Prof. Dr. Ben Eppinger
Chair of Developmental and Educational Psychology
Room: 405
office hours: on demand
Tel.: +49 (0)3834 420 3750
ben.eppingeruni-greifswaldde
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Research interests
I study developmental differences in learning and decision-making behavior, as well as the underlying psychological and neurobiological processes across the lifespan.
My research program has three sub-areas:
(1) Development of adaptive behavior;
(2) Development of learning and decision-making strategies;
(3) Development of social learning and decision-making processes.
The aim of my research is to develop normative, neurobiologically plausible theories of developmental differences in learning and decision-making by combining experimental, computational, and neuroscientific methods. In doing so I would like to pave the way for for theory- and evidence-based interventions in the fields of education and health.
Curriculum Vitae
| Sine June 2024 | Managing director, Department of Psychology, University of Greifswald |
| Since May 2022 | Full professor (W3) for Developmental and Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Greifswald |
| 2021-2022 | Visiting Professor, Department of Education andPsychology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2019-2022 | Associate Professor of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, CA (tenured) |
| 2017-2022 | Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in cognitive neuroscience of decision making in healthy aging |
| 2016-2019 | Associate Professor of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, CA |
| 2013 – 2016 | Assistant professor for neurocognitive development of motivational mechanisms, TU Dresden |
| 2010 – 2012 | Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin |
| 2007 – 2010 | Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University |
| 2007 | PhD, Department of Psychology, Saarland University |
| 2004 | Diploma in psychology, Department of Psychology, Saarland University |
Recent publications:
Eppinger B., Ruel A., & Bolenz F. (2025). Diminished State Space Theory of Human Aging. Perspect Psychol Sci, 220(2), 325-339. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231204811
Bruckner, R., Nassar, M. R., Li, S.-C., & Eppinger, B. (2025). Differences in learning across the lifespan emerge via resource-rational computations.Psychological Review, 132(3), 556–580. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000526
Devine, S., Germain, N., Ehrlich, S., Eppinger, B. (2024). Changes in the prevalence of muscular, but not thin bodies, bias young men’s judgments about body size, Psychology of Men & Masculinities
Rodriguez-Buritica, J. M., Eppinger, B., Heekeren, H. R., Crone, E.A., & van Duijvenvoorde, A., C., K. (2024). Observational Reinforcement Learning in children and young adults. Nature Science of Learning
Eppinger, B., Ruel, A., & Bolenz, F. (2023). Diminished state space theory of human aging. Perspectives on Psychological Science
Devine, S., Neuman, C., Levari, D.E., & Eppinger, B. (2022) Human ageing is associated with more rigid concept spaces, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Ruel, A., Bolenz, F., Li, S.-C., Fischer, A. G., & Eppinger, B. (2022). Neural evidence for age-related deficits in the representation of state spaces. Cerebral Cortex.
Devine, S., Germain, N., Ehrlich, S., & Eppinger, B. (2022). Changes in the prevalence of thin bodies biases young women’s judgements about body size. Psychological Science, 33, 1212-1225.
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