Dr. habil. Timur Sevincer

Education                                    

2015  Venia Legendi in Psychology, University Hamburg

2015  Habilitation in Psychology, University Hamburg

2008  Ph.D. phil. University of Hamburg

2004  M.A. in Philosophy (minors: Psychology and Language, Literature North American culture), University of Hamburg

Positions

2019-2020  Lecturer in Psychology, Leuphana University Lüneburg

2017-2018   Lecturer in Psychology, New York University Berlin

2018  Research Associate (Venia Legendi), Institute of Psychology at the University of Hamburg

2010-2018  Deputy Professor / Research Associate, Institute of Psychology at the University of Hamburg

2009-2010  Post-Doc, Institute of Psychology at the University of Hamburg

2009  DAAD Scholar, New York University

2004-2008  Ph.D., Institute of Psychology at the University of Hamburg

In Press

Sevincer, A. T., & Oettingen, G. (in press). Regulatory focus and thinking about the future and reality. Motivation Science.

Sevincer, A. T., Kwon, J. Y., Varnum, M. E. W., & Kitayama, S. (in press). Risky business: Cosmopolitan culture and risk-taking. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Bossom, J. K., Vandello, J. A., Jurek, P., Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Olech, M., Besta, T., …Sevincer, A. T., …& Zukauskiene, R. (in press). Isomorphism and Correlates of Precarious
Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

2020

Dang, J., Barker, P., Baumert, A., Bentvelzen, M., Berkman, E., Buchholz, N., ... Sevincer, A. T. .... & Dewitte, S. (2020). A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1–11. 

Ko, A., Pick, C. M., Kwon, J. Y., Barlev, M., Krems, J. A., Varnum, M. E., ... Sevincer, A. T. ... & Crispim, A. C. (2020). Family matters: Rethinking the psychology of human social motivation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 173–201. 

Sevincer, A. T., Musik, T, Degner, A., Greinert, A., & Oettingen, G. (2020). Taking responsibility for others and use of mental contrasting. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 1219–1233. 

Sevincer, A. T., & Oettingen, G. (2020). Teaching mental contrasting to facilitate educational attainment across sociocultural contexts. In G. A. D. Liem & D. M. McInerney (Eds.), Educational interventions: a sociocultural perspective. 13th volume of research on sociocultural influences on motivation and learning (pp. 201–227). Information Age Publishing.

Sevincer, A. T., Wagner, G., & Oettingen, G. (2020). Positive fantasies and negative emotions in soccer fans. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 935–946. 

2019

Ko, A., Pick, C., Kwon, J. Y., Barlev, M., Krems, J. A., Varnum, M. E. W., ... Sevincer, A. T.,... Kenrick, D. T. (2019). Family matters: Rethinking the psychology of human social motivation. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Schwarz, U., Sevincer, A. T., & Gawrilow, C. (2019). Wenn-Dann Pläne und mentale Kontrastierung als Strategien zur Förderung der Selbstregulation [If-then-plans and mental contrasting as strategies to foster self-regulation]. In H. Gaspard, U. Trautwein, & M. Hasselhorn (Eds.), Jahrbuch Tests und Trends 2019: Motivation und Volition im Schulkontext. Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe.

Sevincer, A. T., Varnum, M. E. W., & Kitayama, S. (2019). The modern land of opportunity: Cosmopolitan cities attract independent immigrants. In N. Kakabadse & N. Mouraviev (Eds.), Entrepreneurship and Global Cities: Diversity, Opportunity and Cosmopolitanism. New York: Routledge.

Sevincer, A. T., Wagner, G., & Oettingen, G. (2019). Positive fantasies and negative emotions in soccer fans. Cognition and Emotion.

2018

Oettingen, G. & Sevincer, A. T. (2018). Fantasy about the future as friend and foe. In G. Oettingen, A. T. Sevincer, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.), The psychology of thinking about the future (pp. 127–149). New York, NY: Guilford.

Oettingen, G., Sevincer, A. T., & Gollwitzer P. M. (Eds.) (2018). The psychology of thinking about the future. New York, NY: Guilford.

Sevincer, A. T., Tessmann, P., & Oettingen, G. (2018). Demand to act and use of mental contrasting. Social Psychology, 49, 344–359.

Spies, M., & Sevincer, A. T. (2018). Women outperform men in distinguishing between real and fake smiles. The Journal of Social Psychology, 158, 574–579.

Wagner, G., Sevincer, A. T., Keim, R., Fähnrich, M., & Oettingen, G. (2018). Alcohol can reduce gambling behavior. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32, 832–845.

2017

Sevincer, A. T., Varnum, M. E., & Kitayama, S. (2017). The culture of cities: Measuring perceived cosmopolitanism. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48, 1052–1072.

Sevincer, A. T., Mehl, P. J., & Oettingen, G. (2017). Well self-regulated people use mental contrasting. Social Psychology, 48(6), 348–364. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

2015

Sevincer, A. T., Kitayama, S., & Varnum, M. E. W. (2015). Cosmopolitan cities: the frontier in the twenty-first century? Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1459.

Sevincer, A. T, Schlier, B., & Oettingen, G. (2015). Ego depletion and the use of mental contrasting. Motivation and Emotion, 39, 876–891.

Sevincer, A. T., & Oettingen, G. (2015). Future thought and the self-regulation of energization. In G. H. E. Gendolla, M. Tops, & S. Koole (Eds.), Biobehavioral approaches to self-regulation (pp. 315-329). New York: Springer.

2014

Kitayama, S., Varnum, M. E. W., & Sevincer, A. T. (2014). The frontier: Voluntary settlement and cultural change. In A. Cohen (Ed.), Culture reexamined: Broadening our understanding of social and evolutionary influences. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Sevincer, A. T., Busatta, P. D., & Oettingen, G. (2014). Mental contrasting and transfer of energization. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 139–152.

Sevincer, A. T., Kluge, L., & Oettingen, G. (2014). Implicit theories and motivational focus: Desired future versus present reality. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 36–46.

Sevincer, A. T., & Oettingen, G. (2014). Alcohol myopia and goal commitment. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:169.

Sevincer, A. T., Wagner, G., Kalvelage, J., & Oettingen, G. (2014). Positive thinking about the future in newspaper reports and presidential addresses predicts economic downturn. Psychological Science, 25, 1010–1017.

2013

Sevincer, A. T., & Oettingen, G. (2013). Alcohol intake leads people to focus on desirability rather than feasibility. Motivation and Emotion, 37, 165–176.

Sevincer, A. T., & Oettingen, G. (2013). Spontaneous mental contrasting and selective goal pursuit. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 1240–1254.

2012

Sevincer, A. T., Oettingen, G., & Lerner, T. (2012). Alcohol affects goal commitment by explicitly and implicitly induced myopia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 524–529.

2009

Gawrilow, C., Sevincer, A. T., & Oettingen, G. (2009). Psychologie des Zukunftsdenkens [Psychology of thinking about the future]. In V. Brandstätter & J. H. Otto (Eds.), Handbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie - Motivation und Emotion [Handbook of general psychology: motivation and emotion] (pp. 182-188). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Kitayama, S., Park, H., Sevincer, A. T., Karasawa, M., & Uskul, A. (2009). A cultural task analysis of implicit independence: comparing North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 236–255.

Oettingen, G., Mayer, D., Sevincer, A. T., Stephens, E. J., Pak, H. & Hagenah, M. (2009). Mental contrasting and goal commitment: The mediating role of energization. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 608–622.

Sevincer, A. T., & Oettingen, G. (2009). Alcohol breeds empty goal commitments. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 623–633.
 
Sevincer, A. T., & Oettingen, G. (2009). Ziele [Goals]. In V. Brandstätter, & J. H. Otto (Eds.), Handbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie - Motivation und Emotion [Handbook of general psychology: motivation and emotion] (pp. 37-45). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

2008

Oettingen, G., Sevincer, A. T., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2008). Goal pursuit in the context of culture. In R. Sorrentino & S. Yamaguchi (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition across cultures (pp. 191-211). San Diego: Elsevier.