Birgit Koopmann-Holm

Associate Professor

Educational Background

Ph.D., Stanford University

German "Diplom", University of Heidelberg, Germany

Research

The goal of my research is to understand the ways in which cultural factors (e.g., values, views of emotions, and engagement in cultural practices like meditation) shape people’s emotional lives. I am particularly interested in how views of emotions and attitudes towards crying impact (1) perceptions of and responses to others’ suffering (including racism), (2) conceptualizations of compassion, and (3) health and well-being. I use multiple methodologies and work on improving the analysis of data from frequently employed tasks (e.g., reverse correlation).

Courses

PSYC 162: Cultural Psychology
PSYC 160: Personality & Affective Science
PSYC 141: Advanced Topics in Culture and Emotion
PSYC 53: Statistics and Methods Practicum
PSYC 53L: Statistics and Methods Lab
PSYC 1: General Psychology 1
PSYC 43: Research Methods in Psychology
PSYC 117: Health Psychology
PSYC 166: Human Neuropsychology

Publications

^Co Denotes Co-First Authorship
* Denotes Student Co-Author
⁺ Denotes Equal Contribution

Tsai, J. L., Chen, D., Yang, A., Cachia, J. Y., Ko, M. A., Acevedo, A. M., Aragon, O., Arens, E. A., Chen, S. H., Bencharit, L., Blevins, E. M., Cheung, B. Y., Chim, L., Chow, P. I., Clobert, M., Curlee, M. S., De Almeida, I., Ditzfeld, C. P., Floerke, V. A., … Koopmann-Holm, B., … & Zhou, X. (in press). A meta-anaytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation. Psychological Bulletin.

Hernandez, N.*+, Llerena, L.*+, Morales, E.*+, Tillman, J.*+, Mendez, D. R., & Koopmann-Holm, B. (2025). . Behavioral Sciences, 15(6), 732.

Seow, J. H.*, Du, H., & Koopmann-Holm, B. (2025). . Cognition and Emotion, 39(3), 704-713.

Koopmann-Holm, B., Beccari, A.*, & Oosthuizen, M.* (2024). . Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e70000.

Larco, S. S.*, Romo, M. G., Garcés, M. S., & Koopmann-Holm, B. (2024). . Emotion, 24(6), 1456-1467.

Murray, K.*, & Koopmann-Holm, B. (2024). . Emotion, 24(6), 1522-1535.

Richter, M.*, Koopmann-Holm, B., & Chen, L. (2022). . In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).

Koopmann-Holm, B., Bruchmann, K., Fuchs, M.*, & Pearson, M.* (2021). . Emotion, 21(8), 1610-1624.

Kevane, M.^Co, & Koopmann-Holm, B.^Co (2021). . Behavior Research Methods, 53(4), 1609-1647.

Koopmann-Holm, B., Bartel, K.*⁺, Bin Meshar, M.*⁺, & Yang, H. E.*⁺ (2020). . Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(9), 1363-1377.

Koopmann-Holm, B., Sze, J., Jinpa, T., & Tsai, J. L. (2020). . Cognition and Emotion, 34(5), 1028-1035.

Bruchmann, K., Koopmann-Holm, B., & Scherer, A. (2018). . PLOS ONE, 13(8), e0202101.

Sims, T., Koopmann-Holm, B., Young, H. R., Jiang, D., Fung, H. & Tsai, J. L. (2018). . Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24(1), 1-14.

Koopmann-Holm, B. & Tsai, J. L. (2017). . In E. M. Seppälä, E. Simon-Thomas, S. L. Brown, M. C. Worline, C. D. Cameron, & J. R. Doty (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of compassion science (pp. 273-285). Oxford University Press.

Koopmann-Holm, B. & O’Connor, A. J. (2017). . Routledge.

Ford, B. Q., Dmitrieva, J. O., Heller, D., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Grossmann, I., Tamir, M., Uchida, Y., Koopmann-Holm, B., Floerke, V. A., Uhrig, M., Bokhan, T. & Mauss, I. B. (2015). . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(6), 1053-1062.

Koopmann-Holm, B. & Tsai, J. L. (2014). . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(6), 1092-1115.

Sims, T., Tsai, J. L., Koopmann-Holm, B., Thomas, E. A. C., & Goldstein, M. K. (2014). . Emotion, 14(1), 187-192.

Koopmann-Holm, B., Sze, J., Ochs, C., & Tsai, J. L. (2013). . Emotion, 13(3), 497-505.

Tsai, J. L., Koopmann-Holm, B., Miyazaki, M., & Ochs, C. (2013). The religious shaping of feeling: Implications of affect valuation theory. In R. F. Paloutzian & C. L. Park (Eds.), Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.

Koopmann-Holm, B. & Matsumoto, D. (2011). . Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(3), 355-371.

Matsumoto, D., Nezlek, J. B., & Koopmann, B. (2007). . Emotion, 7(1), 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 [Encyclopedia of psychology, subject area C: Theory and research, series VIII: Differential psychology and research in personality] (Vol. 5, pp. 619-684). Hogrefe.

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