Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Kleinsorge

Head of

Flexible control of behavior

Phone: +49 231 1084-321
Email: kleinsorge@ifado.de

Curriculum Vitae:

  • Habilitation 2003 University of Dortmund
  • Dissertation 1997 Ruhr-University of Bochum
  • Diploma 1993 Ruhr-University of Bochum

Research topics:

  • information processing
  • emotion
  • motivation
  • cognitive representations of tasks and actions
  • executive control
  • cognitive ergonomics

Key publications:

  • Scheil, J.; Kleinsorge, T.: No-go trials in task switching: effects on the task-set and task-space level
    Psychol. Res. 86: 1097–1107 (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01566-7
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  • Getzmann, S.; Digutsch, J.; Kleinsorge, T.: COVID-19 pandemic and personality: agreeable people are more stressed by the feeling of missing
    Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 18: (20): 10759 (16 pp) (2021)
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    https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010759
  • Schade, H. M.; Digutsch, J.; Kleinsorge, T.; Fan, Y.: Having to work from home: basic needs, well-being, and motivation
    Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 18: (10): 5149 (18 pp) (2021)
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    https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105149
  • Kleinsorge, T.: Stimulus-response conflict tasks and their use in clinical psychology
    Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 18: (20): 10657 (13 pp) (2021)
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    https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010657
  • Kleinsorge, T.: Cognitive capacity, representation, and instruction
    Front. Psychology 12: 701687 (4 pp) (2021)
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    https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.701687
  • Scheil, J.; Kleinsorge, T.; Liefooghe, B.: Motor imagery entails task-set inhibition
    Psychol. Res. 84: 1729–1738 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01183-5
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  • Foerster, A.; Schmidts, C.; Kleinsorge, T.; Kunde, W.: Affective distraction along the flexibility-stability continuum
    Cogn. Emot. 34: 438-449 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1635084
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  • Schmidts, C.; Foerster, A.; Kleinsorge, T.; Kunde, W.: Proactive control of affective distraction: experience-based but not expectancy-based
    Cognition 194: 104072 (10 pp) (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104072
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  • Scheil, J.; Kleinsorge, T.: Further investigating effects of task repetition proportion on n - 2 repetition costs: Task shielding as a potential modulating factor?
    Quart. J. Exp. Psychol. 73: 1629-1639 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820919705
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  • Maydych, Viktoria; Kleinsorge, T. [Referent]; Wolf, O. T. [Korreferent]: Einfluss von psychosozialem Stress auf das Immunsystem und AufmerksamkeitsprozesseMaydych, Viktoria; Kleinsorge, T. [Referent]; Wolf, O. T. [Korreferent]. Bochum: Univ., 2019.
    Bochum, Univ., Fak. f. Psychol., Diss., 2019
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