Dr. Irina Monno – Allgemeine Psychologie

Dr. Irina Monno [she/her]

research fellow

irina.monno@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de
+49 (0) 761 203 – 2487
Department of Psychology
Engelbergerstr 41, Room 3008
79106 Freiburg

Professional and scientific experience

Since 11/2017

Academic Staff Member
Institute of Psychology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Teaching: Design and delivery of seminars in General Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology, Differential Psychology, and Diagnostic Methods
Research: Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM), healthcare for migrant women, New Work and modern work environments, multitasking

07/2017 – 11/2017

Psychological Staff Member
Black Forest Neurology Clinic, Bad Krozingen

Coaching and counseling in individual and group settings
Psychological diagnostics
Performance assessment

04/2015 – 12/2016

Psychological Staff Member
Transfer GmbH, Nuremberg

Coaching and conflict management in individual and group settings
Expansion of cooperation with public clients and regional companies
Involvement in concept development
Psychosocial counseling

03/2017 – 06/2017

Research Assistant
Medical Psychology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Seminar: „Scientific Thinking and Practice“ in Medicine

2004 – 2015

Occupational Therapist (employed and freelance)
Bayreuth, Nuremberg

Restoration and maintenance of functional capacity in daily and/or professional life
Individual therapy
Group therapy

Education

07/2023

Doctorate in Psychology
Institute of Psychology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Dissertation topic: „Temporal Dynamics in Multitasking: Expectations vs. Limitations“ (summa cum laude)

10/2014 – 01/2018

M.Sc. Psychology
FernUniversität in Hagen (distance learning, part-time)

04/2011 – 06/2014

B.Sc. Psychology
FernUniversität in Hagen (distance learning, part-time)

09/2001 – 07/2004

State-Certified Occupational Therapist
Vocational School for Occupational Therapy, Bayreuth

in prep

Monno I., Kerstan, S., Franz, J., Langer, M. (in prep). Escape in Open Space: New (Team)Work – The Influence of Artificial Intelligence and Different Office-Environments on Teamwork.
Monno I., Sachs, S. (in prep). Escape in Open Space – An experimental laboratory study investigating the benefits of modern workplace design.
Monno, I., Gorky, M., Fenn, J., Fall, S., & Kiesel, A. (in prep). Introducing Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM) to Social Work: A Digital Tool to Foster Multi-Stakeholder Communication – An Example from the Debate on Labor Market Integration of Migrants.
Fenn, J., Estadieu, L., Gorki, M., Monno, I., Tauber, F., Teichmann, J., Levy-Tzedek, S., Müller, O., Kiesel A. (under revision). What drives the perception of soft robots compared to rigid robots? A case study on risks and benefits of soft vs. rigid robots in Germany.
Monno, I., Jurczyk, V., Kiesel, A., Poray, L., & Thomaschke, R. (in prep). Time-based Predictability of Forced Task Transitions Affects Free Choice Task Transitions.
Zoghlami, L., Thomaschke, R., Kunde, W., Wirth, R., Monno, I. (in prep). The effects of event-based time expectancy and time-based event expectancy on user-response speed in multitasking.

2025

Monno, I., Dahlinger, P., Miller, J., Neumann, G., & Kiesel, A. (2025). Identifying individual cost-balancing strategies when self-organizing task switching. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 10.1037/xhp0001326. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001326

2022

Broeker, L., Brüning, J., Fandakova, Y., Khosravani, N., Kiesel, A., Kubik, V., Kübler, S., Manzey, D., Monno, I., Schubert, T., Raab, M. (2022). Individual differences fill the uncharted intersections between cognitive structure, flexibility and plasticity in multitasking. Psychological Review, 129(6), 1486–1494. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000376

2021

Langhanns, C., Monno, I., Maurer, H., Ebel, J., Müller, H., & Kiesel A. (2021). The self-organized task switching paradigm: Movement effort matters. Acta Psychologica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103446
Monno, I., Aufschnaiter, S., Ehret, S., Kiesel, A., Poljac, E., & Thomaschke., R. (2021). Time-based task expectancy: perceptual task indicator expectancy or expectancy of post-perceptual task components? Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01588-1
Monno, I., Spitzer, M., Miller, J., Dignath, D., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Scaling of the Parameters for Cost Balancing in Self-Organized Task Switching. Journal of Cognition, 4 (1), 1 – 16. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.137

Monno, I. (2024). Motor-cognitive interference – insights from self-organized task switching. Forschungskolloquium Trainings- und Bewegungswissenschaft WiSe 2024/25. Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaft, Universität Freiburg. November 26. Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. [talk]
Monno, I., Waldvogel, J., Dehner, J., Klingele, F., Kiesel, A., & Granacher, U. (2024). Does High-Intensity Physical Exercise affect Cognitive Flexibility? 19. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Verhaltensmedizin und Verhaltensmodifikation e.V. (DGVM) – 4 K: Körper, Kognition, Kreativität, Kommunikation. October 9 -11, 2024, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. [talk]
Monno, I., Jöns, I., & Kiesel, A. (2024). Escape in Open Space – Eine experimentelle Laborstudie zur Untersuchung der Vorteile moderner Arbeitsplatzgestaltung. 53. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). September 16 -19, 2024, Wien, Austria. [talk]
Monno, I., & Kiesel, A. (2024). Reliability of Switch Costs in Self-Organized Task Switching. 66 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 17-20, 2024, Regensburg, Germany. [Posterpresentation]
Monno, I., & Kiesel, A. (2023). Determinants of strategically balancing different temporal costs in self-organized task switching. Psychonomic Society 2023 Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2023. San Francisco, California, USA. [Posterpresentation]
Livanec, S., Reuter, L., Fenn, J., Stumpf, M., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Life-like, adaptive and energy-autonomous materials systems: Anticipatory technology acceptance prediction with Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAMing). Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). September 10-15, 2022, Hildesheim, Germany. [talk, on behalf of Sabrina Livanec]
Kiesel, A., Monno I., & Thomaschke, R. (2022). Zeitwahrnehmung und Aufgabenauswahl beim selbstorganisierten Aufgabenwechsel. 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). September 10-15, 2022, Hildesheim, Germany. [talk, on behalf of Andrea Kiesel]
Monno, I., Jurczyk, V., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2022). Does temporal predictability of task transitions impact voluntary task switching? 22ST Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). 29 August – 01 September 2022, Lille, France. [talk]
Monno, I. & Kiesel, A. (2022). Individual preferences for the cost-balancing strategies in the self-organized task switching. 64 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 20-23, 2022, Köln, Germany. [online-talk]
Monno, I., Langhanns. C., Maurer, H., Ebel, J., Müller, H., & Kiesel, A. (2021). The Self-Organized Task Switching Paradigm—Movement Effort Matters. Psychonomic Society 2021 Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2021. A virtual conference. [Posterpresentation]
Monno, I., Özoglu, E., Thomaschke, R., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Do different time perception trainings impact individual task-switching performance? 63 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 14-16, 2021, Ulm, Germany. [online-talk]
Monno, I. & Kiesel, A. (2020). Optimization criteria of self-organized task switching: tradeoff between waiting costs and switch costs in multitasking. 62 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 22-25, 2020, Jena, Germany. [Talk. Cancelled due to pandemic]
Monno, I., Jurczyk, V., Dreisbach, G., Kiesel, A. & Thomaschke, R. (2019). Does time-based expectancy increase voluntary switch rate? 21ST Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). September 25-28, 2019 Tenerife, Spain. [Posterpresentation]
Monno, I. & Kiesel, A. (2018). Self-organized versus externally controlled task scheduling when facing multiple cognitive task requirements. Kickoff Meeting des DFG SPP 1772, November 7-9, 2018, Aachen, Germany. [talk]
Monno, I., Aufschnaiter, S., Ehret, S., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2018). Perceptual cue expectancy or expectancy of post-perceptual task components? The 41 European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). August 26-30, 2018, Trieste, Italy. [Posterpresentation]
Monno, I., Aufschnaiter, S., Ehret, S., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2018). Perceptual cue expectancy or expectancy of post-perceptual task components? International Symposium of the DFG Priority Program (SPP 1772). April 24-27, 2018, Rauischholzhausen, Germany. [Posterpresentation]
Monno, I., Zhao, F., Gaschler, R., & Thomaschke, R. (2018). The influence of sequential structure and temporal effect predictability on dual-task interference. 60 Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). March 11-14, 2018, Marburg, Germany. [Posterpresentation]

Monno, I. (2023). Multitasking/Stress und Gesundheit. University Health Day an der Universität Freiburg. Oktober 4, 2023, Freiburg. [workshop] https://uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/events/1876/