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Ulrich Müller
Year: 2017
Center: Social Sciences
Supervisor: Georg W. Alpers
Ulrich did his Bachelor in psychology with the focus on clinical psychology and behaviour at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. Afterwards he followed a research master in behavioural science and a master in clinical psychology at the Radboud University and holds a MSc Degree in both fields. Next to his studies he worked for two years as a research assistant conducting data analysis for the Accreditation Committee Behavioural Interventions Judicial System for the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice in Den Haag.
He tries to bring his experience in clinical psychology and research together by focusing on building applications for clinical practice based on fundamental research. During his research master in behavioural science and a subsequent collaboration he did laboratory as well as field experiments to test the clinical application of the peak-end memory bias in Exposure Therapy for specific phobia using psychometric as well as biopsychological measures.
Before enrolling as a PhD Candidate at the CDSS at University of Mannheim, Ulrich worked a couple of months as a Psychologist with children. In the PhD program Ulrich will work together with the research group Clinical and Biological Psychology and Psychotherapy which pursues the same goal: Integrating fundamental research and application-oriented research about psychopathology and psychotherapy.
Research interest:
- Clinical Interventions
- Psycho-biological Measures
- Anxiety
- Memory and its Biases
- Exposure Therapy
Publications
2022
- Müller, U. W. D., Bahnsen, O. & Alpers, G. W. (2022). State anxiety by itself does not change political attitudes: A threat of shock experiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 13(Article 1006757), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1006757
- Müller, U. W. D., Gerdes, A. B. M. & Alpers, G. W. (2022). Time is a great healer: Peak-end memory bias in anxiety – induced by threat of shock. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 159(Article 104206). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104206
- Müller, U. W. D., Gerdes, A. B. M. & Alpers, G. W. (2022). You see what you avoid: Fear of spiders and avoidance are associated with predominance of spiders in binocular rivalry. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 86(Article 102513). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102513
2020
- Rückert, M. M. & Müller, U. (2020). Die Anfänge der Hollensammlung im Spiegel neuer Urkunden im Stadtarchiv Reutlingen. Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, N.F. 59, 109–124.
2019
- Müller, U. W. D., Witteman, C. L. M., Spijker, J. & Alpers, G. W. (2019). All's bad that ends bad: There is a peak-end memory bias in anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(Article 1272), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01272
2020
- Fraunfelter, L.-A., Gerdes, A. B. M., Müller, U. W. D. & Alpers, G. W. (2020). Specific phobia not so specific after all: Evidence for fear generalization in spider and dog phobia. In G. W. Alpers (eds.), Grundlagen- und Psychotherapieforschung Hand in Hand – trotz Social Distancing : eingereichte Abstracts für das verschobene 38. Fachgruppensymposium Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie 2020 (S. 150–151). , Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie, Biologische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Universität Mannheim: Mannheim.
- Müller, U. W. D., Gerdes, A. B. M., Fraunfelter, L.-A. & Alpers, G. W. (2020). Do not fear the ending: Peak-end memory bias for anxiety by threat of shock. In G. W. Alpers (eds.), Grundlagen- und Psychotherapieforschung Hand in Hand – trotz Social Distancing : eingereichte Abstracts für das verschobene 38. Fachgruppensymposium Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie 2020 (S. 148). , Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie, Biologische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Universität Mannheim: Mannheim.
2020
- Alpers, G. W., Gerdes, A. B. M., Büdenbender, B., Flora, G., Höfling, T., Hengen, K. M., Hies, O. B., Fraunfelter, L.-A., Köther, A. K., Müller, U. W. D., Siebenhaar, K. U. & Meachon, E. (eds.) (2020). Grundlagen- und Psychotherapieforschung Hand in Hand – trotz Social Distancing : eingereichte Abstracts für das verschobene 38. Fachgruppensymposium Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie 2020 Bd. 1: Symposienbeiträge . Mannheim: Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie, Biologische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Universität Mannheim.
- Alpers, G. W., Gerdes, A. B. M., Büdenbender, B., Flora, G., Fraunfelter, L.-A., Höfling, T., Hengen, K. M., Hies, O. B., Köther, A. K., Müller, U. W. D., Siebenhaar, K. U. & Meachon, E. (eds.) (2020). Grundlagen- und Psychotherapieforschung Hand in Hand – trotz Social Distancing : eingereichte Abstracts für das verschobene 38. Fachgruppensymposium Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie 2020 Bd. 2: Posterbeiträge . Mannheim: Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie, Biologische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Universität Mannheim.
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