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15.10.2025

EPIC Research Colloquium

The program for our research colloquium has just been released. Our EPIC Research Colloquium on Learning & Instruction brings together researchers from across Germany to discuss current empirical work. The public program features diverse talks ranging from psychological foundations of learning and teaching to innovative studies on feedback, retrieval practice, and emotional design. Sessions take place weekly on Wednesdays (14:15 – 15:45) in Konferenzraum 6002. Details: https://uni-freiburg.de/edupsy/colloq/

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Carina Roth and co-authors with the Best Poster Award @ PAEPS 2025 Conference

1.10.2025

Best Poster Award @ PAEPS Conference

We are proud to announce that Carina Roth and colleagues have received the Best Conference Poster Award at the 20. Tagung Fachgruppe Pädagogische Psychologie in Jena. The award was presented for their outstanding poster presentation “Erst die Angst, dann das Vergnügen? Emotionen von Wissenschaftler:innen unterschiedlicher Karrierestufen im Vergleich”.

01.09.2025

Welcome to Prof. Dr. Martin Daumiller

We are proud to announce Prof. Dr. Martin Daumiller as the new chair of Educational Psychology.

25.08.2025

Ouevre Award for Prof. Alexander Renkl

We are proud to announce that Alexander Renkl has received the Ouevre Award from the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) in recognition of a broad range of outstanding achievements in the field of learning and instruction, including excellence in scholarship and research as well as substantial contributions to the community of EARLI. Here, receiving congratulations from the EARLI SIG 8 Leadership.

Further News

We are happy to welcome Carina Roth, Melanie Keller and Constantin von Luttitz to our department. [October 2025]

We are sad to have to say goodybe to Dr. Sophie Nolden and Dr. Lisa Bender, who will be leaving our team. But both will be staying at our institute at the newly-formed department of Developmental Psychology! [October 2025]

We are delighted to announce that Charlotte Vössing has received the Best Conference Poster Award at the 1st DSI Community Education Conference – Smart Education: Effective Learning and Instruction with Digital Technologies. The award was given for the outstanding poster presentation titled: “Teaching (Un)Interested Learners: How Existing Interests Shape the Effect of Emotional Design.” Congratulations to Charlotte on this well-deserved recognition! [June 2025]

We thank Wilhelm Gros, Michael Gorki and Steffen Weyreter for supporting our team in teaching this semster! [April 2025]

We welcome Dennis Goodman in our team who will be teaching the seminar “Fundamentals of Pedagogy for Psychotherapists”! [April 2025]

The Institut of Psychology will host the first Freiburg Open Science Conference on the 15th and 16th of May 2025 (Contact: Dwayne Lieck)! [February 2025]

Publications

Alexander Renkl and Tino Endres published a commentary on the conzeptualization of teaching quality as part of a new special issue in School Effectiveness and School Improvement. [May 2025]

Sophie Nolden’s editorial for her special issue in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews has been accepted! Check out our special issue on the dynamics of predictive processing! [April 2025]

New paper by Tino Endres, Charlotte Vössing, Ann Renninger, Alexander Eitel and Alexander Renkl. In their project, they investigated how Emotional Design can help sustaining focus in distracting learning situations. [April 2025]

Sophie Nolden’s lifespan paper in Developmental Psychology has been accepted! Check it out for latest research on prediction errors and episodic memory over the lifespan! Nolden, S., Turan, G., Bein, O., Davachi, L., Shing, Y. L. (in press). The impact of mnemonic prediction errors on episodic memory: A lifespan study. Developmental Psychology. [April 2025]

Sophie Nolden participated in a multi-lab replication project. Open Science is on a roll in this lab! The paper is a registered report in Cortex. We are happy to share that the final paper has been accepted now. Please have a look on plenty of EEG data on valence and expectancy in reward learning! [March 2025]

Together with an international team of researchers, Tino Endres, Lisa Bender and Dwayne Lieck developed a translingual scale on mental effort and load (MEL-TS) for research in self-regulated learning contexts. The scale was translated and tested in different languages. Check out the paper here! [January 2025]

New paper by Lisa Bender, Laura Hotz and Alexander Renkl on what teachers know and belief about dyscalculia. [December 2024]

Sophie Nolden published a new EEG paper in Psychophysiology as senior author. We are happy to share our new results on prediction error and episodic memory! [December 2024]