Team
Project Leaders
Markus Quirin is a professor of personality psychology and motivation at PFH Göttingen as well as a research fellow at Technical University of Munich. In 2017 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research, which was published in more than 70 peer-reviewed, international journal articles, focuses on personality, motivation, emotion, and volition („self-regulation“), their complex causal interplay, measurement, brain mechanisms and relationships to psychological health.
Selected Recent Publications
Malekzad, F., Jais, M., Hernandez, G., Kehr, H., & Quirin, M. (2022). Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals. Theory & Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543221086598
Quirin, M., Kerber, A., Küstermann, E., Radtke, E. L., Kazén, M., Konrad, C., Baumann, N., Ryan, R. M., Ennis, M., & Kuhl, J. (2022). Not the master of your volitional mind? The role of the right medial prefrontal cortex in self-chosen versus introjected goals and relationships with personality. Frontiers in Psychology, 33. doi: 10.3389fpsyg.2022.740925.
Quirin, M., & Kuhl, J. (2022). The concert of personality: Explaining personality functioning and coherence by personality systems interactions. European Journal of Personality, 36, 274–292.
Quirin, M., Robinson, M. D., Rauthmann, J. F., Kuhl, J., Read, S. J., Tops, M., DeYoung, C. G. (2020). The Dynamics of Personality Approach: Twenty Tenets for Uncovering the Causal Mechanisms of Personality. European Journal of Personality, 34, 947–968.
Quirin, M., Jais, M., Di Domenico, S. I., Kuhl, J., Ryan, R. M. (2021). Effortless Willpower? The Integrative Self and Self-Determined Goal Pursuit. Frontiers in Psychology, 18.
Godehard Brüntrup is a philosopher and theologian. He is a professor of philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology at Munich School of philosophy in Munich, Germany. He also teaches regularly in the USA (he has held positions at St. Louis University, Fordham University, and the University of Notre Dame, among others). Recently, he was the leader of a large-scale interdisciplinary research project on motivation and human flourishing funded by Templeton.
Selected Recent Publications
“Job’s Final Insight, Narratives, and the Brain”. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 2021 (13), p 4-23
„Wahrheit vom Gottesstandpunkt? Zur Semantik theologischer Aussagen“ Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie" 2022 (144), 1, p. 95-111
Tugend und Eudaimonie. In: Theologie und Philosophie 93. Jahrgang (2018), Heft 3,S.389 - 408.
Der Ort der Freiheit in der Natur In: von Stosch, Klaus/ Wendel, Saskia/ Breul, Martin/ Langenfeld, Aaron (eds.) Streit um die Freiheit. Philosophische und Theologische Perspektiven. Schoeningh, 2018.
Die Freiheit des Willens - ein noch aktueller Begriff? In: RphZ - Zeitschrift für Rechtsphilosophie 2017/3, p. 251-265
"Emergent Panpsychism". In: Brüntrup, Godehard / Jaskolla, Ludwig (eds.): Panpsychism. Oxford University Press 2016
Team Members
Lieke Asma holds Master’s degrees in cognitive psychology and philosophy of behavioral science. In 2018, she defended her dissertation entitled Consciousness in Intentional Action at the VU Amsterdam. She is employed at the Munich School of Philosophy, where she currently conducts research on the nature of implicit bias, funded by an individual research grant from the DFG. Her book on free will and behavioral science (2021) was shortlisted for the Socrates Cup and the Hypatia-prize.
Selected Recent Publications
Asma, L. J. F. (2022). On the nature of implicit motives. Theory and Psychology.
Asma, L. J. F. (2022). Habitual virtuous action and acting for reasons. Philosophical Psychology.
Asma, L. J. F. (2021). Mijn Intenties en Ik. Filosofie van de Vrije Wil. Boom uitgevers Amsterdam.
Asma, L. J. F. (2021). The guidance theory of action: A critical review. Topoi, 40, 687-694. doi: 10.1007/s11245-020-09711-4.
Asma, L. J. F. (2017). There is no free won’t: The role definitions play. Journal of Consciousness
Studies, 24(5-6), 8-23.
Gina Hernández holds a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science (Carleton University, Canada). In 2021, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Implicit Measures of Affect for the Study of Daily Stress at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Currently, she conducts research on implicit affectivity, funded by a research grant from the Technical University of Munich.
Selected Recent Publications
Hernandez, G.P., Edo, S., Quirin, M., & Rovira, T. (2020). A Brief Version of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT-18). Psychologica Belgica, 60(1), 315–327. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/pb.544
Hernandez, G. P., Rovira, T., Quirin, M., & Edo, S. (2020). A Spanish Adaptation of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT). Psicothema, 32(2), 268-274. doi: 10.7334/psicothema2019.297
Weil, A. S., Hernandez, G. P., Suslow, T., & Quirin, M. (2019). Implicit Affect: A Review of Research Using the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test and Links with Autonomous Nervous System Reactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1634. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01634
Christof Wolf - CV - (project multi-media manager) is a dramaturge and CEO/Executive Producer of Loyola Productions Munich and DOK TV & Media, as well as pastor of the English-speaking Catholic Community at Berchmanskolleg in Munich. He is a lecturer “for Art, Culture, and Religion” at the Munich School of Philosophy, teaches “filmmaking as advocacy” at St. Louis University, is chaplain for the “Association of Catholic Journalists in Germany” (GKP), and chaplain for the “Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs” (BKU) in Munich. He leads film retreats around the world and is the founder and President of TIFF (The Iñigo Film Festival) for World Youth Day, a gathering of young people from around the world.
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Elena Fischer holds a master's degree in clinical psychology (University of Salzburg, Austria). She is pursuing a PhD and is employed at the PFH Göttingen, where she teaches and conducts research on coaching.
Selected Recent Publications
Fischer, E., Glashauser, A. & Laireiter, A.R. (2022). Development and Evaluation of a Prospective Group Coaching Program: Increasing Well-Being and Openness to the Future in a Subclinical Sample. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-44.
Schuster, R., Fischer, E., Jansen, C., Napravnik, N., Rockinger, S., Steger, N., & Laireiter, A. R. (2022). Blending Internet-based and tele group treatment: Acceptability, effects, and mechanisms of change of cognitive behavioral treatment for depression. Internet Interventions, 100551.
Farhood Malekzad (M.Sc. in general psychology, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran-Iran) investigates implicit traits and dynamic processes of affect, motivation, volition, and how they are linked to personality changes and growth.