Johannes Algermissen obtained Bachelor’s degrees in psychology and philosophy (minor in mathematics) at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany, in 2014. After a year at the University of Helsinki, Finland, he pursued a Research Master’s degree in Behavioural Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, graduating summa cum laude in 2017. In his Master’s thesis, supervised by Rob Holland, Erik Bijleveld, and Nils Jostmann, he investigated trade-offs between cognitive labor and leisure using pupillometry. During his degree, he also spent two months at Columbia University, New York City, working on intertemporal choice and procrastination together with Eric J. Johnson and Bernd Figner.

Since, 2017, he pursues a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Under supervision of Hanneke den Ouden, he studies motivational biases in learning and decision-making, specifically i) how these biases arise, ii) how they are controlled, iii) whether people might even chose to expose themselves to them! To answer those questions, he uses computational modeling of behavior, simultaneous EEG-fMRI, eye-tracking, and MEG.

Besides his PhD work, Johannes is enthusiastically involved in several open science projects aiming to improve psychology and cognitive neuroscience, such as the Open Science Community Nijmegen, the EEGManyPipelines project, and eCOBIDAS.

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Pre-registrations:

• The effect of incidental arousal on motivational biases (project with Bachelor thesis students) — OSF preregistration

• The effect of stake magnitude on motivational biases (project with Bachelor thesis students) — OSF prepregistration

• The effect of attention cued to rewards or punishments on action invigoration and suppression (project with Bachelor thesis students) — OSF prepregistration