Oliver Schultheiss

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Oliver C. Schultheiss received his diploma (1994) and PhD (1996) from Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany. From 1997 to 1999 post-doc at Harvard University, Boston, USA and University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. Assistant professor (2000-2005) and associate professor of psychology (2005-2007) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Since 2007 professor of psychology at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany. Current areas of research: endocrine correlates of implicit motives; effects of implicit motives on brain activation, cognitive, and behavioral responses to perceived facial expressions of emotion; factors influencing and outcomes influenced by the interplay of implicit motives and explicit goals and values. For more information, please visit the Human Motivation and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory website at http://www.psych2.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~oschult/humanlab/index.htm