Institute of Psychology in Education
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The Institute of Psychology in Education is part of the School of Education and currently consists of three departments, which are concerned with Psychological Assessment and Individual Differences, Developmental Psychology, and Educational Psychology.
Main research areas
At the Institute of Psychology in Education we are enthusiastic about research that answers fundamental psychological questions while keeping in mind their usefulness for sustainable social transformation processes in the educational domain.
Research Activities
Psychological Assessment and Individual Differences
Educational Psychology
Developmental Psychology
A Global Developmental Psychology
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.25 → 31.12.30
Project: Research
Ansätze zur Förderung der Gesundheit und Leistungsfähigkeit dienstälterer Lehrkräfte in Niedersachsen
Sieland, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.98 → 31.12.99
Project: Research
LAMBDA: Assessment of students’ initial learning situations in mathematics as a stimulus for data-based school and instruction development
Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic), Nonte, S. (Project manager, academic), Gasteiger, H. (Project manager, academic), Riedel, M. (Project staff), Steinmann, M. (Project staff) & Trypke, M. (Project staff)
01.11.24 → 30.10.27
Project: Research
Atempause: Eine tägliche Kurzintervention zur Achtsamkeit bei Grundschulkindern
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Bergold, J. (Project manager, academic) & Voltmer, K. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.19 → 30.09.23
Project: Research
Didok: Chancen und Herausforderungen digitaler Dokumentation in Kindertagesstätten
Schönborn, H. (Project staff) & Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 01.10.20
Project: Dissertation project
CANDOR: Changing the Attitude of Teachers through Normal and Distance Learning for Open Human Relationships
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic), Petzel, T. (Project staff), Benko, Z. (Project manager, academic) & Heathcote, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.02 → 01.10.05
Project: Research
CODIP: Competences for Digital-Enhanced Individualized Practice
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic), Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Partner), Süßenbach, J. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner), Herzog, C. (Coordination), Altenburger, L. (Project staff), Diekhoff, H. (Project staff), Hase, A. K. (Project staff), Kahnbach, L. (Project staff), Wendt, C. (Project staff), Wucherpfennig, S. (Project staff), Horst de Cuestas, K. (Project staff) & Neumann, A. (Partner)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.03.20 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
Comprehension of iconic gestures in chimapnzees and human children
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.12 → 31.12.12
Project: Individual grant
GGSE: DAK initiative „Developing Healthy Schools Together“
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic), Schumacher, L. (Partner), Sieland, B. (Partner), Rupprecht, S. (Project staff), Schwarzenberg, K. (Project staff), Cramer, I. (Project staff) & Strigl, M. (Project staff)
01.06.07 → 30.06.13
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
DIGI-EXIST: Digitale Gesundheitsprävention für Existenzgründungen - Teilvorhaben: Entwicklung und Evaluation verhaltenspräventiver Bausteine zum Online-Gesundheits-Check und Online Gesundheitstrainings für Gründer und Beschäftigte
Lehr, D. (Coordination), Boß, L. (Project staff) & Funk, B. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.04.16 → 31.10.19
Project: Research
DigiTaL - Subproject 01: Virtual realities for competence development and reflection
Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic), Loschelder, D. (Project manager, academic), Adam, Y. (Project staff), Petrowsky, H. (Project staff), Schweigler, S. (Project staff), Knabbe, F. (Project staff) & Escher, Y. A. (Project staff)
01.08.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Teaching
DYNAMIK 4.0: Ein dynamisches System zur Erfassung und Prävention psychischer Arbeitsbelastungen in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen der Industrie 4.0; Teilvorhaben Usability engineering und technische Implementierung des Web-Tools zur Erfassung psychischer Arbeitsbelastungen
Funk, B. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Coordination) & Bürckner, D. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.16 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
Eine Trainingsstudie zum sozialen und emotionalen Lernen im Kindergarten
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.08 → 31.05.12
Project: Research
Eine Trainingsstudie zum sozialen und emotionalen Lernen im Kindergarten
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.08 → 31.05.12
Project: Research
Erfolgsfaktoren der Implementierung digitaler Angebote in der Betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung am Beispiel Digi Exist (Implement dBGF)
Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.19 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
JIB-Evaluation: Evaluation des Transferzirkels "Jede(r) ist besonders"
Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic) & Müller, U. B. (Project staff)
01.06.17 → 30.11.20
Project: Research
Evolutionary roots of human communication
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → 31.12.16
Project: Individual grant
FDS-G: Fühlen Denken Sprechen in der Grundschule - Fortbildung zur durchgängigen inhaltsorientierten Sprachförderung für alle Betreuungspersonen - Teilprojekt Emotionsentwicklung
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Voltmer, K. (Project manager, academic), Koch, K. (Partner), Langlotz, M. (Partner) & Hormann, O. (Partner)
01.12.22 → 30.11.25
Project: Research
BISS-FDS: Fühlen Denken Sprechen: Professionalisierung alltagsintegrierter sprachlicher Bildung bei ein- und mehrsprachlich aufwachsenden Kindern
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Mähler, C. (Project manager, academic), Cloos, P. (Project manager, academic) & Koch, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.16 → 31.01.20
Project: Research
Gender Equality in the 21st Century - Country-Level and Individual-Level Factors Related to Women’s and Men’s Intentions to Contribute to Childcare – A Cross-National Comparison across 49 Countries
Schuster, C. (Project manager, academic), Martiny, S. E. (Partner), Schmader, T. (Partner), Block, K. (Partner), Van Laar, C. (Partner) & Meeussen, L. (Partner)
15.01.21 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
Kompetenzorientierung in der Lehrerausbildung
Sieland, B. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
16.03.07 → 29.07.09
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
KEMOV: Konzeption und Evaluierung eines Mindset-orientierten Verhandlungstrainings
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic), Warsitzka, M. (Project manager, academic) & Mann, M. (Project staff)
01.08.20 → 15.10.23
Project: Research
LERN-IF: Learning process diagnostics and learning supportive performance feedback in inclusive subject teaching
Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic), Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic), Töllner, F. (Project staff) & Renftel, K. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.21 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
ManyPrimates: Establishing a Culture of Collaboration in Primate Cognition Research
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Research
Mental Accounting in Allocation Negotiations
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic), Majer, J. (Project staff), Zhang, H. (Project manager, academic), Moran, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ritov, I. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.11.18 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
Mental Accounting in Negotiations
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.17 → 30.06.22
Project: Research
Mental Accounting in Negotiations
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic), Zhang, H. (Project manager, academic) & Majer, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.18 → …
Project: Research
MindMatters
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic) & Nieskens, B. (Project staff)
01.12.06 → 30.09.13
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Mindsets in value-driven conflicts
Schuster, C. (Project manager, academic) & Harinck, F. (Partner)
01.08.20 → 31.07.21
Project: Research
NELSEN: NEtwork of Large-Scale Studies Including Students with Special Educational Needs
Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
PIN9: Peers in Netzwerken Klasse 9 (PIN 9): Eine Längsschnittstudie zu den Folgen der Ganztagsbeschulung für die Peerbeziehungen, die Ausbildung der sozialen und emotionalen Kompetenzen, des Problemverhaltens und der Schulzufriedenheit
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.09.10 → 30.06.13
Project: Research
PIN: Peers in Netzwerken: Welche Auswirkungen hat die Ganztagsbeschulung auf die Einbindung von Jugendlichen in Peer-Netzwerke und Freundschaften und auf die Entwicklung sozialer und emotionaler Kompetenzen?
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.08 → 31.05.10
Project: Research
Prädikatoren und Indikatoren für die Nachhaltigkeit quartärer Bildungsmaßnahmen - Auf dem Wege zu einem transferorientierten Bildungscontrolling zur Analyse und Förderung der Nachhaltigkeit von Personal- und Organisationsentwicklungsmaßnahmen im Bildungssystem
Sieland, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.10 → 16.07.15
Project: Research
PragmatiKK: Pragmatische Lösungen für die Implementation von Maßnahmen zur Stressprävention in Kleinst- und Kleinbetrieben; Teilprojekt Implementierung von webbasierten Trainings zur Bewältigung von Stress und stressbedingten Beschwerden
Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic) & Boß, L. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.09.18 → 28.02.23
Project: Research
Process Gains and Process Losses in Negotiations
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic), Schulz-Hardt, S. (Project manager, academic), Reichold, J. (Project manager, academic) & Warsitzka, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.16 → 30.09.18
Project: Research
Profilstudium: Bachelor Lehren und Lernen
Schwedler-Diesener, A. (Project manager, academic), Troll, B. (Project manager, academic), Süßenbach, J. (Project manager, academic) & Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.21 → …
Project: Teaching
Profilstudium im Lehramt
Schwedler-Diesener, A. (Coordination), Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic) & Buhrfeind, I. (Project staff)
Project: Teaching
Prozess-Framing in Verhandlungen: Angebots- versus forderungsbasierte Verhandlungsführung
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → 31.10.16
Project: Research
Publikation eines Forschungsberichtes in Buchform. Erstellung einer druckfertigen Vorlage für einen Verlag für das Projekt mit dem Förderkennzeichen FKZ GTS 0808
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.11 → 31.03.11
Project: Research
Quantifying children’s everyday experiences
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.23 → 31.12.25
Project: Individual grant
Quantifying nonlinear dynamics in psychological data (Heisenberg-Professur)
Wallot, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.20 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
Raum und Zahl
Ebel, L. (Project staff), Labahn, F. (Project staff), Gölitz, D. (Project manager, academic) & Neidhardt, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.09 → 31.10.11
Project: Research
Regularities in Reading Times
Wallot, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.21 → 31.12.22
Project: Research
Research Fellowship der Jacobs Foundation
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
26.12.22 → 31.12.27
Project: Research
SCMHE: School Children Mental Health Europe
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic) & Gölitz, D. (Project manager, academic)
27.11.07 → 29.04.15
Project: Research
SchulStark-Feriencamp
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Coordination)
01.01.16 → 15.05.17
Project: Teaching
Shifting standards for boys and girls in the classroom
Schuster, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.18 → 30.04.19
Project: Research
ReflexProfi-L: Strengthening the reflection skills of students in the profile study in teacher education
Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic), Süßenbach, J. (Project manager, academic) & Schwedler-Diesener, A. (Project staff)
01.09.22 → 29.02.24
Project: Teaching
ZIL-Kontakt: Sustainable information logistics for digital contact tracing of infectious diseases
Drews, P. (Project manager, academic), Funk, B. (Project manager, academic), Heger, J. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic), Zimmer, M. P. (Coordination), Kortmann, F. (Project staff), Fassmeyer, P. (Project staff) & Usko, N. (Project manager, academic)
21.05.21 → 31.03.23
Project: Research
Sustainable Solutions in Intergenerational Conflicts
Majer, J. (Project manager, academic), Schütte, C. (Project staff) & Trötschel, R. (Partner)
01.05.19 → …
Project: Research
Symbolic literacy: Young children’s developing understanding of the relation between symbol and referent in the graphic domain
Deiglmayr, A. (Project manager, academic), Kachel, G. (Project manager, academic) & Bohn, M. (Partner)
01.01.20 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Testing children’s role in the (r)evolution of language
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic) & Cournane, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
The Interplay of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Conflicts as a Barrier to Sustainable Solutions
Majer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.21 → 31.03.24
Project: Research
A-SYM: The role of (non-)synchronous coordination and its quantification in joint action
Wallot, S. (Project manager, academic), Mønster, D. (Project manager, academic), Leonardi, G. (Project manager, academic) & Gordon, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.21 → 30.06.25
Project: Research
UCOM: Understanding Communal Orientation in Men
Block, K. (Coordination), Martiny, S. E. (Partner), Meeussen, L. (Partner), Olsson, M. (Partner), Schmader, T. (Partner), Schuster, C. (Partner), Van Grootel, S. (Partner) & Van Laar, C. (Partner)
01.11.17 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
Web-basiertes Nachsorgeprogramm
Sieland, B. (Project manager, academic), Tarnowski, T. (Project staff), Ebert, D. D. (Project staff) & Berking, M. (Project staff)
01.03.08 → 14.11.11
Project: Practical Project
Zusammenhänge zwischen räumlichen Fähigkeiten, räumlichem Vorwissen und mathematischen Leistungen im Vorschulalter und bei Schulbeginn
Neidhardt, E. (Project manager, academic) & Gölitz, D. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.08 → 17.07.12
Project: Research