Prof. Dr. Andreas Eder

Biography

Andreas Eder is a Professor for Psychology at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg in Germany. His main research interests are the emotional and motivational controls of goal-directed actions with a focus on approach-avoidance orientations and aggression. In 2008, he received the Heinz-Heckhausen Young Scientist Prize from the German Psychological Society (DGPs). His research has been supported by several research grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG). He joined the board of several scientific journals (e.g., Cognition and Emotion) and he was editor-in-chief of the journal Experimental Psychology.

Academic History

since 2016

Full Professor (W2), Institute for Psychology, University of Würzburg (JMU)

2010 - 2016

Juniorprofessor (W1), Institute for Psychology, University of Würzburg (JMU)

2005 - 2010

Post-Doc, Department of General Psychology II, University of Jena

2006

Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Freiburg i.Br.

2002 - 2005

Ph.D. Student, Department of Personality and Social Psychology, University of Bonn

1995 - 2002

Study of Psychology (Diploma), University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Teaching Activities

Lecture on motivation and emotion; Lecture on empirical research methods; Seminars on aggression and violence; learning; emotional action; evolutionary psychology; embodied cognition; social cognition; introduction to social psychology; motivation and emotion in applied settings;

(Advanced) research seminars in experimental psychology

Editorial Activities

since 2021

Recommender, Peer Community In: Registered Reports (PCI RR)

since 2017

Associate Editor, Cognition & Emotion

2018-2021

Editor-in-chief, Experimental Psychology

2017-2018

Associate Editor, Experimental Psychology

2015-2017

Academic Editor, PLOS ONE

2010-2017

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Cognition

 

Reviewer Activities

Acta Psychologica
Affective Science
American Journal of Psychology
Appetite
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Behavior Research Methods
Biological Psychology
BioMed Central Psychology
Brain and Cognition
Brain Research
Brain Sciences
British Journal of Psychology
British Journal of Social Psychology
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
Clinical Psychological Science
Cognition
Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognition and Emotion (Board of Advisors, 2007-2015)
Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology
Consciousness and Cognition
Discover Psychology
Emotion
Emotion Review
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
European Journal of Social Psychology
Experimental Psychology
Frontiers in Psychology
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research
Human Brain Mapping
Human Movement Science
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
International Journal of Psychology
International Journal of Psychophysiology
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journal of Visualized Experiments
Learning and Instruction
Motivation and Emotion
Motivation Science
Movement & Sport Sciences
PLoS ONE
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Personality and Social Psychology Review
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Psychological Reports
Psychological Research
Psychological Science
Psychology Science Quarterly
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Royal Society Open Science
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
Science of Learning (npj)
Scientific Reports
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Social Psychology
Visual Cognition

Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation (Humboldt)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Fulbrigtht Germany (Fulbright)
Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
National Science Centre Poland (NCN)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Awards

2007

3rd prize in a contest of the Section "Allgemeine Psychologie" of the German Psychological Society for the best dissertation in the years 2005 and 2006 (Fachgruppe)

2008

Heinz-Heckhausen-Jungwissenschaftlerpreis (DGPs)

Grants

DFG Ed201/2-1 Mechanisms of affective action control, 2011-2014
DFG Ed201/2-2 Mechanisms of affective action control, 2015-2018 (continuation)
DFG Ed201/3-1 Approach-avoidance training: Processes and applications, 2015-2019
DFG Ed201/3-2 Approach-avoidance training: Processes and applications, 2020-2023 (continuation)
DFG Ed201/7-1 Feedback control of aggression, 2016-2020
DFG Ed201/7-2 Feedback control of aggression, 2021-2024 (continuation)

 

Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP)
European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN)
International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance
International Society for Emotion Research (ISRE)
Psychonomic Society (PsySoc)
Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM)

Talks

I discontinued to update my list of talks from 2016 on. 

Invited Talks

Eder, A. B. (2015, November). Emotionale Ideo-Motorik. Invited talk at the Kolloquium of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, University of Trier, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2014, July). Prediction in and of emotional action. Invited talk at the International Summer School in Affective Sciences “Emotion meets action”, Geneva, Switzerland.

Eder, A. B. (2014, July). Wie Erwartungen unser Verhalten steuern: ein ideomotorischer Ansatz. Invited talk at the Fachbereich Psychologie, University of Marburg, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2014, June). Emotionale Handlungsbereitschaften—ein ideomotorisches Modell. Invited talk at Institut für Psychologie, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2014, May). Motivational effects of posttraining reinforcer devaluation on reinforcer-specific Pavlovian-to-transfer. University of Jena, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2013, April). Emotionales Handeln: Ein ideomotorischer Ansatz. Invited talk at the Institut für Psychologie (Section Research Methods and Psychological Assessment), University of Mannheim, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2012, June). Mechanismen affektiver Handlungssteuerung.In vited talk at the Institut für Psychologie, University of Ulm, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2011, December). An S-O-R model of affective action control. Keynote talk at the CoMo Meeting, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Eder, A. B. (2011, December). Approach-Avoidance Tasks: How do they work and what do they measure? Invited talk at the Department of Psychology (Cognitive Psychology Unit), University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

Eder, A. B. (2011, January). Mechanismen affektiver Handlungssteuerung. Invited talk at the Lehrstuhl I (Personality and Differential Psychology), University of Wuerzburg, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2010, November). Mechanismen affektiver Handlungssteuerung. Invited talk at the Lehrstuhl III (Cognitive Psychology), University of Wuerzburg, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2010, June). Mechanisms of affective action control. Invited talk at the Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2009, May). Automatic response activation in affective priming: An LRP-study. Invited talk at the Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Psychologie I,, University Jena, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2008, July). Evaluative Kodierung von Annäherungs- und Vermeidungsreaktionen. Invited talk at the Abteilung für Sozialpsychologie, Dortmund, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2008, January). Evaluative Kodierung von Annäherungs- und Vermeidungsreaktionen. Invited talk at the Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Psychologie II, Bielefeld, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2007, December). Evaluative Kodierung von Annäherungs- und Vermeidungsreaktionen. Invited talk at the Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II, Würzburg, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2007, November). An evaluative coding view of approach and avoidance reactions. Invited talk at the Department Experimental Psychopathology, Ghent, Belgium.

Eder, A. B. (2007, October). Automatic affect and indirect attitude measurements. Lecture at the NWO Cognition Autumn School on Learning and Social Cognition, Doorwerth, The Netherlands.

Eder, A. B. (2007, June). Common coding of action and evaluation. Invited talk at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2007, March). Common Coding von 2Handlung und Bewertung. Invited talk at the "7. Dissertationswettbewerb der FG Allgemeine Psychologie der deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie", Potsdam, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Hamm-Eder, S. (2005, July). Seeing illusory correlations through a narrow window. Invited talk at the Department of Social Psychology, University Heidelberg, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2004, December). Gemeinsame Kodierung von Handlung und Bewertung. Invited talk at the "Kognitionspsychologisches Kolloquium", University Jena, Germany.

Conference Talks

Eder, A. B., & Dignath, D. (2013, May). Acquisition of Action Effects through Verbal Instructions. Presentation held at the Expert Meeting "Learning through Instructions", Ghent, Belgium.

Eder, A. B., & Dignath, D. (2013, April). I like to get nothing: Explicit and implicit evaluations of approach- and avoidance-related outcomes. Presentation held at the "55. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Wien, Austria.

Eder, A. B., Rothermund, K., De Houwer, J., & Hommel, B. (2012, November). Directive and incentive functions of affective action effects. Presentation held at the Psychonomic Society's 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Eder, A. B. (2012, September). Emotion und Verhalten: Ein S-O-R Modell der affektiven Verhaltenssteuerung. 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bielefeld, Germany.

Eder, A. B., Rothermund, K., & De Houwer, J. (2012, January). Affective compatibility between stimuli and response effects: A primer for a new attitude task.Presentation held at the "54. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Mannheim, Germany.

Eder, A. B., Rothermund, K., & De Houwer, J. (2012, January). Affective compatibility between stimuli and response-contingent effects: A primer for a new attitude task. Poster presented at the "Small Group Meeting on the Acquisition and Activation of Evaluative Information", Leuven, Belgium.

Eder, A. B., & Rothermund, K. (2011, October). A response-discrimination account of implicit attitude measures. Poster presented at the "17. Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology" [ESCOP], Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.

Eder, A. B., Rothermund, K., De Houwer, J., & Hommel, B. (2011, March). Affektive Effektantizipation in der Verhaltenssteuerung. Presentation held at the "53. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Halle, Germany.

Eder, A. B., Leuthold, H., Rothermund, K., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2010, March). Automatic Response Activation in Sequential Affective Priming: An LRP-Study. Presentation held at the "52. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Saarbrücken, Germany.

Eder, A. B., Leuthold, H., Rothermund, K., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2009, June). Automatische Reaktionsaktivierung im sequentiellen affektiven Priming: Eine LRP-Studie. Poster presented at the "35. Arbeitstagung Psychophysiologie und Methodik" [APM], Leipzig, Germany.

Eder, A. B., Rothermund, K., & Proctor, R. W. (2009, March). The prepared emotional reflex: Intentional preparation of automatic approach and avoidance tendencies. Presentation held at the "51. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Jena, Germany.

Rothermund, K., Eder, A. B., & Frings, C. (2009, March). Affektive Modulation von Retrieval-Prozessen. Presentation held at the "51. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Jena, Germany.

Bernhold, P., Eder, A. B., & Rothermund, K. (2009, March). Automatic influence of arousal information on evaluative processing. Poster presented at the "51. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Jena, Germany.

Eder, S., & Eder, A. B. (2009, March). Input and output effects in supra-span serial recall. Poster presented at the "51. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Jena, Germany.

Eder, A. B., Kunde, W., & Kiesel, A. (2008, March). Evaluative Primeverarbeitung im subliminalen affektiven Priming. Presentation held at the "50. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Marburg, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Rothermund, K. (2007, March). Instruktionen kodieren Annäherungs- und Vermeidungsreaktionen. Presentation held at the "49. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Trier, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2007, March). Kosten und Nutzen einer Valenzintegration in Handlungspläne. Presentation held at the "8. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaften" [KogWis], Saarbrücken, Germany.

Eder, A. B. (2006, November). Semantische Primeverarbeitung im subliminalen affektiven Reaktionspriming? Presentation held at the "39. Herbsttreffen Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie" [HExKoP], Braunschweig, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Hamm-Eder, S. (2005, September). Einfluss der Arbeitsgedächtniskapazität auf die Wahrnehmung einer illusorischen Korrelation. Presentation held at the "10. Tagung der FG Sozialpsychologie", Jena, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K.C. (2005, August). Common valence coding: Affective blindness towards response-compatible stimuli. Poster presented at the XIV. Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Leiden, The Netherlands.

Otto, C., & Eder, A. B (2005, April). Automatische Stimmungsansteckung infolge suboptimaler Darbietungen von traurigen oder fröhlichen Gesichtsausdrücken. Poster presented at the "47. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Regensburg, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Müsseler, J. (2005, April). Spezifische Interferenzen zwischen affektiven Reaktionen. Presentation held at the "47. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Regensburg, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2004, December). Control of approach and avoidance movements by common affect codes. Poster presented at the meeting "Neuroscience and Cognitive Control", Ghent, Belgium.

Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2004, November). Spezifische Interferenzen zwischen Handlungen und Evaluationen. Presentation held at the "37. Herbsttreffen Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie" [HExKoP], Würzburg, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2004, September). Was ist mit Valenz kompatibel - Handlungsplan oder motorisches Feedback? Presentation held at the "44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie", Göttingen, Germany.

Musch, J., Eder, A. B. & Klauer, K. C. (2004, September). Mechanisms of affective priming in the evaluative decision task. Invited talk at the symposium "Understanding emotions: Insights into emotion, communication, and brain", Freudental, Germany.

Klauer, K. C., Musch, J., & Eder, A. B. (2004, June). Response-related priming and attitude-related priming in the evaluative decision task. Paper presented at the "Small Group Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology on Conscious and Unconscious Attitudinal Processes", LaCristalera, Spain.

Musch, J., Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2004, April). Response priming and attitude priming in the evaluative decision task. Presentation held at the "46. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Giessen, Germany.

Schenk, M., Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2004, April). Kompatibilität zwischen Handlungsplänen und evaluativen Entscheidungen. Poster presented at the "46. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP Giessen]

Boettcher, A., Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2004, April). Affektive Blindheit gegenüber reaktionskompatiblen selbst- und fremdrelevanten Stimuli. Poster presented at the "46. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Giessen, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2004, April). Handlungsvalenz-Blindheit und Antworttendenzen. Presentation held at the "46. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Giessen, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2003, September). Kompatibilität als Nachteil: Affektive Blindheit gegenüber reaktionskompatible Stimuli. Presentation held at the "9. Tagung der FG Sozialpsychologie", Heidelberg, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2003, May). Affektive blindness to reaction-compatible stimuli. Presentation held at the "Doktoranden-Workshop der FG Sozialpsychologie", Würzburg, Germany.

Eder, A. B., & Klauer, K. C. (2003, March). Affektive Blindheit gegenüber reaktionskompatible Stimuli. Presentation held at the "45. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], Kiel, Germany.

Eder, A. B., Musch, J., & Klauer, K. C. (2002, March). Erklärungsmodelle für den Mere Exposure Effekt. Presentation held at the "44. Tagung für experimentell arbeitende Psychologen" [TEAP], chemnitz, Germany.

Talks for the Public

Eder, A. B. (2011, November). Reiß dich am Riemen! Wie wir Emotionen kontrollieren können. VHS Aschaffenburg.

Eder, A. B. (2009, October). Embodied Emotion. Katholische Studentengemeinde Jena.