We’re hiring a PhD! 🚀
The Applied Cognitive Psychology Group at TU Darmstadt is looking for a PhD candidate. Join us to explore exciting questions in cognition and especially metacognition in a supportive, collaborative team.
Apply by 20.04 🗓️: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
Monika Undorf (far left) and Luisa Schulz (third from left) pictured here.
Participation in the 68. TeaP @teap2026.bsky.social ! 🎉
Prof. Dr. Monika Undorf @monikaundorf.bsky.social presented, and our member Franzi @franziingendahl.bsky.social was represented with talks and co-organized a symposium with Luisa Schulz on “Recent Insights in Metacognition”. 🧠💭
The congress truly felt like a scientific conference, filled with curiosity and lively debate during the poster session 👏
Congratulations to all presenters, especially the three winning groups selected for the Poster Award! 🏆✨
On February 13, we proudly hosted this semester’s ExPra Congress at TU Darmstadt 🎓
In this core B.Sc. Psychology module, students take on the role of independent researchers: developing questions, analyzing data, and presenting their findings.
@earlioffice.bsky.social
❗New publication alert 🎉
"Judgments of learning in the wild: Establishing ecological validity with an intelligent tutoring system in a field study“ by Marc Philipp Janson, Samuel Wissel, @franziingendahl.bsky.social &
@monikaundorf.bsky.social, published in Learning and Instruction.
➡️ Read more
🎉 The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are now accessible via the Research Data Center of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social.
This is a unique longitudinal data set with great potential – also for young scientists.
👉 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/base-data-av...
❗New publication alert 🎉
"Instructed learning strategy use eliminates negative reactivity of immediate judgments of learning“ by @franziingendahl.bsky.social and @monikaundorf.bsky.social, just published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
➡️ Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
❗New publication alert 🎉
"The moderating effects of individual differences in baseline episodic memory on acute exercise benefits in memory” led by Zakary Patrick, just published in Memory & Cognition, featuring @monikaundorf.bsky.social.
➡️ Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
📢 Early-bird registration for #TeaP2026 ends on January 18! ⏰ Regular price registration will remain open until February 22 👍🏼 Hope to see you in Tübingen soon ❤️ coms.app/teap26/
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🎓 The submission & defense of the dissertation of our member Franzi @franziingendahl.bsky.social – the lab‘s first PhD graduate; she will continue her work as a postdoctoral researcher in our lab 🙌
🎄 Our yearly Christmas market visit with the student members of our group
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🧑🏫 Participation in the Conference of Experimental Psychologists @teap2025.bsky.social – where our members Sofia & Franzi chaired a double symposium on metacognition 🧠💭 – & the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social in Denver 🇺🇸
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An overview of the papers published by members of the lab in 2025
A picture showing a group of researchers at a conference (the participants in the metacognition symposium members of our group organized) and a selfie of Monika Undorf and Franziska Ingendahl from another conference.
A picture showing Franziska Ingendahl holding her dissertation and of giving a talk about her dissertation at her defense.
A picture showing members of the lab standing in front of a christmas tree in the evening
To kick off, we’re looking back at what shaped 2025 for the Applied Cognitive Psychology Lab! 📅✨
🌟 Highlights include:
📋 Multiple published papers
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Hi BlueSky! 👋💙
We’re the Applied Cognitive Psychology Lab — a research group led by Prof. Dr. Monika Undorf at the Technical University of Darmstadt (@tuda.bsky.social) in Germany 🇩🇪
Here, we share glimpses of our research, publications, conferences, and behind‑the‑scenes moments from the lab.