Sara Bergmann, M.Sc.

Research associate

Department of Psychology
Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology (Prof. Dr. Niessen)

Room 02.316
Nägelsbachstraße 49c
91052 Erlangen

Office hours
Tuesdays, 1 pm to 2 pm (by appointment only)

10/2023: Master of Science in Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Master’s thesis: “Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Yet Still Healthy? An Interview Study on Resources and Demands in Middle Management,” advisor: PD Dr. Sabine Hommelhoff)
09/2021: Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Since November 2023: Research Assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg; Focus areas: Conducting a research project, facilitating workshops (e.g., psychological risk assessment), designing the chair’s online presence
September 2023 to October 2023: Research internship at the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
October 2022 to September 2023: Student assistant at the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
April 2021 to October 2022: Working student and junior consultant at BlackBox/Open GmbH & Co. KG; focus areas: facilitating workshops (e.g., Design Thinking, agile methods), serving as a Scrum Master, training development, marketing concepts (including social media consulting)
January 2021 to April 2021: Intern at BlackBox/Open GmbH & Co. KG
March 2020 to June 2020: Intern in the field of neuropsychology at the Epilepsy Center of the University Hospital Erlangen
July 2019 to March 2022: Student assistant at the Chair of General Psychology II (Motivation, Emotion, and Learning), FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

11/2024: “Motivational Interviewing (MI) in a Supervision Context” at GK Quest Akademie GmbH
01/2024: “Motivational Interviewing (MI) Basic Course” at GK Quest Akademie GmbH
09/2023: Methods workshop “Multilevel Analyses in R”
June 2022 to May 2023: Certificate program “Consulting and Coaching for the Workplace—Integrative, Practice-Oriented, Evidence-Based” (university-level) offered by FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Systemic Transactional Analysis Institute & Practice (STIP)
July 2022: “Professional Scrum Master I” certificate from Scrum.org (Level PSM-I)

Schultheiss O., Hinzmann J., Bergmann S., Matthes M., Beyer B., Janson K.:
Developing a Causally Valid Picture-Story Measure of Sexual Motivation: II. Effects of Film Clips
In: Motivation Science (2023)
ISSN: 2333-8113
DOI: 10.1037/mot0000301

Bergmann S., Abraham M., Wieser L., Schneider M., Niessen C.:
Challenge or threat: Do men and women differ in their technology perception in the work context?
22nd EAWOP Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology (Prag)
Bergmann S., Abraham M., Wieser L., Schneider M., Niessen C.:
Technologie als Herausforderung oder Bedrohung: Unterscheiden sich Männer und Frauen in ihrer Wahrnehmung von Technologien im Arbeitskontext?
13. Fachgruppentagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie gemeinsam mit der Fachgruppe der Ingenieurspsychologie (AOWI) (Lüneburg)
Bergmann S., Niessen C.:
Do women and men react differently to electronic performance monitoring?
40th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) (Denver, Colorado)
Niessen C., Bergmann S.:
Digital Technologies in the Work Context: The Social Context and Gender Differences
German-Israel Minerva-Gentner Symposium 2025 (Mainz)

Research interests