[2013-04-26] New paper by Roos Hutteman, Wiebke Bleidorn, G. Keresteš, I. Brković, A. Butković, & J. J. A. Denissen now in press in the European Journal of Personality: "Reciprocal associations between parenting challenges and parents’ personality development in young and middle adulthood." pdf
[2013-04-19] Our research on friendship is featured in the latest issue of EMOTION.
[2013-04-03] Mitja Back was invited to join the Program Committee for the 2014 SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) conference in Austin, TX.
[2013-04-01] Our research on friendship is featured in the latest issue of ZEIT Wissen (p. 74).
[2013-04-01] Stefanie Wurst started as a research assistant in our lab – welcome!
[2013-04-01] Paper by Albrecht Küfner, Steffen Nestler and Mitja Back is now published in the Journal of Personality – “The Two Pathways to Being an (Un-)Popular Narcissist." pdf
[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)
[2013-03-23] With three presentations our workgroup contributed to the 1st World Conference on Personality (Stellenbosch, South Africa).
[2013-03-15] Mitja Back was invited to join the Editorial Board of the Journal of Research in Personality.
[2013-02-22] Paper by Steffen Nestler is now published in the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology – “A Monte Carlo study comparing PIV, ULS, and DWLS in the estimation of dichotomous confirmatory factor analysis."pdf
[2013-02-22] Paper by Steffen Nestler and Boris Egloff is now published in Social Psychology – “The stigma of being overweight: When attributions to discrimination do and do not protect performance self-esteem."pdf
[2013-02-20] Our seminars on psychological examination were the best evaluated courses of the last semester.
[2013-02-12] Our research on friendship is featured on jetzt.de (Süddeutsche Zeitung).
[2013-02-08] Albrecht Küfner gave an invited talk ("Personality, interpersonal perceptions and social relationships") and a lecture on narcissism at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. The teaching programme was funded by ERASMUS Staff mobility.
[2013-02-07] Paper by Sarah Hirschmüller, Boris Egloff, Steffen Nestler, and Mitja Back, is now published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – “The dual lens model: A comprehensive framework for understanding self-other agreement of personalty judgments at zero acquaintance” pdf
[2013-02-07] Book chapter on “Online social networks in the work context” by Juliane Stopfer and Sam Gosling is now published in D. Derks & A. Bakker (Eds.), The Psychology of Digital Media at Work (pp. 39-59). Hove: Psychology Press.
[2013-02-01] Dr. Roos Hutteman has now officially received her doctoral degree and is appointed as postdoctoral researchers at our department. Congratulations!
[2012-12-29] Mitja Back was invited to remain on the Editorial Board of Social Psychological and Personality Science.
[2012-12-17] New paper by Steffen Nestler and Mitja Back now in press in Current Directions of Psychological Science: "Applications and extensions of the lens model to understand interpersonal judgments at zero acquaintance"pdf
[2012-12-17] Steffen Nestler and Mitja Back have contributed to the latest Brunswik Society Newsletter: "Applications and extensions of lens model analyses in personality psychology" (p. 32-34)pdf
[2012-12-12] Roos Hutteman has successfully passed her doctoral examination. Congratulations!
[2012-11-08] Mitja Back gave an invited talk at the Department of Psychology, Bergische Universität Wuppertal: "From partner preferences to romantic relationships: Unfolding the dating black box".
[2012-10-17] On October 17th, the habilitation process was opened for Meinald Thielsch to obtain the venia legendi for the field Psychology.
[2012-10-01] New paper by Uwe Kanning, Meinald Thielsch, Lisa Träumer, and Torsten Brandenburg now published in Report Psychologie: "Gaudeamus igitur? – Das Psychologiestudium aus der Sicht von Berufspraktikern."
[2012-10-01] Juliane Stopfer and Roos Hutteman started as research assistants in our lab - welcome!
2012-10-01: Prof. Dr. Mitja Back is appointed Associate Editor of the European Journal of Personality (official starting period 1 January 2013).
2012-09-28: Paper by Steffen Nestler, Boris Egloff, Albrecht Küfner, and Mitja Back, is now published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – “An integrative lens model approach to bias and accuracy in human inferences: Hindsight effects and knowledge updating in personality judgments” pdf
2012-09-27: Dr. Juliane Stopfer and Dr. Albrecht Küfner have now officially received their doctoral degree and are appointed as postdoctoral researchers at our department. Congratulations!
2012-09-23.-27.: With 7 talks, 2 poster presentations and 2 chaired symposia our work group made a strong contribution to the 48th Congress of the German Psychological Society in Bielefeld.
2012-09-10: Best paper award (MuC Forschungspreis) for Meinald Thielsch and Rafael Jaron (Nordlight Research) in Konstanz at the Mensch & Computer 2012 conference. WWU press release center.tv interview
2012-09-10: new paper by Sarah Hirschmüller, Boris Egloff, Steffen Nestler, and Mitja Back, now in press in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: "The Dual Lens Model: A Comprehensive Framework for Understanding Self-Other Agreement of Personality Judgments at Zero Acquaintance"pdf
2012-08-27: new WWU press release and dpa press release features our ongoing research projects about the (un)-popularity of narcissists and the mutual development of personality and social relationships in general.
2012-08-13.-15.: Juliane Stopfer and Albrecht Küfner have successfully passed their doctoral examination. Congratulations!
2012-08-01: new paper by Roos Hutteman, Wiebke Bleidorn, Lars Penke, and Jaap Denissen, now in press in Journal of Personality: "It takes two: A longitudinal dyadic study on predictors of fertility outcomes" pdf
2012-07-10.-14.: With 5 talks our workgroup made a strong contribution to the 16th European Conference on Personality in Trieste. Moreover, we chaired 3 symposia: Albrecht Küfner chaired a symposium together with Michaela Schröder-Abé, titled "The Social Life of a Narcissist: Intra- and interpersonal processes", and Mitja Back chaired a symposium together with Chris Nave titled "How personality can be a truly behavioral science" as well as an invited symposium on "Self-knowledge" together with Simine Vazire.
2012-06-08: Paper by Felix Schönbrodt, Mitja Back, and Stefan Schmukle that describes a new R package for social relations analyses (TripleR) is now published in Behavior Research Methods - "TripleR: An R package for social relations analyses based on round robin designs" pdf
2012-06-04: Our research on the accuracy of self- and other perceptions of personality is featured in the June issue of "ZEIT Wissen Magazin" (S. 60 ff)
2012-06-01: new paper by Olga Bechler and Meinald Thielsch, now in press in Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung - "Schwierigkeiten bei der Vorbereitung auf schriftliche Prüfungen" pdf
2012-05-19: Our research on friendship is featured in the June issue of "NEON"
2012-05-16: our research on friendship was recently featured in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Hochschulanzeiger" (pdf)
2012-05-16: new paper by Steffen Nestler, Boris Egloff, Albrecht Küfner, and Mitja Back, now in press in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – “An integrative lens model approach to bias and accuracy in human inferences: Hindsight effects and knowledge updating in personality judgments” pdf
2012-05-15: new paper by Morten Moshagen and Meinald Thielsch, now in press in Behaviour & Information Technology - "A short version of the visual aesthetics of websites inventory." pdf
2012-05-04: Our research on personality and online social networks was covered in a recent article on cnn.com
2012-04-25: new paper by Meinald Thielsch, Lisa Träumer, Leoni Pytlik, and Uwe Kanning, now published in the Journal of Business and Media Psychology - "Personalmarketing aus Bewerbersicht: Nutzung und Bewertung." pdf
2012-04-16: new paper by Meinald Thielsch and Gerrit Hirschfeld, now in press in Ergonomics - "Spatial frequencies in aesthetic website evaluations – explaining how ultra-rapid evaluations are formed." pdf
2012-04-13: new paper by Albrecht Küfner, Steffen Nestler, and Mitja Back now in press in the Journal of Personality – “The two pathways to being an (un-)popular narcissist” pdf
2012-04-04: new paper by Meinald Thielsch, Lisa Träumer, and Leoni Pytlik, now published in Information Technology and Management - "E-Recruiting and fairness – the applicant’s point of view." pdf
2012-03-16: new paper by Sascha Krause, Mitja Back, Boris Egloff und Stefan Schmukle now published in the European Journal of Psychological Assessment - „A new reliable and valid tool for measuring implicit self-esteem: The response-window affective priming task“ pdf
2012-03-14: Prof. Dr. Mitja Back is appointed professor for psychological assessment and personality psychology as per April 1st, 2012
2012-03-07: Best poster award for Meinald Thielsch and Rafael Jaron (Nordlight Research) at the General Online Research (GOR) 2012.
2012-01-09: new paper by Meinald Thielsch and Isabel Perabo, now in press in Technical Communication - "Use and evaluation of presentation software. " pdf
2011-09-26: Prof. Dr. Mitja Back has received the William-Stern-Preis for outstanding innovative work in the field of personality psychology of the German Psychological Association (DGPs), Branch for Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment
2011-01-26: Prof. Dr. Mitja Back, Prof. Dr. Boris Egloff and Dr. Steffen Nestler are supported by a grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the project „The longitudinal course of narcissists’ reputations: A developmental social interaction approach”