Prof. Dr. Johannes Hewig

Phone	+49 931 31-82463
Fax	+49 931 31-82425
E-Mail	hewig@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de
Room	02.016, Pleicherwall 1
Office hours	only after advance notification

Publications

Recent publications

Educational History

2012	Second position on list of calling for W3-Professur of differential psychology, personality psychology and diagnostics at Institut for psychology at Münster Univerity.
2010	Calling for W2-Professur of differential psychology, personality psychology and diagnostics at University of Potsdam
since 2010	Professor of Psychology (W2) at University of Würzburg
2010	Calling for Professur of Psychology (differential psychology and diagnostics) an at University of Würzburg (first position on calling-list)
2010	Schumpeter-Fellowship of VW-Foundation
2009	Certificate of educational competence (venia legendi) for psychology from Institute of social and behavioural sciences at Friedrich - Schiller University Jena.
2008	Second position on list of calling for W2-Professur biological personalitity psychology at Georg-Elias-Müller-Institut of Psychology at University of Göttingen
2007	Visiting professorship (W2-Professur) of differential psychology, personality psychology and diagnostics at University of Trier
2005	Young Researchers´Award of german socyiety for psychophysiology and applications
2004 - 2010	Research assistant at Institute of biological and clinical psychology at University of Jena
2004	Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in psychology at University of Trier
2002	Research assistant at Institute of psychophysiology , personality Research and methodology at University of Trier
2001	Research assistant at Research Center of psychobiology and psychosomatics at University of Trier
1995 - 2000	Studies of psychology (diploma) at University of Trier

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Research Intrests

Theory of reinforcement learning via error- and feedback negativity
Studies on this topic are investigating decisions, especially in regards of reinforcing and punishing consequences of decisions. A special intrest lies on affective reaction on different levels (behavioural, cortical, measured via EEG, fMRI or skin conductance) to predict upcoming decisions.
frontal asymmetry and motivation
First and foremost, my intrests lie in the interaction of personality and differences of cortial activations. On that point, personality traits like extraversion (Eysenk), impulsiveness and anxiety (Gray), sensation seeking (Zuckerman) or positive and negative affective stile (Davidson) are measured. Furthermore, the relevant affective motivational constructs like arousal, reinforcement, punishment, approach, avoidance, positive and negative affect are operationalized in experiments, to get a better understandig of the interaction of personality and brain activation.
Induction of emotions and interindividual differences in affective responsiveness
The priority is the induction of basic emotions via emotional film clips. Individual differences to these stimuli are measured on different levels via subjecitve ratings, cortiacal measures like fMRI or ERPs and spontanious EEG, as well as with skin conductance and heart rate variability.
Influence of emotions and motivation on attentional processes in healty and clinical groups.
Studies on this topic were about the interaction of basal attentional processing and diffent motivational states or the influence of phobia on information processing, e.g. in attentional blink paradigm, or eyetracking studies about the influence of sex as well as studies about the influence of the propensity for eating disorders on the attentional focus.

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