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Johanna Falk

Office 5152, Uni-Mail

Phone: +41 (0)22 379 92 62
Fax: +41 (0)22 3799219
University of Geneva
40, Bd. du Pont d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland

Research Interests

Effort mobilization, psychophysiological research methods, the influence of affective states on effort intensity and persistence, the moderating role of task choice, goal commitment, action shielding.


Vita

Link to the complete cv

Education

November 2023 PhD in Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
August 2019 Master in Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany
July 2017 Bachelor in Psychology, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Professional experience

Since December 2023 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Geneva Motivation Lab, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2019 – 2023 Research and Teaching Assistant, Geneva Motivation Lab, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2018 – 2019 Student Research Assistant, Comparative Psychology, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 – 2017 Student Research Assistant, Clinical Psychophysiology Laboratory, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Publications

Journal articles

Framorando, D., Falk, J. R., Gollwitzer, P. M., Oettingen, G., & Gendolla, G. H. E. (2024). Personal task choice attenuates implicit happiness effects on effort: A study on cardiovascular response. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 196, 112282. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.112282

Falk, J.R., Gollwitzer, P.M., Oettingen, G., & Gendolla, G.H.E. (2023). Noise annoys—But personal choice can attenuate noise effects on cardiac response reflecting effort. Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/PSYP.14502

Framorando, D., Falk, J.R., Gollwitzer, P.M., Oettingen, G., & Gendolla, G.H.E. (2023). The power of personal control: Task choice attenuates the effect of implicit sadness on sympathetically mediated cardiac response. Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/PSYP.14495

Framorando, D., Falk, J. R., Gollwitzer, P. M., Oettingen, G., & Gendolla, G. H. E. (2023). Can personal task choice shield against fear and anger prime effects on effort? A study on cardiac response. Biological Psychology, 181, 108616. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108616

Bouzidi, Y.S.*, Falk, J.R.*, Chanal, J., & Gendolla, G.H.E. (2022). Choosing task characteristics oneself justifies effort: A study on cardiac response and the critical role of task difficulty. Motivation Science, 8, 230-238. doi: 10.1037/mot0000269 *=shared first authorship

Falk, J.R., Gollwitzer, P.M., Oettingen, G., & Gendolla, G.H.E. (2022). Task choice shields against incidental affective influences on effort-related cardiovascular response. Psychophysiology, 59: e14022. doi: 10.1111/psyp.14022

Falk, J.R., Gollwitzer, P.M., Oettingen, G., & Gendolla, G.H.E. (2022). Incidental affective influences on effort-related cardiac response: The critical role of choosing task characteristics. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 177, 76-82. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.04.010


Published conference contributions:

Gendolla, G. H. E., Framorando, D., Falk, J. R., Gollwitzer, P. M. & Oettingen, G. (2023). Task choice shields against implicit affective influences on effort-related cardiac response. Psychophysiology [Supplement], 60, S22.

Falk, J. R.*, Gendolla, G. H. E., Oettingen, G., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2023). Dysphoria effects on effort-related cardiovascular responses and the shielding power of personal choice. Psychophysiology [Supplement], 60, S170.

Falk, J. R., Gendolla, G. H. E., Gollwitzer, P. M. & Oettingen, G. (2023). Choice, noise, and effort: Personal choice shields against noise effects on effort-related cardiovascular response. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 188, S21-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.05.052

Gendolla, G. H. E., Falk, J. R., Framorando, D., Gollwitzer, P. M. & Oettingen, G. (2023). Action choice shields against explicit and implicit affective influences on effort-related cardiac response. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 188, S24. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.05.059

Falk, J. R., Gendolla, G. H. E., Gollwitzer, P. M. & Oettingen, G. (2022). Personal choice shields against noise effects on effort-related cardiovascular response. Psychophysiology [Supplement], 59, S41.