Hannes Per Carsten
Ph.D.Student
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- Thursday: 3.00 pm - 4.00 pm (arrangement by mail)
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Academic CV
| Since 04/2020 | Clinical Training as Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapist, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf |
| Since 02/2020 | PhD Student, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy with research focus on Clinical Neuroscience, University of Hamburg |
| 2017 - 2020 | Study of Psychology (M. Sc.), University of Hamburg |
| Master Thesis | Is reinstatement a matter of time? Systematic variations of time after unsignalled unconditioned stimulus presentations as boundary condition for reinstatement of fear effects in a human fear conditioning experiment |
| 2014 - 2017 | Study of Psychology (B. Sc. – with distinction), Medical School Hamburg |
| Bachelor Thesis | The influence of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies on dissociative symptoms in patients with borderline personality disorder |
Scientific Work and Internships
| Since 09/2023 | Clinical Psychologist, Clinic for Personality Disorders and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Asklepios Klinik Nord-Ochsenzoll |
| 07/2021 – 06/2022 | Psychotherapeutic University Outpatient Unit, Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, University Hamburg |
| Since 02/2020 | Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy with research focus on Clinical Neuroscience, University of Hamburg |
| 06/2019 - 01/2020 | Research Assistant in the research group ‚Fear, Anxiety & Stress‘, Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf |
| 03/2019 - 05/2019 | Research internship in the research group ‚Fear, Anxiety & Stress‘, Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf |
| 01/2018 - 07/2018 | Research Assistant, Department of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg |
| 04/2016 - 08/2016 | Clinical internship, Clinic for personality- and trauma related disorders, Asklepios Klinik Nord-Ochsenzoll |
| 06/2014 - 06/2017 | Student Assistant, KJP Ahrensburg, practice for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy |
Research focus
The neural processing of danger signals in patients with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Publications
Sobania, K. M., Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Lincoln, T. M., Kausche, F. M., & Riesel, A. (2025, March 25). Are Fear Learning Processes Altered in Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Insights from the Late Positive Potential, Fear-Potentiated Startle, and Ratings. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ethqc_v1
Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Kausche, F. M., & Riesel, A. (2025). Enhanced performance monitoring as a transdiagnostic risk marker of the anxiety and obsessive–compulsive spectrum: The role of disorder category, clinical status, family risk, and anxiety dimensions. Depression and Anxiety, 2025(1), 9505414. https://doi.org/10.1155/da/9505414
Kausche, F. M., Carsten, H. P., Sobania, K. M., Riesel, A. (2024). Fear and Safety Learning in Anxiety- and Stress-Related Disorders: An Updated Meta-Analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105983
Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., Malbec, M., Wieser, M. J., & Riesel, A. (2024). Are errors more aversive in an uncertain world? Testing the influence of uncertainty on the error-related negativity in a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 112480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112480
Pillny, M., Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Lincoln, T. M., & Riesel, A. (2024, July 11). With the power of the inner eyes: The Late Positive Potential during mental time travel through positive and negative experiences. An event-related potential study. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/6ncrm
Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., Nelson, B. D., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2023). Don’t worry, it won’t be fine. Contributions of worry and anxious arousal to startle responses and event-related potentials in threat anticipation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01094-4
Kausche, F.M., Härpfer, K., Carsten, H.P., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2022). Early hypervigilance and later avoidance: Event-related potentials track the processing of threatening stimuli in anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104181.
Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., & Riesel, A. (2022). A rare scare: The role of intolerance of uncertainty in startle responses and event-related potentials in anticipation of unpredictable threat. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 179, 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.06.018
Paul, K., Short, C.A., Beauducel, A., Carsten, H.P., Härpfer, K., Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C., Mueller, E.M., Osinsky, R., Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Stahl, J., Strobel, A., Wacker, J. (2022). The Methodology and Dataset of the CoScience EEG-Personality Project - A Large-Scale, Multi-Laboratory Project Grounded in Cooperative Forking Paths Analysis. Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7177
Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Löwisch, K., Westermann, N., & Riesel, A. (2022). Disentangling the effects of trait and state worry on error‐related brain activity: Results from a randomized controlled trial using worry manipulations. Psychophysiology, e14055. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14055
Jelinek, L., Voderholzer, U., Moritz, S., Carsten, H.P., Riesel, A., Miegel, F. (2021). When a nightmare comes true: Change in obsessive-compulsive disorder over the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 102493.
Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Spychalski, D., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2020). Were we erring? The impact of worry and arousal on error-related negativity in a non-clinical sample. Psychophysiology, e13661. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13661