
Paulina Feige
Research staff
address: Campus Golm
Raum 2.24.1.84
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Research Interests
Emotion and Motivation in the Classroom
Social Relationships with Parents, Peers, and Teachers
Professional Experience
Since 2025 – Academic Staff Member at the Chair of School Education / Empirical Classroom Research, University of Potsdam
2022 – 2025 – Research Associate at the Department of Empirical Educational Research, Freie Universität Berlin
2019 – 2021 – Student Assistant in the Departments of Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Educational Research, Freie Universität Berlin
2018 – 2022 – Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Clinical Psychology, University of Potsdam
2009 – 2015 – Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen
Publications
Feige, P., Lazarides, R., & Watermann, R. (2025). Longitudinal Reciprocal Relations Between Trait Test Anxiety and Performance Goals During Transition to Secondary School: Within- and Between-Person Effects. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 82, Article 102380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102380
Feige, P., Watermann, R. Simpkins, S., Eccles, J., & Oppermann, E. (2025). Impact of mothers’ and fathers’ math self-concept of ability, child-specific beliefs and behaviors on girls’ and boys’ math self-concept of ability. PLoS ONE 20(2), Article e0317837. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317837
Feige, P., & Watermann, R. (2024). Perceived Peer Integration, Parental Control, and Autonomy Support: Differential Effects on Test Anxiety during the Transition to Secondary School for Girls and Boys. Journal of Youth Adolescence, 53, 2610–2622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-02053-z