Kai Härpfer
Ph.D.Student
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Academic CV
| since 04/2020 | PhD student, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy with research focus on Clinical Neuroscience, University of Hamburg |
| Master Thesis | Action Monitoring and Anxiety: The Impact of Anxious Arousal and Anxious Apprehension on Brain Potentials |
| 10/2018 - 03/2020 | Study of Psychology (M.Sc.), Humboldt-University of Berlin |
| Bachelor Thesis | Evaluations of and affective responses to sexism: Effects of sexist beliefs, self-objectification, resilience, hierarchy, and context |
| 10/2014 – 09/2018 | Study of Psychology (B.Sc.), University of Potsdam |
Scientific Work and Internships
| since 10/2020 | Postgraduate training as a psychotherapist (cognitive-behavioral therapy), PTA Hamburg |
| since 04/2020 | Research assistant, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy with research focus on Clinical Neuroscience, University of Hamburg |
| 12/2018 - 03/2020 | Student assistant, Clinical Psychology, Humboldt-University of Berlin |
| 08/2016 – 10/2016 | Internship, Department of Psychiatry, Schlosspark-Klinik Berlin |
Research focus
- Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Neural correlates (event-related potentials, time-frequency analyses)
- Neural markers of vulnerability
- Development and adaptation of psychological interventions
Publications
Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., Malbec, M., Wieser, M. J., & Riesel, A. (2024, August 7). Are Errors More Aversive in an Uncertain World? Testing the Influence of Uncertainty on the Error-Related Negativity in a Randomized Controlled Trial. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mnfwz
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.
Riesel, A., Härpfer, K., Thoma, L., Kathmann. N., Klawohn, J. (2022). Associations of neural error-processing with symptoms and traits in a dimensional sample recruited across the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. Psychophysiology.https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14164.
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
Riesel, A., Härpfer, K., Kathmann, N., & Klawohn, J. (2021). In the Face of Potential Harm – The Predictive Validity of Neural Correlates of Performance Monitoring for Perceived Risk, Stress, and Internalizing Psychopathology During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.08.004
Härpfer, K., Spychalski, D., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2021). Diverging patterns of EEG alpha asymmetry in anxious apprehension and anxious arousal. Biological Psychology, 162, 108111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108111
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
Härpfer, K., & Bschor, T. (2017). Internetbasierte Psychotherapie-Interventionen [Internet-based psychotherapy interventions]. Nervenheilkunde, 36, 459-466. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1627033