Meike Kroneisen

Assistant Professor



Research interests Publications & conference contributions Teaching Vita

Research interests

  • Adaptive memory (animacy effect/ survival processing effect)
  • (Source) Memory for prosocial and antisocial behavior
  • Moral decisions

Publications

Papers (peer reviewed) & Books

  • Kamp, S.-M., Henrich, L., Walleitner, R., L., Kroneisen, M., Balles, J., Dzionsko-Becker, I., Hoffmann, H., Königs, S., Schneiders, S., Leisse, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2024). The Survival Processing Effect in episodic memory in older adults and stroke patients. Acta Psychologica, 248, 104390.
  • Kroneisen, M., Forester, G., & Kamp, S.-M., (2024). Neurocognitive mechanisms of the survival processing effect. In M. Toglia, H.Otgaar, J. Altarriba, & W. Erickson (Eds.), Interdisciplinary perspectives and advances in understanding adaptive memory (p.). Oxford University Press.
  • Kroneisen, M. (2024). Context matters: The influence of the social situation on source memory. Culture & Evolution, 20, 111-132. https://doi.org/10.1556/2055.2023.00039
  • Kroneisen, M. , Erdfelder, E., Groß, R.M., & Janczyk, M. (2023). Survival processing occupies the central bottleneck of cognitive processing: A psychological refractoryperiod analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02340-z
  • Kroneisen, M. , & Bell, R. (2022). Memory as a cognitive requirement for reciprocal cooperation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 271277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.008
  • Kroneisen, M. (2022). Remembering cheaters: The influence of social relevance on source memory. In M. Krause , K. L. Hollis, & M. R. Papini (Eds.), Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms (p.424-437). Cambridge University Press.
  • Kroneisen, M. & Erdfelder, E. (2022). Survival processing effect. In R. F. Pohl (Hrsg.), Cognitive illusions : intriguing phenomena in judgement, thinking and memory (3., S. 3–23). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
  • Kroneisen, M. , Kriechbaumer, M., Kamp, S.-M. & Erdfelder, E. (2022). Realistic context doesn`t amplify the survival processing effect: Lessons learned from Covid-19 scenarios. Acta Psychologica, 222(Article 103459), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103459
  • Kroneisen, M. , Bott, F.M., & Mayer, M. (2021). Remembering the bad ones: Does the source memory advantage for cheaters influence our later actions positively?Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211007822
  • Kroneisen, M. , Kriechbauer, M., Kamp, S.-M. & Erdfelder, E. (2021). How can I use it? The role of functional fixedness in the survival-processing paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review : PB&R, 28(1), 324–332. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01802-y
  • Kroneisen, M. & Küpper-Tetzel, C. E. (2021). Using day and night – scheduling retrieval practice and sleep. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 20 (1), 40–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475725720965363
  • Kroneisen, M. & Steghaus, S. (2021). The influence of decision time on sensitivity for consequences, moral norms, and preferences for inaction: Time, moral judgments, and the CNI model. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34 (1), 140–153. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2202
  • Twomey, C. & Kroneisen, M. (2021). The effectiveness of the loci method as a mnemonic device: meta-analysis. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : QJEP. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021821993457
  • Forester, G., Kroneisen, M. , Erdfelder, E. & Kamp, S.-M. (2020). Adaptive memory: Independent effects of survival processing and reward motivation on memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14 (Article 588100), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.588100
  • Forester, G., Kroneisen, M. , Erdfelder, E. & Kamp, S.-M. (2020). Survival processing modulates the neurocognitive mechanisms of episodic encoding. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience: CABN, 20(4), 717–729. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00798-1
  • Kroneisen, M. & Heck, D. W. (2020). Interindividual differences in the sensitivity for consequences, moral norms, and preferences for inaction: Relating basic personality traits to the CNI model. . Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: PSPB, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167219893994
  • Nadarevic, L. & Kroneisen, M. (2020). Easy on the mind, easy on the wrongdoer? No evidence for perceptual fluency effects on moral wrongness ratings. . Cognition, 196, Article 104156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104156
  • Wöstenfeld, F. O., Ahmad, S., Kroneisen, M. & Rummel, J. (2020). Does the survival processing memory advantage translate to serial recall? . Collabra: Psychology, 6(1), Article 8, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.243
  • Forester, G., Kroneisen, M. , Erdfelder, E. & Kamp, S.-M. (2019). On the role of retrieval processes in the survival processing effect: Evidence from ROC and ERP analyses. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 166, Article 107083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107083
  • Kroneisen, M. (2018). Is he important to me? Source memory advantage for personally relevant cheaters. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review : PB&R, 25(3), 1129–1137. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1345-1
  • Kroneisen, M. & Bell, R. (2018). Remembering the place with the tiger: Survival processing can enhance source memory. . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review : PB&R, 25(2), 667–673. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1431-z
  • Kroneisen, M. & Erdfelder, E. (2017). Survival processing effect. In R. F. Pohl (Hrsg.), . Cognitive illusions : intriguing phenomena in judgement, thinking and memory (2., S. 357–372). London ; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Kroneisen, M. & Makerud, S. E. (2017). The effects of item material on encoding strategies : survival processing compared to the method of loci. . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: QJEP, 70(9), 1824–1836. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1209533
  • Kroneisen, M. , Rummel, J. & Erdfelder, E. (2016). What kind of processing is survival processing? Effects of different types of dual-task load on the survival processing effect. . Memory & Cognition, 44(8), 1228–1243. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-016-0634-7
  • Kroneisen, M. , Woehe, L. & Rausch, L. (2015). Expectancy effects in source memory : How moving to a bad neighborhood can change your memory. . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review : PB&R, 22(1), 179–189. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0655-9
  • Erdfelder, E. & Kroneisen, M. (2014). Proximate cognitive mechanisms underlying the survival processing effect. In B. L. Schwartz (Hrsg.), . What is adaptive about adaptive memory? (S. 172–198). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199928057.001.0001
  • Kroneisen, M. , Rummel, J. & Erdfelder, E. (2014). Working memory load eliminates the survival processing effect. . Memory, 22(1), 92–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2013.815217
  • Kroneisen, M. & Bell, R. (2013). Sex, cheating, and disgust : Enhanced source memory for trait information that violates gender stereotypes. . Memory, 21(2), 167–181. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.713971
  • Kroneisen, M. , Erdfelder, E. & Buchner, A. (2013). The proximate memory mechanism underlying the survival processing effect : Richness of encoding or interactive imagery? . Memory, 21(4), 494–502. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.741603

    • Conference Contributions

    • Kroneisen, M. (2022). Who is the nice guy? The influence of personality on source memory. In Malejka, S., Barth, M., Haider, H., Stahl, C. (eds.)(2022). TeaP 2022 -Abstracts of the 64th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. [Conference object] Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), 2022, Cologne, Germany.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2021). The influence of mood on old new recognition and source memory for happy and sad faces. In Huckauf, A., Baumann, M., Ernst, M. Herbert, C. Kiefer, M, & Sauter, M. (Eds.) (2021). Contributions to the 63rd Tagung Experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2019). Context matters: The influence of social relevance on source memory and the influence of trustworthiness on behavior. 61th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, London.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2018). The power of a smile: Enhanced old new recognition but no source memory advantage for for happy faces. International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Amsterdam.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2018). The influence of mood on memory for happy and sad faces. 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Marburg.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2017). The influence of working memory load on memory for happy and angry faces. ESCoP Conference, Potsdam.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2017). Does the source memory advantage for cheaters influence our later actions positively? 59. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Dresden.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2016). Does the source memory advantage for cheaters influence our later actions positively? Abstracts of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. (p. 244). Boston, USA: The Psychonomic Society.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2016). Showing "action" in moral judgments. 58. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Heidelberg.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2015).The influence of mood on memory for happy and angry faces. Abstracts of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. (p. 130). Long Beach, USA: The Psychonomic Society.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2015). Is personal relevance an important aspect for cheater detection? 57. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Hildesheim.
    • Kroneisen, M. , & Küpper-Tetzel, C. E. (2014). Delayed testing eliminates the beneficial effect of sleep on memory. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, California.
    • Kroneisen, M. , Rummel, J., & Erdfelder, E. (2013). Working memory load eliminates the survival processing effect, SARMAC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
    • Bell, R., Buchner, A., Kroneisen, M. , & Giang, T. (2013). Remembering cheaters. SARMAC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2013). Memory for happy and angry faces: A multinomial processing tree analysis. 55. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Vienna, Austria.
    • Bell, R., Buchner, A., Kroneisen, M., & Giang, T. (2013). Enhanced memory for the wolf in sheep’s clothing: How general is the memory advantage for expectancy-incongruent social information? 55. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Vienna, Austria.
    • Erdfelder, E., & Kroneisen, M. (2012). Richness of encoding explains the survival processing effect. 30th International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa.
    • Kroneisen, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2012). Are the relevance ratings essential for the survival-processing effect? In A. Bröder, E. Erdfelder, B. E. Hilbig, T. Meiser, R. F. Pohl, & D. Stahlberg (Eds.). Abstracts of the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (p. 74). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
    • Kroneisen, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2011). On the plasticity of the survival-processing effect. Abstracts of the 5th international conference on memory (p. 170). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
    • Kroneisen, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2011). Die Bedeutung des Relevanz Ratings für den Survival-Processing Effekt. In K. Bittrich, S. Blankenberger, & J. Lukas (Hrsg.). Beiträge zur 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (p. 97). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
    • Kroneisen, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2010). Determinanten des Survival-Processing Effekt. In Frings, C., Mecklinger, A., Wentura, D., & Zimmer, H. (Hrsg.), Beiträge zur 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (S. 166). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
    • Kroneisen, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2009). On the nature of the survival-processing effect. Poster presented at the European Society for Cognitive Psychology Conference, Krakow, from 2nd to 5th September 2009.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2008). Adaptive memory? On the nature of the survival-processing effect. Poster presented at the Conference on Formal Models of Memory, Judgment, and Decision Making, Mannheim, Germany, 7th -10th July 2008.
    • Kroneisen, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2008). Effects of the order and meaning of sound in the articulatory suppression paradigm. International Journal of Psychology, 43. (Poster).
    • Kroneisen, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2008). Entwicklung eines Testverfahrens zur Profildiagnostik der kognitiven Belastbarkeit. In Khader, P., Jost, K. Lachnit, H., & Röslerr, F. (Hrsg.), Beiträge zur 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (S. 256). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
    • Kroneisen, M. (2007). Effekte der Lautreihenfolge im artikulatorischen Unterdrückungsparadigma. In Wender, K. F., Mecklenbräuker, S., Rey, G. D., & Wehr, T. (Hrsg.), Beiträge zur 49. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (S. 315). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

    Vita

    Education / Degrees

    • 2007-2010: Ph. D. in Psychology at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Mannheim (advisor: Edgar Erdfelder)
    • 2006: Diploma (MA) in Psychology, University of Mannheim

    Research and academic experience

    • since 2015:Assistant Professor, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
    • 2019-2022: Replacement Professorship, Chair of Cognition and Individual Differences, University of Mannheim
    • 2008-2015: Research and teaching assistant, Chair for Cognition and Individual Differences, University of Mannheim
    • 2006-2007: Research associate in a project on evidence-based stress prevention and health status (Forschungsschwerpunkt Baden-Württemberg): Cognitive processes and performances (Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Edgar Erdfelder)

    Award, grants, and scholarships

    • 2024-2026: research grant with a doctoral position (DFG)
    • 2018-2021: research grant with a doctoral position, Title: “Experimental tests of proximate explanations of the survival processing effect in episodic memory” (DFG), Doctoral Candidate: Michael Kriechbaumer
    • 2015: Woven-Stipendium für die Qualifikationsphase nach der Promotion
    • 2013: Bojanovski-Award for Empirical Models of Social Processes
    • 2012: Forschungsförderung im Rahmen des Autonomiefonds der Universität Mannheim
    • 2011: DAAD Stipendium für Forschungs- und Kongressreisen
    • 2008: Ph.D. Scholarship Landesgraduiertenförderung, Baden Württemberg
    • 2007: Ph.D. Scholarship from the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim.

    Invited talks

    • 4.2.2019: "To kill or not to kill? Can we predict responses in moral dilemmas?" (Prof. Klaus Fiedler, Prof. Jan Rummel) Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
    • 30.5.2018: “To kill or not to kill? Können wir moralische Urteile vorhersagen?” (Prof. Jochen Musch), Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf.
    • 31.1.2018: “Adaptive Memory? Neue Befunde zum Survival Processing Effekt” (Prof. Axel Buchner), Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf.
    • 3.11.2010: "Auf den Spuren des Survival Processing Effekts", (Prof. Axel Buchner) Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf.