Dr. Robin Willardt
| phone | +49 931 31-81572 |
| robin.willardt@uni-wuerzburg.de | |
| room | Pleichertorstraße 30, 2nd floor |
| postal address | Pleicherwall 1, 97070 Würzburg, Germany |
| consultation | by arrangement |
Areas of Interest
- Power & Powerlessness
- Differentiation between the subcomponents personal control and influence over others
- (Palliative) threat defences of powerlessness
- The emotional consequences of power and powerlessness
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Assessment of event-related potentials (N2pc, ERN) and prefrontal alpha asymmetry
- The use of EEG in the context of emotional, motivational, and social psychological research questions
- Anger
- Anger as an “emotional threat defence”
- Misdirected anger as a consequence of reinforcement mechanisms
- Anger as an aspect of both power and powerlessness
Curriculum vitae
January 2026 – present | Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology V (Workgroup Prof. Hewig) at the Institute for Psychology at JMU Würzburg, Germany |
September 2023 – August 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Visiting Fellow) in the lab of Prof. Harmon-Jones at the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, Australia |
August 2022 – February 2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Organizational Behavior, ETH Zurich, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Switzerland |
August 2017 – July 2022 | Doctoral candidate at the Chair of Organizational Behavior, ETH Zurich, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Switzerland The doctorate included a research stay at the Division of Social Psychology at the Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg (Austria) and the award of the Lim Kim San Fellowship for PhD students from the Singapore Management University Thesis topic: Investigating the Psychological Consequences of Powerlessness and COVID-19: A Threat and Defense Approach |
September 2015 – July 2017 | Master student in the Research Master Social Psychology at VU Amsterdam, graduated cum laude |
October 2012 – August 2015 | Bachelor student in the study program in Psychology (Bachelor of Science) at JMU Würzburg |
