Dr. Sophia Christin Weißgerber

Akademischer Werdegang

Berufliche Tätigkeiten

Submitted for publication

Endres, T., Bender, L., Weissgerber, S. C., Sepp, S., Zhang, S., David, L., Trypke, M., Bohm, J., Castro-Alonso, J. C., & Fred Paas (2024).  Language effects on mental effort and load – a first step towards translingual research.

Lazarević, L. Wagge, J. R. Balci. B. B., … Weissgerber, S.C., … Grahe, J. E. (2024). Collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can pro-environmental behavior be promoted by priming status motivation?

Weissgerber, S. C. &, Rummer, R. (2024). A multi-verse lack of replication for working memory capacity as moderator of the perceptual disfluency effect.

Peer Reviewed

Hall, B., Wagge, J., Pfuhl, G., … Weissgerber, S. C., ... Grahe, J. E. (2024). Registered replication report of Turri, J., Buckwalter, W. & Blouw, P. (2015). Knowledge and luck. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Manuscript accepted for Publication.

Weissgerber, S. C., Terhorst, D. I. P., & Rummer, R. (2024). Is the perceptual disfluency effect moderated by learners’ working memory capacity? Direct replication of Lehmann et al. (2016). Metacognition & Learning, 19, 293-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-023-09366-7

Weissgerber, S.C.*, & Rummer, R.* (2023). More accurate than assumed: Learners’ metacognitive beliefs about the effectiveness of retrieval practice. Learning & Instruction, 83, 101678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101679 (* geteilte Erstautorenschaft)

Weissgerber, S. C., Grünberg, C., Neufeld, L., Steppat, T., & Reinhard, M. (2022). The interplay of math anxiety and math competence for later performance. Social Psychology of Education, 25, 977–1002. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-022-09700-y

Weissgerber, S. C., Brunmair, M., & Rummer, R. (2021). Null and void? Errors in meta-analysis on perceptual disfluency and recommendations to improve meta-analytical reproducibility. Educational Psychology Review, 33(3), 1221–1247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09579-1

Abel, R., Brunmair, M., & Weissgerber, S. C. (2021). Change one category at a time: Sequence effects beyond interleaving and blocking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(7), 1083–1105. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001003

Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J. K., …Weissgerber, S. C., … Coles, N. A. (2021). To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour, 5(1), 159–169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2

Ebersole, C. R., Mathur, M. B., Baranski, E., …Weissgerber, S.C., ... Nosek, B. A. (2020). Many Labs 5: Testing pre-data collection peer review as an intervention to increase replicability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(3), 309–331. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920958687

IJzerman, H., Ropovik, I., Ebersole, C. R., …Weissgerber, S. C., …Day, C. R. (2020). Many Labs 5: Registered replication of Förster, Liberman, and Kuschel’s (2008) study 1. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 366–376. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920916513

Landy, J. F., Jia, M. L., Ding, I. L., ...Weissgerber, S.C., … Uhlmann, E. L. (2020). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin, 146(5), 451–479. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000220

Hu, C.-P., Yin, J., Lindenberg, S., Dalğar, I., Weissgerber, S. C., ... IJzerman, H. (2019). Data from the Human Penguin Project: A cross-national dataset testing principles from social thermoregulation theory. Nature – Scientific Data, 6, Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0029-2

Reinhard, M.-A., Weissgerber, S. C., & Wenzel, K. (2019). Performance expectancies moderate the effectiveness of more or less generative activities over time. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1623. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01623

Weissgerber, S. C., Reinhard, M.-A., & Schindler, S. (2018). Learning the hard way: Need for cognition influences attitudes towards and self-reported use of desirable learning difficulties. Educational Psychology, 38, 176–202. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2017.1387644

Weissgerber, S. C., & Reinhard, M.-A. (2018). Pilot study on the relationship of test anxiety to utilizing self-testing in self-regulated learning. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 10(4), 95–109. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v10n4p95

IJzerman, H., Lindenberg, S., Dalğar, İ., Weissgerber, S. C., … Zickfeld, J. H. (2018). The Human Penguin Project: Climate, social integration, and core body temperature. Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.165

Weissgerber, S. C., & Reinhard, M.-A. (2017). Is disfluency desirable for learning? Learning and Instruction, 49, 199–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.02.004

IJzerman, H., Čolić, M., Hennecke, M., …Weissgerber, S. C., … Lindenberg, S. (2017). Does distance from the equator predict self-control? Lessons from the Human Penguin Project. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 22–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16001035

Thomas, J., O’Hara, L., Quadflieg, S., & Weissgerber, S. C. (2017). Acculturation, out-group positivity and eating disorders symptoms among Emirati women. Eating and Weight Disorders Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 23(2), 241–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-016-0358-5

Weissgerber, S. C., Reinhard, M.-A., & Schindler, S. (2016). Study harder? The relationship of achievement goals to attitudes and self-reported use of desirable difficulties in self-regulated learning. Journal of Psychological and Educational Research, 1, 42–60.

Wang, Y., Thomas, J., Weissgerber, S. C., Kazemini, S., Ul-Haq, I., & Quadflieg, S. (2015). The headscarf effect revisited: Further evidence for a culture-based internal face processing advantage. Perception, 44, 328–336. https://doi.org/10.1068/p7940

IJzerman, H., Gallucci, M., Pouw, W., Weißgerber, S. C., van Doesum, N., Metrova, M., & Williams, K. (2012). Cold-blooded loneliness: Social exclusion leads to lower skin temperatures. Acta Psychologica, 140(3), 283–288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.05.002