Senior Scientist:
Dr. Hannah van Alebeek
Room 2.054, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, 5020 Salzburg
Contact:
Tel.: 0043 662 8044 5186

Head of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)

Consultation hours:
– by appointment

Education:
– 2014-2017 Bachelor – Psychology, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
– 2017-2019 Research Master – Cognitive Neuroscience, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
– 2019-2023 Doctorate – PhD Program “Imaging the Mind“, University of Salzburg

Career:
– 2019-2023 PhD student in the FWF Project “Mapping of neural mechanisms of appetitive behavior: From attention to reward to behavior”,  Eating Behavior Laboratory, University of Salzburg
– Since 2024 Senior Scientist at the Department of Psychology, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

Research:
Habitual behaviors are often influenced by implicit processes. These implicit processes can work against health goals and conscious intentions and therefore lead to failures in dieting or abstaining from alcohol. During my PhD, I specifically focused on how to assess implicit approach tendencies using reaction time tasks and how these tendencies affect daily consumption behavior. Furthermore, I am interested in the change of consumer behavior and intentions over time. By using “Ecological Momentary Assessment”, I investigate the extent to which past failures influence whether a person falls into a negative downward spiral or whether failures serve as motivation to avoid them in the future.