David Scholz

PostDoc
K Building, Room 2.29
Office hours: by appointment
+49 6341 280 34 226


Research interests Publications & conference contributions Teaching Vita

Research interests

  • Antisocial personality traits
    • Dark Factor of Personality
    • Dimensional models of personality psychopathology
    • Socially and/or ethically aversive traits
  • Trust in Automation & Interpersonal Trust
    • Commonalities & Differences
    • Influences of states and traits
  • Methods
    • Structural equation modeling (SEM)
    • Mediation & Moderation analysis

Publications

Papers (peer reviewed)

  • Scholz, D. D. & Hilbig, B. E. (in press). Disentangling the shared and unique aspects of clinical and subclinical socially aversive traits relevant for interpersonal personality dysfunction. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
  • 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://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12830
  • Scholz, D. D.*, Kraus, J.*, & Miller, L. (2024). Measuring the Propensity to Trust in Automated Technology: Examining Similarities to Dispositional Trust in Other Humans and Validation of the PTT-A Scale. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-24, doi: 10.1080/10447318.2024.2307691.
    [*shared first authorship]
  • Scholz, D. D., Zimmermann, J., Moshagen, M., Zettler, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (2024). Theoretical and empirical integration of ‘dark’ traits and socially aversive personality psychopathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 38(3), 241-267. doi:https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2024.38.3.241
  • Kraus, J., & Miller, L., Klumpp, M., Babel, F., Scholz, D., Merger J., & Baumann, M (2023). On the Role of Beliefs and Trust for the Intention to Use Service Robots: An Integrated Trustworthiness Beliefs Model for Robot Acceptance. Journal of Social Robotics, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00952-4 .
  • Scholz, D. D., Bader, M., Betsch, C., Böhm, R., Lilleholt, L., Sprengholz, P., Zettler, I. (2023). The moderating role of trust in pandemic-relevant institutions on the relation between pandemic fatigue and vaccination intentions. Journal of Health Psychology, 13591053231201038. doi: 10.1177/13591053231201038
  • Scholz, D. D., Thielmann, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (2023). Down to the core: The role of the common core of dark traits for aversive relationship behaviors. Personality and Individual Differences, 213. 112263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112263
  • Scholz, D. D., Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I., Moshagen, M. & Zettler, I. (2022). Beyond (low) Agreeableness: Towards a more comprehensive understanding of antagonistic psychopathology. Journal of personality. 90(6), 956-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12708
  • Kraus, J., Scholz, D., & Baumann, M. (2020). What’s Driving Me? Exploration and Validation of a Hierarchical Personality Model for Trust in Automated Driving. Human factors, 63(6), 1076-1105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720820922653
  • Kraus, J., Scholz, D., Messner, E. M., Messner, M., & Baumann, M. (2020). Scared to Trust?–Predicting Trust in Highly Automated Driving by Depressiveness, Negative Self-Evaluations and State Anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2917. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02917
  • Kraus, J., Scholz, D. , Stiegemeier, D., & Baumann, M. (2019). The more you know: trust dynamics and calibration in highly automated driving and the effects of take-overs, system malfunction, and system transparency. Human factors, 62(5), 718-736. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720819853686

Conference Contributions

Talks
  • Scholz, D. D., Zimmermann, J., Moshagen, M., Zettler, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (2024, 23-25 September). Theoretical and empirical integration of ‘dark’ traits and socially aversive personality psychopathology. 7th Congress of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD), Antwerpen, Belgium
  • Scholz, D., Thielmann, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (2023, 25-27 September). Besinnung auf Gemeinsamkeiten statt Unterschiede: Die Rolle des gemeinsamen Kerns der dark tetrad für aversives Verhalten in Beziehungen. Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society - Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, Salzburg, Austria
  • Scholz, D., Kraus, J. & Miller, L. (2022, 20-23 March). Comparing the structure of Propensity to Trust in Human-Human and Human-Technology interaction. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (Conference of Experimental Psychologists; TEAP), Cologne, Germany
  • Scholz, D., Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I., Moshagen, M., & Zettler, I. (2021, 12-15 September). The Differential Roles of Agreeableness, Honesty Humility and the Dark Factor of Personality for Antagonistic Psychopathology. Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society - Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, Ulm, Germany
Posters
  • Scholz, D. D. & Hilbig, B. E. (2024, 23-25 September). A parsimonious account for the association of socially aversive traits with (interpersonal) personality dysfunction: Four aspects instead of twenty traits.. 7th Congress of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD), Antwerpen, Belgium
  • Scholz, D. (2022, 25-26 November). The dark factor of personality as a common basis for aversive maladaptive traits. SMiP Fall Retreat.
  • Scholz, D. (2021, 08-09 June). Beyond (low) Agreeableness: A closer view on antagonistic psychopathology. Online SMiP-IOPS Conference.

Teaching

Courses taught

  • Winter 2023/24: Basics of web-based programming (seminar; level: M.Sc., language: German)
  • Winter 2023/24: Maladaptive traits as flavored manifestations of their aversive core - Part II (lab-tutorial & methods course; level: B.Sc., language: German)
  • Summer 2023: Maladaptive traits as flavored manifestations of their aversive core - Part I (lab-tutorial & methods course; level: B.Sc., language: German)
  • Winter 2022/23: Justifying beliefs for "dark" personality tendencies - Part II (lab-tutorial & methods course; level: B.Sc., language: German)
  • Summer 2022: Justifying beliefs for "dark" personality tendencies - Part I (lab-tutorial & methods course; level: B.Sc., language: German)
  • Summer 2021: Cognitive psychology (seminar; level: B.Sc., language: German; online)
  • Summer 2019: Statistic tutor for the lecture “Evaluation” by Morten Moshagen (tutorial; level: M.Sc., language: German)

Supervised theses

  • Der Zusammenhang zwischen negativen Lebensereignissen und der Ausprägung im Dark Factor und dessen Moderation/Mediation durch distrust-related Beliefs
  • Der Dunkle Kern der Persönlichkeit und Perfektionismus
  • Eine Untersuchung der zugrundeliegenden Persönlichkeitseigenschaften der Paranoiden Persönlichkeitsstörung: Der dunkle Kern der Persönlichkeit vs. Antagonismus
  • Analyse der Moderation/Mediation des Zusammenhangs von D und dem Herabsetzen von Paarungsrivalen durch Grundüberzeugungen

Vita

Education / Degrees

  • Since 2024: Training in systemic psychological psychotherapy
  • 2024: Ph.D. in Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • 2023: Systemic consultant
  • 2017-2019: M.Sc. Psychology, University of Ulm (advisors: Martin Baumann, Morten Moshagen)
  • 2014-2017: B.Sc. Psychology, University of Ulm (advisor: Martin Baumann)

Research and academic experience

  • Since 2024: PostDoc at the Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)
  • 2022: Lab visit at the University of Copenhagen (Department of Psychology)
  • 2020-2024: Research & teaching assistant at the Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)
  • 2020-2024: Ph.D. Student at the Research Training Group "Statistical Modeling in Psychology" (advisor: Benjamin E. Hilbig)
  • 2018: Visiting Student at the Tokyo Institute of Technology supported by the PROMOS Scholarship Programme
  • 2016-2019: Student assistant at the department of Human Factors (University of Ulm)
  • 2015-2019: Student assistant at the department of Clinical and Health Psychology (University of Ulm)

Award, grants, and scholarships

  • 2024: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • 2023: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • 2022: Open Science Award (Gold) of the Open Science Commission, Department of Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • 2018: PROMOS Scholarship for a master thesis, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), University of Ulm

Memberships

    • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V. (DGPs; The German Psychological Society)
    • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Suchtforschung und Suchttherapie e.V. (DG-Sucht; German society for addiction research and therapy)
    • WEISSER RING e. V.

    Ad-hoc reviews

    • Computers in Human Behavior
    • Current Psychology
    • European Journal of Personality
    • European Journal of Psychological Assessment
    • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
    • Personality and Individual Differences
    • Personality and Mental Health