Isabel Thielmann
@IsabelThielmann
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Psychologist | Personality Researcher | Research Group Leader @MPICSL
Freiburg, Germany
Joined April 2019
What a privilege it is to have such a wonderful team 🥹! Thank you all @PIC_Freiburg !
A social month for the PIC team! ☀️ BBQ by the lake, then a retreat full of ideas & organizing. It’s so great seeing our team grow—and how we always combine research with fun! 😄
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Menschen halten sich für moralischer als sie sind. "Der moralische Charakter einer Person ist besonders relevant für das Selbstbild, und so gut wie niemand hält sich selbst gerne für einen schlechten Menschen", @IsabelThielmann + @m_burghart (@PIC_Freiburg) in einem (freien)
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I am hiring a postdoc to work on a project on moral disgust. This person ideally has expertise in moral psychology, emotions, and/or evolutionary psychology. More details here https://t.co/VAvUTouqqW.
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🔍Why do we ignore self-relevant feedback? In our new review, we argue it's not that we don’t care—we just really like the version of ourselves we already believe in. 👉 https://t.co/Mn7yp1QVxN w/ @m_burghart , Seidl, Casali, Khalaf & @IsabelThielmann
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Why is it so hard to truly know ourselves — especially morally? A new review by @m_burghart and @IsabelThielmann says self-knowledge has limits, but shows that feedback can help us grow 🌱🔍 Check it out:
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This award means so much to me! I've rarely felt prouder or more grateful 🥹! Thank you @PIC_Freiburg for being the best team one could wish for ❤️!
Excited to be one of the 24 teams chosen for the Best Research Environment 2024 by @Junge_Akademie! It's an honor to be among such inspiring teams. 🌟 We couldn't be more proud and grateful!
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You wonder how to measure trait morality? We do, too! Find out more in our recent @CollabraOA paper on the Moral Character Questionnaire 👇
New personality psychology research from Nicole Casali, Ben Hilbig, and @IsabelThielmann questions the predictive validity of the Moral Character Questionnaire - particularly when it comes to predicting dishonesty or prosociality
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So good to have @NickorasT back at our lab last week. Thanks for stopping by, Nick! Hope to welcome you again soon! And what a pleasure to see how our team has grown - so proud! #BestTeam 😊
Guess who's back? 👀 @NickorasT , a former PIC team member, dropped by for a visit. It felt just like old times and was great to catch up! 😊
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Es war wirklich eine große Freude, ganze 2 Stunden über Prosozialität und Persönlichkeit zu sprechen 😍! Danke für die Einladung zum Prioritäten-Podcast - und viel Spaß beim Reinhören! 🎧
Was bringt Menschen dazu #prosozial zu sein, und was bringt Menschen dazu #antisozial oder gar #kriminell zu sein? Diese Fragen beschäftigen die Forscherin @IsabelThielmann. Die Antworten darauf gibt es im neuen "Prioritäten"-Podcast. Abruf👉 https://t.co/fdWa8zSF2g
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📷We are hiring !📷 We are looking to fill a 2-year #PostDoc! If you are interested in field #experiments, #decision-making, #trust, #motivation, and digital #health behavior, please apply and share! 📷Deadline: Feb 12, 2025 Details: https://t.co/xdpV9ymH2j
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You work on the relation between personality and criminal behavior and are still looking for a suitable outlet? Submit to our special issue on "Personality and Crime" in the Zeitschrift für Psychology - the oldest psychology journal in Europe! 👇
👉Call for Papers for a special issue on the topic of “Personality and Crime” in the Zeitschrift für Psychologie (ZfP). ⏳Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2025. For more information visit: https://t.co/nA6NluqRxc
@HogrefeVerlag @IsabelThielmann
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You want to learn more about the science of dishonesty? Check out our most recent review, led by the great Shaul Shalvi! And what a privilege to work with such a wonderful crowd!
I'm honored to be among the authors of this article on the "science of honesty". We review research from the past decades and point towards important avenues for future work. We argue that although much is known about honesty in isolated, low-risk contexts, there is an urgent
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Interested in personality and how we can measure people's honesty? Check out the new #DTTC podcast, where I had the pleasure to talk about these topics with Chris Murphy @MPICSL. Thanks again for having me on the show 🤓!
"#Identity Insights: The #Psychology of #Personality" Our new #DTTC podcast episode with @IsabelThielmann (@PIC_Freiburg) is now online. Find it on Spotify
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Care for a sneak peek? 😉 Stay tuned for the full episode!
Our upcoming podcast episode next week is about "#Identity Insights: The #Psychology of #Personality" Our guest: Research Group Leader @IsabelThielmann @PIC_Freiburg. Stay tuned!
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Have you ever been dishonest on your tax return? Would a written “oath of honesty” that you had to sign have stopped you? Yes, that is likely, says a group of 42 international scientists in a mega-study with over 21,000 participants. #psychology 👉 https://t.co/050Q4FL371
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Have you ever been dishonest on your tax return in order to pay less tax? Would a written “oath of honesty” that you had to sign have stopped you? Yes, that is likely, says a group of more than 40...
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How consistent is (dis)honest behavior? And is honesty a trait? Our new paper suggests yes! Dishonest behavior was pretty consistent across 3 years, and personality traits can predict this consistency. 👉 https://t.co/daem3FRQqB w/ Ben Hilbig, @SchildChristoph, Daniel Heck
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Can honesty oaths reduce dishonesty? Check out the new megastudy in @natureHumBehav where many great researchers, including our very own @IsabelThielmann and @alicia_seidl, came together to extensively test this question! 👉🏻
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🚀Now out in @NatureHumBehav 🚀 How can we reduce dishonest behavior in a tax evasion game? A classic method is through honesty oaths. But… do all honesty oaths work the same? To answer this question, we adopted a mega-study approach, testing 21 different honesty oaths on
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Big congrats of course also to all other award winners at #DGPs2024! 🎉👏
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So happy, grateful, and proud of receiving the Charlotte-and-Karl-Bühler-Award from the @DGPs_Berlin. Thanks so much to all the wonderful colleagues and friends who have supported and accompanied me along the way 🙏☺️!
Great news: @IsabelThielmann (Research Group Leader @PIC_Freiburg at @MPICSL) receives a renowned award of the German Psychological Society @DGPs_Berlin. Congratulations, Isa 🥳#psychology @maxplancklaw @maxplanckpress
https://t.co/HoQYQsXgoc
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