Prof. Dr. Daniel Leising
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Mr Prof. Dr. Daniel Leising
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"Don’t confuse success with excellence" (Ken Burns, 2016 Stanford Commencement Address)
Forschungsinteressen
Ich befasse mich mit der Frage, wie Menschen zu Urteilen übereinander und über sich selbst gelangen. Dabei interessiert mich besonders, unter welchen Bedingungen verschiedene Beurteilungen derselben Personen besser oder schlechter miteinander übereinstimmen, und unter welchen Bedingungen Personenbeurteilungen mehr oder weniger zutreffend werden. Beides hängt zum einen von der Menge und Qualität der verfügbaren Information ab, zum anderen von der Motivation des jeweiligen Beurteilers, ein akkurates, positives oder negatives Bild von der beurteilten Person zu zeichnen. Verschiedene Konstellationen dieser Faktoren können dazu führen, dass ein und dieselbe Person in sehr unterschiedlicher Weise wahrgenommen wird, oder dazu, dass sehr unterschiedliche Personen in sehr ähnlicher Weise wahrgenommen werden. Die Beschäftigung mit diesen Forschungsfragen ist unmittelbar relevant im Hinblick auf eine Vielzahl von Anwendungsfeldern (u.a. Leistungsdiagnostik, Klinische Diagnostik, Psychotherapieevaluation, Personalauswahl, Personalentwicklung).
Daniel Leising beteiligt sich an der Open Science Initiative der Fakultät Psychologie
Funktionen
Journal of Research in Personality: Consulting Editor (2009-present) European Journal of Personality: Consultant Editor (2017-present) Personality Science: Methodological Consultant Editor (2020-present)
Aktuelle Publikationen
Leising, D. (2023). Die Wissenschaft versagt bei der Selbstkontrolle. DIE ZEIT 9/23. https://www.zeit.de/2023/09/machtmissbrauch-forschung-manipulation-transparenz
Hoebel, M., Durglishvili, A., Reinold, J., & Leising, D. (2022). Sexual Harassment and Coercion in German Academia: A Large-Scale Survey Study. Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention, 17, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.5964/sotrap.9349
Leising, D., Thielmann, I., Glöckner, A., Gärtner, A., & Schönbrodt, F. (2022). Ten steps toward a better personality science – a rejoinder to the comments. Personality Science, 3, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7961
Interview mit dem Laborjournal: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/2336.php
Interview mit SWR 2 Impuls https://www.swr.de/swr2/wissen/alte-machtstrukturen-sorgen-fuer-probleme-an-universitaeten-100.html
Leising, D., Thielmann, I., Glöckner, A., Gärtner, A., & Schönbrodt, F. (2022). Ten steps toward a better personality science – how quality may be rewarded more in research evaluation. Personality Science, 3, 1-44. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.6029
Heynicke, M., Rau, R., Leising, D., Wessels, N., & Wiedenroth, A. (2022). Perceiver effects in person perception reflect acquiescence, positivity, and trait-specific content: evidence from a large-scale replication study. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(4), 839–848. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211039101
Kurzius, E., Borkenau, P., & Leising, D. (2022). Spontaneous interpersonal complementarity in the lab: A multilevel approach to modeling the antecedents and consequences of people's interpersonal behaviors and their dynamic interplay. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(2), 244–264. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000347
Letzring, T. D., Murphy, N. A., Allik, J., Beer, A., Zimmermann, J., & Leising, D. (2021). The judgment of personality: an overview of current empirical research findings. Personality Science, 2, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.6043
Leising, D., Dshemuchadse, M., Schönbrodt, F., & Scherbaum, S. (2021). Genug ist genug: Unethisches Verhalten in der Wissenschaft muss endlich systematisch angegangen werden! Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5126637
Wessels, N. M., Zimmermann, J., & Leising, D. (2021). Who knows best what the next year will hold for you? The validity of direct and personality–based predictions of future life experiences across different perceivers. European Journal of Personality, 35(3), 315–339. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2293
Leising, D., Vogel, D., Waller, V., & Zimmermann, J. (2021). Correlations between person-descriptive items are predictable from the product of their mid-point-centered social desirability values. European Journal of Personality, 35(5), 667–689. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890207020962331
Rau, R., Carlson, E. N., Back, M. D., Barranti, M., Gebauer, J. E., Human, L. J., Leising, D., & Nestler, S. (2021). What is the structure of perceiver effects? On the importance of global positivity and trait-specificity across personality domains and judgment contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(3), 745–764. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000278
Wiedenroth, A., Wessels, N. M., & Leising, D. (2020). There is no primacy effect in interpersonal perception - a series of preregistered analyses using judgments of actual behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, Vol. 12, 1437-1445 doi: 10.1177/1948550620969279
Wiedenroth, A., & Leising, D. (2020). The more the better – But more of which? Information quantity and shared meaning as predictors of consistency and accuracy in person judgment. Journal of Research in Personality, 87, 103968. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103968
Wiedenroth, A. & Leising, D. (2020). What's in an adjective? An exploratory study of meaning systems. Journal of Individual Differences, , 41, 152-159. doi: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000316
Leising, D., & Locke, K. D. (2020). Leonard M. Horowitz. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences. New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1759-1
Leising, D., & Back, M. D. (2020). Person perception and accuracy. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences. New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_707-1
Leising, D., & Borgstede, M. (2020). Hypothetical constructs. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences. New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_679-1
Interview mit detektor.fm https://detektor.fm/gesellschaft/bewerten-von-anderen-nur-menschlich
Interview mit den Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten http://www.dnn.de/Dresden/Lokales/Charismatisch-jovial-gewissenlos-Donald-Trump
Wessels, N. W., Zimmermann, J., Biesanz, J. C., & Leising, D. (2020). Differential associations of knowing and liking with accuracy and positivity bias in person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118, 149-171doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/5DG94
Gallrein A.M.B., Bollich, K. L. & Leising, D. (2019). Interpersonal feedback in everyday life - empirical studies in Germany and the US. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 1-18. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2381
Leising, D., Scherbaum, S., Packmohr, P., & Zimmermann, J. (2018). Substance and evaluation in personality disorder diagnoses. Journal of Personality Disorders , 32, 766-783. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2017_31_324
Hopwood, C. J., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Watson, D., Widiger, T. A., Althoff, R. R., Ansell, E. B., Bach, B., Bagby, R. M., Blais, M. A., Bornovalova, M. A., Chmielewski, M., Cicero, D. C., Conway, C., De Clerq, B., De Fruyt, F., Docherty, A. R., Eaton, N. R., Edens, J. F., Forbes, M. K., Forbush, K. T., Hengartner, M. P., Ivanova, M. Y., Leising, D., Livesley, W. J., Lukowitsky, M. R., Lynam, D. R., Markon, K. E., Miller, J. D., Morey, L. C., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Ormel, J. H., Patrick, C. J., Pincus, A. L., Ruggero, C., Samuel, D. B., Sellbom, M., Slade, T., Tackett, J. L., Thomas, K. M., Trull, T. J., Vachon, D. D., Waldman, I. D., Waszczuk, M. A., Waugh, M. H., Wright, A. G. C., Yalch, M. M., Zald, D. H., & Zimmermann, J. (2018). The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis. Personality and Mental Health, 12, 82-86. doi: 10.1002/pmh.1408
Zimmermann, J., Schindler, S., Klaus, G., & Leising, D. (2018). The effect of dislike on accuracy and bias in person perception. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(1), 80–88. doi:org/10.1177/1948550617703167
Thielmann, I., Zimmermann, J., Leising, D., & Hilbig, B. E. (2017). Seeing is knowing: On the predictive accuracy of self- and informant reports for prosocial and moral behaviors. European Journal of Personality, 31, 401-418. doi: 10.1002/per.2112
Zimmermann, J., Mayer, A., Leising, D., Krieger, T., Grosse Holtfort, M., & Pretsch, J. (2017). Exploring occasion specificity in the assessment of DSM-5 maladaptive personality traits: A latent state-trait analysis. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 33, 47-54. doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000271
Wessels, N.M., Zimmermann, J., & Leising, D. (2016). Toward a shared understanding of important consequences of personality. Review of General Psychology, 20, 426-436. https://doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000088
Borkenau, P., & Leising, D. (2016). A more complete picture of personality: What analyses of trait profiles have told us about personality judgment — so far. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25, 228-232. doi: 10.1177/0963721416651960
Dufner, M., Gebauer, J.E., & Leising, D. (2016). Which basic rules underlie social judgments? Agency follows a zero-sum principle and communion follows a non-zero-sum principle. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 677-687. doi: 10.1177/0146167216640902
Gallrein, A.-M. B., Weßels, N. M., Carlson, E. N., & Leising, D. (2016). I still cannot see it – A replication of blind spots in self-perception. Journal of Research in Personality, 60, 1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2015.10.002
Leising, D., Locke, K., Kurzius, E., & Zimmermann, J. (2016). Quantifying the association of self-enhancement bias with self-ratings of personality and life satisfaction. Assessment, 23, 588–602. doi: 10.1177/1073191115590852
Zimmermann, J., Bohnke, J. R., Eschstruth, R., Mathews, A., Wenzel, K., & Leising, D. (2015). The latent structure of personality functioning: Investigating criterion A from the alternative model for personality disorders in DSM-5. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124, 532-548. doi: 10.1037/abn0000059
Leising, D., Scherbaum, S., Locke, K., & Zimmermann, J. (2015). A model of "substance" and "evaluation" in person judgments. Journal of Research in Personality, 57, 61-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2015.04.002
Borkenau, P., Leising, D., & Fritz, U. (2014). Effects of communication between judges on consensus and accuracy in judgments of people's intelligence. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 30, 274-282.doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000188
Leising, D., & Zimmermann, J. (2014). Diagnostik von Persönlichkeitsstörungen - alles auf Anfang? Report Psychologie, 39(9), 346-357.
Leising, D., Scharloth, J., Lohse, O., & Wood, D. (2014). What types of terms do people use when describing an individual's personality? Psychological Science, 25, 1787-1794.doi: 10.1177/0956797614541285
Zimmermann, J., Altenstein, D., Krieger, T., Grosse Holtforth, M., Pretsch, J., Alexopoulos, J., Spitzer, C., Benecke, C., Krueger, R.F., Markon, K., & Leising, D. (2014). The structure and correlates of self-reported DSM-5 maladaptive personality traits: Findings from two German-speaking samples. Journal of Personality Disorders, 28, 518-540. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2014_28_130
Zimmermann, J., Benecke, C., Bender, D. S., Skodol, A. E., Schauenburg, H., Cierpka, M., & Leising, D. (2014). Assessing DSM–5 level of personality functioning from videotaped clinical interviews: a pilot study with untrained and clinically inexperienced students. Journal of Personality Assessment, 96, 397-409. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2013.852563
Leising, D., Gallrein, A.-M.B., & Dufner, M. (2014). Judging the behavior of people we know: Objective assessment, confirmation of pre-existing views, or both? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 153-163.doi: 10.1177/0146167213507287
Zimmermann, J., Masuhr, O., Jaeger, U., Leising, D., Benecke, C., & Spitzer, C. (2014). Maladaptive Persönlichkeitseigenschaften gemäß DSM-5. Zusammenhänge mit psychischer Belastung und ICD-10 Diagnosen in einer klinischen Stichprobe. Persönlichkeitsstörungen: Theorie und Therapie, 18, 46-58.
Zimmermann, J., Benecke, C., Bender, D. S., Skodol, A. E., Krueger, R. F., & Leising, D. (2013). Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik im DSM-5. Psychotherapeut, 58, 455-465. doi: 10.1007/s00278-013-1009-1
Leising, D., Borkenau, P., Zimmermann, J., Roski, C., Leonhardt, A., & Schütz, A. (2013). Positive Self-Regard and Claim to Leadership: Two fundamental forms of self-evaluation. European Journal of Personality, 27, 565-579 .doi: 10.1002/per.1924
Gallrein, A.-M.B., Carlson, E.N., Holstein, M., & Leising, D. (2013). You spy with your little eye – people are “blind” to some of the ways in which they are consensually seen by others. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 464-471.doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.04.001
Leising, D., Ostrovski, O., & Zimmermann, J. (2013). Are we talking about the same person here? Inter-rater agreement in judgments of personality varies dramatically with how much the perceivers like the targets. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 468-474. doi: 10.1177/1948550612462414
Leising, D., Ostrovski, O., & Borkenau, P. (2012). Vocabulary for describing disliked persons is more differentiated than vocabulary for describing liked persons. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 393-396.doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.03.006 Leising, D., & Zimmermann, J. (2011). An integrative conceptual framework for assessing personality and personality pathology. Review of General Psychology, 15, 317-330.doi:10.1037/a0025070 Leising, D. (2011, November). Assumed similarity in judgments of one's own and others' interpersonal behavior. Newsletter of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, 12(1), 9-12. Leising, D., Krause, S., Köhler, D., Hinsen, K., & Clifton, A. (2011). Assessing interpersonal functioning: Views from within and without. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 631-641.doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.08.011 Leising, D., & Bleidorn, W. (2011). Which are the basic meaning dimensions of observable interpersonal behavior? Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 986-990.doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.08.003 Leising, D. (2011). The consistency bias in judgments of one's own interpersonal behavior. Two possible sources. Journal of Individual Differences, 32, 137-143.doi: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000046 Leising, D., & Borkenau, P. (2011). Person perception, dispositional inferences and social judgment. In L. M. Horowitz & S. Strack (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal psychology: Theory, research, assessment, and therapeutic interventions (pp. 157-170). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.doi: 10.1002/9781118001868.ch10 Leising, D., Grande, T., & Faber, R. (2010). A longitudinal study of emotional experience, expressivity, and psychopathology in psychotherapy inpatients and psychologically healthy persons. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 66, 1027-1043.doi: 10.1002/jclp.20704 Leising, D., Erbs, J., & Fritz, U. (2010). The letter of recommendation effect in informant ratings of personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 668-682.doi: 10.1037/a0018771 Leising, D., Rogers, K., & Ostner, J. (2009). The undisordered personality: Normative assumptions underlying personality disorder diagnoses. Review of General Psychology, 13, 230-241.doi: 10.1037/a0017139 Leising, D., Grande, T., & Faber, R. (2009). The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20): A measure of general psychological distress. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 707-710doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.03.009 Borkenau, P., Zaltauskas, K., & Leising, D. (2009). More may be better, but there may be too much. Optimal trait level and self-enhancement bias. Journal of Personality, 77, 825-858.doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00566.x Leising, D., & Müller-Plath, G. (2009). Person-situation integration in research on personality problems. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 218-227.doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.01.017