BIRGIT KOOPMANN-HOLM
Education
In progress   Ph.D.   Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2009   M.A. Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2006    German Diplom   Psychology (Minor in Ethnology), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany 2002-2003  Fulbright Scholar   Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Fellowships and Awards
2010-2011 Graduate Research Opportunity Award, Stanford University 2010-2011 NIH Personality Training Grant, Stanford University 2007-2008 Norman Anderson Fellowship, Stanford University 2007-2010 Regina Casper Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University 2006 Franz E. Weinert Gedächtnispreis, Award for Best Diplom Thesis in 2006, University of Heidelberg, Germany 2006 Alberta Engvall Siegel Fellowship, Stanford University 2002-2003 Fulbright Scholarship
Current Graduate Research Projects
Cultural Differences in Avoided Affect How does culture shape avoided affect? How does avoided affect in turn influence behavioral outcomes? Fostering Compassion Does meditation make people more compassionate? Cultural Practices and Affect Valuation Do cultural practices such as meditation change what people ideally want to feel?
Publications
Koopmann-Holm, B. & and Matsumoto, D. (2010). Values and display rules for specific emotions. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Advance online publication. Doi: 10.1177/0022022110362753 Matsumoto, D., Nezlek, J. B., & Koopmann, B. (2007). Evidence for universality in phenomenological emotion response system coherence. Emotion, 7, 57-67. Amelang, M., Koopmann, B., & Schmidt-Rathjens, C. (2004). Gesundheitsbezogene Konstrukte [Health-related constructs]. In K. Pawlik (Ed.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Themenbereich C: Theorie und Forschung, Serie VIII: Differentielle Psychologie und Persönlichkeitsforschung (Vol. 5, pp. 619-684). Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe.
Unpublished Papers
Koopmann, B. (2006). Neither arrogant nor rude: Values, emotional display rules, self-monitoring, and expressive behavior in the United States and Germany. Unpublished diploma thesis, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Yousfi, S., Koopmann, B., & Amelang, M. (2005). Correlates of item validity. On the eminent importance of global self-ratings. Unpublished manuscript.
Conference Presentations
Koopmann-Holm, B. & Tsai, J.L. (2011, January). Cultural differences in avoided affect: A comparison of American and German contexts. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX. Koopmann-Holm, B., Ochs, C., & Tsai, J.L. (2010, January). Compassion and mindfulness meditation: Both roads lead to a calm ideal. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. Koopmann-Holm, B., Sze, J.A., Lee, K., Seppala, E., & Tsai, J.L. (2009, May) Practice defines perfect: Meditation changes emotional ideals. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Convention of the Association for PSychology Science, San Francisco, CA. Koopmann, B.,Sze, J.A., Lee, K., & Tsai, J.L. (2009, February). Religious practice and ideal affect: The effect of mindfulness meditation. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. Koopmann, B., & Tsai, J. (2008, February). Cultural differences in avoided affect. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.   Koopmann, B. & Matsumoto, D. (2003, May). American-German differences in emotional display rules. Poster presented at the 83rd Annual Conference of the Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Talks
Koopmann, B. (May, 2000). Practice defines perfect: Meditation changes emotions ideals. Talk given during the Berkeley-Stanford Talks at the University of California, Berkeley.