Alice Seffen
Alice Seffen M.Sc. Psychology
Venusberg-Campus 1 | Institut für Hausarztmedizin | Gebäude 05 | Universitätsklinikum Bonn
D-53127 Bonn
About Alice
Alice Seffen is a psychologist and doctoral student at the Health and Risk Communication Lab at the University Hospital Bonn. Her research focuses on promoting a healthy and sustainable diet – she is especially interested in a reduction in meat consumption. In this context, she investigates motivation and self-regulation. She uses innovative research methods, such as Ecological Momentary Assessment, to study eating behavior outside the laboratory - in people's everyday lives. She is also interested in science communication and supports the social media team of the In-Mind Magazine. Alice Seffen holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in psychology from the University of Cologne.
Research Interests
- Behavior Change
- Self-regulation and Motivation
- Eating Behavior
- Ecological Momentary Assessment
Publications
2026
Seffen, A. E., Blase, R., & Dohle, S. (2026). Easy at home, difficult at the restaurant: Perceived effectiveness and feasibility of self-control strategies for reducing meat consumption. Food Quality and Preference, 135, Article 105703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105703
Seffen, A. E., Weingarten, N., Mai, C., & Dohle, S. (2026). Debunking meat myths using the truth sandwich: A longitudinal experiment among German meat consumers. Food Quality and Preference, 135, Article 105704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105704
2025
Raz, N., Seffen, A. E., Dohle, S., & Katzir, M. (2025). Small steps, big impact: Increasing perceived effectiveness of sustainable behavior by demonstrating its cumulative impact over time. Environment and Behavior, 57(3-4), 183-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165251336617
Seffen, A. E., Hofmann, W., & Dohle, S. (2025). Self-regulation strategies for reducing meat consumption. In V. Carfora (Ed.), The sustainable food choice: An interdisciplinary approach to consumer food behavior (pp. 231-248). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-33140-4.00011-7
Weingarten, N.*, Seffen, A. E.*, Bach, L., Meis-Harris, J., Aeikens, A., Barbieri, S., & Dohle, S. (2025). Investigating the effect of animal visualisations on meat choice: An experimental lab study with a fake food buffet. Food Quality and Preference, 129, Article 105508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105465 [*shared first authorship]
2024
Meis-Harris, J., Rramani-Dervishi, Q., Seffen, A. E., & Dohle, S. (2024). Food for future: The impact of menu design on vegetarian food choice and menu satisfaction in a hypothetical hospital setting. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 97, Article 102348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102348
2023
Seffen, A. E., & Dohle, S. (2023). What motivates German consumers to reduce their meat consumption? Identifying relevant beliefs. Appetite, 187, Article 106593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106593
2021
Richter, J., Seffen, A., Benedict, T., & Gast, A. (2021). No evidence of consolidation of evaluative conditioning during waking rest and sleep. Cognition and Emotion, 35(5), 844-858. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1896992
Scientific Lectures
Seffen, A. E., König, L. M., & Dohle, S. (2025, August 26-29). Self-Control Strategies to Reduce Meat Consumption: An Ecological Momentary Intervention [Conference Talk]. European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) 2025, Groningen, Netherlands.
Seffen, A. E., Blase, R., & Dohle, S. (2024, September 3-6). Consumers' perceptions of the effectiveness and feasibility of self-control strategies for reducing meat consumption [Conference Talk]. European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) 2024, Cascais, Portugal.
Seffen, A. E., & Dohle, S. (2023, September 4-8). Revealing the beliefs behind meat reduction intentions [Conference Talk]. European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) 2023, Bremen, Germany.
Seffen, A. E., & Dohle, S. (2023, June 22-24). A Smartphone-Based Self-Control Intervention to Reduce Meat Intake [Poster presentation]. Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) 2023, Padova, Italy.
Seffen, A. E., & Dohle, S. (2023, March). Why we do (not) reduce our meat consumption: Identifying relevant beliefs [Conference Talk]. 60th Scientific Congress of the German Nutrition Society "Plant-based nutrition in focus - versatile and sustainable", Bonn, Germany.