Research and Professional Experience

03/2021 - 09/2022 Employee in the project Communities That Care

Since 02/2021 Doctoral student and research assistant in the Department of Reasearch Methods and Evaluation

Education

2018 – 2021 Master's student (Psychology) at the University of Hildesheim

2014 – 2018 Bachelor's student  (Psychology with focus on Educational Psychology) at the University of Hildesheim

• Cross-cultural Psychology
• Risk and protective factors for aggressive behavior and delinquency in children and adolescents with and without a migration background
• Cultural logics of honor, face, and dignity cultures
  • Measurement of honor endorsement in youth
  • Predictive quality of honor endorsement for aggressive behavior

Kollek, M., & Soellner, R. (2023). Honor endorsement in male youth: A general risk factor for aggressive behavior? International Journal for Developmental Science, 17(1-3), 55-65. www.doi.org/10.3233/DEV-230343

Bermeitinger, C., Hackländer, R. P. M., Kollek, M., Stiegemeyer, M., & Tränkner, A. E. (2020). Perceived and one’s own motion in response priming. Open Psychology, 2, 213-237. doi.org/10.1515/psych-2020-0106.

Kollek, M., Tse, J., & Runge, R. A. (2024). Disentangling the effects of objective and subjective multiculturalism measures on the interplay of acculturation dimensions. Paper presented at the 27^th International Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Bali, August 5 – 9.

Kollek, M., Tse, J., & Runge, R. A. (2024). Cross-cultural variability in lay perceptions of mental illness in Germany: Measurement invariance over cultural groups, gender, age, and education. Paper presented at the International Test Commission Conference. Granada, July 2 – August 5.

Kollek, M., & Soellner, R. (2023). Honor endorsement and aggressive behavior: Disentangling individual and contextual effects. Paper presented at the 27^th Workshop on Aggression. London, November 10-11.

Kollek, M., Runge, R. A., & Tse, J. (2023). Influence of Chinese immigrants’ acculturation on mental disorder concepts and help-seeking in Australia and Germany. Paper presented at the 27^th Regional European Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Limerick, July 31-August 5.

Tse, S. Y. J., Kollek, M., & Runge, R. A. (2023). Influence of Chinese immigrants’ acculturation on mental disorder concepts and help-seeking. Poster presented at the 15^th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology. Hong Kong, July 13-15.

Kollek, M., Schlüter, H., & Soellner, R. (2022). Honor endorsement in male youth: general risk factor for aggressive behavior? Paper presented at the 26^th Workshop on Aggression. Jena, November 10-12.

Kollek, M., Runge, R. A., & Soellner. R. (2022). Measuring honor endorsement in German adolescents. Paper presented at the 52^nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs). Hildesheim, September 10-15.

Schlüter, H., Runge, R. A., Kollek, M., & Soellner, R. (2022). Alcohol use in adolescents in Lower Saxony before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Paper presented at the 52^nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs). Hildesheim, September 10-15.

Runge, R. A., Schlüter, H., Kollek, M., & Soellner, R. (2022). German adolescents' mental health, family cohesion and family conflict before and during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. Poster presented at the 36^th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society. Bratislava, August 23-27.

Kollek, M., Runge, R. A., & Soellner, R. (2022). Honor endorsement in German adolescents: Measurement invariance across gender and migration groups. Poster presented at the 26^th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Virtual Meeting, July 12-16.

Bermeitinger, C., Hackländer, R. P. M., Kollek, M., Stiegemeyer, M., & Tränkner, A. E. (2019). Seeing and doing motion: Interaction of one's own motion and perceived motion in a response priming task. Poster presented at the 52^nd Fall Meeting of Experimental Cognitive Psychology. Hildesheim, October.