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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Dr. Rainer Höger, for his support over the past four years. His
ideas, comments, and suggestions greatly developed my research. He provided the prerequisites and
always expressed his confidence in me so that I could create this work with all the necessary scientific
freedom. I also thank Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Pfister for supporting me over the past years, for serving as
examiner and for reviewing this dissertation. Furthermore, my thanks go to Prof. Dr. Mark Vollrath,
whose enthusiasm towards traffic psychology is unparalleled in Germany. With the establishment of
the traffic psychology doctoral workshops, he created the most fruitful environment for intellectual
exchange between young scientists. The discussions with the rising experts in this discipline greatly
shaped my research and my understanding of the field. Thank you, Mark, for agreeing to serve as an
examiner of my dissertation.
I also wish to thank Berit Frehse, whose collaborative efforts ranged from valuable ideas for the first
online study to her support for the articles and everything in-between. Those contributions were
immensely important in creating the manuscripts. I am further grateful to Felix Siebert and Michael
Oehl for the discussions, constructive criticism and important insights that were crucial to the last
article. I want to thank my companions at the Lünelab, namely (in no specific order) Ricarda Gades,
Marco Wiethof, Swantje Robelski, Nils Torge-Telle, Janina Suhr and all the others whom I had the
honour to meet over the last four years.
All thanks to my lector Sigrid Pearson for the patience with my English and the never-ending efforts
to improve my style, structure and writing. Thank you, Sigrid, for all the support.
Last but not least, I want to thank my family and friends to whom I never had to explain when I would
complete the dissertation. Now I can announce to you: I finished it!
!