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Personality psychologist studying prosocial and (un)ethical behavior · Group leader at MPI-CSL (Freiburg) · ERC-StG KNOW-THYSELF · https://csl.mpg.de/research-groups/personality-identity-and-crime

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Thanks, Jessie!

30.01.2026 14:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Current Opinion in Psychology | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier Read the latest articles of Current Opinion in Psychology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

🎉Honored to step in as Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Psychology. Thanks to Paul van Lange and Michael Zvolensky for building the journal’s success over a decade!

Looking forward to serving the journal and its community to the best of my abilities.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/curr...

30.01.2026 13:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Tolle Erfahrung als Psychologin im SWR Nachtcafé zum Thema „Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit“ dabei gewesen zu sein.
Vielen Dank an das SWR-Team für die Einladung!
📺 Sendung jetzt in der ARD Mediathek & auf YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpV1...)
📷 © SWR

25.01.2026 07:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The dispositional basis of deviance: A multivariate approach to crime and other deviant acts - Isabel Thielmann, Yngwie Asbjørn Nielsen, Jean-Louis van Gelder, 2026 Why some people engage in criminal and other forms of deviant behavior, whereas others do not, has long been a question of interest in the social and behavioral...

Why do some people engage in deviant or criminal behavior while others do not?

Analyzing 74 personality traits in a large, diverse sample, we show that traits linked to low morality and short-term thinking are especially important for understanding deviance.

doi.org/10.1177/0890... (Open Access)

09.01.2026 09:21 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Feeling grateful to work with such a wonderful group of people — a true privilege 😊. Thank you all for another year full of joy, passion for science, and wonderful teamwork. Can’t wait for 2026!

30.12.2025 19:26 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📄 So happy to finally see this paper in print!

TL;DR: Altruism and Parochialism can be (and should always be) measured independent of each other.

Personal take-away: never forget that results from Western samples don't automatically generalize! (Here,A&P are correlated in DEU&USA, but not in ETH.)

28.11.2025 12:26 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0