Dr. Isabel Thielmann

Research Group Leader

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

i.thielmann@csl.mpg.de

Publication References

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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Personality, Identity, and Crime

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Projects

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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 behavioral… more

The Core Tendencies Underlying Individual Differences in Prosocial Behavior

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 behavior,”… more

Individual Differences in Selective Prosociality

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 individual… more