Dr. Lena Wimmer

I am a {Postdoctoral} Research Associate in the section {Empirische Lehr- und Lernforschung} at the Department of Educational Science. In the project MYCAP, I contribute to a meta-analysis. This meta-analysis aims to provide a synthesis of the available research on the question how autistic individuals categorize objects or living beings.

In the project ProMiF, I investigate the validation of unreliable information from fiction and nonfiction texts. I am particularly interested in the question what reader characteristics facilitate the validation process in order that these can be promoted through specific training.

In teaching, I offer courses on research methods as well as assessment of learning and instruction.

Currently, I am also coordinator of departmental meetings.

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Contact

Empirical Teaching and Learning Research

Department of Educational Science
University of Freiburg
Rempartstraße 11
79098 Freiburg
Germany

Phone: +49 761 – 2032437
Email: lena.wimmer|at|ezw.uni-freiburg.de

Office hours: by appointment only

Publications

Currie, G., Ferguson, H., Frascaroli, J., Friend, S., Green, K., & Wimmer, L. (2023). Learning from fiction1. In A. James, A. Kubo, & F. Lavocat, The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief (1st ed., pp. 126–138). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003119456-12

Wimmer, L., Steininger, T. M., Schmid, A., & Wittwer, J. (2023). Category learning in autistic individuals: A meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02365-4

Wimmer, L., Isherwood, K. R., Parkinson, J., & Dorjee, D. (2023). Relating dispositional mindfulness and long-term mindfulness training with executive functioning, emotion regulation, and well-being in pre-adolescents. Psychological Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-023-00746-2

Ferguson, H. J., & Wimmer, L. (2023). A psychological exploration of empathy. In F. Mezzenzana & D. Peluso, Conversations on Empathy (1st ed., pp. 60–77). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003189978-5

Wimmer, L., Currie, G., Friend, S., & Ferguson, H. J. (2022). Opening the closed mind? Effects of reading literary fiction on need for closure and creativity. Creativity Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2022.2087309

Wimmer, L., El-Salahi, L., Lee, H. W. J., & Ferguson, H. J. (2022). Narrativity and literariness affect the aesthetic attitude in text reading. Empirical Studies of the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374221095482

Wimmer, L., Currie, G., Friend, S., & Ferguson, H. J. (2022). The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition: Two pre-registered experiments following a multi-method approach. Scientific Study of Literature. https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.21010.wim

Wimmer, L., & Ferguson, H. J. (2022). Testing the validity of a self-report scale, author recognition test, and book counting as measures of lifetime exposure to print fiction. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01784-2

Ferguson, H. J., Wimmer, L., Black, J., Barzy, M., & Williams, D. (2021). Autistic adults are not impaired at maintaining or switching between counterfactual and factual worlds: An ERP study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04939-4

Wimmer, L., Currie, G., Friend, S., & Ferguson, H. J. (2021). Testing correlates of lifetime exposure to print fiction following a multi-method approach: Evidence from young and older readers. Imagination, Cognition and Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236621996244

Wimmer, L., Friend, S., Currie, G., & Ferguson, H. J. (2021). Reading fictional narratives to improve social and moral cognition: The influence of narrative perspective, transportation, and identification. Frontiers in Communication, 5(611935). https://doi:10.3389/fcomm.2020.611935

Wimmer, L., Bellingrath, S., & von Stockhausen, L. (2020). Mindfulness training for improving attention regulation in university students: Is it effective? And do yoga and homework matter?. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(719). https://doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00719

Wimmer, L., & Dorjee, D. (2020). Toward determinants and effects of long-term mindfulness training in pre-adolescence: A cross-sectional study using event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 19(1), 65-83. https://doi:10.1891/JCEP-D-19-00029

Wimmer, L., von Stockhausen, L., & Bellingrath, S. (2019). Improving emotion regulation and mood in teacher trainees: Effectiveness of two mindfulness trainings. Brain and Behavior, 9, e01390. https://doi:10.1002/brb3.1390

Wimmer, L., von Stockhausen, L., & Bellingrath, S (2019). Effects of mindfulness training on regulatory and academic abilities in preadolescents: Results form a pilot study. Open Psychology, 1, 69-93. https://doi:10.1515/psych-2018-0006

Wimmer, L., Christmann, U., & Ihmels, E. (2016). Non-conventional figurative language as aesthetics of everyday communication. Metaphor and the Social World, 6(2), 243-275. https://doi:10.1075/msw.6.2.04wim

Wimmer, L., Bellingrath, S., & von Stockhausen, L. (2016). Cognitive effects of mindfulness training: Results of a pilot study based on a theory driven approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(1037). https://doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01037

Wimmer, L. (2016). Problem solving as a sufficient condition of the creative process: A case for closer cooperation of creativity research and problem solving research. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(488). https://doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00488

Wimmer, L. (2015). Das ästhetische Paradox bei der Verarbeitung von fiktionalen vs. nicht-fiktionalen Texten [The aesthetic paradox when processing fictional vs. non-fictional texts]. Dissertation, Heidelberg University. http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/18232

Christmann, U., Wimmer, L., & Groeben, N. (2011). The aesthetic paradox in processing conventional and non-conventional metaphors: A reaction time study. Scientific Study of Literature 1(2), 199-240. https://doi:10.1075/ssol.1.2.03chr

Wimmer, L. (2011). Programme im Kopf? Werden beim Denken Verfahren aus einer „Heurismenbibliothek“ abgerufen oder die Denkprozesse „aktualgenetisch“ erschaffen? [Programmes in the mind? Are thought processes retrieved from a ‚library of heuristics‘ or created on the fly?]. VDM.