Katja Pollak
Primary Advisor: Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel (University of Freiburg)
Additional Supervisors: JProf. Dr. Veronika Lerche, Prof. Dr. Andreas Voss
Dissertation Proposal: Evaluating and Applying Ratcliff's Diffusion Model in the Context of Sport Psychology
Publications
Frenkel, M. O., Pollak, K. M., Schilling, O., Voigt, L., Fritzsching, B., Wrzus, C., Egger-Lampl, S., Merle, U., Weigand, M. A., & Mohr, S. (2022). Stressors faced by healthcare professionals and coping strategies during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. PloS One, 17(1), e0261502. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261502
Olderbak, S., Pollak, K. M., Sanchez, J. F., & Hildebrandt, A. (2022). Assessing individual differences in face recognition: No impact of task design features on the structure of this ability. Psychological Assessment, 34(12), 1172–1179. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001173
Olderbak, S., Uusberg, A., MacCann, C., Pollak, K. M., & Gross, J. J. (2022). The Process Model of Emotion Regulation Questionnaire: Assessing Individual Differences in Strategy Stage and Orientation. Assessment, 10731911221134601. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911221134601
Pollak, K. M., Boecker, L., Englert, C., & Loschelder, D. D. (2022). How Much Do Severely Injured Athletes Experience Sport Injury-Related Growth? Contrasting Psychological, Situational, and Demographic Predictors. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 44(4), 295–311. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2021-0282
Pollak, K. M., Olderbak, S. G., Randall, A. K., Lau, K. K., & Duran, N. D. (2022). Comparing self-reported emotions and facial expressions of joy in heterosexual romantic couples. Personality and Individual Differences, 184, 111182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111182
Pollak, K. M., Shao, S., Knutson, J. M., Gill, H., Lee, Y.‑V., McKay, S. L., & Cameron, C. A. (2022). Adolescent psychological and physiological responses to frustration- and anxiety-provoking stressors. Current Psychology, 41(1), 395–405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00582-6
Richard, M. E., Gerhardt, E., Pollak, K. M., Duan, T., Knutson, J. M., Dmytro, D., & Cameron, C. A. (2023). Gender Norms and Culture in Asian-Canadian Adolescent Boys’ Anticipating Dating Relationships. Journal of Adolescent Research, 074355842311662. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584231166296
Vohs, K. D., Schmeichel, B. J., Lohmann, S., Gronau, Q. F., Finley, A. J., Ainsworth, S. E., Alquist, J. L., Baker, M. D., Brizi, A., Bunyi, A., Butschek, G. J., Campbell, C., Capaldi, J., Cau, C., Chambers, H., Chatzisarantis, N. L. D., Christensen, W. J., Clay, S. L., Curtis, J., . . ., Pollak, K. M.,..., Albarracín, D. (2021). A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect. Psychological Science, 32(10), 1566–1581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797621989733
Talks
Pollak, K. M., Lerche, V., & Kiesel, A. (2023, March). Empirically testing the selective influence assumption of the Diffusion Model. Talk presented at the 65th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, TeaP), Trier, Germany.
Posters
Pollak, K., Lerche, V., & Kiesel, A. (2024, November 21–24). Does difficulty of encoding selectively influence the non-decision time parameter of Ratcliff’s diffusion model? [Poster]. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York City, USA.