Psychology II - Team

Leitung

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Prof. Dr. Aileen Oeberst

E-Mail: aileen.oeberst

Telefon: +49 2331 987-4613

Gebäude/Raum: F 188 / 313
Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung

• Details

  Short Academic career:

  • Since March 2019, Professor for Psychology, FernUniversität Hagen
  • 2016 – 2019 Junior-Professor for Forensic Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • 2011 – 2016 PostDoc at the Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien Tübingen
  • 2008 – 2011 Researcher, Social Psychology, University of Osnabrück
  • 2005 – 2008 PhD Student, Graduate School “Integrative Competencies and Well-Being”, University of Osnabrück [06/2006-05/2007 parental leave]

  Research interests

  • biases in information processing
  • media representations (of events, crime, criminals)
  • collective memories
  • false memories, their reversal and detection
  • credibility assessment

  ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aileen_Oeberst
  AcademiaNet: http://www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-dr-aileen-oeberst/1513993
  Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UStrX6cAAAAJ
  OSF: https://osf.io/zcg78/

• Selected Publications

  Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., Cress, U., & Nestler, S. (im Druck). Wikipedia outperforms individuals when it comes to hindsight bias. Psychological Research.

  von der Beck, I., Cress, U., & Oeberst, A. (im Druck). Is there hindsight bias without real hindsight? Conjectures are sufficient to elicit hindsight bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

  Oeberst, A., & Matschke, C. (im Druck). Black sheep are not black in Wikipedia. Comparing descriptions of perpetrators in the language version of the perpetrator in-group to other (out-group) language versions. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null-Hypothesis.

  Oeberst, A., de Vreeze, J., & Cress, U. (2018). The norm of neutrality in collaborative knowledge construction: A comparison between Wikipedia and the extreme right-wing Metapedia. In O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, G. Wittum & A. Dengel (Eds). Positive Learning in the Age of Information (PLATO) – A blessing or a curse? (S. 209-219). Wiesbaden: Springer.

  Oeberst A., von der Beck, I., Cress, U., Back, M. D., & Nestler, S. (2018). Biases in the production and reception of collective knowledge: The case of hindsight bias in Wikipedia. Psychological Research, 82, 1010-1026.

  Oeberst, A. & Matschke, C. (2017). Word order and world order. Titles of intergroup conflicts may increase ethnocentrism by mentioning the in-group first. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 672-690.

  Lamberty, P., Hellmann, J. H., & Oeberst, A. (2017). The winner knew it all? Conspiracy beliefs and hindsight perspective after the 2016 US general election. Personality and Individual Differences, 123, 236-240.

  von der Beck, I., Oeberst, A., Nestler, S., & Cress, U. (2017). Cultural interpretations of the past. Hindsight bias after reading Wikipedia articles in a cross-cultural sample. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31, 315-325.

  Oeberst, A. & Goeckenjan, I. (2016). When being wise after the event results in injustice: Evidence for hindsight bias in judges’ negligence assessments. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 22, 271-279.

  Oeberst, A., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2016). What is knowledge? How is it constructed and who possesses it? The need for a new answer to old questions. In: U. Cress, H. Jeong, & J. Moskaliuk (Eds). Mass collaboration and education. Springer.

  Oeberst, A. & Lindner, I. (2015). Unannounced memory tests are not necessarily unexpected by participants. Test expectation and its consequences in the repeated test paradigm. Cognitive Processing, 16, 269-278.

  Oeberst, A., & Wu, S. (2015). Interrogative compliance and self-construal: Intra- and cross-cultural evidence. Personality and Individual Differences, 85, 50-55.

  Oeberst, A. (2015). How good are future lawyers in judging the accuracy of reminiscent details? The estimation-observation gap in eyewitness accounts. European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 7, 73-79.

  Kimmerle, J., Moskaliuk, J., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2015). Learning and knowledge construction with social media. Educational Psychologist, 50, 120-137.

  Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., & Nestler, S. (2014). Reading about explanations enhances perceptions of inevitability and foreseeability. A cross-cultural study with Wikipedia articles. Cognitive Processing, 15, 343-349.

  Oeberst, A., Halatchliyski, I., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2014). Knowledge Construction in Wikipedia: A Systemic-Constructivist Analysis. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 23, 149-176.

  Oeberst, A. (2012). If anything else comes to mind… better keep it to yourself? Delayed recall is discrediting – unjustifiably. Law and Human Behavior, 36, 366-374.

  Oeberst, A. & Blank, H. (2012). Undoing suggestive influence: The reversibility of the misinformation effect. Cognition, 125, 141-159.

Sekretariat

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter

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Dr. Fabian Ache

E-Mail: fabian.ache

Telefon: Tel.: +49 2331 987-4616

Gebäude/Raum: F 188/ 307
Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung

• Details

  Academic career:

  • 2019- Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, University of Hagen
  • 2017-2019 PostDoc, University of Tübingen
  • 2014-2017 Research Associate and PhD Candidate, University of Tübingen
  • 2012-2014 Master of Science, Psychology, University of Heidelberg
  • 2012-2014 Research Assistant, University Hospital Heidelberg
  • 2010-2014 Research Assistant, University of Heidelberg
  • 2009-2012 Bachelor of Science, Psychology, University of Heidelberg

  Research interests

  • Advice taking and advice seeking
  • Wisdom of crowds
  • Social influence

  Teaching:

  • WS18/19: Die Weisheit der Vielen im Urteilen und Entscheiden, Projektarbeit [The wisdom of crowds in judgment and decision making, Project theses] (B.Sc.)
  • SS18: Die Weisheit der Vielen im Urteilen und Entscheiden, Forschungsseminar [The wisdom of crowds in judgment and decision making, Research seminar] (B.Sc.)
  • WS17/18: Sozialpsychologie (Ersatzveranstaltung zur Vorlesung) [Social psychology (Replacement for the lecture)] (B.Sc.)
  • SS17: Datenerhebung und Auswertung [Data collection and analysis] (B.Sc.)
  • SS16: Urteilen und Entscheiden [Judgment and decision making] (B.Sc.)

• Publications and conference contributions

  Publications

  Ihmels, M. & Ache, F. (2018). Event-based conformity vs. regression to the mean: A comment on Kim and Hommel (2015). Psychological Science, 29(7), 1190-1192.

  Hütter, M. & Ache, F. (2016). Seeking advice: A sampling approach to advice taking. Judgment and Decision Making, 11(4), 401-415.

  Conference contributions (selected):

  Ache, F., Rader, C. & Hütter, M. (2018, November). Do advisors get what they want? Comparing advisor expectations and advisee behavior in advice weighting. 39^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM), New Orleans, USA. (Poster)

  Ache, F. & Hütter, M. (2018, August). Integrating advice weighting, confidence change, and advice seeking: A reliability account of advice taking. 20^th European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference (ESCON2), Köln, Germany.

  Ache, F., & Hütter, M. (2018, März). Confidence, distance, and consistency: Towards a reliability account of advice taking. 60^th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, TeaP), Marburg, Germany.

  Ache, F. & Hütter, M. (2017, November). The wisdom of crowds in individual judgment updating: Low weights emulate averaging in sequential information uptake. 38^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM), Vancouver, Canada. (Poster)

  Ache, F., & Hütter, M. (2017, März). Exploiting the wisdom of crowds sequentially: A case for conservative judgment updating. 59^th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, TeaP), Dresden, Germany.

  Ache, F. & Hütter, M. (2016, November). Seeking advice - a sampling approach to advice taking. 37^th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, USA. (Poster)

  Ache, F. & Hütter, M. (2016, August). The sensitive miser: Costs increase the sensitivity to benefits of advice. 18^th European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference (ESCON2), Lisbon, Portugal.

  Ache, F. & Hütter, M. (2016, Mai). The ignorance that is none: Advice seeking reduces egocentric discounting in advice taking. Interdisciplinary research symposium "Exploring Ignorance - The acquisition, selection and processing of information", Graduate School of Decision Sciences, University of Konstanz, Germany.

  Ache, F., & Hütter, M. (2016, März). Adaptive advice taking? Seeking and using advice in different information ecologies. Symposium “Contextualized Decision Making: Investigating Moderators and Mediators”, 58^th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, TeaP), Heidelberg, Germany.

  Ache, F. & Hütter, M. (2016, Januar). Seeking advice – a sampling approach to advice taking. 17^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), San Diego, USA. (Poster)

  Ache, F. & Hütter, M. (2015, August). Investigating the adaptivity of advice taking: Results from a sampling paradigm. 25^th Subjective Probability, Utility, And Decision Making Conference (SPUDM), Budapest, Hungary.

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Merle Madita Wachendörfer

E-Mail: merle.wachendoerfer

Telefon: +49 2331 987-4615

Gebäude/ Raum: F 188/ 314
Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung

• Details

  Academic career:

  • 2019- Research Associate and PhD Candidate, FernUniversität Hagen

  • 2010-2014 Master of Science, Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

  • 2012-2015 Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Radboud University Nimwegen (NL)

  Research interests

  • eyewitness memory, particularly false memory

  • biases in legal decision making

  • psychopathy

• Details

  Lebenslauf

  • seit 2014 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrgebiet Gesundheitspsychologie an der FernUniversität in Hagen
  • seit 2014 Psychologische Sachverständige im Bereich familienrechtspsychologischer Begutachtungen
  • seit 2014 in Weiterbildung zur Fachpsychologin für Rechtspsychologie (BDP/DGPs)
  • 2011 – 2014 Studium M. Sc. Psychologie an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  • 2012 – 2013 Auslandssemester an der Michigan State University, USA
  • 2008 – 2011 Studium B. Sc. Psychologie an der FernUniversität in Hagen
  • 2011 Auslandssemester an der University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Psychologische Diagnostik, psychologische Begutachtung
  • Familienrechtspsychologie
  • Bindung und Bindungsdiagnostik (insbesondere in der mittleren Kindheit)
  • Interaktionsdiagnostik

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