Team > Prof. Dr. Laura M. König
Prof. Dr. Laura M. König
Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health
Professional record
| since 08/2020 | Junior Professor of Public Health Nutrition, University of Bayreuth |
| 08/2020 - 02/2022 | Visiting researcher, Behavioural Science Group, University of Cambridge |
| 03/2020 - 07/2020 | Postdoctoral research fellow (German Research Foundation/ DFG), Behavioural Science Group, University of Cambridge |
| 03/2020 - 02/2022 | Visiting researcher, Psychological Assessment and Health Psychology, University of Konstanz |
| 10/2018 - 12/2018 | Visiting researcher, Behaviour and Health Research Unit/ Behaviour Change by Design, University of Cambridge |
| 03/2018 - 02/2020 | Postdoctoral researcher, Psychological Assessment and Health Psychology, University of Konstanz |
| 04/2014 - 02/2018 | PhD student, Psychological Assesment and Health Psychology, University of Konstanz |
Membership in Editorial Boards
- Cogent Psychology
- European Health Psychologist (Associate Editor)
- European Journal of Health Communication
- In Mind Magazin (Associate Editor)
- PLOS Digital Health (Associate Editor)
- Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Guest Editor)
Membership in professional organisations
- European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)
- German Nutrition Society (DGE e.V.)
- German Psychological Association (DGPs), Subdivision Health Psychology
- German Society for Public Health (DGPH)
- German Society for Behavioral Medicine (DGVM)
- International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA)
- Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA)
- Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM)
Current roles in professional organisations
| since 03/2020 | Member of the PR committee, In Mind Foundation |
| 09/2019 - 12/2021 | Secretary, Early Career Scientists Group, German Nutrition Society (DGE e.V.) |
| since 09/2019 | Co-chair and Social Media Officer, Special Interest Group Digital Health & Computer-tailoring, European Health Psychology Society |
| 09/2019 - 09/2021 | Representative of Early Career Researchers of the Subdivision Health Psychology in the German Psychological Association |
| since 04/2019 | Social Media Officer (Twitter), The Inquisitive Mind Germany |
| since 08/2018 | National Delegate for Germany, European Health Psychology Society |
| 04/2018 - 01/2022 | Head of Translations, The Inquisitive Mind Germany |
Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health
Research funding
| 2020 | Project "Synthesizing evidence on a digital divide in mobile interventions targeting weight-related behaviours: A systematic review of observational studies", funded by a Networking Grant of the European Health Psychology Society. Co-PI with Dr. Hiede Busse (Leibniz Institute of Prevention Research and Epidemiology), Dr. Ann DeSmet (Université Libre de bruxelles), Dr. Cindy Forbes (University of Hull), Dr. Eline Smit (University of Amsterdam) and Dorothy Szinay (Office for National Statistics/ University of East Anglia). |
| 2020 - 2022 | Research fellowship “Quantifying reactivity to digital dietary assessment and the moderating influence of active information processing”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). (discontinued at the end of July 2020 due to appointment at the University of Bayreuth) |
| 2019 | Project "To use or not to use? Motivations and barriers to using digital technologies for health promotion". Peer-Mentoring Team-Programme, funded by the Subdivision Health Psychology of the German Psychological Association. Co-PI with Christiane Attig (Chemnitz University of Technology). Project page on the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/jtaed/ |
Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health
Publications
Article in a journal (peer-reviewed)
Arigo, Danielle; König, Laura M.
Examining reactivity to the measurement of physical activity and sedentary behavior among ...
in Psychology & Health (2022)
doi:10.1080/08870446.2022.2055024 ...
Arigo, Danielle; Travers, Laura; König, Laura M.
Pain experiences among women in midlife with existing health conditions : Changes across p ...
in Psychology & Health (2022)
doi:10.1080/08870446.2022.2027421 ...
König, Laura M.; Allmeta, Anila; Christlein, Nora; van Emmenis, Miranda; Sutton, Stephen
A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies of reactivity to digital in-the-moment me ...
in Health Psychology Review (2022)
doi:10.1080/17437199.2022.2047096 ...
Kwasnicka, Dominika; Keller, Jan; Perski, Olga; Potthoff, Sebastian; ten Hoor, Gill A.; Ainsworth, Ben; Crutzen, Rik; Dohle, Simone; van Dongen, Anne; Heino, Matti; Henrich, Julia F.; Knox, Liam; König, Laura M.; Maltinsky, Wendy; McCallum, Claire; Nalukwago, Judith; Neter, Efrat; Nurmi, Johanna; Spitschan, Manuel; van Beurden, Samantha B.; van der Laan, L. Nynke; Wunsch, Kathrin; Levink, Jasper J. J.; Sanderman, Robbert
White Paper: Open Digital Health : accelerating transparent and scalable health promotion ...
in Health Psychology Review (2022)
doi:10.1080/17437199.2022.2046482 ...
König, Laura M.; Attig, Christiane; Franke, Thomas; Renner, Britta
Barriers to and facilitators for using nutrition apps : a systematic review and conceptual ...
in JMIR mHealth and uHealth vol. 9 (2021) issue 6
doi:10.2196/20037 ...
König, Laura M.; van Emmenis, Miranda; Nurmi, Johanna; Kassavou, Aikaterini; Sutton, Stephen
Characteristics of smartphone-based dietary assessment tools : a systematic review
in Health Psychology Review (2021)
doi:10.1080/17437199.2021.2016066 ...
Koller, Julia E.; Lages, Nadine C.; Villinger, Karoline; Schupp, Harald T.; König, Laura M.; Renner, Britta
COVID-19 : Schlimmer als gedacht? Wie und warum sich das wahrgenommene Risiko von Infektio ...
in The In-Mind : IM (2021) issue 2
https://de.in-mind.org/article/covid-19-schlimmer- ...
Clarke, Natasha; Pechey, Emily; Kosīte, Daina; König, Laura M.; Mantzari, Eleni; Blackwell, Anna K. M.; Marteau, Theresa M.; Hollands, Gareth J.
Impact of Health Warning Labels on Selection and Consumption of Food and Alcohol Products ...
in Health Psychology Review vol. 15 (2021) issue 3. - pp. 430-453
doi:10.1080/17437199.2020.1780147 ...
König, Laura M.; Koller, Julia E.; Villinger, Karoline; Wahl, Deborah R.; Ziesemer, Katrin; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta
Investigating the Relationship between Perceived Meal Colour Variety and Food Intake acros ...
in Nutrients vol. 13 (2021) issue 3
doi:10.3390/nu13030755 ...
König, Laura M.; Sproesser, Gudrun; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta
Preference for Intuition and Deliberation in Eating Decision-making : Scale validation and ...
in British Journal of Health Psychology vol. 26 (2021) issue 1. - pp. 109-131
doi:10.1111/bjhp.12460 ...
Wang, Yunlong; König, Laura M.; Reiterer, Harald
A Smartphone App to Support Sedentary Behavior Change by Visualizing Personal Mobility Pat ...
in JMIR Formative Resarch vol. 5 (2021) issue 1
doi:10.2196/15369 ...
König, Laura M.; Araújo-Soares, Vera
Will the Farm to Fork strategy be effective in changing food consumption behavior? : A hea ...
in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2021)
doi:10.1002/aepp.13220 ...
Villinger, Karoline; Wahl, Deborah R.; König, Laura M.; Ziesemer, Katrin; Butscher, Simon; Müller, Jens; Reiterer, Harald; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta
Do we know what we enjoy? : Accuracy of forecasted eating happiness
in Frontiers in Psychology vol. 11 (2020) . - pp. No. 1187
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01187 ...
Ziesemer, Katrin; König, Laura M.; Boushey, Carol Jo; Villinger, Karoline; Wahl, Deborah R.; Butscher, Simon; Müller, Jens; Reiterer, Harald; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta
Occurrence of and Reasons for "Missing Events" in Mobile Dietary Assessments : Results Fro ...
in JMIR mHealth and uHealth vol. 8 (2020) issue 10
doi:10.2196/15430 ...
Wahl, Deborah R.; Villinger, Karoline; Blumenschein, Michael; König, Laura M.; Ziesemer, Katrin; Sproesser, Gudrun; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta
Why we eat what we eat : Assessing dispositional and in-the-moment eating motives by using ...
in JMIR mHealth and uHealth vol. 8 (2020) issue 1. - pp. No. e13191
doi:10.2196/13191 ...
König, Laura M.; Renner, Britta
Boosting healthy food choices by meal colour variety : Results from two experiments and a ...
in BMC Public Health vol. 19 (2019) . - pp. No. 975
doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7306-z ...
Kosīte, Daina; König, Laura M.; De-Loyde, Katie; Lee, Ilse; Pechey, Emily; Clarke, Natasha; Maynard, Olivia; Morris, Richard; Munafò, Marcus; Marteau, Theresa M.; Hollands, Gareth J.
Plate size and food consumption : a pre-registered experimental study in a general populat ...
in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity vol. 16 (2019) . - pp. No. 75
doi:10.1186/s12966-019-0826-1 ...
König, Laura M.; Ziesemer, Katrin; Renner, Britta
Quantifying actual and perceived inaccuracy when estimating the sugar, energy content and ...
in Nutrients vol. 11 (2019) issue 10. - pp. No. 2425
doi:10.3390/nu11102425. ...
König, Laura M.; Renner, Britta
Colourful = healthy? : Exploring meal colour variety and its relation to food consumption
in Food Quality and Preference vol. 64 (2018) . - pp. 66-71
doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.10.011 ...
König, Laura M.; Sproesser, Gudrun; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta
Describing the Process of Adopting Nutrition and Fitness Apps : Behavior Stage Model Appro ...
in JMIR mHealth and uHealth vol. 6 (2018) issue 3. - pp. No. e55
doi:10.2196/mhealth.8261 ...
Wahl, Deborah R.; Villinger, Karoline; König, Laura M.; Ziesemer, Katrin; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta
Healthy food choices are happy food choices : Evidence from a real life sample using smart ...
in Scientific Reports vol. 7 (2017) . - pp. No. 17069
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17262-9 ...
König, Laura M.; Giese, Helge; Stok, F. Marijn; Renner, Britta
The social image of food : Associations between popularity and eating behaviour
in Appetite vol. 114 (2017) . - pp. 248-258
doi:10.1016/j.appet.2017.03.039 ...
König, Laura M.
Vom Leben im Schlaraffenland : Wie unsere Umwelt unsere Ernährung beeinflusst
in The In-Mind : IM (2017) issue 1
https://de.in-mind.org/article/vom-leben-im-schlar ...
König, Laura M.; Giese, Helge; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta
The environment makes a difference : The impact of explicit and implicit attitudes as prec ...
in Frontiers in Psychology vol. 7 (2016) . - pp. No. 1301
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01301 ...
Giese, Helge; König, Laura M.; Tăut, Diana; Ollila, Hanna; Baban, Adriana; Absetz, Pilvikki; Schupp, Harald T.; Renner, Britta
Exploring the association between television advertising of healthy and unhealthy foods, s ...
in Applied Psychology : Health and Well-being vol. 7 (2015) issue 1. - pp. 41-62
doi:10.1111/aphw.12036 ...
Article in a journal (not peer-reviewed)
Smit, Eline S.; Newby, Katie; König, Laura M.
Digital Health and Computer-Tailoring : Opportunities and Challenges in Moving the Field F ...
in European Health Psychologist vol. 22 (2022) issue 4. - pp. 788-792
Sproesser, Gudrun; König, Laura M.; Strahler, Jana; Tibubos, Ana N.; Kubiak, Thomas
Open Science und gute wissenschaftliche Praxis in der gesundheitspsychologischen Lehre
in Psychologische Rundschau vol. 73 (2022) issue 1. - pp. 28-29
doi:10.1026/0033-3042/a000568 ...
Gärtner, Anne; Gollwitzer, Mario; König, Laura M.; Tibubos, Ana N.
Chancen und Herausforderungen digitaler Lehre
in Psychologische Rundschau vol. 72 (2021) issue 4. - pp. 273-275
doi:10.1026/0033-3042/a000555 ...
Risius, Antje; König, Laura M.
Gemeinsam für eine nachhaltige Ernährung der Zukunft : Perspektiven und Handlungsmöglichke ...
in DGEwissen (2020) issue 3. - pp. 20-23
Smit, Eline S.; Newby, Katie; König, Laura M.
Digital Health and Computer-Tailoring : Opportunities and Challenges in Moving the Field F ...
in European Health Psychologist vol. 21 (2020) issue 2. - pp. 641-642
https://ehps.net/ehp/index.php/contents/article/vi ...
König, Laura M.
Dem gesunden Essverhalten auf der Spur : Psychologische Ernährungsforschung an der Univers ...
in Spektrum vol. 16 (2020) issue 2. - pp. 26-29
https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/5734/1/spektrum_2020- ...
König, Laura M.; Roomaney, Rizwana; Cipolletta, Sabrina
Health psychologists' responses to Covid-19, as reported by the National Delegates of the ...
in European Health Psychologist vol. 21 (2020) issue 4. - pp. 663-669
https://ehps.net/ehp/index.php/contents/article/vi ...
König, Laura M.
On the trail of healthy eating behaviour : Studying the psychology of eating at the Univer ...
in Spektrum vol. 16 (2020) issue 2. - pp. 26-29
https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/5804/1/spektrum-2020- ...
König, Laura M.
Wissenschaftskommunikation in sozialen Medien
in DGE-Info (2019) issue 11. - pp. 170-175
König, Laura M.; Renner, Britta
Junge Forschung : Iss bunt = Iss gesund
in Ernährungsumschau vol. 65 (2018) issue 9
https://www.ernaehrungs-umschau.de/print-news/12-0 ...
König, Laura M.
Networking and more : Reflections on the 31st EHPS Conference
in European Health Psychologist vol. 20 (2018) issue 1. - pp. 443-444
https://ehps.net/ehp/index.php/contents/article/vi ...
Stok, F. Marijn; König, Laura M.; Nurmi, Johanna; Müller, Andre N.
Create workshop 2014 : Leveraging mobile technology and social media in behavioral researc ...
in European Health Psychologist vol. 16 (2015) issue 6. - pp. 260-261
https://www.ehps.net/ehp/index.php/contents/articl ...
Article in a book (not peer-reviewed)
Butscher, Simon; Wang, Yunlong; Müller, Jens; Ziesemer, Katrin; Villinger, Karoline; Wahl, Deborah R.; König, Laura M.; Sproesser, Gudrun; Renner, Britta; Schupp, Harald T.; Reiterer, Harald
Lightweight Visual Data Analysis on Mobile Devices - Providing Self-Monitoring Feedback
In: Cabitza, Federico ; Fogli, Daniela ; Giacomin, Massimiliano ; Locoro, Angela (ed.): Valuable visualization of healthcare information : from the quantified self data to conversations : VVH 2016; Proceedings of the Workshop on Valuable Visualization of Healthcare Information - Aachen: RWTH Aachen, 2016 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; 1658)
Conference item (not peer-reviewed)
König, Laura M.
Ecological Momentary Assessment of eating behaviour
2020
doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/8KQ67 ...
EHPS Online Scientific Meeting,
Preprint, postprint, working paper, discussion paper
Ehrecke, Olivia K.; David, Anna-Lena; Purnhagen, Kai; König, Laura M.
Do "no added sugar" labels impact sugar content estimation and healthiness perception? An ...
PsyArXiv, 2022
doi:10.31234/osf.io/muh35 ...
Kotz, Johannes; Giese, Helge; König, Laura M.
How to debunk misinformation? An experimental online study investigating text structures a ...
PsychArchives, 2022
doi:10.23668/psycharchives.8142 ...
Fresán, Ujué; Bernard, Paquito; Fabregues, Sergi; Boronat, Anna; Araújo-Soares, Vera; König, Laura M.; Chevance, Guillaume
A pilot smartphone intervention aiming to promote a sustainable healthy diet: pre-register ...
OSFPreprints, 2022
doi:10.31219/osf.io/n362f ...
König, Laura M.
Debunking nutrition myths : An experimental test of the "truth sandwich" text format
PsyArXiv, 2022
doi:10.31234/osf.io/82qzu ...
Szinay, Dorothy; Forbes, Cynthia C.; Busse, Heide; DeSmet, Ann; Smit, Eline S.; König, Laura M.
Is the uptake, engagement and effectiveness of mobile interventions for the promotion of w ...
PsyArXiv, 2022
doi:10.31234/osf.io/cq24y ...
Pownall, Madeleine; Azevedo, Flavio; König, Laura M.; Slack, Hannah Rachael; Evans, Thomas Rhys; Flack, Zoe; Grinschgl, Sandra; Elsherif, Mahmoud Medhat; Gilligan-Lee, Katie Anne; Oliveira, Catia Margarida; Gjoneska, Biljana; Kanadadze, Tamara; Button, Katherine Susan; Ashcroft-Jones, Sarah; Terry, Jenny; Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan; Děchtěrenko, Filip; Alzahawi, Shilaan; Baker, Bradley James; Pittelkow, Merle-Marie; Riedl, Lydia; Schmidt, Kathleen; Pennington, Charlotte Rebecca; Shaw, John J.; Lüke, Timo; Makel, Matthew C.; Hartmann, Helena; Zaneva, Mirela; Walker, Daniel; Verheyen, Steven; Cox, Daniel; Mattschey, Jennifer; Gallagher-Mitchell, Thomas; Branney, Peter; Weisberg, Yanna J.; Izydorczak, Kamil; Al-Hoorie, Ali H.; Creaven, Ann-Marie; Stewart, Suzanne; Krautter, Kai; Matvienko-Sikar, Karen; Westwood, Samuel James; Arriaga, Patricia; Liu, Meng; Baum, Myriam A.; Wingen, Tobias; Ross, Robert M.; O'Mahony, Aoife; Bochynska, Agata; Jamieson, Michelle K.; Vel Tromp, Myrthe; Yeung, Siu Kit; Vasilev, Martin R.; Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie; Micheli, Leticia; Konkol, Markus; Moreau, David; Bartlett, James Edward; Brekelmans, Gwen; Gkinopoulos, Theofilos; Tyler, Samantha Lily; Röer, Jan Philipp; Ilchovska, Zlatomira; Madan, Christopher R.; Robertson, Olly May; Iley, Bethan Joan; Guay, Samuel; Sladekova, Martina; Sadhwani, Shanu
The impact of open and reproducible scholarship on students' scientific literacy, engageme ...
MetaArXiv, 2022
doi:10.31222/osf.io/9e526 ...
Weiß, Katharina; König, Laura M.
Comparing the effectiveness of videos, podcasts, and online articles in nutrition communic ...
PsyArXiv, 2022
doi:10.31234/osf.io/db5qa ...
Bernard, Paquito; Chevance, Guillaume; König, Laura M.; Araújo-Soares, Vera
Correspondence: "How researchers can help fight climate change in 2022 and beyond (Nature) ...
PsyArXiv, 2022. - 2 pp.
doi:10.31234/osf.io/6b2p8 ...
Sproesser, Gudrun; Aulbach, Matthias; Gültzow, Thomas; König, Laura M.
Do nutrition knowledge, food preferences, and habit strength moderate the association betw ...
PsyArXiv, 2022
doi:10.31234/osf.io/s9bta ...
Online post
König, Laura M.
Waldbaden fürs Wohlbefinden
in In Mind Blog
17. September 2021
https://de.in-mind.org/blog/post/waldbaden-fuers-w ...
König, Laura M.; Crusius, Jan
Die Wissenschaftskommunikation braucht einen Ehrenkodex
in wissenschaftskommunikation.de
09. Dezember 2020
https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/die-wiss ...
König, Laura M.
Essen, was (vermutlich) schmeckt : Wie Geschmackserwartungen Ernährung und Gesundheit beei ...
in In Mind Blog
21. September 2020
https://de.in-mind.org/blog/post/essen-was-vermutl ...
König, Laura M.; Hollands, Gareth J.
Can smaller plates help us to eat less?
in On Health blog
29. Oktober 2019
http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2019/10/2 ...
König, Laura M.; Smit, Eline S.
Joining forces in research : Introducing the EHPS Special Interest Group on Digital Health ...
in UCL DigiHub Blog
01. Oktober 2019
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cbc-digi-hub-blog/2019/10/ ...
König, Laura M.
E- and mHealth research at ISBNPA 2019
in UCL DigiHub Blog
20. Juni 2019
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cbc-digi-hub-blog/2019/06/ ...
Wetzel, Lisa; König, Laura M.
Positive Emotionen machen dich froh und dein Herzkreislaufsystem ebenso
in In Mind Blog
24. Mai 2019
http://de.in-mind.org/blog/post/positive-emotionen ...
Busam, Betty; König, Laura M.
Mit dem friedlichen Krieger zur Ruhe kommen
in In Mind Blog
28. Dezember 2018
http://de.in-mind.org/blog/post/mit-dem-friedliche ...
König, Laura M.
Digital intervention research at the UKSBM Annual Scientific Meeting
in UCL DigiHub Blog
17. Dezember 2018
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cbc-digi-hub-blog/2018/12/1 ...
König, Laura M.
Ich denke, also bleib ich am Ball
in In Mind Blog
27. Juli 2018
http://de.in-mind.org/blog/post/ich-denke-also-ble ...
König, Laura M.
Alle Jahre wieder… kommt der Neujahrsvorsatz
in In Mind Blog
28. Januar 2018
http://de.in-mind.org/blog/post/alle-jahre-wieder- ...
König, Laura M.
"Ich tu, was mein Herz mir sagt." : Wie wir eine Krankheit wahrnehmen, beeinflusst den Hei ...
in In Mind Blog
22. September 2017
http://de.in-mind.org/blog/post/ich-tu-was-mein-he ...
Doctoral thesis
König, Laura M.
Healthy pleasures : Integrating food well-being and simple eating behaviour interventions
Konstanz, KOPS Universität Konstanz, 2018
https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/1234 ...
(thesis, 2018, Universität Konstanz)
Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health
Prof. Dr. Laura M. König
Junior Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Campus Kulmbach
Office: 2.05
Fritz-Hornschuch-Straße 13
95326 Kulmbach
E-mail: laura.koenig@uni-bayreuth.de
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Twitter: @lauramkoenig
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