Josianne Kollmann, M.Sc.

Psychological Assessment and Health Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Konstanz P.O. Box 47
D-78457 Konstanz
Office: G522
Office hours: upon arrangement
Phone: +49 (0) 7531 88 3182
Fax: +49 (0) 7531 88 5226
Email: josianne.kollmann(at)uni-konstanz.de
Curriculum Vitae
Professional experience
since 10/2016 | Research Scientist, Psychological Assessment and Health Psychology Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz |
04/2018 - 05/2018 | Visiting researcher, Tel Aviv University, Israel supervised by Prof. Yael Benyamini |
09/2016 | Master Thesis "The Effect of Physical Activity on Stress and Fatigue in a Chronically Stressed Population - An Ambulatory Assessment Study" Prof. Dr. Urs Nater, Clinical Biopsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Marburg |
09/2015 | Bachelor Thesis "The German Version of the Metacognitions about Symptoms Control Scale" Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer, Psychological Methods, Department of Psychology, University of Marburg |
10/2014 - 04/2016 | Student Assistant, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg |
09/2011 - 10/2015 | Student Assistant, University of Frankfurt |
04/2014 - 05/2014 | Research Internship at King's College, London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (Prof. Richard Brown) |
Education
09/2016 | M.Sc. Psychology (with honours) University of Marburg |
09/2015 | B.Sc. Psychology University of Marburg |
07/2011 | A-Levels, Schuldorf Bergstraße, Seeheim-Jugenheim |
Awards
09/2009 | Scholarship from the Anni and Christian Stock Foundation |
Funding
09/2019 | Conference grant, 33rd Conference of the EHPS in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
07/2019 | Travel grant for the workshop 'Risk Governance and the Role of Science and Humanities' and the international conference 'Crossing Boundaries in Science 2019: The mystery of risk - How can science help reconcile perception and assessment?', organised by the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, supported by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung. |
08/2018 | Conference grant, 32nd Conference of the EHPS in Galway, Ireland. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
09/2017 | Travel grant for the 'Behavioural Insights Summer School', organised by the University of Erfurt, Germany, and the World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, directed by PD Dr. Cornelia Betsch and Katrine Bach-Habersaat. |
08/2017 | Conference grant, 31st Conference of the EHPS in Padua, Italy. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
Peer-Reviewing Activities
Journals: | Risk Analysis, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, European Journal of Psychological Assessment |
Membership in Professional Organizations
since 2018 | Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) & Society for Risk Analysis Europe (SRA-E) |
since 2017 | European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) |
Positions in Professional Organizations
since 2020 | Early career member of the EHPS UN committee |
since 2020 | Co-Chair of the Working Group on Environmental Issues in Health Psychology within the Special Interest Group on Equity, Global Health and Sustainability of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) |
since 2018 |
Representative of young researchers in the Board of Directors of the SRA-E German speaking Chapter (DACHL) |
Research
Research interests
- Risk perception in health related topics
- Cross-cultural risk perception
- Environmental health psychology
Projects
Current projects:
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MiLife: Mobile Assessment of Physical Activity (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG; part of the project RISKDYNAMICS) First pilot studies started in 2018 and data collection with an advanced study design is still ongoing |
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CORIS: Cross-cultural Risk Perception: Comparing Israel and Germany. Coris is an online survey comparing risk perceptions between Israel and Germany. The study assesses risk perceptions in various domains, such as health or environmental risks. The study aims at a better understanding of differences in risk perceptions between countries and the interplay between personal experiences with risks and subsequent risk perceptions. |
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DIE KONSTANZER LIFE-STUDIE: A longitudinal study to assess how healthy the citizens of Konstanz are. |
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Risk Dynamics |
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Risk Perception in H5N8 |
Teaching
Current Teaching Activities
WS 2020/21 | Assessment of Personality and Intelligence (German) WED, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30, online |
Past Teaching Activities
SS 19 | Psychosoziale Faktoren von Gesundheit und Krankheit Tue, 13:30 - 15:00, F425 |
WS 2018/19 | Psychosoziale Faktoren von Gesundheit und Krankheit Wed, 10:00 - 11:30, G307 |
SS 18 | Psychosoziale Faktoren von Gesundheit und Krankheit Wed, 10:00 - 11:30, F425 |
WS 2017/18 | Persönlichkeits- und Intelligenzdiagnostik Group 1: Wed, 10:00 - 11:30, G227a Group 2: Thu, 11:45 - 13:15, G421 |
SS 17 | Fragebogenkonstruktion (deutsch) |
Supervision (together with Prof. Dr. Britta Renner)
Kurz, Hanna (in prep). Wahrgenommene Alterungsgeschwindigkeit: Ein neuer Ansatz zur Erfassung gesundheitsbezogener Risikowahrnehmung.
Busam, Betty (2019). Kollektive und individuelle Risikowahrnehmung von technologischen und verhaltensbasierten Gefahrenquellen (unpublished bachelor thesis). University of Konstanz.
Brokmeier, Luisa L. (2019). Accuracy or Habituation? Risk Perception, Health Behavior, and Terrorism - a Binational Comparison Between Germany and Israel (unpublished master thesis). University of Konstanz.
Nöth, Sabrina (2018). Move-Mobile Erfassung objektiver und subjektiver Maße körperlicher Bewegung (unpublished bachelor thesis). University of Konstanz.