Prof. Dr Matthias Maalouli-Hartmann

Associate Professor

Documents

Curriculum Vitae Publications

Matthias Maalouli-Hartmann completed his doctoral studies in 2013 at the Psychological Institute of the University of Bern. He then worked as a research fellow in the Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group at the University of Potsdam, Germany. In 2016, he returned to the University of Bern, where he investigated various aspects of numerical processing by means of an Ambizione Fellowship of the Swiss Natianl Science Foundation. Since 2017, he has been working at UniDistance Suisse, where he teaches three modules in the Bachelor's program and one module in the Master's program of the German Psychology program. He conducts various research projects in the field of experimental cognitive psychology.

Does a smartphone on the desk drain our brain? No evidence of cognitive costs due to smartphone presence in a short-term and prospective memory task

DOI

2020-10 | Journal of Consciousness and Cognition

Maalouli-Hartmann Matthias
//
Martarelli Corinna
//
Reber Thomas
//
Rothen Nicolas

Peer-reviewed
Eye movements during mental time travel follow a diagonal line

DOI

2014-10 | Journal of Elsevier BV

Maalouli-Hartmann Matthias
//
Martarelli Corinna
// W. Mast Fred // Stocker Kurt
Eye Movements Reveal Mental Looking Through Time

DOI

2015-11 | Journal of Wiley

Stocker Kurt //
Maalouli-Hartmann Matthias
//
Martarelli Corinna
// W. Mast Fred
Unpleasant mind, deactivated body – A distinct somatic signature of boredom through bodily sensation mapping

DOI

2025-02 | Journal of Center for Open Science

Maalouli-Hartmann Matthias
// Wanja Wolff //
Martarelli Corinna
Time in the eye of the beholder: Gaze position reveals spatial-temporal associations during encoding and memory retrieval of future and past

DOI

2016-07 | Journal of Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Martarelli Corinna
//
Maalouli-Hartmann Matthias
// W. Mast Fred

Teaching

M06	Allgemeine Psychologie I: Wahrnehmung, Denken, Problemlösen Bachelor of Science in Psychology
M16	Allgemeine Psychologie III: Emotion & Motivation Bachelor of Science in Psychology
G1	Gesundheitsverhaltensänderung: Theorien, Methoden und Interventionen Master of Science in Psychology
M15-2	Proseminar 2 Bachelor of Science in Psychology

Functions at UniDistance Suisse

Faculty of Psychology

Associate Professor

Experimental cognitive psychology

Associate Professor

Ethics Commission

Chairman of the Commission and representative of the professors/lecturers (DE)

Faculty Council of the Faculty of Psychology

Associate Professor

Research focus

Numerical cognition: How are numbers, quantities and ordinality cognitively represented?
Mental imagery and memory
Irrational beliefs (paranormal phenomena, conspiracy theories)
Emotion und motivation: How are emotions represented in the body? How can motives be measured?
E-Learning