Research & Teaching Assistant / Ph.D. Student
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Research interests      Publications & conference contributions      Teaching      Vita

Research interests

• (Im)moral behavior, esp. dishonest behavior
• Interindividual differences and personality (e.g., HEXACO, self-knowledge, personality change)
• Online research
• Behavioral measures for (im)moral behavior, economic games

Publications

Papers (peer reviewed)

• Thielmann, I., Hilbig, B. E., Klein, S. A., Seidl, A., & Heck, D. W. (2024). Cheating to benefit others? On the relation between Honesty‐Humility and prosocial lies. Journal of Personality. http://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12835

Conference Contributions

Presentations

• Seidl, A., Hilbig, B. E., & Thielmann, I. (2024, July 2-5). Who turns a blind eye? – Investigating the dispositional basis of unethical loyalty. International Conference on Social Dilemmas (ICSD), Leiden, Netherlands.

Posters

• Seidl, A., Hilbig, B. E., & Thielmann, I. (2023, September 25-27). Who turns a blind eye? – Revisiting the link between HEXACO Honesty-Humility and unethical loyalty. 17th Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society - Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment (DPPD) Section, Salzburg, Austria.

Teaching

Courses taught

• Summer 2024: Lab-tutorial & methods course, part I; level: B.Sc., language: German; topic: Self-knowledge in the moral domain
• Winter 2023/2024: Lab-tutorial & methods course, part II; level: B.Sc., language: German; topic: Self-knowledge and dishonesty
• Summer 2023: Lab-tutorial & methods course, part I; level: B.Sc., language: German; topic: Self-knowledge and dishonesty

Supervised theses

• Die Kraft der Selbstreflexion: Die Auswirkungen introspektiver Betrachtung moralischer Eigenschaften auf Selbstkenntnis und Veränderungsziele

Vita

Education / Degrees

• 2024: Summer School "Research in contemporary criminology", hosted by the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
• 2020-2023: M.Sc. Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 2017-2020: B.Sc. Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau

Research and academic experience

• Since 2023: Doctoral researcher, Independent Research Group „Personality, Identity, and Crime“, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
• Since 2023: Research & teaching assistant / Ph.D. student, Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 2022-2023: Student research assistant, Independent Research Group „Personality, Identity, and Crime“, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
• 2020-2023: Student research assistant, Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2020-2021: Student teaching assistant for lab-tutorial & methods course on personality change goals, Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau