Martje Buss, M.Sc.

Short Description

Martje Buss studied psychology in Lübeck and Hamburg and has been a doctoral student and lab manager at our chair since May 2024. In her dissertation, she investigates relations between individual characteristics and environmental variables in the digital space. Thereby, her research covers both everyday digital settings, such as social media apps on smartphones, and immersive simulations in virtual reality. She is also interested in interpersonal processes, behavior-based psychological assessment and interdisciplinary projects at the intersection with computer science.

As a laboratory manager, she organizes lab-related training for employees, oversees the procurement and management of lab equipment, and develops guidelines and instructions for using the lab spaces. She also monitors technical maintenance, advises staff on implementing their research projects, and optimizes workflows.

Research Interests

• Person-environment transactions and social interactions in the digital space
• Behavior-based assessment with new technologies: extended reality, AI, multi-modal sensing
• Personality and interpersonal perception

Selected Publications

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OSF

• Buss, M., Wagner, J., Bleckmann, E., & Wieczorek, L. L. (2024). Popularity at first sight: Dominant behaviours mediate the link between extraversion and popularity in face-to-face and virtual group interactions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63, 1226–1253. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12720
• Irshad, M. T., Li, F., Nisar, M. A., Huang, X., Buss, M., Kloep, L., Peifer, C., Kozusznik, B., Pollak, A., Pyszka, A., Flak, O., & Grzegorzek, M. (2023). Wearable-based human flow experience recognition enhanced by transfer learning methods using emotion data. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 166, 107489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107489