Dr. Marcel Herrmann MAS

Work at ZHAW

Position

lecturer

Focus

• student thesis writing
• scientific writing

Teaching

• colloquium for seminar paper (AF1)
• basic methods 2 (F5)
• counseling practice and training (IN4-1)
• Zurich Resource Model ZRM – Theory and Practice (A11-7)

Experience

• research and teaching
  University of Zurich
  10 / 2013 - 06 / 2019
• senior project manager
  Link qualitative AG
  10 / 2015 - 09 / 2018

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Dr. phil. / Psychology
  University of Zurich
  10 / 2010 - 09 / 2013
• Master of Science (MSc) / lic. phil. / Psychology
  University of Zurich
  09 / 2004 - 09 / 2010

Continuing Education

• Master of Advanced Studies (MAS)
  Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
  05 / 2022
• ZRM-Trainer (Zurich Resource Model Training, certificate program)
  Institut für Selbstmanagement und Motivation Zürich (ISMZ)
  05 / 2016

Network

Membership of networks

ResearchGate

Social media

YouTube

Publications

• Kreibich, Antonia; Wolf, Benjamin Mario; Bettschart, Martin; Ghassemi, Mirjam; Herrmann, Marcel; Brandstätter, Veronika,

  2022.

  How self-awareness is connected to less experience of action crises in personal goal pursuit.

  Motivation and Emotion.

  46(6), pp. 825-836.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09942-5

• Bettschart, Martin; Wolf, Benjamin M.; Herrmann, Marcel; Brandstätter, Veronika,

  2021.

  Age-related development of self-regulation : evidence on stability and change in action orientation.

  Journal of Research in Personality.

  91(104063).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104063

• Bettschart, Martin; Herrmann, Marcel; Wolf, Benjamin M.; Brandstätter, Veronika,

  2021.

  Investigating the Unified Motive Scales : the predictive validity of the achievement motive subscale.

  European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

  37(2), pp. 118-122.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000571

• Ghassemi, Mirjam; Wolf, Benjamin M.; Bettschart, Martin; Kreibich, Antonia; Herrmann, Marcel; Brandstätter, Veronika,

  2021.

  The dynamics of doubt : short-term fluctuations and predictors of doubts in personal goal pursuit.

  Motivation Science.

  7(2), pp. 153-164.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000210

• Bettschart, Martin; Herrmann, Marcel; Wolf, Benjamin M.; Brandstätter, Veronika,

  2019.

  The seed of goal-related doubts : a longitudinal investigation of the roles of failure and expectation of success among police trainee applicants.

  Frontiers in Psychology.

  10(2151).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02151

• Herrmann, Marcel; Brandstätter, Veronika; Wrosch, Carsten,

  2019.

  Downgrading goal-relevant resources in action crises : the moderating role of goal reengagement capacities and effects on well-being.

  Motivation and Emotion.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-019-09755-z

• Rey, Roman; Wallimann, Siril; Herrmann, Marcel,

  2023.

  Herausforderungen und Ressourcen bei der Bewältigung des Sehverlusts.

  Tactuel.

  2023(3).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28649

• Bettschart, Martin; Wolf, Benjamin; Herrmann, Marcel; Brandstätter, Veronika,

  2020.

  Zweifelsfrei in den Polizeidienst: Eine Studie zu Zweifeln am Berufsziel «Polizist*in» im Bewerbungs- und Ausbildungsprozess.

  format magazine : Zeitschrift für Polizeiausbildung und Polizeiforschung.

  9, pp. 11-17.

  Available from: https://www.institut-police.ch/06-wissen/06-04-format-magazine/2019-09/inhalt-2019-09/2%20Bettschart%20et%20al.pdf

• Herrmann, Marcel; Wolf, Benjamin Mario; Zentner, Dietmar; Degen, Eve; Brandstätter, Veronika,

  2018.

  Mehr Motivation im CATI-Center.

  Planung & Analyse.

  2018(5), pp. 56-58.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Brandstätter, V., Herrmann, M., & Schüler, J. (2013). The struggle of giving up personal goals: Affective, physiological, and cognitive consequences of an action crisis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(12), 1668–1682. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167213500151
• Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2013). Overcoming action crises in personal goals – Longitudinal evidence on a mediating mechanism between action orientation and well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 47(6), 881–893. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.09.005
• Herrmann*, M., Baur*, V., Brandstätter, V., Hänggi, J., & Jäncke, L. (2014). Being in two minds: The neural basis of experiencing action crises in personal long-term goals. Social Neuroscience, 9(6), 548–561. [*shared first authorship] https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2014.933715
• Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2015). Action crises and goal disengagement: Longitudinal evidence on the predictive validity of a motivational phase in goal striving. Motivation Science, 1(2), 121–136. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/mot0000016
• Koletzko, S. H., Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2015). Unconflicted goal striving - Goal ambivalence as a mediator between goal self-concordance and well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(1), 140–156. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167214559711
• Brandstätter, V., & Herrmann, M. (2016). Goal disengagement in emerging adulthood: The adaptive potential of action crises [Special section]. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 40(2), 117–125. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025415597550
• Bernecker, K., Herrmann, M., Brandstätter, V., & Job, V. (2017). Implicit theories about willpower predict subjective well-being. Journal of Personality, 85(2), 136–150. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12225
• Ghassemi, M., Bernecker, K., Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2017). The process of disengagement from personal goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(4), 524–537. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167216689052
• Wolf, B. M., Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2018). Self-efficacy vs. action orientation: Comparing and contrasting two determinants of goal setting and goal striving. Journal of Research in Personality, 73(1), 35–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2017.11.001
• Wolf*, B. M., Herrmann*, M., Zubler, I., & Brandstätter, V. (2018). Action crises in personal goals compromise recovery during physical therapy. Motivation Science, 5(2), 179–184. [*shared first authorship] https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/mot0000106
• Kreibich, A., Wolf, B. M., Bettschart, M., Ghassemi, M., Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2022). How self-awareness is connected to less experience of action crises in personal goal pursuit. Motivation and Emotion, 46(6), 825–836. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09942-5
• Brandstätter, V., & Herrmann, M. (2017). Goal disengagement and action crises. In N. Baumann, M. Kazén, M. Quirin, & S. L. Koole (Eds.), Why people do the things they do: Building on Julius Kuhl’s contributions to the psychology of motivation and volition (pp. 87–108). Hogrefe. https://doi.org/10.1027/00540-000
• Brandstätter, V., & Herrmann, M. (2022). Die Handlungskrise [Action crisis]. In M. Storch, F. Krause, & J. Weber (Eds.), Selbstmanagement – ressourcenorientiert: Theoretische Grundlagen und Trainingsmanual für die Arbeit mit dem Zürcher Ressourcen Modell (ZRM®) (7th ed., pp. 108–120). Hogrefe. https://doi.org/10.1024/86214-000
• Schmidt, S., & Herrmann, M. (2018). „Mine the Mind“ für ein Customer Insights 4.0 [„Mine the Mind“ for Customer Insights 4.0]. In vsms (Ed.), Jahrbuch: Markt- und Sozialforschung Schweiz (pp.30–31). vsms. https://www.vsms-asms.ch/files/6215/2992/7057/Gesamtausgabe_MAFO_2018_1.pdf

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