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2025
Psychology in transition : Considering aspects of the history of psychology and the impact on teaching
Psychology is a fast-growing field in Germany with a huge influx of students. In research and teaching, however, a look back is only occasionally taken. It is agreed across disciplines, that psychology, like all sciences, is constantly undergoing periods of change. A major, drastic change that led to…
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2025
Passion in the context of work: measurement and fostering
Work passion gained popularity and relevance in IO-research since it’s definition through the dualistic model of passion (DMP; Vallerand et al., 2003; Vallerand & Houlfort, 2019), positing harmonious (HWP) and obsessive work passion (OWP). While the translation or adaptation of any construct is expected…
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2024
Using Eyetracking to Enable Cervical Spinal Cord Injured Mechanically Ventilated Patients to Report on Pain, Needs, and Appraisals
Cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI) resulting in tetraplegia and subsequent permanent artificial ventilation leads to an inability to communicate orally and often also inhibits gestures and mimics. This is due to level of injury, which leads to immobility of all extremities and the destruction of the…
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2021
Design and Usage of Line Graphs in the Visualisation of Climate Change Data
Data visualisation has become a substantial part of science and of our daily life. Effective data visualisation strategies are crucial for climate change communication. Despite the large variety of visualisation tools, line graphs with time-series are still one of the forms of data presentation relied…
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2021
Job Crafting as the Key to Harmonize Employee and Organizational Needs? : A Systematic Approach to Empirically Investigate…
This dissertation investigates job crafting behavior, which refers to the self-initiated changes employees make to their job to align it with their individual needs and interests. It is assumed that premature conclusions about job crafting as behavior that equally benefits employees and employers in…
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2020
Weighing the visual evidence – Experiments on the perception of data graphs
Data graphs are common in science and everyday life, providing a foundation for scientific conclusions and decision-making. Studies on the perception of graphs can improve the quality of these aspects. Two important tasks, visual estimation of model-data fit in scatterplots and visual estimation of homophily…