Birte Thissen
Research Interests
- Flow-Research, Flow-experiences during reading or writing (conditions of emergence, associated personality traits, neurological background)
- immersion in reading
- dissociation
- clinical and general Media Psychology
Vita
Academic Education
| 2013-2015 | Master of Science in Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2013 | Semester abroad at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain |
| 2010-2013 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Westfälische Wilhems-University, Münster, Germany |
Professional Experience | |
| since 10/2015 | PhD student at the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2014-2015 | Tutor for communication-trainings in the paedriatic department of the University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany |
Publication
Thissen, B. A. K., Menninghaus, W., & Schlotz, W. (2018). Measuring Optimal Reading Experiences: The Reading Flow Short Scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2542. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02542
Projects
- Flow in reading
Based on Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of „flow“ (1972), we conduct a series of studies on textual variables and readers’ characteristics, which, in their interaction, increase the likelihood of ...