Alicia Seidl

Research & Teaching Assistant / Ph.D. Student
K Building, Room 2.20
Office hours: by appointment
+49 6341 280 34 239


Research interests      Publications & conference contributions      Teaching      Vita

Research interests

  • Self-knowledge and interventions to promote self-knowledge
  • Willful ignorance
  • (Im)morality, esp. (dis)honesty
  • Behavioral measures for (im)moral behavior, economic games
  • Interindividual differences and personality
  • Online research

Publications

Papers (peer reviewed)

  • Seidl, A., Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I. (in press). A partner in crime: Revisiting the dispositional basis of unethical loyalty. European Journal of Personality.
  • Zickfeld, J., Scigala, K., Elbaek, C. T., Michael, J., Tønnesen, M. T., Levy, G., … Seidl, A., … & Mitkidis, P. (2024). Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02009-0
  • Thielmann, I., Hilbig, B. E., Klein, S. A., Seidl, A., & Heck, D. W. (2024). Cheating to benefit others? On the relation between Honesty‐Humility and prosocial lies. Journal of Personality. http://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12835

Conference Contributions

Presentations

  • Seidl, A. & Thielmann, I. (2025, May 15). See no evil, change no evil? – How self-insight motive and narcissism shape attitudes toward and the effectiveness of interventions to counteract moral self-enhancement. Between narcissism and entitlement: Self-enhancement in a cross-cultural perspective III, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Seidl, A., Hilbig, B. E., & Thielmann, I. (2024, August 8). Who turns a blind eye? – Revisiting the link between HEXACO Honesty-Humility and unethical loyalty. European Conference on Personality (ECP), Berlin, Germany.
  • Seidl, A., Hilbig, B. E., & Thielmann, I. (2024, July 2). Who turns a blind eye? – Investigating the dispositional basis of unethical loyalty. International Conference on Social Dilemmas (ICSD), Leiden, Netherlands.

Posters

  • Seidl, A., Hilbig, B. E., & Thielmann, I. (2023, September 25-27). Who turns a blind eye? – Revisiting the link between HEXACO Honesty-Humility and unethical loyalty. 17th Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society - Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment (DPPD) Section, Salzburg, Austria.

Teaching

Courses

  • Summer 2025: Conflict and Cooperation II: Game theory and individual differences; level: M.Sc., language: German
  • Winter 2024/2025: Lab-tutorial & methods course, part II; level: B.Sc., language: German; topic: Self-knowledge in the moral domain
  • Summer 2024: Lab-tutorial & methods course, part I; level: B.Sc., language: German; topic: Self-knowledge in the moral domain
  • Winter 2023/2024: Lab-tutorial & methods course, part II; level: B.Sc., language: German; topic: Self-knowledge and dishonesty
  • Summer 2023: Lab-tutorial & methods course, part I; level: B.Sc., language: German; topic: Self-knowledge and dishonesty

Supervised theses

  • Vom Helden zum Täter: Der Einfluss des Bekanntheitsgrads auf Unethische Loyalität
  • Impostors im Schutz der Anonymität: Der Zusammenhang zwischen dem Impostor-Phänomen und Feedbacksuche im privaten Feedbackkontext
  • Die Kraft der Selbstreflexion: Die Auswirkungen introspektiver Betrachtung moralischer Eigenschaften auf Selbstkenntnis und Veränderungsziele

Vita

Education / Degrees

  • 2024: Summer School "Research in contemporary criminology", hosted by the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • 2020-2023: M.Sc. Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • 2017-2020: B.Sc. Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau

Research and academic experience

  • Since 2023: Doctoral researcher, Independent Research Group „Personality, Identity, and Crime“, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • Since 2023: Research & teaching assistant / Ph.D. student, Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • 2022-2023: Student research assistant, Independent Research Group „Personality, Identity, and Crime“, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • 2020-2023: Student research assistant, Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau
  • 2020-2021: Student teaching assistant for lab-tutorial & methods course on personality change goals, Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau

Awards, grants, and scholarships

  • 2024: Teaching-Award for part I of the lab-tutorial & methods course on the topic of self-knowledge in the moral domain
  • 2024: Open Science Award (Gold) from the Open Science Commission (Department of Psychology, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau)