Dr. Marie Ritter

Professional Experience

Since 02/2023: Research Associate (PostDoc), Institute for Industrial/Organizational and Social Psychology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

10/2022-01/2023: Research Associate (PostDoc), Social and Communication Psychology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

06/2022-08/2022: Project Manager Group R&D, Hogrefe Publishing Group, Göttingen, Germany

10/2018-10/2022: Research Associate (PhD student), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

University Education

10/2018-10/2022: Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.), Georg-Elias-Müller-Institute for Psychology, University of Göttingen.

• Thesis title: "Emergent processes as means of uncertainty reduction in group decision making."

08/2015-01/2018: Research Master Psychology (MSc Res), Universiteit van Amsterdam.

08/2008-07/2012: Bachelor (BA) in Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology, Jacobs University Bremen.

Awards

• 03/2019-04/2021: Scholarship of the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation
• 03/2019-04/202: Mentee of the Margaret Maltby Mentoring Program, University of Göttingen.
• Fall 2018/19: Award of the Foundation Council of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen "Special Commitment in University Teaching" for the seminar "Projects in Market and Organizational Psychology"
• 06/2013-08/2017: Scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation
• 06/2013/14/15: President's List of the Jacobs University Bremen

Third-party Funding

2025

Male Ally Training for Academic Staff and Lecturers, PI, Overall project sum: 2.250 €, Braunschweig Centre for Gender Studies, TU Braunschweig.

2024

conCErt: Cooperation in Circular E conomy: Accelerating Research Transfer, Project coordination and essential role in preparation of grant application. Project lead: Prof. Dr. Simone Kauffeld, Overall project sum: 1.540.496,24 €; Funding sum: 999.129,51 €; Funding for own institute: 703.296,67 €, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF).

2023

zukunft.niedersachen – Campus Wolfsburg OHLF. Subproject: Accompanying research and transfer, Project coordination and essential role in preparation of grant application for subproject. Lead of subproject: Prof. Dr. Simone Kauffeld, Lead of overall project: Prof. Dr. Klaus Dröder, 11,5 Mio. €; Subproject: 372 945,56 €, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Kultur (MWK).

MeetingHacks - How To Reach Your Goals Online (fast)?, PI with PhD Student, 1.500 €, Impact Project TU Braunschweig

Courses

Fall 2023/24, 2024/25:

• Lecture & project Seminar Personnel Psychology (Bachelor)

Spring 2023:

• Accompanying seminar Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Bachelor)

Peer-reviewed journals

Tartler, D., Ritter, M., & Kauffeld, S. (2025). Short on Time – Big on Impact: MeetingHacks as a Digital Intervention to Enhance Virtual Meeting Collaboration. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11612-025-00790-8

Köhler, A., Ritter, M., & Kauffeld, S. (2024). A typology of organizational change readiness based on a Latent Profile Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1453836

Ritter, M., Schilling, H., Brüggemann, H., Fröhlich, T., Goldmann, D., Henze, R., Kuhlmann, M., Mennenga, M., Mrotzek-Blöß, A., Niemeyer, J. F., Schmidt, K., Spengler, K., Sturm, A., Vietor, T., Woisetschläger, D. M., & Kauffeld, S. (2024). Towards achieving the sustainable development goals: A collaborative action plan leveraging the circular economy potentials. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO), 2/24. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1007/s11612-024-00733-9

Tameling, J.-F., Lohöfener, M., Bereznai, J., Tran, T. P. A., Ritter, M., & Boos, M. (2023). Extent and types of gender-based discrimination against female medical students and physicians at five university hospitals in Germany – results of an online survey. GMS Journal for Medical Education, 40(6), 1-14. https://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma001648

Koniusch, F., Tameling, J.-F., Hautz, D., Boos, M., & Ritter, M. (2023). Stärkung von Beziehungen zwischen Erasmus+-Studierenden und Bewohner*innen des Gastlandes: Einflüsse und Maßnahmen. Interculture Journal, 22(37), 45-64.

Ritter, M., Pritz, J., Baumann, E., Morscheck, L., & Boos, M. (2023). In no uncertain terms: Group cohesion did not affect exploration and group decision making under low uncertainty. Frontiers in Psychology - Personality and Social Psychology, 14, 1038262. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1038262

Ritter, M., Kroll, C. F., Voigt, H., Pritz, J., & Boos, M. (2022). The Collective Trust Game: An online group adaptation of the trust game based on the HoneyComb paradigm. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 188, e63600. doi.org/10.3791/63600 

Ritter, M., Wang, M., Pritz, J., Menssen, O., & Boos, M. (2021c). How collective reward structure impedes group decision making: An experimental study using the HoneyComb paradigm. PLoS ONE, 16, e0259963. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259963

Ritter, M., & Sauter, D. A. (2017). Telling friend from foe: Listeners are unable to identify in-group and out-group members from heard laughter. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2006. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02006 

Conference talks

Grimme, F., Ritter, M., & Kauffeld, S. (2024). What position do women occupy in formal and informal knowledge networks in the STEM sector? Paper presented at the 44th INSNA Conference Sunbelt, Edinburgh, UK.

Grimme, F., Ritter, M., & Kauffeld, S. (2024a). Welche Position nehmen Frauen in formellen und informellen Wissensnetzwerken im MINT-Bereich ein? Paper presented at the 53rd DGPs Congress, Vienna, Austria.

Ritter, M., Grimme, F., & Kauffeld, S. (2024). Bridging boundaries: Exploring knowledge transfer in STEM through inter- and intraorganizational networks. Paper presented at the 44th INSNA Conference Sunbelt, Edinburgh, UK.

Ritter, M., Tartler, D., & Kauffeld, S. (2024b). Meet the new normal: Panel-studie zur Erhebung des Status-Quo von Meetings. In Y. Frontzowski (Ed.), Meetings 2.0: Digitale Begegnungsräume im Wandel [Symposium]. 53rd DGPs Congress, Wien, Österreich.

Ritter, M., Tartler, D., & Kauffeld, S. (2024). Meet the new normal: An international panel study to identify the status-quo of meetings. In M. Ritter, D. Tartler, & S. Kauffeld (Eds.), Meeting mayhem? New insights and developments in meeting science [Symposium]. 19th Annual INGRoup Conference, Charlotte, NC, USA.

Tartler, D., Ritter, M., & Kauffeld, S. (2024a). Meet smart – not hard. Eine ganzheitliche Annäherung an Meeting-Dynamiken mit dem Meeting-Prozess-Inventar. In Y. Frontzowski (Ed.), Meetings 2.0: Digitale Begegnungsräumeim Wandel [Symposium]. 53rd DGPs Congress, Wien, Österreich.

Ritter, M., Tartler, D., & Kauffeld, S. (2024). Meet the new normal: An international panel study to identify the status-quo of meetings. In M. Ritter, D. Tartler, & S. Kauffeld (Eds.), Meeting mayhem? New insights and developments in meeting science [Symposium]. 19th Annual INGRoup Conference, Charlotte, NC, USA.

Tartler, D., Ritter, M., & Kauffeld, S. (2024). Meet smart—not hard. A holistic approach to meeting dynamics with the Meeting Process Inventory. In M. Ritter, D. Tartler, & S. Kauffeld (Eds.), Meeting mayhem? New insights and developments in meeting science [Symposium]. 19th Annual INGRoup Conference, Charlotte, NC, USA.

Ritter, M., Brüne, J., Späth, F., Boos, M., & Pritz, J. (2023). Measuring behavioral leadership in a group decision making task using LF-scores. Paper presented at the 13th Fachgruppentagung der AOW- und Ingenieurspsychologie, Kassel, Germany.

Ritter, M. & Kauffeld, S. (2023). Kreativer Lockdown? Arbeitsanforderungen und -ressourcen stärkten Kreativität während des ersten Covid-19-Lockdowns. Paper presented at the 13th Fachgruppentagung der AOW- und Ingenieurspsychologie, Kassel, Germany.

Ritter, M., Pritz, J., Menssen, O., Lu, Y., & Boos, M. (2022). Groups live and in full color: The HoneyComb paradigm, network analysis, and visual analytics as tools to measure group coordination, leadership, and followership. Paper presented at the 17th Annual INGRoup Conference, Hamburg, Germany.

Schabasian, F., Dunker, L., Pritz, J., Boos, M., & Ritter, M. (2022). Fair traits: An exploration into correlates of fair behavior in the trust game. Paper presented at the 17th Annual INGRoup Conference, Hamburg, Germany.

Ritter, M., Kroll, C., Pritz, J., & Boos, M. (2021). Einer für alle, alle für einen: Eine methodische Exploration des Collective Trust Games. In C. Gockel (Ed.), Thinking about others at work: Der Einfluss von kognitiven Prozessen in Teams [Symposium]. 12. Fachgruppentagung der AOWI-Psychologie, Chemnitz.

Ritter, M., Wang, M., Pritz, J., Menssen, O., & Boos, M. (2021). Groups live and in full color: Using the HoneyComb paradigm, visual analytics, and network analysis to capture group processes. Paper presented at the TeaP@home, Virtual Conference.

Ritter, M., Wang, M., Pritz, J., Menssen, O., & Boos, M. (2021). What you get for free, costs too much: How collective reward structure impedes group decision making. Paper presented at the 16th Annual INGRoup Conference, Virtual Conference.

Ritter, M., & Boos, M. (2020). Collectively we trust: New perspectives on the measurement of collective trust. Paper presented at the 15th Annual INGRoup Conference, Virtual Conference.

Ritter, M., Wang, M., Lu, Y., Menssen, O., & Boos, M. (2019). Whom to follow: Dynamics of leadership and decision making in groups. Paper presented at the 14th Annual INGRoup Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.