Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel

Projects within livMatS

• Predicting attitudes and behavior concerning living materials: Assessing the reliability of the CAM method as a measurement tool
• System as an interdisciplinary concept and the research on living materials systems
• Analyzing the core concept of sustainability: An interdisciplinary approach combining cognitive affective mapping and philosophical reflection
  This project is carried out within the Cluster’s Hermann Staudinger Doctoral Fellowship Program.
• livMatS as part of and reaction to the Anthropocene: Ethical and philosophical implications of living materials systems
• Collection and evaluation of basal attributes of living materials systems
• Predicting attitudes and behavior concerning living materials: Development of software and analysis methods to apply cognitive affective maps
• Development of a TAPAS (Tiered Approach for Prospective Assessment of Benefits and Challenges) and first applications
  
  

Doctoral Researchers (first supervisor)

• Michael Gorki
• Wilhelm Gros
• Sabrina Livanec

Completed Doctoral Researchers (first supervisor)

• Dr. Lisa Reuter

Postdoctoral Researchers (first supervisor)

• Dr. Julius Fenn
  
  

Publications in livMatS

• Cognitive-Affective Maps (CAMs) as Measurement Tool – Elaboration of Quantitative and Qualitative Test-Retest Reliability*
  Gros, W., Reuter, L., Sprich, J., Schuldzinski, D., Fenn, J., & Kiesel, A. (2024). Cognitive-Affective Maps (CAMs) as Measurement Tool – Elaboration of Quantitative and Qualitative Test-Retest Reliability. Technology in Society, 102651. doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102651
• Connecting the methods of psychology and philosophy: Applying Cognitive-Affective Maps (CAMs) to identify ethical principles underlying the evaluation of bioinspired technologies*
  Höfele, P., Reuter, L., Estadieu, L., Livanec, S., Stumpf, M., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Connecting the methods of psychology and philosophy: Applying Cognitive-Affective Maps (CAMs) to identify ethical principles underlying the evaluation of bioinspired technologies. Philosophical Psychology, 1-24. doi: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2113770
• A Novel Network Approach to Capture Cognition and Affect: COVID-19 Experiences in Canada and Germany*
  Mansell, J., Reuter, L., Rhea, C., & Kiesel, A. (2021). A novel network approach to capture cognition and affect: COVID-19 experiences in Canada and Germany. Frontiers in psychology, 2082. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.663627
• Direct assessment of individual connotation and experience: An introduction to cognitive-affective mapping*
  Reuter, L., Mansell, J., Rhea, C., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Direct assessment of individual connotation and experience: An introduction to cognitive-affective mapping. Politics and the Life Sciences, 41(1), 131-139. doi: 10.1017/pls.2021.31
• Who’s gonna use this? Acceptance prediction of emerging technologies with Cognitive-Affective Mapping and transdisciplinary considerations in the Anthropocene*
  Livanec, S., Stumpf, M., Reuter, L., Fenn, J., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Who’s gonna use this? Acceptance prediction of emerging technologies with Cognitive-Affective Mapping and transdisciplinary considerations in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review, 20530196221078924. doi: 10.1177/20530196221078924
• Leisure walks modulate the cognitive and affective representation of the corona pandemic: Employing Cognitive-Affective Maps within a randomized experimental design*
  Reuter, L., Fenn, J., Bilo, T. A., Schulz, M., Weyland, A. L., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2021). Leisure walks modulate the cognitive and affective representation of the corona pandemic: Employing Cognitive‐Affective Maps within a randomized experimental design. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being. doi: 10.1111/aphw.12283
• Reactions of sciences to the Anthropocene: Highlighting inter- and transdisciplinary practices in biomimetics and sustainability research*
  Möller, M., Höfele, P., Kiesel, A., Speck, O. (2021): Reactions of sciences to the Anthropocene: Highlighting inter- and transdisciplinary practices in biomimetics and sustainability research. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene 9(1). doi: 10.1525/elementa.2021.035
  
  
  * Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807