Curriculum Vitae

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Education

2017	Dr. rer. nat. in Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, Member of the Interdisciplinary Graduate and Research Academy Düsseldorf (iGRAD)
2014	Master of Science in Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
2014	Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with minor subject Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
2011	Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

 

Employment

2022	Birth of first child
Since 2014	Research fellow at the Department for Mathematical and Cognitive Psychology, Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
2012 – 2013	Research intern at the Behavioral Science Group, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.
2010 – 2014	Student assistant at the Department for Cognitive and Industrial Psychology, Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

 

Research Interests

• Source Memory and Source Guessing
• Prospective Memory
• Metacognition
• Schemas and Stereotypes
• Cheating and Cooperation
• Mathematical Modeling, especially multinomial processing tree modeling and multi-level modeling
• Emotion and Memory during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Continued Influence Effect of Misinformation

 

Publications

Papers (peer reviewed)

Schaper, M. L., Bayen, U. J. & Hey, C. V. (2023). Remedying the metamemory expectancy illusion in source monitoring: Are there effects on restudy choices and source memory? Metacognition and Learning, 18(1), 55–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-022-09312-z

Ernsten, L., Körner, L. M., Schaper, M. L., Lawrenz, J., Richards, G., Heil, M., Schaal, N. K. (2023). The association of prenatal amniotic sex hormones and digit ratio (2D:4D) in children aged 5 to 70 months: A longitudinal study. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282253. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282253

Niziurski, J. A. & Schaper, M. L. (2023). Psychological wellbeing, memories, and future thoughts during the Covid-19 pandemic. Current Psychology, 42(3), 2422–2435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01969-0

Schaper, M. L., Kuhlmann, B. G., & Bayen, U. J. (2022). Metacognitive differentiation of item memory and source memory in schema-based source monitoring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001207

Schaper, M. L., Horn, S. S., Bayen, U. J., Buchner, A., & Bell, R. (2022). Adaptive prospective memory for faces of cheaters and cooperators. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(6), 1358–1376. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001128

Schaper, M. L., Bayen, U. J., & Hey, C. V. (2022). Delaying metamemory judgments corrects the expectancy illusion in source monitoring: The role of fluency and belief. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(7), 975–1000. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001088

Schaper, M. L. & Bayen, U. J. (2021). The metamemory expectancy illusion in source monitoring affects metamemory control and memory. Cognition, 206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104468

Mieth, L., Schaper, M. L., Kuhlmann, B. G., & Bell, R. (2021). Memory and metamemory for social interactions: Evidence for a metamemory expectancy illusion. Memory & Cognition, 49(1), 14–31. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01071-z

Körner, L. M., Schaper, M. L., Pause, B. M., & Heil, M. (2020). Parent-reports of sex-typed play preference in preschool children: Relationships to 2D:4D digit ratio and older siblings' sex. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(7), 2715–2724. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01662-6

Böhm, M. F., Bayen, U. J., & Schaper, M. L. (2020). Are subjective sleepiness and sleep quality related to prospective memory? Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0199-7

Schaper, M. L., Kuhlmann, B. G., & Bayen, U. J. (2019). Metacognitive expectancy effects in source monitoring: Beliefs, in-the-moment experiences, or both? Journal of Memory and Language, 107, 95–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.03.009

Schaper, M. L., Kuhlmann, B. G., & Bayen, U. J. (2019). Metamemory expectancy illusion and schema-consistent guessing in source monitoring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(3), 470–496. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000602

Schaper, M. L., Mieth, L., & Bell, R. (2019). Adaptive memory: Source memory is positively associated with adaptive social decision making. Cognition, 186, 7–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.014

 

Other publications

Schaper, M.L. (2017). Metamemory and Schema Effects in Source Monitoring. Dissertation, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Deutschland.

 

Grants, Honors, and Awards

Third-party funding

• Research Grant from the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Project: “Metamemory Monitoring and Control in Schema-based Source Monitoring“ (€267,670, Principal Investigators: Dr. Marie Luisa Schaper, Prof. Ute J. Bayen, Ph.D., 4,5 years, approved November 2019)
• Support provided by the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for a Scientifc Network on “Hierarchical MPT Modeling – Methodological Comparisons and Application Guidelines” (€76.750, member)

Internal funding

• Teaching Grant of €8.900 (co-applicant, together with Prof. Ute J. Bayen, Ph.D.) from the eLearning Förderfonds, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
• Travel Grant by the Heine Research Academies for the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, London, 2019
• Travel Grant by the Heine Research Academies for the International Conference on Memory, Budapest, 2016

Awards

• Achievement award for outstanding performance, awarded by the Rectorate of Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, 2022
• Achievement award for outstanding performance, awarded by the Rectorate of Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, 2020
• Teaching award "EduArt" awared by the Psychology Student Council of Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, 2020

 

Presentations

Schaper, M. L. Hey, C. V., Bayen, U. J., Asbeck, T., Rodloff, H., Von Schwartzenberg, M. (2022, March). Remedying the metamemory expectancy illusion in source monitoring: Are there effects on restudy choices and source memory? Talk at the 64th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Cologne, Germany.

Schaper, M.L., Horn, S. S., Bayen, U. J., Buchner, A., & Bell, R. (2021, August). Adaptive prospective memory for faces of cheaters and cooperators. Talk at the international Prospective Memory Symposium. Virtual meeting.

Schaper, M.L. & Bayen, U.J. (2020, November). A Delay in Metamemory Judgments Corrects the Expectancy Illusion in Source Monitoring. Poster at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Virtual meeting.

Schaper, M.L., Kuhlmann, B.G., & Bayen, U.J. (2019, April). Judgments of Guessing Partially Correct the Expectancy Illusion on Judgments of Source. Talk at the 61th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. London, UK.

Schaper, M.L., Kuhlmann, B.G., & Bayen, U.J. (2018, March). Reliance on Schemas in Metamemory Predictions: Differences between Judgments of Learning and Judgments of Source. Talk at the 60th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Marburg, Germany.

Schaper, M.L., Kuhlmann, B.G., & Bayen, U.J. (2017, March). Consistency illusion in source monitoring: A-priori beliefs or in-the-moment experience? Talk at the 59th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Dresden, Germany.

Schaper, M.L., Kuhlmann, B.G., Bayen, U.J., & Halbach, A.-L. (2016, July). Item-memory and source-memory predictions in schema-based source monitoring. Poster presentation at the 6th International Conference on Memory (ICOM). Budapest, Hungary.

Schaper, M.L., Kuhlmann, B.G., Bayen, U.J., & Halbach, A.-L. (2016, March). Is schema-consistent source guessing compensatory? Poster presentation at the 58th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Heidelberg, Germany.

 

Ad-hoc Reviews

• Research grants: National Science Foundation, USA; Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland
• Journals: Advances in Cognitive Psychology; Applied Cognitive Psychology; Cognition; European Journal of Social Psychology; Experimental Psychology; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; International Journal of Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Mathematical Psychology; Memory; Memory & Cognition; Psychological Research; Psychology, Crime, and Law; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Scientific Reports; Zeitschrift für Psychologie

 

Teaching

• Supervision of bachelor, master and diploma theses
• Quantitative Methods I (Bachelor)
• Quantitative Methods II (Bachelor)
• Research Methods and Statistical Analyses (Bachelor)
• Laboratory Course in Experimental Research (Bachelor)
• Quantitative Research Methods and Evaluation (Master)