Matthias Siemer
Matthias Siemer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Free University, Berlin, 1999
Research Interests
- Research in the Miami Cognition and Emotion Lab focuses on the interaction of cognitions with moods and emotions. This includes (a) the effects of moods and emotions on evaluations and appraisals and (b) the cognitive antecedents of emotional reactions. Most recently we started to explore individual differences in the use and the effectiveness of cognitive mood and emotion regulation strategies. We are also exploring the implications of these differences for more applied fields, such as the underlying mechanisms of resiliency and affective disorders. The empirical research in the Miami Cognition and Emotion Lab integrates psychological sub-disciplines like cognitive psychology, social psychology, personality research, psychophysiology, and clinical psychology.
Current reserch projects of the Miami Cognition and Emotion lab
- Cognitive Causes and Consequences of Moods and Emotions
- Individual Differences and Mechanisms of Affect Regulation
- Emotion Regulation and Resiliency
Selected Publications
Siemer, M. (2007): Beyond prototypes and classical definitions: Evidence for a theory-based representation of emotion concepts. Cognition and Emotion, in press.
Siemer, M., Mauss, I., & Gross, J. J. (2007): Same situation--different emotions: How appraisals shape our emotions. Emotion, 7, 592-600.
Joormann, J., Siemer, M., & Gotlib, I. (2007): Mood regulation in depression: Differential effects of distraction and recall of happy memories on sad mood. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 484-491.
Siemer, M. & Reisenzein, R. (2007): Emotions and appraisals: Can you have one without the other? Emotion, 7, 26-29.
Siemer, M. & Reisenzein, R. (2007). The process of emotion inference. Emotion, 7, 1-20.
Siemer, M. (2005). Mood congruent cognitions constitute mood experience. Emotion, 5, 296-308.
Siemer, M. (2005). Moods as multiple-object directed and as objectless affective states: An examination of the dispositional theory of moods. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 815-845.
Joormann, J., & Siemer, M. (2004). Memory accessibility, mood regulation, and dysphoria: Difficulties in repairing sad mood with happy memories? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, 179-188.
Siemer, M., & Joormann, J. (2003). Power and measures of effect size in analysis of variance with fixed versus random nested factors. Psychological Methods, 8, 497-517.
Siemer, M., & Joormann, J. (2003). Assumptions and consequences of treating providers in therapy studies as fixed versus random effects: Reply to Crits-Christoph, Tu, and Gallop (2003) and Serlin, Wampold, and Levin (2003). Psychological Methods, 8, 535-544.
Siemer, M. (2001). Mood-specific effects on appraisal and emotion judgments. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 453-485.
Siemer, M., & Reisenzein, R. (1998). Effects of mood on evaluative judgements: Influence of reduced processing capacity and mood salience. Cognition and Emotion, 12, 783-805.
Siemer, M. (1997). What exactly is random about random effects? Methods of Psychological Research, 2, 139-151.
Teaching
- Sample Syllabi
- PSY 207 Introduction to Cognition
- PSY 316 Experimental Psychology