Scientist

Gerrit Anders

Gerrit Anders

Portrait of Gerrit Anders

Member of Perception and Action lab

Gerrit Anders has been a scientific researcher and doctoral student in the research group Perception and Action since January 1, 2023. His research interests include the examination of event-segmentation, mind wandering, and emotional narration in videos. He is also interested in metacognition, the interaction of people with artificial intelligence systems, and the application of machine learning methodology in psychology. As part of his doctorate, Gerrit seeks to understand how the structure of videos influences video perception and what mechanisms are responsible for successful video perception.

Gerrit Anders studied physics for his bachelor's degree at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (B.Sc., 2016), where he also obtained his master's degree in physics (M.Sc., 2021). Alongside this study, he also completed a bachelor's degree in psychology at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (B.Sc.).

Gerrit Anders

Schleichstr. 6

72072 Tübingen

Room 6.629

+49 7071 979-224g.anders@iwm-tuebingen.de

Lab membership

Projects

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Publications

 

Articles (peer-reviewed) | Research data | Software | Other publications

Articles (peer-reviewed)

  • Anders, G., Buder, J., Merkt, M., Egger, E., & Huff, M. (2024). Associations between mind wandering, viewer interactions, and the meaningful structure of educational videos. Computers & Education, 212, Article 104996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2024.104996

    Open Access

  • Fischer, H., Huff, M., Anders, G., & Said, N. (2023). Metacognition, public health compliance, and vaccination willingness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(43), Article e2105425120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105425120

    Open Access

  • Said, N.*, Fischer, H.*, & Anders, G. (2021). Contested science: Individuals with higher metacognitive insight into interpretation of evidence are less likely to polarize. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(2), 668-680. *shared first authorship. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01993-y

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Research data

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Software

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  • Anders, G. (2023). mGPT - Asychronous mass request handler for large language models. Tübingen: Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien.
  • Anders, G. (2023). whisperTranscriber - Whisper-based Transcription with Word-level Timestamping for Video and Audio data. Tübingen: Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien.
  • Anders, G. (2023). SponScraper - A large scale data scraper for comments and articles from Spiegel Online. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen.

Other publications

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Presentations und Conferences

Talks

  • Anders, G. (2025, April 2-4). Can information theory help us understand the spread of misinformation? Combating Misinformation in the Digital Age: Cognitive Biases, Societal Challenges and Ethical Considerations. Leibniz-Inistitut für Wissensmedien & Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen. [Talk]
  • Candan Şimşek, A., Anders, G., Göth, J., Specht, L., & Huff, M. (2025, August 25-29). The role of AI-generated summaries and questions in learning from educational videos. Learning With, Not Just Learning From, Videos – Interactivity as Key Element in Video-based Learning. EARLI 2025 Conference. University of Graz, Austria. [Talk]
  • Anders, G., & Buder, J. (2024, June 14-15). Large scale analysis of comment polarization in online news media: A case study of Spiegel Online. ADok 2024. Psychologisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg. [Talk]
  • Anders, G., Buder, J., Merkt, M., Egger, E., & Huff, M. (2023, July 6-8). Mind wandering, user interactions and event segmentation in educational videos. Current Issues in Mind-Wandering Research. Universität Heidelberg. [Talk]
  • Huff, M., Anders, G., Hoppe, A., Ewerth, R., & Merkt, M. (2023, Mai 4-5). Pushing the Button: Wahrnehmungspsychologische Grundlagen von Lehr-Lernvideos. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung LERN 2023. Mannheim. [Talk]

Poster presentations

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  • Potinteu, A.-E., Said, N., Anders, G., & Huff, M. (2024, August 26-30). Judging sharing with robots: A third-person perspective on prosociality. The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2024). Pasadena, CA, USA. [Poster presentation]
  • Hamaloğlu, S., Huff, M., Fleming, S., Anders, G., Papenmeier, F., & Said, N. (2024, March 17-20). Metacognition and the event completion paradigm: The role of metacognitive sensitivity during event perception. 66. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (TeaP) - Conference of Experimental Psychologists. Universität Regensburg. [Poster presentation]
  • Anders, G., Buder, J., Rausch, L., & Huff, M. (2024, November 21-24). Mind wandering as perceptual decoupling and the effect on learning in educational videos. 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New York City, NY, USA. [Poster presentation]
  • Anders, G., Buder, J., Merkt, M., Egger, E., & Huff, M. (2023, November 16-19). Deciphering learner engagement: Relationships between user behavior, mind wandering, and event segmentation in videos. 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. San Francisco, CA, USA. [Poster presentation]

Event organisation

  • Anders, G., Huff, M., & Gerjets, P. (2024, July 5). Video-SRS annual meeting. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen. [Workshop Organisation]
  • Anders, G., Huff, M., & Gerjets, P. (2023, Juli 25). Video-SRS live-kickoff-Workshop. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen. [Workshop Organisation]