Dr. Berit Streubel

Dr. Berit Streubel

Research Fellow

Pädagogische Psychologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Lehren, Lernen und Entwicklung
Haus 3
Marschnerstraße 31
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-31283
Fax: +49 341 97-31269

Dr. Berit Streubel

Dr. Berit Streubel

Lecturer (LfbA)

Pädagogische Psychologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Lehren, Lernen und Entwicklung
Haus 3
Marschnerstraße 31
04109 Leipzig

Professional career

  • 10/2021 - 09/2024
    Postdoctoral researcher with own position funded by the DFG, Leipzig University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Psychology (Prof. Dr. Henrik Saalbach)
  • 02/2021 - 07/2021
    Research Associate, University of Koblenz-Landau, Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • since 09/2016
    Postdoctoral researcher with own position funded by the DFG, Leipzig University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Psychology (Prof. Dr. Henrik Saalbach)
  • 10/2014 - 08/2016
    Research Associate; University of Leipzig, Faculty of Educational Sciences; Department of Educational Psychology (Prof. Saalbach)
  • 03/2014 - 09/2014
    Research Associate; University of Leipzig, Faculty of Educational Sciences; Department of School Pedagogy and School Development Research (Prof. Drinck)
  • 04/2012 - 09/2013
    Lecturer; University of Hildesheim, Faculty of Educational and Social Sciences; Department of Developmental Psychology (Prof. Greve)
  • 12/2008 - 11/2011
    Research Associate within the Graduate Program Function of Attention in Cognition; University of Leipzig, Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology; Department of Life-Span Developmental Psychology (Prof. Kunzmann)
  • 07/2008 - 11/2008
    Student Research Assistant; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Department of Psychology
  • 01/2008 - 06/2008
    Student Research Assistant; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Department of Cognitive Neurology
  • 05/2006 - 12/2007
    Student Research Assistant, Day Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, University Hospital Leipzig

Education

  • 01/2019 - 09/2021
    Professional training in Systemic Counseling (DGSF certified), FamThera Institut für Familientherapie und systemische Beratung e.V., Grimma
  • 08/2016
    Doctorate, Leipzig University; Thesis title: „Age-related Positivity Effects in Emotional Reactivity, Memory, and Attention: The Role of Arousal and Discrete Emotion“
  • 10/2008
    Diploma in Psychology, University of Leipzig, Department of Experimental Psychology and Methods (Prof. Müller); Diploma Thesis: „Induced Gamma Band Activity in the Human EEG as a Signature of Conceptual Object Representations"
  • 10/2002 - 10/2008
    Diploma Studies in Psychology, University of Leipzig

Research Interests

  • Influence of language skills on the development of emotional competences and emotional regulation skills in children (https://www.erzwiss.uni-leipzig.de/en/institut-fuer-bildungswissenschaften/professuren/educational-psychology/research/current-projects/keeks)
  • Development of emotions, emotional competences and emotion regulation across the lifespan
  • Methodological challenges in measuring emotions and emotional regulation skills
  • Affective informationprocessing
  • Interactionen of emotion, cognition and motivation


  • Streubel, B.; Grosse, G.; Gunzenhauser, C.; Saalbach, H.
    Emotion-specific vocabulary and its contribution to emotion understanding in 4- to 9-year-old children
    Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2020.
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  • Kappes, C.; Streubel, B.; Droste, K. L.; Folta-Schoofs, K.
    Linking the Positivity Effect in Attention with Affective Outcomes: Age Group Differences and the Role of Arousal
    Frontiers in Psychology. 2017. 8 (1887).
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  • Streubel, B.; Kunzmann, U.
    Age differences in emotional reactions: Arousal and age-relevance count.
    Psychology and Aging. 2011. pp. 966–978.
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  • Streubel, B.; Thöne-Otto, A.
    The Cambridge Prospective Memory Test. Rezension
    In: Schelling, D.; Drechsler, R.; Heinemann, D.; Sturm, W. (Eds.)
    Handbuch neuropsychologischer Testverfahren 1: Aufmerksamkeit, Gedächtnis und exekutive Funktionen. Göttingen: Hogrefe. 2009. pp. 605–612.
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  • Grosse, G.; Streubel, B.; Gunzenhauser, C.; Saalbach, H.
    Let’s Talk About Emotions: the Development of Children’s Emotion Vocabulary from 4 to 11 Years of Age
    Affective Science. 2021. 2 (2). pp. 150–162.
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more publications

  • Developmental Psychology (05-BWI-03)

  • Learning and Instruction (05-BWI-04)