Publications

Mischkowski, D., Siol, J. Z., & Thielmann, I. (2027). Negotiations through the lens of situational affordances – A person-situation perspective on negotiating cooperation in social dilemmas. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 128, 105004. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2026.105004

Burghart, M., Yu, R., & Fazel, S. (2026). Response to “significantly off target: A commentary on Fazel et al.'s (2024) umbrella review of research on the risk–need–responsivity framework.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 107, 102755. doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2026.102755

Khalaf, T., Utesch, K., & Thielmann, I. (in press). The role of changing habits in volitional personality change: Insights from the health behavior change literature. American Psychologist.

Buecker, S., Gander, F., Casali, N., Gross, F., Puhlmann, L. M. C., Ewert, C., … Thielmann, I. (in press). The research landscape of personality change goals: A systematic literature review. American Psychologist.

Casali, N., Meneghetti, C., Hirschi, A., & Pang, D. (2026). Satisfying basic needs: the effectiveness of mindfulness-based strengths practice on character strengths, mindfulness, and well-being across two samples. Journal of Happiness Studies, 27(7), 109. doi:10.1007/s10902-026-01089-1

Cordes, M., & Thielmann, I. (in press). Reassessing the link between crime and character: Insights from psychology for criminal law theory. Criminal Law and Philosophy.

Thielmann, I. (in press). Trust as an attitude: A relabeling, not a resolution. Psychological Inquiry.

Thielmann, I., & Zettler, I. (2026). Advancing research on personality and crime. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 234(3), 115–118. doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000631

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.

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

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

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

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

Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M., Piotrowski, J., Nowak, B., Saroglou, V., Maltby, J., Sedikides, C., … Zand, F. (2026). Beyond religious narcissistic identification: agnostic and atheistic narcissism. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. doi:10.1080/10508619.2026.2656828

Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Clelland, H. T., Kovacs, M., Holzmeister, F., van Ravenzwaaij, D., … Mikolajczak, G. (2026). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature, 652, 135–142. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09844-9

Kubik, V., Thielmann, I., Giesen, C. G., Koslowski, K., Feld, G. B., & Schubert, A.-L. (in press). Attitudes toward Open Science practices among German psychologists. Meta-Psychology.

Spinello, G., Grigoletto, D., Cerea, S., Casali, N., Ghisi, M., Marcolin, G., … Moro, T. (2026). Bone stress injuries in elite runners: intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors in Italian track and field athletes. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation. doi:10.1186/s13102-026-01639-3

Burghart, M., Goldsack, R., Echevarria, A., & Eisenbarth, H. (2026). Empathy, physiological synchrony, and psychopathy: preliminary insights from naturalistic dyadic interactions. Cognition and Emotion. doi:10.1080/02699931.2026.2637546