Prof. Dr. Alex Bertrams

Info

• Since 02/2015: Full professor of educational psychology (University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Offers of professorships: Leipzig University (01/2015, associate professorship), University of Rostock (10/2014, associate professorship), University of Bern (03/2014, full professorship, primo loco), University of Mannheim (04/2010, assistant professorship), and University of Koblenz-Landau (10/2009, assistant professorship)
• 08/2009: Doctorate in psychology (University of Mannheim, Germany)
• 09/2006: Diploma in psychology (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
• 07/2001: Intermediate diploma in social work (Georg-Simon-Ohm Fachhochschule Nürnberg, Germany)
• Trained as parenting counselor: Triple P Brief Consultation, Triple P Brief Consultation Stepping Stones, Group Triple P Provider Training Course including Baby Triple P, Triple P Lecture Series
• Reviewer for: German Science Foundation; GESIS Panel; Israel Science Foundation; Swiss National Science Foundation; American Educational Research Journal; Anxiety, Stress & Coping; Appetite; Autism Research; Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Cognition and Emotion; Current Psychology; Diagnostica; Educational Psychology–An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology; Educational Research Journal; European Journal of Engineering Education; European Journal of Psychological Assessment; European Journal of Psychology of Education; Experimental Psychology; Experimental Results; Frontiers in Psychology (specialty sections: Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology for Clinical Settings); Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (specialty section: Movement Science and Sport Psychology); International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice; Journal of Clinical Medicine; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Individual Differences; Journal of Personality Assessment; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of Research in Personality; Journal of Social Psychology; Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology; Learning and Individual Differences; Learning and Instruction; Motivation and Emotion; Motivation Science; Neuropsychologia; Performance Enhancement & Health; Personality and Individual Differences; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; PLOS ONE; PsyCh Journal; Psychological Reports; Psychological Science; Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht; Psychology of Sport and Exercise; Social Cognition; Social Psychology; Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology; Sportwissenschaft; The Journal of Experimental Education; Thinking Skills and Creativity; TPM – Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology; Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie; Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie; Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung; Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie; Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie

Primary research interests

• Dark personality, authoritarian personality, and indoctrination in education (Dark-Ego-Vehicle Principle)
• Role of self-control in cognitive and perceptual-motor performance (Schema Model of Self-Control)
• Self-regulation in individuals with pronounced autistic traits

Selected publications

• Bertrams, A. (2020). A schema-activation approach to failure and success in self-control. Frontiers in Psychology: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 11:2256.
• Bertrams, A. (2021). Less illusion of a just world in people with formally diagnosed autism and higher autistic traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51, 3733–3743.
• Bertrams, A., Baumeister, R. F., & Englert, C. (2016). Higher self-control capacity predicts lower anxiety-impaired cognition during math examinations. Frontiers in Psychology: Educational Psychology, 7:485.
• Bertrams, A., Englert, C., Dickhäuser, O., & Baumeister, R. F. (2013). Role of self-control strength in the relation between anxiety and cognitive performance. Emotion, 13, 668–680.
• Bertrams, A., & Krispenz, A. (2023). Dark-ego-vehicle principle: Narcissism as a predictor of anti-sexual assault activism. Current Psychology, 43, 3585–3598.
• Bertrams, A., & Schlegel, K. (2020). Speeded reasoning moderates the inverse relationship between autistic traits and emotion recognition. Autism, 24, 2304–2309.
• Englert, C., & Bertrams, A. (2012). Anxiety, ego depletion, and sports performance. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 34, 580–599.
• Krispenz, A., & Bertrams, A. (2023). Further basic evidence for the dark-ego-vehicle principle: Higher pathological narcissism is associated with greater involvement in feminist activism. Current Psychology, 43, 14619–14633.
• Krispenz, A., & Bertrams, A. (2024). Understanding left-wing authoritarianism: Relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment. Current Psychology, 43, 2714–2730.