Prof. Dr. Britta Renner

Professor

Psychological Assessment and Health Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Konstanz P.O. Box 47
D-78457 Konstanz
 

Office: G524
Office hours: upon arrangement
Tel.: +49 (0) 7531 88 4679
Email: britta.renner [at] uni-konstanz.de

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Research interests

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Professional experience

2007 - present Professor of Psychological Assessment & Health Psychology (W3)
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz
2004 - 2007 Professor of Psychology
Jacobs Center for Lifelong Learning & Institutional Development, Jacobs University Bremen
2000 - 2004 Assistant Professor (C1), Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment
Department of Psychology, University of Greifswald
1999 - 2000 Research Scientist & Lecturer, Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment
Department of Psychology, University of Greifswald
1997 - 1999 Research Scientist & Lecturer, Department of Educational Psychology & Health Psychology
Department of Psychology, Free University of Berlin
1993 - 1996 Doctoral Student, Department of Educational Psychology & Health Psychology
Department of Psychology, Free University of Berlin

Education

2004 Habilitation in Psychology
University of Greifswald
2000 Ph.D. in psychology (Dr. phil.)
Free University of Berlin
1993 Diploma in psychology (Dipl.-Psych.)
Free University of Berlin

Editorial and Peer-Reviewing Activities

Member of the editorial board of Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie (executive editor 2012-2014)

Member of the editorial board of Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal

Member of the editorial board of Health Psychology Review; Journal of Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being

Ad hoc reviewer for Anxiety, Stress, and Coping; Basic and Applied Social Psychology; British Journal of Health Psychology; British Journal of Nutrition; Cognition & Emotion; Diagnostica; Enviroment & Behavior; European Journal of Personality; European Journal of Psychological Assessment; European Journal of Social Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Familial Cancer; Health Education Research; Health Psychology; Health Psychology Review; Health, Risk & Society; International Journal of Behavioural Medicine; Journal of Applied Psychology; Journal of Applied Social Psychology; Journal of Individual Differences; Journal of Positive Psychology; Journal of Public Health; Memory; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Positive Psychology; Public Health Nutrition; Psychologische Rundschau; Psychology & Health; Psychology, Health & Medicine; Risk Analysis; Social Cognition; Social & Preventive Medicine; Social Science & Medicine; Vaccine; Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie; Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie; Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie; Zeitschrift für Psychologie

Grant reviewer for DAAD, DFG, Humboldt Foundation, EU, Economic and Social Research Council (UK), The Leverhulme Trust (UK), Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg, Netherlands Organisation of Health, Research and Development (ZonMw), Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Schweizer Nationalfonds (Switzerland)

Membership in Professional Organizations

Current Teaching Activities

WS 20/21  
Vorlesung Grundlagen psychologischer Diagnostik
Seminar Nachhaltigere Ernährung
Seminar Risikowahrnehmung und Risikokommunikation
Seminar Überblick über psychologische Anwendungsfächer

Past Teaching Activities

SS 2020  
Vorlesung Einführung in die Gesundheitspsychologie
Seminar Risikowahrnehmung und Risikokommunikation
Seminar Mobile Interventionen
   
WS 19/20  
Vorlesung Grundlagen psychologischer Diagnostik
Seminar Risikowahrnehmung und Risikokommunikation
Seminar Fragebogenkonstruktion
Seminar Überblick über psychologische Anwendungsfächer
   
SS 2019  
Vorlesung Einführung in die Gesundheitspsychologie
Seminar Risikowahrnehmung und Risikokommunikation
Seminar Mobile Interventionen

Publications

2017
Paper
Stok, F. M., Hoffmann, S., Volkert, D., Boeing, H., Ensenauer, R., Stelmach-Mardas, M., Kiesswetter, E., Weber, A., Rohm, H., Lien, N., Brug, J., Holdworth, M., & Renner, B. (2017). The DONE framework: Creation, evaluation, and updating of an interdisciplinary, dynamic framework 2.0 of determinants of nutrition and eating. PLoS One, 12(2), e0171077. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171077
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2017
Paper

Symmank, C., Mai, R., Hoffmann, S., Stok, F. M., Renner, B.,Lien, N., & Rohm, H. (2017). Predictors of food decision making: A systematic interdisciplinary mapping (SIM) review. Appetite, 110, 25-35. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2016.11.023

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2017
Paper

Wahl, D. R.*, Villinger, K.*, König, L. M., Ziesemer, K., Schupp, H. T., & Renner, B. (2017). Healthy food choices are happy food choices: Evidence from a real life sample using smartphone based assessments. Scientific Reports, 7, 17069. doi:  10.1038/s41598-017-17262-9 *both authors contributed equally

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2017
Paper

Wahl, D. R., Villinger, K., Sproesser, G., Schupp, H. T., & Renner, B. (2017). The behavioral signature of snacking – a visual analysis. European Health Psychologist, 19(5), 355-356. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16570.90567

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2016
Paper

Becker, C.A., Flaisch, T., Renner, B., & Schupp, H. (2016). Neural correlates of the perception of spoiled food stimuli. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00302

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2016
Conference Paper

Butscher, S., Wang, Y., Mueller, J., Ziesemer, K., Villinger, K., Wahl, D., König, L., Sproesser, G., Renner, B., Schupp, H. T., & Reiterer, H. (2016). Lightweight visual data analysis on mobile devices - Providing self-monitoring feedback. Paper presented at VVH 2016 - 1st International Workshop on "Valuable visualization of healthcare information": from the quantified self data to conversations (in conjunction with AVI '16), Bari, Italien.

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2016
Paper

Gamp, M., & Renner, B. (2016). Pre-feedback risk expectancies and reception of low-risk health feedback: Absolute and comparative lack of reassurance. 8 (3), 364 - 385. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. doi: 10.1111/aphw.12076

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2016
Book chapter

Gamp, M., Debbeler, L.-J., & Renner, B. (2016). Risikokommunikation im Internet. In F. Fischer & A. Krämer (Hrsg.), eHealth in Deutschland: Anforderungen und Potenziale innovativer Versorgungsstrukturen. Berlin: Springer.

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2016
Paper

Klusmann, V., Musculus, L., Sproesser, G. & Renner, B. (2016). Fulfilled emotional outcome expectancies enable successful adoption and maintenance of physical activity. Frontiers in Psychology. 6, 1- 10. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01990

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2016
Paper

König, L. M., Giese, H., Schupp, H., & Renner, B. (2016). The environment makes a difference: The impact of explicit and implicit attitudes as precursors in different food choice tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(1301), 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01301

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2016
Paper

Renner, B., Sproesser, G., Stok, F.M., & Schupp, H. (2016). Eating in the dark: A dissociation between perceived and actual food consumption. Food Quality and Preference. 50, 145–151. doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.02.010

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2016
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Schupp, H.T., Kirmse, U., Schmälzle, R., Flaisch, T., & Renner, B. (2016). Newly-formed emotional memories guide selective attention processes: Evidence from event-related potentials. Scientific Reports. 6:28091. doi:10.1038/srep28091

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2015
Paper

Barth, A., Schmälzle, R., Hartung, F.-M., Renner, B., & Schupp, H.T. (2015). How target and perceiver gender affect impressions of HIV risk. Frontiers in Public Health, 3, 1-8. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00223

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2015
Paper

Becker, C.A., Schmälzle, R., Flaisch, T., Renner, B., & Schupp, H.T. (2015). Thirst and the state-dependent representation of incentive stimulus value in human motive circuitry. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,10(12), 1722–1729. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsv063

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2015
Paper

Gamp, M., & Renner, B. (2015). Experienced-based health risk feedback and lack of reassurance. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 3(1), 410-423. doi: 10.1080/21642850.2015.1108197

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2015
Paper

Giese, H., König, L. M., Tăut, D., Ollila, H., Baban, A., Absetz, P., Schupp, H. & Renner, B. (2015). Exploring the association between television advertising of healthy and unhealthy foods, self-control, and food intake in three European Countries. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being, 7(1), 41-62. doi: 10.1111/aphw.12036

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2015
Paper

Giese, H., Tăut, D., Ollila, H., Baban, A.S., Absetz, P., Schupp, H.T. & Renner, B. (2015). Children's and adolescents' snacking: interplay between the individual and the school class. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1308. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01308

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2015
Paper

Hartung, F.-M., Sproesser, G., & Renner, B. (2015). Being and feeling liked by others: How social inclusion impacts health. Psychology & Health, 30, 1103-1115. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2015.1031134

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2015
Paper

Jekauc, D., Völkle, M., Wagner, M. O., Mess, F., Reiner, M., & Renner, B. (2015). Prediction of attendance at fitness center: a comparison between the theory of planned behavior, the social cognitive theory, and the physical activity maintenance theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1-10. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00121

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2015
Paper

Kinnunen, M., Hankonen, N., Haukkala, A., Renner, B., Jallinoja, P., Bingham, C., & Absetz, P. (2015) Healthy eaters beat unhealthy eaters in prototype evaluation among men, but abstinence may pose a risk for social standing. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 3, 323-336, doi: 10.1080/21642850.2015.1095097

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