Dipl.-Psych. Stefanie Ringelhan

I am interested in the effect of incentive systems and motivational factors on the performance of employees. In the BMBF projects "Pay Professors for Performance?! (P³)" and "The Many Faces of Academic Success (FAceS)" I focus on whether professors should be paid for performance and in particular I try to investigate which incentives are appropriate in knowledge-intensive organizations. Another area I'm interested in, is (strategic) decision making and the phenomenon of Escalation of Commitment in regard to self-regulatory processes and goal pursuit. Besides that I'm interested in flow-experiences as a form of intrinsic motivation, as well as customer loyalty strategies in the Internet.

Effects of web polls on the rating of the website and attachment to it.Advisors: Prof. K. Sassenberg, University of Tübingen & Dr. J. Jacoby, Knowledge Media Research Center (KMRC), Tübingen.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Ringelhan, S., Wollersheim, J., & Welpe, I. M. (2015). I like, I cite? Do Facebook likes predict the impact of scientific work? PLoS ONE 10(8), 10(8), e0134389. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134389 VHB-JQ3: - ; ISI-IF:

Ringelhan, S., Wollersheim, J., Welpe, I. M., Fiedler, M., & Spörrle, M. (2013). Work motivation and job satisfaction as antecedents of research performance: Investigation of different mediation models. Journal of Business Economics (ZfB), Special Issue Volume 3/2013, 7-38. VHB-JQ3: B; ISI-IF:

Wallis, G., & Ringelhan, S. (2013). The dynamics of perceptual rivalry in bistable and tristable perception. Journal of Vision, 13(2):24, 1-21. VHB-JQ3: - ; ISI-IF:

Keller, J., Ringelhan, S., & Blomann, F. (2011). Does skills demands-compatibility result in intrinsic motivation? Experimental test of a basic notion proposed in the theory of flow-experiences. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 6, 408-417. VHB-JQ3: - ; ISI-IF:

Conference Presentations

Ringelhan, S., Wollersheim, J., & Welpe, I. M. (2015). Reasons to publish (not) in Open Access-Journals – An explorative study, Symposium "Governance, Performance & Leadership of Research and Public Organizations", München, 15-16 July 2015.

Welpe, I. M., Wollersheim, J., & Ringelhan, S. (2014). Governance of Research Organizations, 4. Jahrestagung des Netzwerks Wissenschaftsmanagement „Herausforderungen des Kooperationsmanagements im Wissenschaftssystem“, München (Germany), 20-21 November 2014 (invited talk).

Welpe, I. M., Wollersheim, J., & Ringelhan, S. (2014). Pay Professors for Performance?! Entwicklung eines neuen Anreizsystems für Forschende und Lehrende an Hochschulen, Statusseminar der BMBF-Förderlinie „Wissenschaftsökonomie“, Berlin (Germany), 15 May 2014.

Ringelhan, S., Wollersheim, J., & Welpe, I. M. (2014). Goals and creative performance in knowledge-intensive settings: An experimental study, Workshop "Outcomes in Academia: Leistungsmessung und –steuerung in der Hochschule", Tübingen (Germany), 06-07 March 2014.

Ringelhan, S., Wollersheim, J., Welpe, I. M., & Spörrle, M. (2014). Goals and creative performance in knowledge-intensive settings: An experimental study, 16. Jahrestagung der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Hochschulmanagement, Bremen (Germany), 21-22 February 2014.

Ringelhan, S., Wollersheim, J., & Welpe, I. M. (2014). Zielsetzung und kreative Leistungsaspekte in wissensintensiven Bereichen: Eine experimentelle Studie, Abschlusstagung "Innovation, Leistungsmessung und Anreizsysteme in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft – Governance wissensintensiver Organisationen", München (Germany), 14-15 January 2014.

Welpe, I. M., Ringelhan, S., & Spörrle, M. (2013). What’s anger got to do with it? Decision maker’s levels of anger towards the patient partially explain the effects of a patients threat to others on compulsory admission of the patient to a psychiatric institution, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN) Kongress, Berlin (Germany), 27-30 November 2013.

Ringelhan, S., Wollersheim, J., Welpe, I. M., Fiedler, M., & Spörrle, M. (2013). Work motivation and job satisfaction as antecedents of research performance: Investigating different mediation models, accepted for presentation (but not presented) at 13th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management, Istanbul (Turkey), 26-29 June 2013.

Wollersheim, J., Ringelhan, S., Spörrle, M., & Welpe, I. M. (2012). Leistungsindikatoren und Anreize für Forschung und Lehre, Fachtagung "Innovation, Leistungsmessung und Anreizsysteme in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft -Governance wissensintensiver Organisationen", München (Germany), 27-28 November 2012.

Welpe, I. M., Wollersheim, J., & Ringelhan, S. (2012). Anreizsysteme an deutschen Hochschulen - was ist förderlich, was hinderlich für innovative, kreative Leistungen und deren Verwertung? Workshop "Organization Turn in der Hochschulforschung", Hamburg (Germany), 14-15 June 2012.

Ringelhan, S., Welpe, I. M., & Wollersheim, J. (2012). Pay Professors for Performance?! Entwicklung eines neuen Anreizsystems für Forschende und Lehrende an Hochschulen, Auftaktveranstaltung zum Förderschwerpunkt Wissenschaftsökonomie des Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Mannheim (Germany), 31 May-1 June 2012.

Ringelhan, S., Landhäußer, A., Fischer, J., & Keller, J. (2011). Neue Befunde zur Psychophysiologie des Flow Erlebens, 13. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP), Hamburg (Germany), 18-21 September 2011.

Ringelhan, S., Keller, J., & Landhäußer, A. (2011). New insights on the psychophysiology of the Flow-experience based on experimental analyses, European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Stockholm (Sweden), 12-16 July 2011.

Wallis, G., & Ringelhan, S. (2009). The perceptual dynamics of tristable stimuli, European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Regensburg (Germany), 24-28 August 2009.

Welpe, I. M., Wollersheim, J., Ringelhan, S., & Osterloh, M. (Hrsg.) (2015). Incentives and performance - Governance of research organizations. Cham et al.: Springer International Publishing.

Ringelhan, S., Wollersheim, J., & Welpe, I. M. (2015). Performance management and incentive systems in research organizations: Effects, limits and opportunities. In I. M. Welpe, J. Wollersheim, S. Ringelhan, & M. Osterloh (Hrsg.), Incentives and performance - Governance of research organizations, pp. 87-103. Cham et al.: Springer International Publishing.

Osterloh, M., Wollersheim, J., Ringelhan, S., & Welpe, I. M. (2015). Does science go wrong? In I. M. Welpe, J. Wollersheim, S. Ringelhan, & M. Osterloh (Hrsg.), Incentives and performance - Governance of research organizations, pp. v-xxiihttps://www.performancemanagement.wi.tum.de/typo3/#_msocom_1. Cham et al.: Springer International Publishing.

Articles with Editorial Review

Wollersheim, J., Welpe, I. M., & Ringelhan, S. (2014). Sein und Sollen: Bewertung von Forschungsleistungen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Forschung und Lehre, 4/2014, 276-278.

Ringelhan, S., Spörrle, M., & Welpe, I. M. (2012). Arbeit mit und aus Leidenschaft? Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung. OrganisationsEntwicklung, 21(3), 16/32/57.