Ph.D. Student / Research & Teaching Assistant
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Research interests      Publications & conference contributions      Teaching      Vita

Research interests

• Personality traits
• Dark Factor of Personality
• Aversive traits
• Methods
• Structural equation modelling (SEM)
• Invariance and heterogeneity
• Psychotherapy research
• New approaches in psychotherapy
• Nature-based interventions

Publications

Papers (peer reviewed)

• Pfeifer, E., Wulf, H., Metz, K., Wüster, A., Pischel, M., & Wittmann, M. (2024). Correlations between meaning in life and nature connectedness: German-language validation of two topic-related measures and practical implications. Spiritual Care. https://doi.org/10.1515/spircare-2024-0011

Conference Contributions

Presentations

• Pischel, M. & Hilbig, B. E. (2024, October 24-25). Dark factor of personality and religious extremism. Joint Meeting of the Cognition, Behavior & Evolution Network and Menschliches Verhalten aus evolutionärer Perspektive, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Posters

• Pischel, M. & Hilbig, B. E. (2024, September 16-19). The structure and personality basis of extremism. 53rd Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society, Vienna, Austria.

Teaching

Courses taught

• Summer 2024: The Dark Factor of Personality
  (lab-tutorial & methods course; level: B.Sc.; language: German; together with Dr. Luisa Horsten)
• Summer 2023: Clinical psychology
  (lecture; level: B.A.; language: German; together with Prof. Dr. Thorsten Burger, Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg)
• Summer 2022: Scientific thinking and acting
  (tutorial; level: B.Sc.; language: German; University of Freiburg)

Vita

Education / Degrees

• 2021-2023: M.Sc. Clinical Psychology and Neurosciences, University of Basel (advisors: Prof. Dr. Eric Pfeifer, Prof. Dr. Jens Gaab)
• 2018-2021: B.Sc. Psychology, University of Basel (advisor: Prof. Dr. Rui Mata)
• 2015-2020: B.A. Liberal Arts and Sciences, major: Culture and History, University of Freiburg (advisors: Prof. Dr. Veronika Lipphardt, Dr. Ryan Plumly)

Research and academic experience

• Since 2024: Research & teaching assistant at the Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)
• Since 2023: Ph.D. Student at the Research Traning Group “Statistical Modeling in Psychology” (advisors: Prof. Benjamin Hilbig Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Tanja Lischetzke, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Meiser)
• Since 2023: Guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law, Freiburg
• 2022-2023: Research assistant in the research group Personality, Identity, and Crime (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law, Freiburg)
• Since 2021: Guest researcher at the University Medical Center, Freiburg
• 2021-2022: Research assistant at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg