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Research interests  Publications & conference contributions  Teaching  Vita 

Research interests

• Personality and individual differences
• Models of Personality Structure
• Dark Factor of Personality
• HEXACO
• Pro-environmental behavior
• decision conflict between cooperation and pro-environmental behavior
• personality variables related to prosocial and pro-environmental behavior
• Vicarious Pride

Publications

• Horsten, L. K., Thielmann, I., Moshagen, M., Zettler, I., Scholz, D., & Hilbig, B. E. (2024). Testing the equivalence of the aversive core of personality and a blend of Agreeableness(-related) items. Journal of Personality, 92, 2, 393-404. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.12830 (Data, Code, and additional Material on OSF)
• Hepp-Kieslich, J., Klein, S. A., Horsten, L. K., Urbild, J., Lane, S. P. (2023). Introduction and behavioral validation of the Climate Change Distress and Impairment Scale. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 11272. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37573-4 (Preprint, data, code, and additional material on OSF)
• Horsten, L. K., Moshagen, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2023). On the (number of) aversive traits it takes to approximate the common core of aversive personality. Scientific Reports, 13, 15021. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37573-4 (Data, code, and additional material on OSF)
• Bader, M.*, Horsten, L. K.*, Hilbig, B. E., & Zettler, I., & Moshagen, M. (2022). Measuring the dark core of personality in German: Psychometric properties, measurement invariance, predictive validity, and self-other agreement. Journal of Personality Assessment, 104, 660-637. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2021.1984931 (Data, Code and Additional Material) [*shared first authorship]
• Horsten, L. K., Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I., Zettler, I., & Moshagen, M. (2022). Fast, but not so furious. On the distinctiveness of a fast life history strategy and the common core of aversive traits. Personality Science, 3, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.6879 (Data, Code and Additional Material)
• Klein, S. A., Horsten, L. K., & Hilbig, B.E. (2022). The effect of environmental versus social framing on pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84, 101897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101897 (Data, Code, and additional Material on OSF)
• Horsten, L. K., Moshagen, M., Zettler, I., & Hilbig, B. E., (2021). Theoretical and empirical dissociations between the Dark Factor of Personality and low Honesty-Humility. Journal of Research in Personality, 95, 104154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104154 (Data, Code and Additional Material)
• Hilbig, B. E., Moshagen, M., Horsten, L. K., & Zettler, I. (2021). Agreeableness is dead. Long live Agreeableness? Reply to Vize and Lynam. Journal of Research in Personality, 91, 104074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104074
• Moshagen, M., Zettler, I., Horsten, L. K., & Hilbig, B. E. (2020). Agreeableness and the common core of dark traits are functionally different constructs. Journal of Research in Personality, 87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103986 (Data, Code, and Additional Material)

Conference Contributions

Talks

• Horsten, L., Klein, S. A., & Hepp-Kieslich, J. (2024). On the association between climate change distress, impairment, and pro-environmental behavior. 53rd DGPs Congress / 15th ÖGP Conference, 16-19 September 2024 in Vienna, Austria
• Horsten, L., Hilbig, B. E., & Moshagen, M. (2023). Wieviele und welche aversiven Traits approximieren den Dark Factor of Personality? Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society - Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, 25-27 September 2023 in Salzburg, Austria.
• Horsten, L., Klein, S. A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2022). The effect of minimum contribution levels on voluntary pro-environmental behavior. 19th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, 19-22 July 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Horsten, L., Klein, S. A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2022). The effect of environmental versus social framing on pro-environmental behavior. RKTS Workshop: An EASP community of Environmental Social Psychologists, 26-28 January 2022, online.
• Horsten, L., Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I., Zettler, I., & Moshagen, M. (2021). On the distinction between D and a fast life history strategy. Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society - Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, 12-15 September 2021 in Ulm, Germany.
• Horsten, L., Henninger, F., & Hilbig, B. (2018). Beyond mean comparisons: a model based process-level comparison of online and laboratory based experimental data. 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, 11-14 March 2018 in Marburg, Germany. (Data and Material)
• Bacherle, P., Grosswardt, C., Horsten, L., Kraft, V., & Tiede, K. (2013). Watching television as an Emotional Episode? Application of the Peak-End-Rule to the Reception of TV-Shows. 8th Conference of the Media Psychology Division, 4-6 September 2013 in Würzburg.

Posters

• Horsten, L., Klein, S. A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2023). On the relationship between Personality, Climate Change Distress, and Pro-Environmental Behavior. Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society - Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, 25-27 September 2023 in Salzburg, Austria. (Poster, Data and Material)
• Horsten, L. The Dark Core of Personality: Dissociating D from Honesty-Humility. 34th IOPS/SMiP Summer Conference, 13-14 June 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands.
• Horsten, L., & Rasch, T. (2018). ‚I am proud of you.‘ Or should we say ‚I am proud for you‘? 7 th CERE Conference, 4-5 April in Glasgow, UK. (Data and Material)
• Horsten, L., Henninger, F., Anton, S.-M., Drummer, M. Kraus, L. & Lischitzki, J. (2016). Open Sampling: The effect of arrangement of gamble outcomes on risky choices. 58 th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, 21-23 March 2016 in Heidelberg, Germany. (Poster, Data and Poster)

Other

• Henninger, F., & Horsten, L. (2019). Building an Open Science Knowledge Base. Hackathon led at the 2019 SIPS Conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Teaching

Courses taught

• Winter 2024/2025: Web-based programming
  (seminar; level: M.Sc., language: German)
• Summer 2024: Web-based programming
  (project seminar; level: M.Sc., language: German)
• Summer 2024: The Dark Factor of Personality
  (lab-tutorial & methods course; level: B.Sc., language: German)
• Winter 2023/2024: Web-based programming
  (seminar; level: M.Sc., language: German)
• Summer 2023: Cognitive psychology
  (seminar; level: B.Sc., language: German)
• Winter 2022/2023: Web-based programming
  (seminar; level: M.Sc., language: German; hybrid)
• Winter 2022/2023: Introduction to Web-based experimenting
  (seminar; level: M.Sc., language: German)
• Winter 2020/2021: The Dark Factor of Personality
  (lab-tutorial & methods course; level: B.Sc., language: German)
• Winter 2019/2020: The Dark Factor of Personality
  (lab-tutorial & methods course; level: B.Sc., language: German)

Supervised Theses

• D versus Honesty-Humility: Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede im Bestrafungsverhalten im uncostly retaliation game
• D-Faktor und Psychotizismus: Ein Vergleich in Bezug auf Risikobereitschaft
• Dark Factor of Personality – Ein Moderator zwischen Framing und Entscheidungsverhalten?
• Der Zusammenhang zwischen den Narzissmus-Dimensionen und dem Dunklen Persönlichkeitskern
• Welchen Einfluss hat die Empathie auf den Zusammenhang zwischen dem D-Faktor und aversiven Verhaltenstendenzen?
• „Alarmstufe rot“ versus „halb so wild“ — Wie die Darstellung des Klimawandels Climate Change Distress beeinflusst
• Nah – und? Der Einfluss von räumlicher Nähe auf umweltfreundliches und kooperatives Verhalten im Greater Good Game
• Der Dunkle Persönlichkeitsfaktor und negative Einstellungen gegenüber historisch marginalisierten Gruppen: Die vermittelnden Rollen von Right-Wing Authoritarianism und Sozialer Dominanzorientierung
• Fremdeinschätzung zur Ausprägung auf D und Honesty-Humility als Prädiktor für boshaftes Verhalten
• Wem Böses widerfährt, der wird böse. Eine Studie zum Zusammenhang von psychischer Misshandlung und dem Dark Factor of Personality
• Der moralische Kompass im Konflikt: Einfluss von Affekt und dunkler Persönlichkeit auf moralische Entscheidungen.n

Workshops

• "Wie setzen wir uns für eine gesündere Erde ein, ohne dabei selbst unterzugehen?" (Psychotage 2023, RPTU in Landau, mit Laura S. Brinkelle)

Vita

Education / Degrees

• 2023: Dr. phil., RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  Title: Manoeuvering through the jangle jungle. What is the common core of aversive traits (not)?
  Supervisor: Prof. Benjamin Hilbig, PhD
• 2018: Master of Science in Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2015: Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau

Research and academic experience

• 2024 – : PostDoc at the Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 2023: Acting Assistant Professor (Elternzeitvertretung) at the Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• since 2021: Research Assistant in DFG funded project "Conflict of cooperation and pro-environmental behavior: Social and temporal determinants of choice behavior“ (PIs: Dr. Sina A. Klein & Prof. Benjamin Hilbig, PhD)
• 2018-2023: Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant in the Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab (former Cognitive Psychology Lab)
• 2018: Research Internship, Supervisor: Prof. Benjamin Hilbig, PhD, Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2015 – 2018: Student Research Assistant, Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2015 – 2018: Student Teaching Assistant, Research Methods of Cognitive Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2013 – 2015: Student Research Assistant, Institute for Communication Psychology and Media
• 2013 – 2014: Student Teaching Assistant, Empirical Laboratory Course, University of Koblenz-Landau

Award, grants, and scholarships

• 2023: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2022: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2021: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2020: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2019: co-recipient of a SIPS Commendation for the Open Science Knowledge Base
• 2019: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2019: Travel Grant for the Pre-SIPS Replicats Workshop (400 USD), University of Melbourne
• 2014: PROMOS Scholarship for an internship in Tangier, Morocco, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), University of Koblenz-Landau