Recent Publications

Ye, Z., Long, F., Feng, R., van Dijk, W., & Li, R. (2026). People feel but don't tell: dispositional honesty and emotional responses to others' (mis)fortunes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 126, 104966. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104966

Bendau, A., Thielmann, I., Wössner, G., Reich, N. J., Bandurski, L. C., & Asselmann, E. (2026). Personality change associated with confinement: A systematic review of observational and treatment-related evidence from prisons and forensic settings. European Journal of Personality, 40(4), 1093–1125.

Gansinger, S. (2026). Of might and mediation: Max Horkheimer on law. Rechtsphilosophie, 12(2), 169–182. doi:10.5771/2364-1355-2026-2-169

Teufel, J., Kibbe, A., Bartsch, N., & Rusch, H. (2026). Joining the force — German police students’ dynamic development during their training. Zeitschrift für Psychologie.

Thielmann, I., Nielsen, Y. A., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2026). The dispositional basis of deviance: a multivariate approach to crime and other deviant acts. European Journal of Personality, 40(4), 890–919. doi:10.1177/08902070251411583

Poscher, R. (2026). The autonomy of legal doctrine: its merit in the process of social differentiation. In B. Leiter (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law (Vol. 6, pp. 63–98). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197904473.003.0003

Slogsnat, F. (2026). Der Vorrang staatlicher Verfahren beim rechtfertigenden Notstand (§ STGB § 34 StGB). Juristische Schulung, (7), 640–646.

Stein, S. K., & Karle, I. (2026). ÖR-Anfängerklausur im Staatsorganisationsrecht: Stress im Parlament. JURA – Juristische Ausbildung, (6), 584–595. doi:10.1515/jura-2026-3007

Thielmann, I., Burghart, M., & Casali, N. (2026). Ecological affordances as stages for trait expression. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 49, e82. doi:10.1017/S0140525X25103129

Yang, Y., Obsuth, I., Van Gelder, J.-L., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., Zhu, X., & Murray, A. L. (2026). Transdiagnostic and symptom‐domain associations between mental illnesses and future self‐connectedness versus future self‐valence. JCPP Advances. doi:10.1002/jcv2.70143

Yelbuz, B. E., & Thielmann, I. (2026). The dispositional basis of selective prosociality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 131(1), 160–182. doi:10.1037/pspp0000583

Asselmann, E., Allemand, M., Baumgardt, S., Bleidorn, W., Buecker, S., Brueggmann, L., … Zimmermann, J. (2026). Volitional personality development: theoretical foundations, empirical advances, and future directions for personality change interventions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 20(5), e70147. doi:10.1111/spc3.70147

Kilchling, M., & Ellebrecht, S. (2026). How to design a surveillance barometer: model for the regular monitoring and assessment of statutory powers and practices in state surveillance. Eucrim – European Law Forum: Prevention • Investigation • Prosecution, 20(4), 311–323.

Thielmann, I. (2026). On the interplay of (dis)trust, conspiracy beliefs and populism: Fueling political divides. In J. P. Forgas (Ed.), The psychology of trust (pp. 279–294). New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003654247-20

Thielmann, I., Back, M. D., Bleidorn, W., Bukowski, H., Carlson, E. N., Dufner, M., … Seidl, A. (2026). A consensus statement on self-knowledge conceptualization, measurement, outcomes, and changeability. Nature Reviews Psychology, 5, 338–351. doi:10.1038/s44159-026-00554-1