Projects

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 exploitation, dishonesty, and fraud come at tremen­dous societal… more

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 core tendencies underlying in­di­vid­ual differences in prosocial… more

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, sur­pris­ingly, up until this point, no research has systematically investigated… more

Heads of project: Matthias Burghart, Hannes Rusch, Isabel Thielmann
Can psychomet­ric testing to assess individual differences usefully comple­ment the existing selection procedures used by state police forces in Germany? – State police forces in Germany receive thousands of applications each year and must select the most suitable candidates for police service. This project… more