2008 -

Research Assistent, Excellence-Cluster „Languages of Emotion”

2003 – 2008

Studies in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin

1990-2003

Numerous theatre projects, director and actor

1987 – 1990

Graduate Theatre padagogue, Schauspiel-Akademie Zürich

1985 – 1987

Elementary school teacher, 3nd and 4rd class, Luzern

1980 – 1985

Graduate elementary school teacher, Lehrerinnenseminar Baldegg, Luzern

Research interests

• Reading and emotional competencies
• Developement of measurement instruments for children: emotional competence and emotional knowledge
• Development and evaluation of an intervention program: Enhancement of emotional competencies of children
• Emotion and language

Current research projects

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Eid, Prof. Gisela Klann Delius, Prof. Isabell Heuser, Prof. Menninghaus, Prof. Witte, Prof. Steinlein, Luna Schulze, Irina Rosa Kumschick "Reading and emotional competencies"

Journal
Articles

• Beck, L., Kumschick, I. R., Eid, M., & Klann-Delius, G. (2011). Relationship between language and emotional competences in middle childhood. Emotion, 12(1). doi:10.1037/a0026320

Presentations

• Beck, L., Kumschick, I. R., Eid, M., Klann-Delius, G. (2011). The relation between language and emotional competence: Is there a general ability factor linking them?. Berlin Brain Days. Berlin.

• Beck, L., Klann-Delius, G., Eid, M., Kumschick, I. R. (2011). Language competence and emotional competence are strongly related in middle childhood. 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Montreal.

• Beck, L., Kumschick, I. R. (2011). Die komplexe Interaktion sprachlicher und emotionaler Kompetenz in der kindlichen Entwicklung. Psycholinguistischer Zirkel. Zentrum für angewandte Sprachwissenschaften, Berlin.
• Kumschick, I. R., Beck, L. (2011). Does children's literature have the potential to increase emotional competence in children?. 4. Wissenschaftliche Tagung Autismus-Spektrum. Berlin.
• Kumschick, I. R., Beck, L. (2011). Does Children's literature itself hold the potential to increase emotional competence in children?. 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Halle/Saale.
• Beck, L., Kumschick, I. R. (2010). Zum Zusammenspiel sprachlicher und emotionaler Kompetenzen bei Schulkindern. 6. Interdisziplinäre Tagung über Sprachentwicklungsstörungen. Rostock.