Alicia Seidl

Doctoral Researcher
Independent Research Group Personality, Identity, and Crime
Criminology

Main Focus

Alicia Seidl's research focuses on interindividual differences in prosocial and unethical behavior with a particular focus on dishonest behavior. In addition, she studies self-knowledge, defined as an accurate representation of what one is like, as well as the process of advancing self-knowledge and the corresponding results this may bring. She is also interested in online research, research methodology, and research ethics.
In her first doctoral project, she is investigating differences between various incentives for study participation in terms of effectiveness and resulting data quality.

Curriculum Vitae

Research and academic experience

  • Since 2023: Doctoral researcher, Independent Research Group “Personality, Identity, and Crime”, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • Since 2023: Research & teaching assistant / doctoral student, Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • 2022–2023: Student research assistant, Independent Research Group “Personality, Identity, and Crime”, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • 2020–2023: Student research assistant, Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau
  • 2020–2021: Student teaching assistant for lab tutorial & methods course on personality change goals, Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau

Education / Degrees

  • 2020–2023: M.Sc. Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • 2017–2020: B.Sc. Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau

Project

KNOW-THYSELF: Increasing Self-Knowledge to Promote Moral Behavior

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 cost. A long-standing issue in the social and… more

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