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On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and its Relation with Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight
(2020-12-02)
Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N = 152 and N = 298), we evaluate competing measurement models for a variety of DT tests and examine the relationship between DT and established cognitive abilities, personality ...
Dissertation
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Promises and Pitfalls of Machine Learning Modeling in Psychological Research
(2024)
Algorithmen des maschinellen Lernens werden in der Psychologie und ihren Teildisziplinen immer beliebter. Sie werden häufig dafür angepriesen, dass sie mit der Multikollinearität von Prädiktorvariablen und komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Prädiktoren und Kriterien effizient umgehen können. Trotz ihrer Vorteile werden auch immer mehr kritische Stimmen laut, die auf die derzeitigen Grenzen von Vorhersagen durch maschinelles Lernen hinweisen und die Frage aufwerfen, ob die Algorithmen den Erwartungen gerecht werden. ...
Dissertation
Towards A Better Understanding of Workplace Coaching: On Goal Activities, Exploration Practices, and Coaches’ Life Satisfaction
(2020)
Whereas there is a high and ever-increasing demand for coaching worldwide (International Coach Federation, 2016) and meta-analytical findings suggest that coaching is generally effective (e.g., Jones et al., 2016; Sonesh, Coultas, Lacerenza et al., 2015), little is still known about standards for “good” coaching practice (e.g., Bono et al., 2009; Vandaveer et al., 2016). Across three studies, this dissertation investigates relevant facets of coaching practice. It addresses the questions of how coaches practice workplace ...
Dissertation
Sound Matters
(2021-08)
Language sounds, i.e., phonemes, are believed not to bear any meaning themselves, only at the word level, meaning is created. However, numerous studies over the past 100 years have revealed iconic relationships, i.e., a certain fit, between language sounds and word meanings, with regard to several semantic dimensions, such as size, shape, brightness, or distance. This suggests iconicity as a functional mechanism in language. To examine the underlying cognitive processes, a holistic operationalization of iconicity in ...
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Die Dunkle Triade und Täuschung
(2021)
Die vorliegende Dissertationsschrift gliedert sich in zwei Teile: die Synopse und einen empirischen Teil (Anhänge A bis C). In der Synopse werden die empirischen Ergebnisse zusammengefasst und mit bestehenden Forschungsergebnissen kontextualisiert. Der empirische Teil umfasst alle Studien, die im Rahmen der Dissertation durchgeführt und publiziert wurden. Die Ergebnisse der Studien konvergieren dabei auf ein Assoziationsmuster der DT-Persönlichkeitseigenschaften mit Täuschungsvariablen, das von substanziellen ...
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What Do Coaches Actually Do? A Context-Sensitive Approach to Workplace Coaching
(2021)
Vor dem Hintergrund einer noch wenig fortgeschrittenen Forschung zu Wirkfaktoren von Coaching, zielt diese Dissertation darauf ab, die in neueren Forschungsarbeiten skizzierten Forschungslücken hinsichtlich Coach-Verhalten und Kontextfaktoren zu schließen. Um den Blickwinkel auf relevante Kontextfaktoren zu erweitern, liegt der Fokus auf dem Verhalten von Coaches in zwei verschiedenen Arten von Kontexten: dem Beginn von Coaching-Prozessen (d.h. der Eingangsdiagnostik) und Coaching für Gründer*innen.
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The Acceptance of Serious Games by Mental Health Service Users and Mental Health Professionals: An International Comparison Study
(2021)
Research aim. This study investigates which determinants predict the intention to use SG in psychotherapeutic settings among both relevant application groups: mental health service users (individuals with psychotherapy experience either currently or in the past) and mental health professionals. Since ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and culture highly interplay with (e-mental health) technology uptake (Clough et al., 2019), SG acceptability was assessed in several countries (N = 13) by particularly considering the ...
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Access to the learning material enhances learning by means of generating questions: Comparing open- and closed-book conditions
(2020)
Generating questions referring to the learning material is a powerful learning strategy. The present study investigated potential mechanisms behind this effect. Students (N=231) read a text and then generated questions referring to the text in three conditions: (1) open-book (i.e., text accessible), (2) closed-book (i.e., text inaccessible), and (3) cued closed-book (i.e., text inaccessible but keywords provided). After one week, students’ knowledge gain was larger in the open-book and cued closed-book conditions ...
Dissertation
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How to promote relational processing while learning with expository texts
(2020-11)
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit besteht darin, Empfehlungen zu geben, wie man die Inferenzbildung beim Lesen von expositorischen Texten fördern kann. Wir haben zwei Lernmethoden konzipiert, um die tiefe Verarbeitung (insbesondere) bei schwachen Lesern zu fördern – Verschachteln von Informations-einheiten und Generieren kausaler Kohäsion. Beide Lernmethoden sollten die Sichtbarkeit von Kohäsionslücken erhöhen und die Abhängigkeit vom domänenspezifischen Vorwissen beim Schließen dieser Lücken reduzieren.
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Exploring and Validating Construct Interpretations of Psychological Measurements
(2024)
In psychological research, as in other scientific disciplines, developing accurate measures of the phenomena under study is fundamental to maintaining the integrity of scientific conclusions. Psychological researchers are often criticized for a lack of rigor when it comes to measurement. On closer inspection, however, these problems may be due not only to the lack of implementation of common standards, but also to fundamental methodological flaws in those standards. Measurement methodology within psychological research ...