Prof. Dr. Jan ­ Rummel

Main Research Interests

• Future-oriented Cognition
• Metacognition
  
• Memory and Forgetting
• Mind Wandering
• Psychology of Climate Action
  

Grants

• 2022-2024: Heisenberg Professorship for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self-Regulation (Grant no: RU1996/4-1).
• 2021-2023:Individual grant from the German Research Foundation: "The role of attentional and metacognitive control for mind-wandering regulation  (Grant no: RU1996/3-1).
  
• 2020-2022: Heisenberg Professorship for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self-Regulation (Grant no: RU1996/2-1).
  
• 2015-2018: Individual grant from the German Research Foundation (with C. Dennis Boywitt, U Mannheim, as co PI): “Adaptive mechanisms of mind-wandering: A State-Trait model” (Grant no: RU1996/1-1).
• 11/2016: Selected Speaker Award at the  Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
  
• 2017-2018: "What makes us smart? - Neurocognitive approaches to explaining the relationship between mental speed and mental abilities by attentional lapses” (with A.-L Schubert, Institute of Psychology; funded by the FRONTIERS program of the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation and Heidelberg University)
• 2016-2017: “Self-regulation and mindfulness in the classroom“ (with M. Ottilie Frenkel, Institute for Sports Sciences; funded by the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation)
• 2016-2017: “Effects of internet anonymity on the quality of political online discussions“ (with Wolf J. Schünemann & Sebastian Harnisch, Institute for Political Science; funded by the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation)
• 2015-2016: “Inter-individual differences in mind-wandering and their role for intelligence and personality across different cultures” (with Dirk Hagemann, Department of Psychology & Manuel Rauchholz, Institute for Cultural Antropology; funded by the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation)
• 11/2015: DAAD-Travel Grant for attending the Annual Meeting Psychonomic Society
• 2014-2015: “Self-regulation and exercise behavior“ (with Chris Englert, Institute for Sport Science; funded by the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation)
• 11/2013: DAAD-Travel Grant for attending the Annual Meeting Psychonomic Society
• 05/2012: Autonomiefonds from the University of Mannheim: Memory for context-bound intentions in older age.
• 08/2011-12/2011: Travel grant from the German Exchange Service (DAAD) for a research stay at Furman University, SC, USA (with Dr. Gilles O. Einstein)

Reviewer Activities

• Action Editor: Psychological Research
  
• Editorial board member: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
  
• Ad-hoc reviewer for grant proposals: German Research Foundation, Foundation for Polish Science, National Science Foundation, USA, Research Foundation - Flanders.
• Ad-hoc reviewer for journal submissions: Acta Psychologica; Applied Cognitive Psychology; Behavioral Research Methods; British Journal of Psychology; Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience; Current Directions on Psychological Science; Consciousness & Cognition; Emotion;  European Journal of Ageing; European Journal of Psychological Assessment;  European Review of Applied Psychology; Emotion; Experimental Psychology; Frontiers in Psychology; International Journal of Psychophysiology;  Journal of Cognitive Psychology;  Journal of Gerontology; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied;  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning; Memory, & Cognition;  Journal of Gerontology; Journal of Memory and Language; Memory; Memory & Cognition; Neuropsychologica;  Neuropsychological Rehabilitation;  Neuropsychology; PLOS One; Psychiatry Research; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Psychology of Sport and Exercise; Psychooncology; Psychophysiology; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Social Psychology; Sport, Exercise, & Performance Psychology; Swiss Journal of Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Social Psychology; Sport, Exercise, & Performance Psychology; Swiss Journal of Psychology

Memberships

• since 05/2012  Member/fellow of the Psychonomic Society
  
• since 04/2012  Member of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
  
• since 01/2009  Member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP)

Organization of Meetings and Symposia

• Small group meeting “Theoretical and Applied Advances in Prospective Memory Research” at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, 01.-03. July 2018 (supported by the Hengstberger Foundation 12,000€).
• Symposium “Prospective Memory: Recent theoretical advances and new empirical findings“ at the Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology(ESCoP), Potsdam, 3.-6. September 2017.
• Co-organization of the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologinnen und Psychologen (TeaP), 21.-23. March 2016 in Heidelberg (with Joachim Funke und Andreas Voß, Heidelberg University).
• Symposium “Trends in Prospective Memory Research“ at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologinnen und Psychologen, Vienna, 24.-27. March 2013 (with Sebastian Horn, Max-Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin).
• Symposium “Current Developments in Prospective Memory“ at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologinnen und Psychologen, Mannheim, 01.-04. April 2012 (with C. Dennis Boywitt, Mannheim).
• Symposium “Kognitive Prozesse des Prospektiven Gedächtnisses“ at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologinnen und Psychologen, Saarbrücken, 22.-24. March 2010 (with Thorsten Meiser, University of Mannheim).