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Prof. Dr. Marie Hennecke

Room: IB 5/115
Phone: +49 234 32 - 22676
Office hours: Currently by appointment by e-mail
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Research Interests

  • Self-Control
  • Self-Regulation
  • Goal Pursuit
  • Motivation
  • Personality Development
  • Developmental Regulation

Further Informations


Converse, B. A., Zhang, S., & Hennecke, M. (2023). The value of mere completion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001434

Wenzel, M.*, Bürgler, S., Kreibich, A., Brandstätter, V., & Hennecke, M.* (2023). Self-regulatory strategy use and efficacy in self-control conflicts of initiation, persistence, and inhibition. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070221150478
 *both authors contributed equally

Hennecke, M.*, & Bürgler, S.*(2022). Metacognition and self-control: An integrative framework. Psychological Review. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000406
 *both authors contributed equally

Kiendl, K., & Hennecke, M. (2022). The measurement of goal dimensions: A critical review. Motivation Science, 8(3), 215-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/mot0000268

Hennecke, M., Brandstätter, V., & Oettingen, G. (2021). The self-regulation of healthy aging: Goal-related processes in three domains. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 76 (Supplement), S125-S134. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab011

Hennecke, M., & Bürgler, S. (2020). Many roads lead to Rome: Self-regulatory strategies and their effect on self-control. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e1253. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12530

Converse, B. A., Juarez, L., & Hennecke, M. (2019). Self-control and the reasons behind our goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 860-883. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000188

Hennecke, M. (2019). What doesn’t kill you, …: Means for avoidance goal pursuit are less enjoyable than means for approach goal pursuit. Motivation Science, 5, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000104

Hennecke, M., Bleidorn, W., Denissen, J. J. A., & Wood, D. (2014). A three-part framework for self-regulated personality development across adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 28, 216-230. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.1945

  • Since 10/2023: Full Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum
  • 2/2019 – 9/2023: Full Professor at the of Siegen, Germany
  • 2/2013 – 12/2018: Oberassistentin (equivalent to Assistant Professor, non-tenure track), Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • 3/2012 – 1/2013: Post-Doc, Department of Psychology and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  • 3/2011 – 2/2012: Post-Doc, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • 9/2010 – 2/2011: Research stay at the Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
  • 3/2011: Dr. phil. in Psychology (summa cum laude), University of Zurich, Switzerland (Advisor and first referee: Prof. Dr. Alexandra M. Freund; second referee: Prof. Dr. Jaap J. A. Denissen)
  • 2008 – 2011: Graduate student in the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course: Evolutionary and Ontogenetic Dynamics (LIFE)
  • 2007: Diploma in Psychology (equivalent to M.Sc. degree, with distinction), Ruhr-University Bochum

 

  • 2023: Early Career Award, Society for the Science of Motivation
  • 2022: Teaching Award, Department of Psychology, University of Siegen
  • 2019: Outstanding Alumni Award, International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE)
  • Since 12/2018: Member of the Personality Change Consortium (PCC)                               
  • 9/2016 – 8/2018: Fellow of the Global Future Council on the Future of Behavioral Science of the World Economic Forum (WEF)
  • 2004 – 2006: Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes [German national academic foundation]