognitive and affective systems within a person.
CURRICULUM VITAE
2008-present: Professor, Personality Psychology, University of Trier
2008: Research Award, Osnabrücker Scientific Society
2007: Habilitation, University of Osnabrück
1999-2000: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester, New York
1998: Dissertation, University of Osnabrück
1993: Diploma in Psychology, University of Osnabrück
PRACTICAL WORK
2000-2001: Psychotherapist, Clinic for Orthopaedic Rehabilitation
1998-1999: Lecturer and Coach, Catholic Family-Education-Centre, Osnabrück
1990-1999: Training in client-centred Psychotherapy
Primary Interests:
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Self and Identity
Research Group or Laboratory:
- Personality Laboratory
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Journal Articles:
- Baumann, N., Kaschel, R., & Kuhl, J. (2007). Affect sensitivity and affect regulation in dealing with positive and negative affect. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 239-248.
- Baumann, N., Kaschel, R., & Kuhl, J. (2005). Striving for unwanted goals: Stress-dependent discrepancies between explicit and implicit achievement motives reduce subjective well-being and increase psychosomatic symptoms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 781-799.
- Baumann, N., & Kuhl, J. (2005). How to resist temptation: The effects of external control versus autonomy support on self-regulatory dynamics. Journal of Personality, 73, 443-470.
- Baumann, N., & Kuhl, J. (2005). Positive affect and flexibility: Overcoming the precedence of global over local processing of visual information. Motivation and Emotion, 29, 123-134.
- Baumann, N., & Kuhl, J. (2003). Self-infiltration: Confusing assigned tasks as self-selected in memory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 487-497.
- Baumann, N., & Kuhl, J. (2002). Intuition, affect, and personality: Unconscious coherence judgments and self-regulation of negative affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1213–1223.
- Baumann, N., Kuhl, J., & Kazén, M. (2005). Left-hemispheric activation and self-infiltration: Testing a neuropsychological model of internalization. Motivation and Emotion, 29, 135-163.
- Baumann, N., & Scheffer, D. (in press). Seeing and Mastering Difficulty: The role of affective change in achievement flow. Cognition and Emotion.
- Kazén, M., Baumann, N., & Kuhl, J. (2005). Self-regulation after mortality salience: National pride feelings of action-oriented German participants. European Psychologist, 10, 218-228.
- Kazén, M., Baumann, N., & Kuhl, J. (2003). Self-infiltration vs. self-compatibility checking in dealing with unattractive tasks: The moderating influence of state vs. action orientation. Motivation and Emotion, 27, 157-197.
- Kuhl, J., Baumann, N., & Kazén, M. (2007). What goals make good grades – and why? Academic Exchange Quarterly: Self-Regulation of Learning, 11 (4), 192-196.
- Quirin, M., Koole, S., Baumann, N., Kazén, M., & Kuhl, J. (2009). You can’t always remember what you want: The role of cortisol in false self-ascriptions of assigned goals. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 1026-1032.
Other Publications:
- Baumann, N. (in press). Volitional and emotional correlates of the motivational structure questionnaire: Further evidence for construct validity. In W. M. Cox & E. Klinger (Eds.) Handbook of motivational counseling: Second Edition. Sussex: Wiley.
- Baumann, N., Gebker, S., & Kuhl, J. (2010). Hochbegabung und Selbstregulation: Ein Schlüssel für die Umsetzung von Begabung in Leistung. In F. Preckel, W. Schneider & H. Holling (Eds.) Jahrbuch der Pädagogischen Diagnostik - Tests & Trends: Hochbegabung (pp. 141-167). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
- Baumann, N., Kazén, M., & Kuhl, J. (2010). Implicit motives: A look from Personality Systems Interaction theory. In O. C. Schultheiss & J. C. Brunstein (Eds.), Implicit Motives (pp. 375-403). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Courses Taught:
- Diagnostics
- Motivational Counseling
- Personality Psychology
- Self, Affect, and Personality
Nicola Baumann
FB I - Psychologie
Universität Trier
54286 Trier
Germany
- Phone: +49-651-201 2899
- Fax: +49-651-201 3979
