PD Dr. Johannes B. Finke
Senior Lecturer
 | Consultation hours: by appointment Postal address: Phone: +49 271 740-2969 Office: US-V 105 |
ACADEMIC CAREER
2019 – present | Akademischer Rat (senior researcher) at the Chair of Clinical Psychology, University of Siegen |
2017 – 2019 | Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Clinical Psychophysiology, University of Trier (Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schächinger) |
2014 – 2017 | Research Associate/doctoral student at the Department of Clinical Psychophysiology |
2013 – 2014 | Research Assistant at the Department of Clinical Psychophysiology |
EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATIONS
2023 | Habilitation (Venia Legendi in psychology) at the University of Siegen. Title: "Pupil dilation and related autonomic markers as indices of emotional processing. Investigating effects of sexual arousal, stress, learning, and individual differences" |
2014 – 2017 | Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychobiology at the University of Trier, grade summa cum laude. Title: "Utilizing Startle Modulation to Investigate the Interplay of Implicit Visual Cues of Self-relevance and Emotional Processing" |
2012 – 2014 | Studies in Psychology at the University of Trier. |
2009 – 2012 | Studies in Psychology at the WWU Münster. |
2002 – 2009 | Studies in German Philology, Philosophy and General Linguistics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster. |
AWARDS
- Dissertation award of the University of Trier
- SPR Poster Award (58. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Quebec City, Canada)
AD-HOC REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
- Biological Psychology
- International Journal of Psychophysiology
- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Physiology & Behavior
- PLOS one
- Psychology Research and Behavior Management
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Psychophysiology
- Scientific Reports
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(find the complete list of publications here)
Finke, J.B., Roesmann, K., Stalder, T., Klucken, T. (2021). Pupil dilation as an index of Pavlovian conditioning. A systematic review and meta-analysis, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 130, 351-368.
Finke, J.B., Deuter, C.E., Hengesch, X., Schächinger, H. (2017). The time course of pupil dilation evoked by visual sexual stimuli: exploring the underlying ANS mechanisms. Psychophysiology, 54(10), 1444-58.
Finke, J.B., Behrje, A., Schächinger, H. (2018). Acute stress enhances pupillary responses to erotic nudes: evidence for differential effects of sympathetic activation and cortisol. Biological Psychology, 137, 73-82.
Finke, J.B., Kalinowski, G.I., Larra, M.F., Schächinger, H. (2018). The socially evaluated handgrip test: Iíntroduction of a novel, time-efficient stress protocol. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 87, 141-146.