Daniel J. Schad

Daniel J. Schad - Curriculum Vitae
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Curriculum Vitae
Daniel J. Schad
Graduate Student in Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Work:
adress: Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
525 East University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109
telephone: 001 (734) 647-6787
email: dschad@umich.edu
Home:
adress: 1520 Hill Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, USA
telephone: 001 (734) 846-7933
Personal data:
Born in August 21, 1980
last updated: April 2006

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Research Interests:
• causes and consequences of dissociations between implicit and explicit motives
• interactions of implicit versus explicit motives with verbal versus non-verbal stimuli
• influence of implicit and explicit motives on attentional processes, emotions, and
judgements
• the role of consciousness for the influence of implicit motives on behavior
• motive measurement via questionnaire
• eyemovements during reading – influences on word skipping
• corpus analysis using repeated measures multiple logistic regression
Education:
• planed: Diploma (equivalent to M.A) in psychology
University of Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany) 2007
• visiting graduate student, granted by the fulbright commission
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) 2005-2006
• Summer Institut of the German National Academic Foundation, research group: „The
world in the head: Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception and Consciouness“ by Hans-
Jochen Heinze (Ph.D.), Jochem Rieger (Ph.D.), and Toemme Noesselt (Ph.D.)
Görlitz (Germany) Summer 2004
• Pre-diploma (equivalent to B.A.) in psychology, grade: very good
University of Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany) 2003
• general education
Leibniz College, Tübingen (Germany) 2000-2001
Experience:
• research assistant working with Hans-Jochem Heinze (Ph.D.), Jochem Rieger (Ph.D.),
and Kerstin Krauel (M.A.). I worked in an fMRI-study on motivational influences on
perception by doing data analysis in SPM99.
Department of Neurology II, Medical Faculty
Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg (Germany) 2005
• internship, Eva Kohte (M.A)
Psychiatry of the Schlossparkklinik, Berlin (Germany) 2004
• research assistant for Joachim Brunstein (Ph.D.)
I worked in the project developing and validating IATs for measuring implicit motives.
University of Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany) 2004
• research assistant for Uwe Schaarschmidt (Ph.D.)
I worked in the development of an intelligence test for children (BIVA).
University of Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany) 2002

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Honors and awards:
• Graduate scholarship, Fulbright Commission 2005-2006
• Enterprise-Scholarship from the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the German-
American Fulbright Program 2005-2006
• Fellow of the online scholarship „e-fellows.net“ 2004-
• Graduate scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes [German National
Academic Foundation] 2003-
Publications:
Manuscripts in preparation:
Schultheiss, O. C., Liening, S., & Schad, D. J. (2006). Effects of implicit motives on
attention to facial expressions of emotion: Evidence from dot-probe and Stroop tasks.
Manuscript in preparation.
Conference presentations in preparation:
Schad, D. J., & Schultheiss, O. C. (2006). Differential prediction of non-declarative
and declarative measures of motivation by implicit and explicit motive disposition. Poster
presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, New York,
New York, Mai 2006.
Schad, D. J., & Schultheiss, O. C. (2006). Differential prediction of non-declarative
and declarative measures of motivation by implicit and explicit motive disposition. Poster
presented at the Motivationspsychologische Kolloquium [Congress for Motivational
Psychology], Wuppertal-Dortmund (Germany), July 2006.
Professional Memberships
• Student Affiliate of the American Psychological Association