Prof. Dr. Jan Wacker

2011: Philipps-Universität Marburg: Habilitation (venia legendi für das Fach Psychologie)

2005: Philipps-Universität Marburg: Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychologie ("Dopamin, Handlungssteuerung und Spontan-EEG: Bausteine einer psychobiologischen Extraversionstheorie"), Note: Summa cum laude

1996-2001: Philipps-Universität Marburg: Psychologiestudium (Diplomarbeit: "Emotionen, Verhaltenstendenzen und frontales EEG"), Abschluss: Dipl.-Psych., Note: 1,0 mit Auszeichnung

seit 2013: Professor (W2) für Differentielle Psychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik an der Universität Hamburg

2011 - 2013: Privatdozent, Fachbereich Psychologie der Philipps-Universität Marburg

2005 - 2013: Akademischer Rat am Lehrstuhl für Differentielle Psychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (Prof. Dr. Stemmler) am FB Psychologie der Philipps-Universität Marburg

2012: Ruf auf die W2-Professur für Differentielle Psychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik an der Universität Hamburg (Platz 1 der Berufungsliste)

2012: Platz 3a auf der Berufungsliste zur Besetzung der Professur für Grundlagen der Psychologie (W3 analog) an der Universität Witten-Herdecke

2012: Platz 3 auf der Berufungsliste zur Besetzung der W3-Professur für Biologische Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Diagnostik an der Universität Göttingen

2010: Platz 2 auf der Berufungsliste zur Besetzung der W2-Professur für Psychologie (Differentielle Psychologie und Diagnostik) an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

2001-2005: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in DFG-Projekten von Prof. Dr. Stemmler, Philipps-Universität Marburg

2008: Research fellowship am Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (Prof. Dr. Pizzagalli), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2010-2012: Biopsychologische Grundlagen individueller Differenzen der Belohnungs- und Feedbackverarbeitung in gesunden und klinischen Stichproben (WA 2593/2-2; Umfang: € 76.000)

2009-2012: Neuronale Grundlagen der Modulation kognitiver Kontrolle durch positive Emotionen: Differenzierung von Zuneigung-Wärme und Erwartung-Vorfreude (WA 2593/5-1; Umf.: € 115.000)

2008-2010: Persönlichkeit und Handlungsüberwachung: Molekulargenetische und psychopharmakologische Untersuchung dopaminerger Mechanismen (WA 2593/2-1; Umfang: € 107.000)

2016-2017: DAAD-Fördermittel für einen Projektbezogenen Personenaustausch mit Luke Smillie, University of Melbourne (Umfang der Förderung für die deutschen Projektbeteiligten: € 5.531)

seit 2015: Prodekan der Fakultät für Psychologie und Bewegungswissenschaft der UHH

seit 2014: stellvertretendes Mitglied des Prüfungsausschusses für Promotionen sowie des Ausschusses für Forschungs- und Nachwuchsförderung am Institut für Psychologie der UHH

seit 2013: Editorial Board des European Journal of Personality

seit 2013: Editorial Board des Journal of Research in Personality

seit 2012: Guest Editor für das Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Research Topic „Dopaminergic Foundations of Personality and Individual Differences“ (zusammen mit Dr. Luke Smillie)

2008: Stipendium „Young Scientists Program des International Congress of Psychology“ (€ 900)

2007: G.A. Lienert-Stipendium für einen Forschungsaufenthalt an der Harvard University (€ 3200)

2007: Reisestipendium der DFG (Vortrag auf der Tagung der SPR in Savannah, GA, € 1100)

2006: Dissertationspreis der Philipps-Universität Marburg (€ 1000)

2004: Posterpreis der EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society ($ 1000)

2001: Diplom mit Auszeichnung

2000: Reisestipendium des DAAD für ein Forschungspraktikum in Madison, WI, USA

• Anxiety, Stress and Coping
• Basic and Applied Social Psychology
• Biological Psychiatry
• Biological Psychology
• Cerebral Cortex
• Cognition and Emotion
• Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
• Emotion
• European Journal of Personality
• European Journal of Psychological Assessment
• International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research International
• Journal of Psychophysiology
• Journal of Individual Differences
• Journal of Personality
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Journal of Research in Personality
• Motivation and Emotion
• NeuroImage
• Neuropsychologia
• Neuroscience
• Neuroscience Letters
• Pharmagogenomics Journal
• PLoSONE
• Psychiatry Research
• Psychological Research
• Psychoneuroendocrinology
• Psychophysiology
• Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Journals

Smillie, L. D., Hayley, K. J., Hughes, D. M., Wacker, J., Cooper, A. J. & Pickering, A. D. (2019). Extraversion and reward-processing: Consolidating evidence from an electroencephalographic index of reward-prediction-error. Biological Psychology 146, 107735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107735

Mittelstaedt, J.M., Wacker, J. & Stelling, D. (2019). Virtual Reality 23(2), 143-154. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-018-0370-3

Mittelstädt, J. M., Wacker, J., & Stelling, D. (2019). Emotional and Cognitive Modulation of Cybersickness: The Role of Pain Catastrophizing and Body Awareness. Human Factors, 61(2), 322–336. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720818804382

Beringer, M., Spohn, F., Hildebrandt, A., Wacker, J. & Recio, G. (2019) Reliability and validity of machine vision for the assessment of facial expressions. Cognitive Systems Research, 56, 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2019.03.009

Kuper, N., Käckenmester, W., & Wacker, J. (2019). Resting frontal EEG asymmetry and personality traits: A meta-analysis. European Journal of Personality, 33(2), 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2197

Käckenmester, W., Kroencke, L.*, & Wacker, J. (2018). Frontal asymmetry predicts the incentive value of perceptual information. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 134, 22-29. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.10.002

Mittelstaedt, J., Wacker, J., & Stelling, D. (2018). Effects of display type and motion control on cybersickness in a virtual bike simulator. Displays, 51, 43-50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.displa.2018.01.002

Ohmann, H. A., Kuper, N.*, & Wacker, J. (2018). Left frontal anodal tDCS increases approach motivation depending on reward attributes. Neuropsychologia, 119, 417-423. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.09.002

Wacker, J. (2018). Increasing the reproducibility of science through close cooperation and forking path analysis. Front. Psychol. 8:1332. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01332

Wirz, L., Reuter, M., Wacker, J., Felten, A., & Schwabe, L. (2017). A Haplotype Associated with Enhanced Mineralocorticoid Receptor Expression Facilitates the Stress-Induced Shift from ‘Cognitive’ to ‘Habit’ Learning. eNeuro, 13 November 2017. doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0359-17.2017

Geller, S., Wilhelm, O., Wacker, J., Hamm, A. & Hildebrandt, A. (2017). Associations of the COMT VAL158Met polymorphism with working memory and intelligence - A review and meta-analysis. Intelligence, 65, 75-92. doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2017.09.002

Wacker, J. (2017). Effects of positive emotion, extraversion, and dopamine on cognitive stability-flexibility and frontal EEG asymmetry. Psychophysiology, 17 March 2017, 1–16. doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12727

Wirz, L., Wacker, J., Felten, A., Reuter, M. & Schwabe, L. (2017). A deletion variant of the α2b-adrenoceptor modulates the stress-induced shift from ‘cognitive' to ‘habit' memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 23 January 2017, 3507-16. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3507-16.2017

Wacker, J., & Smillie, L. D. (2015). Trait extraversion and dopamine function. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9(6), 225-238.

Mueller, E. M., Panitz, C., Pizzagalli, D. A., Hermann, C., & Wacker, J. (2015). Midline theta dissociates agentic extraversion and anhedonic depression. Personality and Individual Differences, 79, 172-177.

Mueller, E.M., Burgdorf, C., Chavanon, M.-L., Schweiger, D., Hennig, J., Wacker, J., Stemmler, G. (2014). The COMT Val158Met polymorphism regulates the effect of a dopamine antagonist on the feedback-related negativity. Psychophysiology, 51(8), 805-809. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12226

Mueller, E. M., Burgdorf, C., Chavanon, M. L., Schweiger, D., Wacker, J., & Stemmler, G. (2014). Dopamine modulates frontomedial failure processing of agentic introverts versus extraverts in incentive contexts. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(2), 756-768. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-013-0228-9

Mueller, E. M., Panitz, C., Nestoriuc, Y., Stemmler, G., & Wacker, J. (2014). Panic disorder and serotonin reuptake inhibitors predict coupling of cortical and cardiac activity. Neuropsychopharmacology, 39(2), 507-514.

Schweiger, D., Stemmler, G., Burgdorf, C., & Wacker, J. (2014). Opioid Receptor Blockade and Warmth-Liking: Effects on Interpersonal Trust and Frontal Asymmetry. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(10), 1608-1615.

Smillie, L. D., & Wacker, J. (2014). Dopaminergic foundations of personality and individual differences. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 874.

Chavanon, M.-L., Wacker, J., & Stemmler, G. (2013). Paradoxical dopaminergic drug effects in extraversion: Dose- and time-dependent effects of sulpiride on EEG theta activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(117).

Mueller, E. M., Stemmler, G., Hennig, J., & Wacker, J. (2013). 5-HTTLPR and anxiety modulate brain-heart coupling. Psychopyhsiology, 50, 441-453.

Panitz, C., Wacker, J., Stemmler, G., & Mueller, E. M. (2013). Brain-heart coupling at the P300 latency is linked to anterior cingulate cortex and insula – a cardio-encephalographic covariance tracing study. Biological Psychology, 94, 185-191.

Wacker, J., Mueller, E. M., Pizzagalli, D. A., Hennig, J., & Stemmler, G. (2013). Dopamine-D2-Receptor Blockade Reverses the Association Between Trait Approach Motivation and Frontal Asymmetry in an Approach-Motivation Context. Psychological Science, 24(4), 489–497. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612458935

Wacker, J., Mueller, E. M., & Stemmler, G. (2013). Prenatal testosterone and personality: Increasing the specificity of trait assessment to detect consistent associations with digit ratio (2D:4D). Journal of Research in Personality, 47(2), 171-177. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2012.10.007

Mueller, E. M., Evers, E. A., Wacker, J., & van der Veen, F. (2012). Acute tryptophan depletion attenuates brain-heart coupling following external feedback. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 6, 77. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00077

Wacker, J., Mueller, E. M., Hennig, J., & Stemmler. G. (2012). How to consistently link extraversion and intelligence to the catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT) gene: On defining and measuring psychological phenotypes in neurogenetic research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 427-444.

Chavanon, M.-L., Wacker, J., & Stemmler, G. (2011). Agentic extraversion predicts frontoparietal theta activity and rostral anterior cingulate activity. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 172-185.

Köhler, S., Wacker, J., Odorfer, T., Reif, A., Fallgatter, A. J., & Herrmann, M. J. (2011). Resting posterior versus frontal EEG slow wave activity is associated with extraversion and DRD2 genotype. Biological Psychology, 87, 407-413.

Müller, E. M., Hennig, J., Stemmler, G., & Wacker, J. (2011). Dopamine effects on human error processing depend on COMT VAL158MET genotype. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 15818-15825.

Wacker, J. (2011). With great power comes great responsibility: Meta-analytic proof for a timeless insight. Biological Psychiatry, 69, e37.

Mueller, E. M., Stemmler, G., & Wacker, J. (2010). Single-trial EEG predicts cardiac acceleration: A time-lagged P-correlation approach for studying neurovisceral connectivity. Neuroscience, 166(2), 491-500.

Stemmler, G., & Wacker, J. (2010). Personality, emotion, and individual differences in physiological responses. Biological Psychology, 84, 541-551.

Wacker, J., Chavanon, M. L., Leue, A., & Stemmler, G. (2010). Trait BIS predicts alpha asymmetry and P300 in a go/no-go task. European Journal of Personality, 24(2),, 85-105.

Wacker, J., Chavanon, M.-L., & Stemmler, G. (2010). Resting EEG signatures of agentic extraversion: New results and meta-analytic integration. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 167-179.

Wacker, J., & Gatt., J. M. (2010). Resting posterior versus frontal delta/theta EEG activity is associated with extraversion and the COMT VAL158MET polymorphism. Neuroscience Letters, 478, 88-92.

Leue, A., Chavanon, M.-L., Wacker, J., & Stemmler, G. (2009). On the differentiation of N2-components in an appetitive choice task: Evidence for the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory. Psychophysiology, 46, 1244-1257.

Wacker, J., Dillon, D. G., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2009). The role of the nucleus accumbens and rostral anterior cingulate cortex in anhedonia: Integration of resting EEG, fMRI, and volumetric techniques. NeuroImage, 46, 327-337.

Crost, N. W., Pauls, C. A., & Wacker, J. (2008). Defensiveness and anxiety predict frontal EEG asymmetry only in specific situational contexts. Biological Psychology, 78(1), 43-52.

Kemper, C. J., Leue, A., Wacker, J., Chavanon, M.-L., Hennighausen, E., & Stemmler, G. (2008). Agentic extraversion as a predictor of effort-related cardiovascular response. Biological Psychology, 78(2), 191-199.

Wacker, J., Chavanon, M.-L., Leue, A., & Stemmler, G. (2008). Is running away right? The behavioral activation-behavioral inhibition model of anterior asymmetry. Emotion, 8(2), 232-249.

Chavanon, M.-L., Stemmler, G., & Wacker, J. (2008). A cognitive-affective extension to reinforcement sensitivity. European Journal of Personality, 22(5), 391-393.

Chavanon, M.-L., Wacker, J., Leue, A., & Stemmler, G. (2007). Evidence for a dopaminergic link between working memory and agentic extraversion: An analysis for load-related changes in EEG alpha 1 activity. Biological Psychology, 74, 46-59.

Stemmler, G., Aue, T., & Wacker, J. (2007). Anger and fear: Separable effects of emotion and motivational direction on somatovisceral responses. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 66, 141-153.

Wacker, J., Chavanon, M.-L., & Stemmler, G. (2006). Investigating the dopaminergic basis of extraversion in humans: A multilevel approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(1), 171-187.

Wacker, J., & Stemmler, G. (2006). Agentic extraversion modulates the cardiovascular effects of the dopamine D2 agonist bromocriptine. Psychophysiology, 43, 372-381.

Pauls, C. A., Wacker, J., & Crost, N. W. (2005). The two components of social desirability and their relations to resting frontal brain asymmetry. Journal of Individual Differences, 26(1),29-42.

Wacker, J., Reuter, M., Hennig, J., & Stemmler, G. (2005). Sexually dimorphic link between dopamine D2 receptor gene and neuroticism-anxiety. Neuroreport, 16(6), 611-614.

Wacker, J., Heldmann, M., & Stemmler, G. (2003). Separating emotion and motivational direction in fear and anger: Effects on frontal asymmetry. Emotion, 3, 167-193

Books

Wacker, J. (2005). Dopamin, Handlungssteuerung und Spontan-EEG: Bausteine einer psychobiologischen Extraversionstheorie. Berlin: Logos.

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