Dipl.-Psych. Lisa Scharrer

	Dipl.-Psych. Lisa Scharrer Research employee
Westfälische Wilhelms-University Institute for Psychology Fliednerstr. 21 48149 Münster Room 2.202	Phone: +49 251 83-39379 Fax: +49 251 83-39105 Email: lisa.scharrer@uni-muenster.de

Consulting hours

Wednesday 14:00-15:00

Biography

• 2003 Abitur (general qualification for university entrance) at the Edith-Stein-School Darmstadt

• 10/2003 – 01/2009 Undergraduate studies in psychology at the University of Heidelberg; degree: Diplom

• Diplom thesis on „In voce veritas – Acoustic speech modifications and their functions in verbal irony“

• 09/2005 – 06/2006 Undergraduate studies in psychology at the University of Exeter, UK (Erasmus programme)

• 2004 – 2009 Student assistant for Prof U. Christmann, University of Heidelberg

• since 08/2009 research assistant in the lab of Prof. Rainer Bromme in the DFG-funded Special Priority Program "Science and the general public"

Awards

• Franz-Emanuel-Weinert-Award 2008 of the Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg for outstanding Diplom thesis

Research interests

• Public understanding of science

• Division of cognitive labor

• Argumentation

• Learning with multiple documents

Publications

• Scharrer, L., Bromme, R., Britt, M. A. & Stadtler, M. (in press). The seduction of easiness: How science depictions influence laypeople’s reliance on their own evaluation of scientific information. Learning and Instruction. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.11.004

• Scharrer, L., Christmann, U., & Knoll, M. (in press). Voice Modulations in German Ironic Speech. Language and Speech

• Bromme, R., Scharrer, L., Britt, A. M., & Stadtler, M. (2011).Effects of information comprehensibility and argument type on lay recipients’ readiness to defer to experts when deciding about scientific knowledge claims. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T.F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2788 -2793). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

• Stadtler, M., Scharrer, L., & Bromme, R. (2011). How Reading Goals and Rhetorical Signals Influence Recipients’ Recognition of Intertextual Conflicts. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T.F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1346 -1351). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

• Knoll, M. A., Scharrer, L., & Costall, A. (2011). “Look at the shark”: Evaluation of student- and actress-produced standardised sentences of infant- and foreigner-directed speech. Speech Communication, 53, 12-22.

• Knoll, M. A., Scharrer, L., & Costall, A. (2009). Are actresses better simulators than female students? The effects of simulation on prosodic modifications of infant- and foreigner-directed speech. Speech Communication, 51, 296-305.

• Knoll, M. A. & Scharrer, L. (2008). ‘Look at the shark’: Evaluation of student produced standardized sentences of infant- and foreigner directed speech. Proceedings of the 9th Interspeech Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

• Knoll, M. A., & Scharrer, L. (2008). How similar are pitch contours derived from 'imaginary' student interactions to those derived from real interactions? Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Speech Prosody, Campinas, Brasil.

• Knoll, M. A. & Scharrer, L. (2007). Acoustic and affective comparisons of natural and imaginary infant-, foreigner- and adult-directed speech. Proceedings of the 8th Interspeech conference. Antwerp, Belgium.