Dr. Karolin Gieseler

Professional positions

2024 - present
Coordinator of the Research Training Group 2988 FlexBaR
Saarland University, Germany

2023 - present
Task manager of Task 5.6 Open Science within the European University Alliance Transform4Europe
Saarland University, Germany

2020 - 2022
Project coordinator at the TU-Nachwuchsring / University of the Greater Region (UniGR)
TU Kaiserslautern (now RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau), Germany

2016 - 2020
Lecturer and Research Scientist
Division of Social Psychology
Saarland University, Germany

Science communication

Science4All Open Science Snacks (Newsletter)

Journals (peer-reviewed)

Gieseler, K., Loschelder, D. D., Job, V., & Friese, M. (2021). A pre-registered test of competing theories to explain ego depletion effects using psychophysiological indicators of mental effort. Motivation Science.

Gieseler, K., Inzlicht, M., & Friese, M. (2020). Do people avoid mental effort after facing a highly demanding task? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Friese, M., Loschelder, D. D., Gieseler, K., Frankenbach, J., & Inzlicht, M. (2019). Is ego depletion real? An analysis of arguments. Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Book chapter

Gieseler, K., Loschelder, D. D., Friese, M. (2019). What makes for a good theory? How to evaluate a theory using the strength model of self-control as an example. In K. Sassenber & M. L. W. Vliek (Eds.), Social psychology in action: Evidence-based interventions from theory to practice (pp. 3-21). Cham: Springer International Publishing. 

Conferences

Gieseler, K., Loschelder, D.D., Job., V., Friese, M. (2019, September). Depleted at heart? Psychophysiological indicators of mental effort, ego depletion, and self-affirmation. Oral presentation, 17th Conference of the German Social Psychology Section (FGSP), Cologne, Germany.

Gieseler, K., Loschelder, D.D., Job., V., Friese, M. (2019, February). Depleted at heart? Psychophysiological indicators of mental effort, ego depletion, and self-affirmation. Oral presentation: Student / Early Career Data Blitz, 2019 Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Portland (OR), United States.

Gieseler, K., Loschelder, D. D., Job, V., Herrmann, C., & Friese, M. (2018, September). Investigating the behavioural ego depletion effect in within-participants designs. Oral presentation, 51st Convention of the German Society of Psychology (DGPS), Frankfurt (Main), Germany.

Gieseler, K., Loschelder, D. D., Job, V., Herrmann, C., & Friese, M. (2017, September). Investigating the behavioural ego depletion effect in within-participants designs. Oral presentation, 16th Conference of the German Social Psychology Section (FGSP), Ulm, Germany. 

Gieseler, K., Loschelder, D. D., Job, V., Herrmann, C., & Friese, M. (2017, August). Investigating the behavioural ego depletion effect in within-participants designs. Oral presentation, 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Granada, Spain. 

Gieseler, K., Loschelder, D. D., Job, V., & Friese, M. (2017, March). Identification with a group counteracts ego depletion. Oral presentation, International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Vienna, Austria.