Prof. Dr. Harald Schupp

Harald T. Schupp has been a Professor of General and Biological Psychology at the University of Konstanz since 2004. He completed his diploma and doctorate in psychology at the University of Tübingen. Before joining the University of Konstanz, he worked as a post-doc at the NIMH Center for the Study of Attention and Emotion and as a research associate at the University of Greifswald.

Prof. Dr. Schupp has been engaged in psychophysiological and affective neuroscience research for more than 30 years. Additionally, he has long been conducting research in the field of health behavior, with a focus on nutrition and the development of mobile interventions for behavior change. He has co-led several collaborative projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the EU (SMARTACT; EATMOTIVE). As part of the Excellence Cluster EXC 2117 "Collective Behavior," he is a project leader in the areas of brain synchronization and decision-making, as well as nutrition and collective eating.

Teaching courses

Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Harald Schupp

Qualification and Career

2002 Habilitation, Psychology University of Greifswald
1994 Ph.D. Psychology, University of Tübingen
1991 Diploma, Psychology, University Tübingen

Professional career

since 2004, C4-Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz

2000-2004, Assistant Professor for Clinical and Physiological Psychology (C1), University of Greifswald, Germany

1997-2000, Assistant Professor for General and Physiological Psychology (C1), University of Greifswald, Germany

1994-1996, Postdoctoral Research, NIMH Center for the Study of Attention and Emotion, University of Florida, USA

1991 - 1994, Research Scientist, Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Neurobiological Aspects of Behavior and pathological deviance’, University of Tübingen, Germany

Activities in the Research System

2023 - 2027
Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Konstanz
2021 - 2024
Associated Editor: Journal Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
2012 - 2016
Associated Editor: Biological Psychology

Selected research grants

since 2018
(PI) of the interdisciplinary project 'Collective Appetite' of the DFG founded excellence-cluster Centre for Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, Universität Konstanz (FKZ: EXC 2117)
2016 - 2021
Co-speaker of the DFG-Research unit Riskdynamics: The Dynamics of Risk - Perception and Behavior in the Context of Mental and Physical Health (FKZ: FOR 2374)
2015 - 2023
Co-speaker of the interdisciplinary BMBF project ”Individual and context-based real-time interventions to promote normal nutrition and physical activity through mobile technology” (SMARTACT) (FKZ: 01EL1420A, 01EL1820A)
2010 - 2014
Co-speaker of the interdisciplinary BMBF project EATMOTIVE: Innovations for the food sector: Why we eat what we eat: Motives, social context and economic implications, (FKZ: 01EA1326)

Selected publications

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Villinger K, Wahl DR, Debbeler LJ, Koller JE, Brünecke I, Lages NC, Schupp HT, Renner, B. (2022). Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to study variations in daily experiences and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Health Psychologist 22 (4), 816 – 833. https://ehps.net/ehp/index.php/contents/article/view/3380
Schupp, H. T., Flösch, K. P., Kirmse, U. (2022). Case-by-case: Neural markers of emotion and task stimulus significance. Cerebral Cortex.
Schupp, H. T., Kirmse, U. (2022). Neural correlates of affective stimulus evaluation: A case-by-case analysis. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17 (3), 300-310.
Schubring, D., Schupp, H. T. (2021). Emotion and brain oscillations: High arousal is associated with decreases in alpha-and lower beta-band power. Cerebral Cortex, 31 (3), 1597-1608.
Schupp, H. T., Kirmse, U. M. (2021). Case‐by‐case: Emotional stimulus significance and the modulation of the EPN and LPP. Psychophysiology, 58 (4), e13766.
Debbeler LJ, Schupp HT, Renner B. (2021). Pessimistic health and optimistic wealth distributions perceptions in Germany and the UK: Evidence from an online-survey. BMC Public Health, 21 (1), 1306. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11355-x
Giese H, Gamp M, Stok FM, Gaissmaier W, Schupp HT, Renner B. (2021). Contagious health risk and precautionary social distancing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 685134. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.685134
Schubring, D., Kraus, M., Stolz, C., Weiler, N., Keim, D. A., Schupp, H. (2020). Virtual reality potentiates emotion and task effects of alpha/beta brain oscillations. Brain Sciences, 10(8), 537.
Villinger K*, Wahl DR*, Boeing H, Schupp HT, Renner B. (2019). The effectiveness of app-based mobile interventions on nutrition behaviours and nutrition-related health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obes Rev, 1-20. *both authors contributed equally
Schubring, D., Schupp, H. T. (2019). Affective picture processing: Alpha‐and lower beta‐band desynchronization reflects emotional arousal. Psychophysiology, 56 (8), e13386.
Wahl D, Villinger K, König L, Ziesmer K, Schupp H, Renner B. (2017). Healthy food choices are happy food choices: Evidence from a real life sample using smartphone based assessments. Sci Rep 7, 17069.
Sproesser G, Schupp HT, Renner B. (2014). The bright side of stress induced eating: Eating more when stressed but less when pleased. Psychol Sci 25, 58-65.
Renner B, Sproesser G, Strohbach S, Schupp HT. (2012). Why we eat what we eat: The Eating Motivation Survey (TEMS). Appetite 59, 117-128.