Dr. Michael Barthelmäs

2022- Postdoc at Dept. Social Psychology, Ulm University
2017-2022 PhD student at Dept. Social Psychology, Ulm University
Dissertation: „Antecedents, Boundary Conditions, and Consequences of Emotional Crying: The ABC of Crying“
2017-2021 Postgraduate psychotherapy training at University Hospital Ulm
2019 – 2021: Psychotherapie Ambulanz
2018 – 2019: Psychiatrische Institutsambulanz
2017 – 2018: Tagesklinik
2015 Study abroad, University of Bergen
2014-2016 M.Sc. Psychology at Ulm University
2012-2016 Research assistant at Dept. Social Psychology, Ulm University
2011-2014 B.Sc. Psychology at Ulm University

Contact

 

 

Dr. Michael Barthelmäs
(b. Wagner)
Postdoc
Licensed Psychotherapist (CBT-adults)

michael.barthelmaes(at)uni-ulm.de
☎ +49-(0)731/50 33153
Π 47.2.273

Consultation hours
on appointment

Funding

2023 - 2024 Nachwuchsinkubator- Förderung der Universitä Ulm (31.000€) "Untersuchung von emotionalem Weinen in face-to-face Interaktionen"
2023 - 2026 DFG-Projekt (370.000€) "Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Essential Antecedents of Flow Experiences: Perceived Meaningfulness of the Activity as Crucial Factor"
01/2023-12/2024 Sieger des Science Day der Universität Ulm (50.000€) "What about crying in real life?!"
07/2022-06/2023 Anschubfinanzierung der Universität Ulm (10.000€) "Prosoziales Verhalten im Kontext ökonomischer Spiele"

Publications

Before 2020, papers, posters and talks were published under my birth name Wagner

  • Barthelmäs, M., Stöckle, D., & Keller, J. (in press). On the social signal function of emotional crying: Broadening the perspective to social interactions in daily life. Emotion
     
  • Barthelmäs, M., Kesberg, R., Hermann, A. & Keller, J. (2022). Five reasons to cry - FRC – A taxonomy for antecedents of adult emotional crying. Motivation and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09938-1
     
  • Barthelmäs, M., & Keller, J. (2021). Adult emotional crying: Relations to personality traits and subjective well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 177, 110790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110790
     
  • Barthelmäs, M., Killinger, M., & Keller, J. (2021). Using a Telegram chatbot as cost-effective software infrastructure for ambulatory assessment studies with iOS and Android devices. Behavior Research Methods, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01475-4
     
  • Barthelmäs, M., & Keller, J. (2021). Antecedents, Boundary Conditions and Consequences of Flow. In C. Peifer & S. Engeser (Eds.), Advances in Flow Research (2nd ed.). Springer
     
  • Sassenrath, C., Barthelmäs, M., Saur, J., & Keller, J. (2020). Inducing empathy affects cardiovascular reactivity reflected in changes in high-frequency heart rate variability. Cognition and Emotion, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1826910
     
  • Strauch C., Barthelmäs, M., Altgassen E., & Huckauf, A. (2020). Pupil Dilation Fulfills the Requirements for Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Gaming on the Example of Pong. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379157.3388934
     
  • Sassenrath, C., Wagner, M., Keller, J., & Sassenberg, K. (2019). It's a challenge! Empathizing with sad but not with angry individuals results in cardiovascular reactivity consistent with a challenge motivational state. Emotion, 19, 982-991. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000515

Research Interests

  • emotional crying
  • ambulatory assessment
  • flow experience
  • empathy
  • psychophysiology
  • cognitive behavioral therapy

Teaching

  • Winter 23/24: Empirical seminar in Social Psychology
  • Spring 23: Lecture on the topic "Motivation in Social Context" within the lecture Social Psychology
  • Spring 23: Empirical seminar in Social Psychology
  • Winter 22/23: Tutorial on Aggression as part of the lecture Social Psychology
  • Summer 22: Transdiagnostic interventions in psychotherapy
  • Winter 21/22: Tutorial on Aggression as part of the lecture Social Psychology
  • Winter 21/22: Transdiagnostic interventions in psychotherapy
  • Spring 21: Ambulatory Assessment
  • Winter 20/21: Assessing flow experience with ambulatory assessment
  • Spring 20: Social psychology in action: Interventions for habit and behavior change
  • Winter 19/20: Boundary conditions of flow experience
  • Spring 19: Mediation and Moderation
  • Spring 19: Data Analysis with SPSS-Syntax
  • Spring 17: Ambulatory Assessment and Day Reconstruction Method

Conference Contributions

Organization

  • Organization of the Flow Symposium held at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 4 – 5, 2019.

Talks

  • Barthelmäs, M., Stöckle, D., & Keller, J (2023, September).What about crying in real life? Another case in the generalizability crisis of psychological science . Talk presented at the 18. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie der DGPs. Graz, Austria.
  • Barthelmäs, M., Stöckle, D., & Keller, J. (2023, July - canceled). How to study the social signal function of emotional crying. Talk presented at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Kraków, Poland.
  • Barthelmäs, M (2022, September). Antecedents, Boundary Conditions and Consequences of Emotional Crying. Talk presented at the Social Psychology PostDoc Workshop 2022. Köln, Germany.
  • Barthelmäs, M. (2022, September). Five Reasons to Cry – FRC – A Taxonomy for Common Antecedents of Emotional Crying. Talk presented at the 52nd DGPs Congress. Hildesheim, Germany.
  • Barthelmäs, M. (2022, June). Five Reasons to Cry – FRC – A Taxonomy for Common Antecedents of Emotional Crying. Talk presented at the Society for Ambulatory Assessment online Conference 2022. Missouri, USA.
  • Barthelmäs, M (2021, September). Antecedents, Boundary Conditions and Consequences of Emotional Crying. Talk presented at the SODOC - online Workshop for PhD-Students in the Field of Social Psychology. Leipzig, Germany.
  • Wagner, M. & Keller, J. (2019, June). A Cardiovascular Analysis of the Flow Experience. Talk presented at the Flow Symposium at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • Wagner, M., Montag, C., Waller, C., & Keller, J. (2018, May). No Flow at the Dark Side: Depressive Symptoms Hinder the Experience of Flow. Talk presented at the 3. Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Positiv-Psychologische Forschung. Bochum, Germany. 
  • Wagner, M., Keller, J., Montag, C., & Waller, C. (2017, September). No Flow at the Dark Side: Das Vorliegen depressiver Symptome macht das Erleben von Flow weniger wahrscheinlich. Talk presented at the 16. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie der DGPs. Ulm, Germany.

Posters

  • Beck, M., Barthelmäs, M., Keller, J. (2023, July). Bullshit Job Perception and Subjective Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Protestant Work Ethic. Poster presented at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Kraków, Poland.
  • Wierzba, E., Keller, J. &, Barthelmäs, M. (2023, June). Testing the theory of planned behaviour to predictpro-environmental behaviour in everyday life. Poster presented at the International Conference on Environmental Psychology. Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Beck, M., Barthelmäs, M., & Keller, J. (2022, September). Bullshit Jobs, subjektives Wohlbefinden und die Bedeutung der protestantischen Arbeitsethik. Poster presented at the 52nd DGPs Congress. Hildesheim, Germany.
  • Barthelmäs, M., Killinger, M., & Keller, J. (2021, June/July). Telegram-Survey-Bot - a free software to conduct experience sampling method studies. Poster presented at the Society for Ambulatory Assessment online Conference 2021. Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Barthelmäs, M., Killinger, M., & Keller, J. (2021, May). Telegram-Survey-Bot - a free software to conduct experience sampling method studies. Poster presented at the 38. online Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der DGPs. Mannheim, Germany.
  • Wagner, M. & Keller, J. (2019, September). A Cardiovascular Analysis of the Flow Experience. Poster presented at the 17. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie der DGPs. Köln, Germany.
  • Reinhardt, J., Wagner, M., & Keller, J. (2019, June). Investigating the Role of Subjective Task-value in Flow Experiences: Effects of Regulatory Fit. Poster presented at the Flow Symposium at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • Wagner, M. & Keller, J. (2019, February). A Cardiovascular Analysis of the Flow Experience. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, USA.
  • Wagner, M., Montag, C., Waller, C., & Keller, J. (2018, March). No Flow at the Dark Side: Depression Hinders the Experience of Flow. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Atlanta, USA.

Workshops

  • Teacher of a workshop on “Running studies with INQUISIT-software“ (October, 2017) at the University of Belgrade.
  • Teacher of a workshop on “Measurement and analysis of cardiovascular signals“ (October, 2017) at the University of Belgrade.
  • Teacher of a workshop on “Impedance cardiography: The tricky details of ICG data handling“ (March, 2017) at the Research Knowledge Transfer Scheme, sponsored by the European Association of Social Psychology at the University of Belgrade.