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Prof. Dr. Franziska Josefine Kößler

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C.6.221
Fon +49.4131.677-2130, franziska.koessler@leuphana.de

Vita

  • Since 2024 Junior professor for “Psychology, in particular the transformation of the world of work” at Leuphana University Lüneburg
  • 2023-2024 Affiliated researcher at the chair of Occupational Health Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (head: Prof. Dr. Annekatrin Hoppe)
  • 2023-2024 Junior researcher at the chair of Occupational Health Psychology at University of Fribourg, Switzerland (head: Prof. Dr. Petra Klumb)
  • 2017-2023 PhD candidate at the chair of Occupational Health Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (advisors: Prof. Dr. Annekatrin Hoppe and Dr. Susanne Veit)
  • 2020-2022 Research associate at the chair of Occupational Health Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (head: Prof. Dr. Annekatrin Hoppe)
  • 2018/2019 Guest researcher at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH, hosted by Kaori Fujishiro, Ph.D.
  • 2017-2020 Research associate at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
  • 2017-2019 Scholarship at the graduate program “Good Work: Approaches to Shaping Tomorrow's World of Work” at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (head: Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger)
  • 2014-2016 Master studies in Psychology at University of Heidelberg
  • 2012-2014 Bachelor studies in Psychology at University of Innsbruck, Austria

Projects

  1. Motiviert und resilient in der Arbeitswelt durch Berufsbildung (Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe)
    Harald Hantke (Project manager, academic) , Lea Boecker (Project manager, academic) , Franziska Kößler (Project manager, academic) , Dirk Lehr (Project manager, academic) , Falk Helfberend (Project staff) , Julia Hufnagl (Project manager, academic) , Aliza Janzen-Lympius (Project staff)

    Project: Research

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Too Scared to Fight Back? Affective Job Insecurity as a Boundary Condition Between Workplace Incivility and Negative Mood States in Temporary Agency Workers
    Caroline Gahrmann (Author) , Franziska Kößler (Author) , Maryna Mytrofanova (Author) , Petra L. Klumb (Author) , 01.01.2025 , in: Occupational Health Science, 9, 1 , p. 205-225 , 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. The role of supervisor support for dealing with customer verbal aggression. Differences between ethnic minority and ethnic majority workers
    Franziska Kößler (Author) , Jana B. Wilbert (Author) , Susanne Veit (Author) , Annekatrin Hoppe (Author) , 01.11.2023 , in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 37, 4 , p. 247-272 , 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. In a no-win situation: The employment–health dilemma
    Franziska Kößler (Author) , Jenny S. Wesche (Author) , Annekatrin Hoppe (Author) , 01.01.2023 , in: Applied Psychology, 72, 1 , p. 64-84 , 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Ethnic Differences in Context: Does Emotional Conflict Mediate the Effects of Both Team- and Individual-Level Ethnic Diversity on Emotional Strain?
    Franziska Kößler (Author) , Kaori Fujishiro (Author) , Susanne Veit (Author) , Annekatrin Hoppe (Author) , 01.03.2022 , in: Occupational Health Science, 6, 1 , p. 27-49 , 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Comparing self-reported and O*NET-based assessments of job control as predictors of self-rated health for non-Hispanic whites and racial/ethnic minorities
    Kaori Fujishiro (Author) , Franziska Kößler (Author) , 06.08.2020 , in: PLoS ONE, 15, 8 , 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Courses

Manuel Bohn, Oliver Genschow, Ulf Hahnel, Astrid Kause, Franziska Kößler, Sebastian Wallot
The Research Forum supports students in developing a master's thesis project at the intersection of psychology and sustainability. Students will learn about possible thesis topics in psychology and sustainability at Leuphana, connect with potential supervisors, develop their research ideas, gain input on psychological research methods and project management, and receive feedback from researchers and peers throughout the thesis development process.
Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-10-30 at 09:30
CONTENT
The module introduces students to applied psychology in the areas of work-/organizational-/economic-, health-/clinical-, and educational psychology. It addresses key societal challenges (e.g., digitalization, demographic change, integration, sustainability) via case studies, discussion of research, interventions, and/or exercises.

Topic
This seminar covers a range of topics related to the intersection of psychology and health in different areas of life, including the workplace. The seminar entails analysis and discussion of recent studies in the field of health psychology and their implications for applied psychology. Discussions of cases and practical applications as well as with guest speakers and practitioners in the field complete the course.
This is a hands-on seminar and students will make choices on the specific topics covered by choosing empirical papers and preparing a presentation. Possible topics include:
• Health behaviors (e.g., exercise, nutrition, smoking) and their psychological determinants
• Factors influencing adherence to medical recommendations
• Coping with chronic illness and disability
• Age- or sex- or gender-related health issues and interventions
• Cultural or socioeconomic factors influencing health outcomes
• The placebo effect and its implications (e.g., for homeopathy)
• Mobile apps, wearables, and digital tools for health monitoring and behavior change
• Environmental psychology and its impact on health
• Presenteeism
• Workplace safety
Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-10-16 at 08:15
CONTENT
The module introduces students to applied psychology in the areas of work-/organizational-/economic-, health-/clinical-, and educational psychology. It addresses key societal challenges (e.g., digitalization, demographic change, integration, sustainability) via case studies, discussion of research, interventions, and/or exercises.

Topic
This seminar covers a range of topics related to the intersection of psychology and health in different areas of life, including the workplace. The seminar entails analysis and discussion of recent studies in the field of health psychology and their implications for applied psychology. Discussions of cases and practical applications as well as with guest speakers and practitioners in the field complete the course.
This is a hands-on seminar and students will make choices on the specific topics covered by choosing empirical papers and preparing a presentation. Possible topics include:
• Health behaviors (e.g., exercise, nutrition, smoking) and their psychological determinants
• Factors influencing adherence to medical recommendations
• Coping with chronic illness and disability
• Age- or sex- or gender-related health issues and interventions
• Cultural or socioeconomic factors influencing health outcomes
• The placebo effect and its implications (e.g., for homeopathy)
• Mobile apps, wearables, and digital tools for health monitoring and behavior change
• Environmental psychology and its impact on health
• Presenteeism
• Workplace safety
Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-10-16 at 10:15
CONTENT
The module introduces students to applied psychology in the areas of work-/organizational-/economic-, health-/clinical-, and educational psychology. It addresses key societal challenges (e.g., digitalization, demographic change, integration, sustainability) via case studies, discussion of research, interventions, and/or exercises.

Topic
This seminar covers a range of topics related to the intersection of psychology and health in different areas of life, including the workplace. The seminar entails analysis and discussion of recent studies in the field of health psychology and their implications for applied psychology. Discussions of cases and practical applications as well as with guest speakers and practitioners in the field complete the course.
This is a hands-on seminar and students will make choices on the specific topics covered by choosing empirical papers and preparing a presentation. Possible topics include:
• Health behaviors (e.g., exercise, nutrition, smoking) and their psychological determinants
• Factors influencing adherence to medical recommendations
• Coping with chronic illness and disability
• Age- or sex- or gender-related health issues and interventions
• Cultural or socioeconomic factors influencing health outcomes
• The placebo effect and its implications (e.g., for homeopathy)
• Mobile apps, wearables, and digital tools for health monitoring and behavior change
• Environmental psychology and its impact on health
• Presenteeism
• Workplace safety
Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-10-16 at 12:15
Work confronts workers with various demands. Some of these demands even force them to cross personal boundaries (e.g., when workers face health threats on a daily basis or have to violate personal principles).
In small groups, students will examine how workers cope with such extreme demands and which resources they need to cope with them. For that purpose, students will conduct a daily diary study. This course consists of the following ten parts:
(1) discussing relevant literature of occupational health psychology
(2) identifying a research question
(3) deriving hypotheses
(4) getting to know research designs in occupational health psychology
(5) applying a diary study design
(6) implementing and conducting an empirical research project using a daily diary study
(7) collecting field data
(8) analyzing the data
(9) evaluating the results
(10) presenting the findings
Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-10-16 at 14:15