Visiting Researcher
Email: lk447@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Background
Laura studied Psychology and Computer Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany, where she also completed her PhD in Health Psychology in 2018. From 2018 to 2020, she was a Research Associate at the Chair for Psychological Assessment and Health Psychology (Prof Renner) and studied smartphone-based and choice architecture interventions for health promotion. She joined the Behavioural Science Group (Prof Sutton) in March 2020. Supported by a fellowship from the German Research Foundation she will carry out systematic literature reviews, online and field studies on digital dietary assessments and measurement reactivity.
Laura is co-chair of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Special Interest Group “Digital Health & Computer-tailoring”, the German National Delegate within the EHPS, Representative of Early Career Researchers of the Subdivision Health Psychology of the German Psychological Association, and Secretary of the Early Career Scientists Group in the German Nutrition Society.
Research Interests
• Mobile interventions for health behaviour change (mHealth)
• Assessment of eating behaviour in laboratory and field settings, including Ecological Momentary Assessment
• Influences of the physical and social environment on health behaviours
Selected Publications
König, L. M. & Renner, B. (2019). Boosting healthy food choices by meal colour variety: Results from two experiments and a just-in-time Ecological Momentary Intervention. BMC Public Health, 19, 975. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7306-z
Kosīte, D., König, L. M., de-Loyde, K., Lee, I., Pechey, E., Clarke, N., Maynard, O., Morris, R. W., Munafó, M. R., Marteau, T. M., & Hollands, G. J. (2019). Plate size and food consumption: a pre-registered experimental study in a general population sample. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 16, 75. doi: doi.org/10.1186/s12966-019-0826-1
Kosīte, D., König, L. M., de-Loyde, K., Lee, I., Pechey, E., Clarke, N., Maynard, O., Morris, R. W., Munafó, M. R., Marteau, T. M., & Hollands, G. J. (2019). Plate size and food consumption: a pre-registered experimental study in a general population sample. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 16, 75. doi: doi.org/10.1186/s12966-019-0826-1
König, L. M., & Renner, B. (2018). Colourful = healthy? Exploring meal colour variety and its relation to food consumption. Food Quality and Preference 64, 66-71. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.10.011
König, L. M., Sproesser, G., Schupp, H. T., & Renner, B. (2018). Describing the process of adopting nutrition and fitness apps: Behavior stage model approach . JMIR mHealth & uHealth , 6(3), e55. doi: 10.2196/mhealth.8261
Additional Information
For a full list of publications, please visit Laura’s profile on Google Scholar.