Name: Tobias Matthias Schneider
Year of Birth: 1987
Place of Birth: Kirn, Federal Republic of Germany
Profession: Research Assistent (PhD-Student)
Phone (office): + 49 951/863-2611
Email: Tobias@human-perception.com
Nationality: German
Education: Dipl.-Psych. (Diplom-Psychologe/MSc, Psychology), 2014
03/2014 |
Dipl.-Psych. (Diplom-Psychologe/MSc in Psychology), Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany (1.0 – “very good”/A+); title of thesis: “In the eye of the beholder: Facial cues to body weight and height“ (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Heiko Hecht & Prof. Dr. Claus-Christian Carbon) |
10/2010 |
Undergraduate student of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany |
03/2008-10/2010 |
Undergraduate student of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria |
03/2007 |
Abitur (GCSE) with focus on physics, politics and german language, Alfred-Delp-Schule, Hargesheim, Germany |
04/2015 |
Programming and statistical analysis using R (Dr. Alexander Pastukhov, Bamberg) |
04/2013 |
Workshop “data analysis with Microsoft Excel, IBM SPSS Statistics and Statistica” (Dr. Persike, Mainz) |
10/2012 |
Workshop “multivariate analyses (correspondence analysis, canonical correlation & discriminant function analysis)” (Prof. Dr. Uwe Mortensen, Münster) |
since 04/2014 |
PhD-student, Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg, Germany |
02/2012-03/2014 |
Student researcher (studentische Hilfskraft) in projects founded by the DFG to Prof. Dr. Heiko Hecht, Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University |
08/2012-01/2013 |
Trainee in the field of ergonomics and user interaction at the Daimler AG, Stuttgart, Germany (Dr. Hans Josef Küting) |
01/2012-02/2012 |
Trainee in the field of somnology at the ‘Zentrum für Schlafmedizin und Heimbeatmung’, Hofheim, Taunus, Germany (Dr. M. Specht) |
08/2011-09/2011 |
Trainee in the field of experimental psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg, Department of General Psychology and Methodology (Prof. Dr. Claus-Christian Carbon) |
10/2010-08/2012 |
Student researcher (studentische Hilfskraft) in projects founded by the DFG to Prof. Dr. Heiko Hecht, Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University |
08/2010-09/2010 |
Trainee in the field of experimental psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg, Department of General Psychology and Methodology (Prof. Dr. Claus-Christian Carbon) |
2007-2008 |
Voluntary Year of Social Service at the psychosomatic hospital ‘St. Franziskastift’, Bad Kreuznach, Germany |
Operating systems
Programming languages
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Statistical/mathematical packages
Experimental control software
Apperatures and special devices
1) Schneider, T. M., Hecht, H., Stevanov, J., & Carbon, C. C. (2013). Cross-ethnic assessment of body weight and height on the basis of faces.Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 356-360. {IF=1.877}
2) Schneider, T. M., Hecht, H., & Carbon, C. C. (2012). Judging body-weight from faces: The height-weight illusion. Perception, 41, 121-124. {IF=1.293}
3) Schneider, T.M. & Carbon, C. C. (2017). Taking the perfect selfie: Investigating the impact of perspective on the perception of higher cognitive variables. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 971. {IF=2.463}
4) Schneider, T.M. & Carbon, C. C. (2021). TThe Episodic Prototypes Model (EPM): On the nature and genesis of facial representations I-Perception, 12(5), 1-46. {IF=1.535}