Martje Buss, M.Sc.

Research Interests

• personality and social interactions in the digital space: interpersonal perception, social relationships, social networks, computer-mediated communication, behavioral cues
• human-computer interaction: emotional and social aspects of virtual reality, attitudes towards AI
• personality and well-being: flow experience, volitional personality change, behavior change interventions
• new technologies in psychological assessment: personality computing, mobile sensing, chatbots, machine learning

Education

10/2018 – 10/2021
M.Sc. Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany

• Master thesis: Likeable Leaders?: How Dominant Behavior Relates to Extraversion Facets and Popularity, Dr. Larissa Lucia Wieczorek, Prof. Dr. Jenny Wagner

09/2019 – 03/2020
Semester abroad, Psychology and Social Intervention, University of Granada, Spain

10/2015 – 10/2018
B.Sc. Psychology, University of Lübeck, Germany

• Bachelor thesis: Virtual Humans – Real Emotions: The Impact of Presence on the Self-Reported and Physiological Stress Response to a Virtual Reality Audience, Prof. Dr. Frieder Paulus, Prof. Dr. Sören Krach

Academic Positions

Since 05/2024
PhD Student & Predoctoral Research Associate, Personality Psychology (Prof. Dr. John Rauthmann), LMU Munich

01/2022 – 03/2023
Predoctoral Research Associate, Work and Health Lab (Prof. Dr. Corinna Peifer), University of Lübeck

10/2022 – 01/2023
Lecturer Differential and Personality Psychology, IU International University

02/2021 – 09/2021
Research Internship, Psychological Assessment and Personality Psychology (Prof. Dr. Mitja Back), Supervision: M.Sc. Eric Grunenberg, University of Münster

05/2021 – 08/2021
Teaching Assistant, Differential Psychology and Psychological Assessment (Prof. Dr. Jan Wacker), University of Hamburg

06/2020 – 06/2021
Student Assistant, Social Psychology (Prof. Dr. Juliane Degner), University of Hamburg

11/2017 – 11/2018
Student Assistant, Social Psychology (Prof. Dr. So Young Park), University of Lübeck

 

Industry Experience

Data science, IT consulting, personnel selection

Publications

• Buss, M., Wagner, J., Bleckmann, E., & Wieczorek, L. L. (2024). Popularity at first sight: Dominant behaviours mediate the link between extraversion and popularity in face-to-face and virtual group interactions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 00, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12720
• Irshad, M. T., Li, F., Nisar, M. A., Huang, X., Buss, M., Kloep, L., Peifer, C., Kozusznik, B., Pollak, A., Pyszka, A., Flak, O., & Grzegorzek, M. (2023). Wearable-based human flow experience recognition enhanced by transfer learning methods using emotion data. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 166, 107489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107489

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