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Barbara Kreis
Year: 2021
Center: Social Sciences
Supervisor: Julia Groß
Barbara K. Kreis is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the CDSS. She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree of Psychology at the University of Saarland (Germany) and studied for one semester at the University of Bergen (Norway).
Since her third semester, Barbara worked as a research assistant at the chair of “Development of Language, Learning and Action” of Prof. Jutta Kray. She was part of a research project on adolescent development. In her degree theses, she examined the development of adolescent risk-taking and its relation to other constructs such as working memory, cognitive control and the socio-emotional system.
Barbara is generally interested in decision-making and learning processes. In her PhD studies she focuses on hindsight bias and its potential underlying mechanisms. Methodologically, she is interested in a Bayesian approach to data analysis and statistical modeling.
Publications
2023
- Groß, J., Kreis, B. K., Blank, H. & Pachur, T. (2023). Knowledge updating in real-world estimation: Connecting hindsight bias and seeding effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001452
- Groß, J., Loose, A. M. & Kreis, B. K. (2023). A simple intervention can improve estimates of sugar content. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition : JARMAC, 2023, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000122
2021
- Kray, J., Kreis, B. K. & Lorenz, C. (2021). Age differences in decision making under known risk: The role of working memory and impulsivity. Developmental Psychology, 57(2), 241–252. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001132
2020
- Kreis, B. K., Lorenz, C. & Kray, J. (2020). Dismantling decision-making under known risk in adolescence – On the influence of incentive value, expected value and cognitive abilities. In C. Lange-Küttner (eds.), TeaP 2019 : abstracts of the 61st Conference of Experimental Psychologists, (Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender PsychologInnen) April, 15th to 17th, London, England, United Kingdom (S. 46). , Pabst Science Publishers: Lengerich.
Credit: Tsvetina Tsonkova