Dr. Eva Krumhuber
Dr Eva Krumhuber is a senior research associate at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. She obtained her doctoral degree in 2008 from Cardiff University, UK, on the role played by facial movements in social judgments and decisions. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Switzerland, where she contributed to the development of FACSGen 2.0, new animation software for the production of dynamic facial expressions based on action units. She has also been involved in collaborative projects on the automatic recognition of facial expressions in real-time and on the animation of emotional expressions in 3D faces. Within the eCUTE project she will investigate affective and empathic responses to different agent architectures within a cultural learning framework using a multilevel approach involving physiological and expressive responses as well as subjective experience.

Dr. Dennis Küster
My research interests focus on the psychophysiology of online communication, the role of implicit social contexts for psychophysiological and facial responding, as well as the role of online social contexts for self presentation. I study emotion from an appraisal perspective, and a common theme is the issue of how social context affects emotional processing at multiple levels. For this, I am using various measures and paradigms that can include subjective report, response time sensitive measures (e.g., the Implicit Association Test), or analyses at the level of texts written by participants (for Cyberemotions). As regards online self-presentation, for example, I am particularly interested in the role of visuals (e.g., avatars) that people can use online to express something about themselves or their emotions across different contexts on the Internet. On the methodological level, I have been conducting research using various psychophysiological measures (e.g., skin conductance, heart rate, facial muscle activation) for studies that relate to emotions in some way or another, including work in progress involving decision making with the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART; e.g., Lejuez, et al., 2002).

Leman Korkmaz
I am a PhD fellow at Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). I obtained my Bachelor and Master’s degrees from the Psychology Department of Middle East Technical University, Turkey. I completed my MS degree in 2010, on Individual and Group Based Factors Affecting the Relationship between Perceived Discrimination and Well-Being. I am currently interested in implicit self-esteem and implicit collective self-esteem. To examine the implicit attitudes towards both self and in-group, I will use tasks such as the Implicit Association Test. In my PhD research I am planning to focus on the discrepancy between explicit and implicit attitudes and the consequences of this discrepancy at individual and intergroup level.

Interns

Lara Vujovic