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Dr. Isabel Thielmann

Research Group Leader
Criminology
Independent Research Group Personality, Identity, and Crime
+49 761 7081-324

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Appointments

  • 2022–present: Research group leader, Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany

Professional Experience

  • 2014–2022: Researcher and lecturer at the Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
  • 2019–2021: Acting assistant professor at the Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
  • 2018: Postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Cooperation Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2014: Ph.D. student and researcher at the Judgment and Decision Making Lab, University of Mannheim, Germany

Education

  • 2012–2015: Ph. D. Psychology at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany (supervisor: Benjamin E. Hilbig)
  • 2010–2012: M.Sc. Psychology (Social and Cognitive Psychology), University of Mannheim, Germany (supervisors: Benjamin E. Hilbig, Inga Niedtfeld)
  • 2007–2010: B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany (supervisors: Edgar Erdfelder, Dagmar Stahlberg)

Independent Research Group

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Projects

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Head of project: Isabel Thielmann (PI); contributors/researchers: Matthias Burghart, Nicole Casali, Tatiana Khalaf, Alicia Seidl
The functioning of societies and the quality of social relationships heavily de­pend on moral behaviors such as fair­ness, cooperation, and honesty, whereas immoral behaviors such as… more

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Head of project: Isabel Thielmann (PI); contributor/researcher: Natalie Popov
Why are some people willing to help others but other people are (rather) not? Why do some people prefer to coop­er­ate with others whereas others are willing to exploit their interaction partners for personal gain? The project “The… more

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Head of project: Isabel Thielmann (PI); contributor/researcher: Büşra Elif Yelbuz
Individuals select who they want to be prosocial towards. This is backed up by a longstanding literature showing that humans have the tendency to be prosocial towards certain people or groups rather than others. Yet… more

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