Dr. Peter Zeier

Curriculum Vitae | Publikationen | Kongressbeiträge | Reviewertätigkeiten | Aktuelle Forschungsschwerpunkte | Methoden | Lehre

Curriculum Vitae

09/2021 Promotion in der Psychologie an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Titel der Dissertation: Emotion Regulation in Detail – Investigating the Predictors of Effective Cognitive Reappraisal
09/2020 Approbation zum Psychologischen Psychotherapeuten (Verhaltenstherapie)
Seit 06/2020 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung für Klinische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie, Psychologisches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
06/2017 - 09/2021 Doktorand in der Abteilung für Klinische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie, Psychologisches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
06/2015 - 09/2020 Ausbildung zum Psychologischen Psychotherapeuten (Verhaltenstherapie), Weiterbildungsstudiengang Psychologische Psychotherapie & Poliklinische Institutsambulanz für Verhaltenstherapie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2013 - 2015 M. Sc. Psychologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Thema der Masterarbeit: The Perils of Aiming too High: Discrepancy between Goals and Performances in People with Mild Depression
2010 - 2013 B. Sc. Psychologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Thema der Bachelorarbeit: Blaming the Victim’s Character: Effects of Construal Level on Trait Causality

 

Publikationen

Zeier, P., Lange, F., Rowland, Z., Wessa, M., & Wenzel, M. (2025). A glimmer of hope: Pro-environmental behavior increases positive emotions after confrontation with environmental threat. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 103, 102575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102575

Philippi, K. F. A., Zeier, P., Brahmer, A., Neuberger, E. W. I., Sandner, M., Hagenah, M., Porten, T., Lenz, R., Ochmann, D. T., Wedekink, F., Wischhusen, J., Lutz, B., Lieb, K., Wessa, M., & Simon, P. (2024). Remote Exercise Training Intervention During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, e53145. https://doi.org/10.2196/53145

Zeier, P. & Wessa, M. (2024). Measuring eco-emotions: a German version of questionnaires on eco-guilt, ecological grief, and eco-anxiety. Discover Sustainability, 5, 29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-024-00209-2

Zeier, P., Sandner, M., & Wessa, M. (2024). Regulating emotions with experience - The effectiveness of reappraisal inventiveness depends on situational familiarity. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 37(1), 77–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2200999

Ochmann, D. T., Philippi, K. F. A, Zeier, P., et al. (2021). Association of Innate and Acquired Aerobic Capacity With Resilience in Healthy Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of an 8-Week Web-Based Physical Exercise Intervention. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(11):e29712. https://doi.org/10.2196/29712

Zeier, P., Meine, L. E., & Wessa, M. (2022). It's worth the trouble: Stressor exposure is related to increased cognitive reappraisal ability. Stress and Health, 38(3), 602-609. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3101

Sandner, M., Zeier, P., Lois, G., & Wessa, M. (2021). Cognitive emotion regulation withstands the stress test: An fMRI study on the effect of acute stress on distraction and reappraisal. Neuropsychologia, 157, 107876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107876

Sandner, M., Lois, G., Streit, F., Zeier, P., Kirsch, P., Wüst, S. & Wessa, M. (2020). Investigating individual stress reactivity: High hair cortisol predicts lower acute stress responses. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 118, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104660

Zeier, P., Sandner, M. & Wessa, M. (2020). Script-based Reappraisal Test - Introducing a new paradigm to investigate the effect of reappraisal inventiveness on reappraisal effectiveness. Cognition & Emotion, 34(4), 793–799. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1663153

Arens, E. A., Zeier, P., Schwieren, C., Huisgen, H. & Barnow, S. (2018). The perils of aiming too high: Discrepancy between goals and performance in individuals with depressive symptoms. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 58, 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.07.002

Kowoll, M. E., Meyer-Kühling, I., Degen, C., Gladis, S., Zeier, P. & Schröder, J. (2018). Elderly migrants in outpatient and inpatient care services in Baden-Württemberg/Germany. Psychiatry Research, 260, 130-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.11.059

 

Kongressbeiträge

Zeier, P., Rowland, Z., Lange, F., Wessa, M., & Wenzel, M. (2025). Vulnerabilität für ökologische Krisen: der Zusammenhang von Depressivität und generalisierten Ängsten mit Eco-Anxiety und Eco-Guilt. In 4. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress 2025, Berlin.

Zeier, P., Rowland, Z., Lange, F., Wessa, M., & Wenzel, M. (2024). Save bumblebees, feel better? An experimental investigation of the emotion regulation potential of pro-environmental behavior. In DGPPN Kongress 2024, Berlin.

Zeier, P., Rowland, Z., Lange, F., Wessa, M., & Wenzel, M. (2024). Environmental action or distraction? Investigating the emotion regulation potential of pro-environmental behavior. In 53. DGPs Kongress/15. ÖGP Konferenz 2024, Wien.

Zeier, P. & Wessa, M. (2024). To treat or not to treat: Associations between eco-emotions, psychological distress, and pro-environmental behavior in Germany. In 3. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress 2024, Berlin.

Zeier, P. & Wessa, M. (2023). Keep calm and do nothing? Effects of emotion re7gulation on eco-anxiety and pro environmental behavior. In International Conference on Environmental Psychology 2023, Aarhus.

Zeier, P., Philipp, K. F. A., Brahmer, A., et al. (2023). Remote exercise training during COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown increases physical and psychological resilience. In Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress 2023, Berlin.

Zeier, P., Philipp, K. F. A., Brahmer, A., et al. (2022). Remote exercise training during COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown increases physical and psychological resilience. In Resilience Symposium 2022, Mainz.

Zeier, P., Sandner, M. & Wessa, M. (2019). Being Inventive in Uncharted Territory – Context Familiarity moderates the Influence of Reappraisal Flexibility on Effectiveness. In Conference on Emotions 2019, Tilburg.

Zeier, P., Sandner, M., & Wessa, M. (2018). Emotion Regulation in the Face of Stress – Investigating Reappraisal Inventiveness as a potential Resilience Mechanism. In ISPNE 2018, Irvine, USA.

Zeier, P., Sandner, M. & Wessa, M. (2018). Cognitive emotion regulation scripts – experimental validation of a new paradigm to investigate cognitive reappraisal. In DGPPN Kongress 2018, Berlin.

 

Reviewertätigkeiten

  • Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • Biological Psychology
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Psychological Research
  • Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
  • SoSci Panel
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Aktuelle Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Emotionsregulation unter Stress (CRC1193)
  • Eine detaillierte Untersuchung von kognitivem Umbewerten
  • Emotionsregulation und umweltbewusstes Verhalten

Methoden

  • Behaviorale Verfahren
  • Funktionelle Magnetresonanztomographie (fMRT)
  • Fragebogen- und Testkonstruktion
  • Neuropsychologische Testverfahren

 

Lehre

WiSe 2024/25 Mechanismen psychischer Störungen (MSc)
Experimentelle Standardmethoden der Klinischen Psychologie (MSc)
Projektseminar (MSc)
SoSe 2024 Experimentelle Standardmethoden der Klinischen Psychologie (MSc)         Angewandte Psychotherapie - Dokumentation & Evaluation von Behandlungen (MSc)
WiSe 2023/24 Experimentelle Standardmethoden der Klinischen Psychologie (MSc)
Projektseminar BSc-Arbeit (BSc)
SoSe 2023 Psychotherapieforschung (MSc)
SoSe 2022 Experimentelle Standardmethoden der Klinischen Psychologie (MSc)
WiSe 2021/22 Psychotherapieforschung (MSc)
Experimentelle Standardmethoden der Klinischen Psychologie (MSc)
SoSe 2021 Klinische Modelle und Psychotherapieforschung (MSc)
Krankheits- und Therapieverläufe, Risiko und Entscheidung (MSc)
WiSe 2020/21 Psychotherapieforschung (MSc)