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Dr. Judtih Kappesser

Scientific Assistant

Phone: +49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26083
Fax:     +49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26099

Office: F 214
Consultation hours: nach Vereinbarung

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Judith-Kappesser

Research Interests

Schmerzkommunikation: Schmerzausdruck und Schmerzbeurteilung
Schmerz im sozialen Kontext
Schmerzmessung
Evolutionspsychologie

 

Curriculum Vitae

Diplom (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

MSc Health Psychology (Bath University, UK; Stipendiatin DAAD)

Promotion (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen mit mehrmonatigen Auslandsaufenthalten King’s College London; Stipendiatin Studienstiftung)

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)

Psychologische Psychotherapeutin, Spezielle Schmerzpsychotherapeutin

 

Publications

Hillmer, K., Kappesser, J. & Hermann, C. (2021). Pain modulation by your partner: an experimental investigation from a social-affective perspective. PlosOne,  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254069

Hasseli, R., Pfeiffer, S., Kappesser, J., Hermann, C., Richter-Bastian, K., Sattler, T., Tschernatsch, M., Hoffmann, U., Müller-Ladner, U. & Lange, U. (2020). Modellprojekt zur interdisziplinären universitären Lehre – Studierende der Medizin und der Psychologie lernen erstmals gemeinsam. Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie, 79, 200-202.

Kaiser, U., Williams, A. C. de C. & Kappesser, J. (2020). The biopsychosocial understanding of pain and chronicity: history and implications. The Senses: a comprehensive reference, 5, 58-67.

Gniß, S., Kappesser, J. & Hermann, C. (2020). Placebo effect in children: the role of expectation and learning. Pain, 161, 1191-1201.

Kappesser, J., Voit, S., Lautenbacher, S. & Hermann, C. (2020). Pain assessment for cognitively impaired older adults: do items of available observer tools reflect pain-specific responses? European Journal of Pain, 24, 851-862.

Kappesser, J., de Laffolie, J., Faas, D., Ehrhardt, H. & Hermann, C. (2019). Comparison of two neonatal pain assessment tools (Children and Infant’s Postoperative Pain Scale and the Neonatal Facial Coding System – Revised) and their relations to clinicians’ intuitive pain estimates. European Journal of Pain, 23, 708-718.

Kappesser, J., Kamper-Fuhrmann, E., de Laffolie, J., Faas, D., Ehrhardt, H., Franck, L. S. & Hermann, C. (2019). Pain-specific reactions or indicators of a general stress response? The Clinical Journal of Pain, 35, 101-110.

Kappesser, J. (2019). The facial expressions of pain in humans considered from a social perspective. Philosophical Transactions B, 374: 20190284. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254069

Williams, A. C. de C. & Kappesser, J. (2018). Why do we care? Evolutionary mechanisms in the social dimension of pain. In T. Vervoort, K. Karos, Z. Trost & K. Prkachin (Eds.), Social and interpersonal dynamics in pain (pp. 3-22). Springer, Cham: Springer.

Corbett, A., Achterberg, W., Husebo, B., Lobbezoo, F., de Vet, H., Kunz, M., Strand, L., Constantinou, M., Tudose, C., Kappesser, J., de Waal, M. & Lautenbacher, S. (2014). An international road map to improve pain assessment in people with impaired cognition: the development of the Pain Assessment in Impaired Cognition (PAIC) meta-tool. BMC Neurology, 14, 229-243.

Kappesser, J. & Hermann, C. (2014). Wenn Schmerzen im Gedächtnis bleiben. Heilberufe, 66, 14-17.

De Ruddere, L., Goubert, L., Vervoort, T., Kappesser, J. & Crombez, G. (2013). Impact of being primed with social deception upon observer responses to others’ pain. Pain, 154, 221-226.

Kappesser, J. & Williams, A. C. de C. (2013). Clinical judgement heuristics: methods and models. European Journal of Pain, 17, 1423-1424.

Kappesser, J. & Hermann, C. (2013). Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung von chronischen Schmerzen. Psychotherapeut, 58, 503-517.

Baum, C., Kappesser, J., Schneider, R. & Lautenbacher, S. (2013). Does vigilance to pain make individuals experts in facial recognition of pain? Pain Research & Management, 18, 191-196.

Husebo, B. S., Kunz, M., Achterberg, W. P., Lobbezoo, F., Kappesser, J., Tudose, C., Strand, L. I. & Lautenbacher, S. (2012). Pain assessment and treatment challenges in patients with dementia. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 23, 237-246. (modifizierte Version von Husebo et al., 2012, Norsk Epidemiologi)

Husebo, B. S., Achterberg, W. P., Lobbezoo, F., Kunz, M., Lautenbacher, S., Kappesser, J., Tudose, C. & Strand, L. I. (2012). Pain in patients with dementia: a review of pain assessment and treatment challenges. Norsk Epidemiologi, 22, 243-251.

Kappesser, J. & Williams, A. C. de C. (2010). Pain estimation: asking the right questions. Pain, 148, 184-187.

Kappesser, J. & Williams, A. C. de C. (2008). Pain judements of patients’ relatives: examining the use of social contract theory as theoretical framework. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 309-317.

Kappesser, J., Prkachin, K. M. & Williams, A. C. de C. (2006). Testing two accounts of pain underestimation. Pain, 124, 109-116.

Kappesser, J. & Williams, A. C. de C. (2002). Pain and negative emotions in the face: judgements by health care professionals. Pain, 99, 197-206.

 

Mitglied in Fachgesellschaften

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologische Schmerztherapie und -forschung (DGPSF)