Profile
Professional career
- since 04/2016
Research Associate | Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology | Leipzig University - 01/2015 - 03/2016
Post Doc | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig | Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology - since 03/2015
Psychotherapy training | IVT – Institut für Verhaltenstherapie | Leipzig
Education
- 10/2011 - 12/2014
PhD in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.) on prosocial behavior and group cognition in children | Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig - 10/2005 - 04/2011
Diploma in Psychology | Leipzig University
Research Topics
- Excessive helping behaviour (e.g. help to one's own disadvantage) and its connection with early psychopathological symptoms in preschool age
- Competence performance differences in prosocial behaviour and its association with early psychopathological symptoms in preschool age
- Influence of empathic care on prosociality and its association with early psychopathological symptoms in preschool age
- Plötner, M.; Hepach, R.; Over, H.; Carpenter, M.; Tomasello, M.Young children share more under time pressure than after a delayPloS one. 2021. 16 (3). p. e0248121.
- Huber, L. A.; Plötner, M.; Schmitz, J.Structured behavioral observation of prosocial behavior and social initiative explains preschoolers' psychopathological symptomsPLoS ONE. 2019. 14 (11).
- Plötner, M.; Moldt, K.; In-Albon, T.; Schmitz, J.Einfluss der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die ambulante psychotherapeutische Versorgung von Kindern und JugendlichenPsychotherapie. 2022.
- Plötner, M.; Hepach, R.; Over, H.; Carpenter, M.; Tomasello, M.Young children share more under time pressure than after a delayPLoS one. 2021. 16 (3).
- Huber, L. A.; Plötner, M.; In-Albon, T.; Stadelmann, S.; Schmitz, J.The Perspective Matters: A Multi-informant Study on the Relationship Between Social-Emotional Competence and Preschoolers' Externalizing and Internalizing SymptomsChild Psychiatry & Human Development. 2019. 50 (6). pp. 1021–1036.