Dept. Clinical and Health Psychology

Miriam Kipping

Miriam Kipping is working as a research assistant in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology since October 2022. She acquired her bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychology at the University of Ulm with a focus on clinical and health psychology. In her master’s thesis, she investigated the function of neuronal interoceptive networks for emotional experience using the method of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in the departments of Applied Cognitive Psychology, Psychological Research Methods and in the research of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Ulm University Hospital. She also completed two internships in psychiatric clinics. Since October 2022, she is doing the training as a psychological psychotherapist at the Institute for Behavioral Therapy and Applied Psychology at the University Hospital Ulm.

Contact

Miriam Kipping
Research Assistant

✉ Miriam Kipping
☎ +49-(0)731/50 31734

Π 45.3.105

Consultation hours
On appointment

Research interests

  • Neural structures involved in interoception and emotions
  • Stress, gastric interoception, eating behavior, and eating disorders
  • Methods: Neurostimulation (taVNS, tDCS), Physiological measurements (ECG, EGG), Endocrinological measurements

Studies and research activity

Since 10/2022Training as a psychological psychotherapist at AWIP, University Hospital Ulm
Since 10/2022Research assistant at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University
05/2022 – 07/2022Student assistant at the Department of Psychological Research Methods, Ulm University: Tutor for Evaluation
11/2021 – 03/2022Student assistant at the Department of Psychological Research Methods, Ulm University: Tutor for Multivariate Procedures
08/2021 – 09/2021Internship at the Luisenklinik, rehabilitation clinic for mental & psychosomatic diseases of adulthood
06/2021 – 08/2021 &10/2021Student assistant at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ulm
01/2021 – 05/2021Research internship at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ulm
09/2020 – 03/2021Student assistant at the Department of Applied Cognitive Psychology, Ulm University
10/2020 – 08/2022Master's degree in psychology (M.Sc.), Ulm University
03/2019 & 08/2019 – 09/2019Internship in the child and adolescent psychiatry department of the Center for Psychiatry, Böblingen
10/2017 – 09/2020Bachelor’s degree in psychology (B.Sc.), Ulm University

 

Academic teaching

WS 26/27

  • Seminar BQT-II Innovation: “Body-oriented psychotherapy: Approaches to self- and emotion regulation” (master’s degree Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy)

WS 25/26

  • Seminar BQT-II Innovation: “Body-oriented psychotherapy: Approaches to self- and emotion regulation” (master’s degree Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy)

SS 25

  • Exercise „Conversation techniques and behavior observation“ (bachelor’s degree)

WS 24/25

  • Seminar BQT-II Innovation: “Body-oriented psychotherapy: Approaches to self- and emotion regulation” (master’s degree Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy)

SS 24

  • Seminar „Applied Psychotherapy“ (master’s degree)
  • Exercise „Conversation techniques and behavior observation“ (bachelor’s degree)

WS 23/24

  • Seminar “Psychotherapeutic case conception” (master’s degree)

SS23

  • Seminar “Psychotherapeutic case conception B” (master’s degree)

Publication

Kipping, M., Gjini, R., Schulz, A., & Pollatos, O. (2026). Acute stress attenuates the coupling between gastric interoception and snack consumption. Appetite (in press).

Kipping, M., Schulz, A., & Pollatos, O. (2026). Stress modulates gastric interoception depending on eating traits and emotion regulation: evidence from the magic table. Scientific reports, 16(1), 14969. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-48641-w

Kipping, M., Mai-Lippold, S. A., Beate, |, Herbert, M., Desdentado, L., Kammer, T., Pollatos, O., & Psychology, H. (2024). Insights into interoceptive and emotional processing: Lessons from studies on insular HD-tDCS. Psychophysiology, 00, e14639. doi.org/10.1111/PSYP.14639

Köhler-Dauner, F., Ziegenhain, U., Kipping, M., Mayer, I., Fegert, J. M., & Buchheim, A. (2023). Parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insecure or unresolved attachment representation is a risk factor for harmful parenting behavior. Family Relations, 72(5), 2297–2317. doi.org/10.1111/FARE.12925