Welcome to the lab of Prof. Dr. Mitja Back. My associates, students and I are interested in the interplay of personality and social relationships.
Our research focuses on how personality affects the initiation and maintenance of social relationships and how, in turn, social relationships feed back into the development of social identities. Latest projects cover topics such as personality self-knowledge, the popularity of narcissists, the accuracy of interpersonal judgments, personality and speed-dating, personality and the development of friendships, as well as the indirect assessment of personality and attraction.
In teaching, we provide a comprehensive B.Sc.- and M.Sc.-program in personality psychology and psychological assessment, including lectures and courses on psychodiagnostics, test theory, differential psychology, performance, ability and personality tests, test construction, and psychological examination.
Information regarding CONNECT – Kennenlernen im Studium can be found here.
Latest news:
[2013-03-28] Meinald Thielsch has been chosen as alternate member (1st successor) for the board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung (DGOF).
[2013-03-28] With a presentation and 2 posters our workgroup contributed to the General Online Research 2013 in Mannheim.
[2013-03-28] New paper by Uwe Kanning, Fred Rist, Stefan Schmukle, and Meinald Thielsch, is now published in Skeptiker – “Mythen der Alltagspsychologie - Was wissen Laien über (vermeintliche) Forschungsergebnisse?” (1/2013, p. 10-15)