Dr. Robert Schnuerch

seit 04/2022: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie II des Instituts für Psychologie der Universität Bonn

seit 11/2021: Aussagepsychologischer Sachverständiger (Glaubhaftigkeitsbegutachtung in Strafverfahren) als unabhängiger Kooperationspartner der Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Gerichts- und Rechtspsychologie (GWG) 

10/2017 bis 02/2022: Psychologischer Fachreferent und Führungskraft im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums des Innern (Schwerpunkt: Extremismus und Terrorismus)

02/2013 bis 09/2017: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Doktorand, Postdoc) am Institut für Psychologie der Universität Bonn (Promotion zum Dr. phil. im Jahr 2016) inklusive Forschungsaufenthalt am Department of Social Psychology der Universiteit van Amsterdam (2017)

10/2010 bis 07/2012: Studium (Master of Science) der Psychologie an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf inklusive Forschungspraktika im Brain & Cognition Lab der University of Oxford (2011) sowie im Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung (2012)

10/2007 bis 09/2010: Studium (Bachelor of Science) der Psychologie an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf inklusive klinischer Praktika in der ambulanten psychosomatischen Rehabilitation der AHG Düsseldorf (2009) sowie in der Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie des LVR-Klinikums Düsseldorf (2010)

Gibbons, H., Schmuck, J., & Schnuerch, R. (in press). Of ugly gains and happy losses: An event-related potential study of interactions of the intrinsic and acquired valence of emotional pictures. Biological Psychology.

Schmuck, J., Schnuerch, R., Kirsten, H., Shivani, V., & Gibbons, H. (2023). The influence of selective attention to specific emotions on the processing of faces as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Psychophysiology, e14325.

Pugnaghi, G, Schnuerch, R., Gibbons, H., Memmert, D., & Kreitz, C. (2020). The other end of the line: Motivational direction is not associated with line-bisection bias. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 79, 5–14.

Redlich, D., Schnuerch, R., Memmert, D., & Kreitz, C. (2019). Dollars don’t determine detection: Monetary value associated with unexpected objects does not affect the likelihood of inattentional blindness. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 2141–2154.

Koppehele-Gossel, J., Schnuerch, R., & Gibbons, H. (2018). The posterior semantic asymmetry (PSA): specific to written not auditory semantic word processing. Experimental Brain Research, 236, 3327–3340.

Koppehele-Gossel, J., Schnuerch, R., & Gibbons, H. (2018). The posterior semantic asymmetry (PSA): An early brain electrical signature of semantic activation from written words. Brain and Cognition, 125, 53–60.

Koppehele-Gossel, J., Schnuerch, R., & Gibbons, H. (2018). Lexical processing as revealed by lateralized event-related brain potentials. Journal of Psychophysiology, 33, 2151–2124.

Pfattheicher, S., Strauch, C., Diefenbacher, S. & Schnuerch, R. (2018). A field study on watching eyes and hand hygiene compliance in a public restroom. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 48, 188–194.

Kreitz, C., Schnuerch, R., Furley, P., & Memmert, D. (2018). What’s past is past: Neither perceptual preactivation nor prior motivational relevance decrease subsequent inattentional blindness. Consciousness and Cognition, 59, 1–9.

Gibbons, H., Schnuerch, R., Wittinghofer, C., Armbrecht, A.-S., & Stahl, J. (2018). Detection of deception: event-related potential markers of attention and cognitive control during intentional false responses. Psychophysiology, 55, e13047.

Gibbons, H., Seib-Pfeifer, L.-E., Koppehele-Gossel, J., & Schnuerch, R. (2018). Affective priming and cognitive load: Event-related potentials suggest an interplay of implicit affect misattribution and strategic inhibition. Psychophysiology, 55, e13009.

Schnuerch, R., & Pfattheicher, S. (2018). Motivated malleability: Frontal cortical asymmetry predicts the susceptibility to social influence. Social Neuroscience, 13, 480–494.

Duke, É., Schnuerch, R., Heeren, G., Reuter, M., Montag, C., & Markett, S. (2018). Cortical alpha asymmetry at central and posterior - but not anterior - sites is associated with individual differences in behavioural loss aversion. Personality and Individual Differences, 121, 206–212.

Furley, P., Schnuerch, R., & Gibbons, H. (2017). The winner takes it all: Event-related brain potentials reveal enhanced motivated attention toward athletes’ nonverbal signals of leading. Social Neuroscience, 12, 448–457.

Koppehele-Gossel, J., Schnuerch, R., & Gibbons, H. (2016). A brain electrical signature of left-lateralized semantic activation from single words. Brain and Language, 157, 35–43.

Schnuerch, R., Richter, J., Koppehele-Gossel, J., & Gibbons, H. (2016). Multiple neural signatures of social proof and deviance during the observation of other people’s preferences. Psychophysiology, 53, 823–836.

Gibbons, H., Schnuerch, R., & Stahl, J. (2016). From positivity to negativity bias: Ambiguity affects the neurophysiological signatures of feedback processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28, 542–557.

Schnuerch, R., Kreitz, C., Gibbons, H., & Memmert, D. (2016). Not quite so blind: Semantic processing despite inattentional blindness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 459–463.

Schnuerch, R., & Gibbons, H. (2015). Social proof in the human brain: Electrophysiological signatures of agreement and disagreement with the majority. Psychophysiology, 52, 1328–1342.

Kreitz, C., Schnuerch, R., Gibbons, H., & Memmert, D. (2015). Some see it, some don't: Exploring the relation between inattentional blindness and personality factors. PLoS ONE, 10, e0128158.

Schnuerch, R., Schnuerch, M., & Gibbons, H. (2015). Assessing and correcting for regression toward the mean in deviance-induced social conformity. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 669.

Schnuerch, R., Koppehele-Gossel, J., & Gibbons, H. (2015). Weak encoding of faces predicts socially influenced judgments of facial attractiveness. Social Neuroscience, 10, 624–634.

Kreitz, C., Schnuerch, R., Furley, P., Gibbons, H., & Memmert, D. (2015). Does semantic preactivation reduce inattentional blindness? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77, 759–767.

Schnuerch, R., & Gibbons, H. (2014). A review of neurocognitive mechanisms of social conformity. Social Psychology, 45, 466–478.

Schnuerch, R., Trautmann-Lengsfeld, S. A., Bertram, M., & Gibbons, H. (2014). Neural sensitivity to social deviance predicts attentive processing of peer-group judgment. Social Neuroscience, 9, 650–660.

Schnuerch, R., Kreitz, C., Heil, M., & Lange, K. (2014). The change-deafness phenomenon in harmonic chords. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 73, 143–152.

Lange, K., & Schnuerch, R. (2014). Challenging perceptual tasks require more attention: The influence of task difficulty on the N1 effect of temporal orienting. Brain and Cognition, 84, 153–163.

Schnuerch, R., Kreitz, C., & Lange, K. (2013). Independent effects of temporal expectation and stimulus intensity in audition. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75, 1520–1532.