Leon Wendt
Research Assistant, Section: Individual Differences and Personality Psychology
- Site
- Holländische Straße 36-38
34127 Kassel
- Room
- Holländische 36-38, Raum 3111
Academic and professional career
since 2018 | Research Assistant (University of Kassel, Differential Psychology) |
2017-2018 | Research Associate (Berlin School of Psychology, Methodology and Psychological Diagnostics) |
2017 | M.Sc. Psych. (Berlin School of Psychology) |
2015 | B.Sc. Psych. (University of Potsdam) |
Teaching activities
2019 - 2021 | Applied Research Methods in R - Latent Variable Models (M. Sc.) |
2018 - 2021 | Applied Research Methods in R - Introduction and Multivariate Methods (M. Sc.) |
2018 - 2022 | Computational Data Analysis II (B. Sc.) |
2018 | Current developments in psychological methodology (M. Sc.) |
2015 - 2018 | Multivariate Statistics and Data Analysis (M. Sc.) |
Professional memberships
Association for Research in Personality (ARP)since 2019
Society for Interpersonal Research and Theory (SITAR)since 2018
Awards
2018 Jerry S. Wiggins Student Award for Outstanding Interpersonal Research (Society for Interpersonal Research and Theory) 2017 Young Investigator Award Master Project (Förderverein der Psychologischen Hochschule Berlin).
Reviewer activity
Cognition and Emotion, European Journal of Psychological Assessment, European Journal of Personality, Journal of Personality Assessment, Personality and Mental Health, Psychopathology, Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, Psychotherapy - Psychosomatics - Medical Psychology
Journal article
Zimmermann, J., Falk, C. F., Wendt, L. P., Spitzer, C., Fischer, F., Bach, B., Sellbom, M., & Müller, S. (in press). Validating the German version of the Personality Disorder Severity-ICD-11 scale using nominal response models. Psychological Assessment.
Müller, S., Wendt, L. P., Schicktanz, P., Hopwood, C. J., & Zimmermann, J. (in press). Development and validation of a German Interpersonal Sensitivities Circumplex (ISC-G): A self-report measure of perceived aversive behaviors of others. European Journal of Psychological Assessment.
Wendt, L. P., Jankowsky, K., Schroeders, U., London Personality and Mood Disorder Research Consortium, Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., ... Olaru, G. (2022). Mapping established psychopathology scales onto HiTOP. Personality and Mental Health. Advance online publication. doi. org/10.1002/pmh.1566
Kadur, J., Huber, D., Klug, G., Müller, S., Wendt, L. P., & Andreas, S. (2022). Passing patients' tests - But how? An analysis of therapists' helping skills in response to patient testing. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication. doi. org/10.1037/cou0000631
Müller, S.*, Wendt, L. P.*, Spitzer, C., Masuhr, O., Back, S. N., & Zimmermann, J. (2022). A critical evaluation of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ). Journal of Personality Assessment, 104, 613-627. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2021.1981346 [* shared first authorship].
Müller, S.*, Wendt, L. P.*, & Zimmermann, J. (2021). Development and validation of the Certainty About Mental States Questionnaire (CAMSQ): A self-report measure of mentalizing oneself and others. Assessment. Advance online publication. doi. org/10.1177/10731911211061280 [* shared first authorship].
Spitzer, C., Zimmermann, J., Luyten, P., Fonagy, P., Brähler, E., Euler, S., & Wendt, L.P.*, & Müller, S.* (2021). The German version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ): A test-statistical review in the general population [The German version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ): A psychometric evaluation in the general population]. Psychotherapy - Psychosomatics - Medical Psychology, 71(03/04), 124-131. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1234-6317 [* shared last authorship] .
Wendt, L. P., Wright, A. G. C., Pilkonis, P. A., Woods, W. W., Denissen, J., Kühnel, A., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). Indicators of affect dynamics: Structure, reliability, and personality correlates. European Journal of Personality, 34(6), 1060-1072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.2277
Wendt, L. P., Wright, A. G. C., Pilkonis, P. A., Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R.,Benecke, C., Krieger, T., & Zimmermann, J. (2019). The latent structure of interpersonal problems: Validity of dimensional, categorical, and hybrid models. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128, 823-839. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/abn0000460
Congress Papers
| September 2022, Hildesheim, Germany | Müller, S., Wendt, L. P., Kerber, A., & Zimmermann, J. (2022, September 10-15). Maladaptive personality trait change during the COVID-19 pandemic in the German general population [poster presentation]. 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Hildesheim, Germany. |
| July 2022, Online, Madrid, Germany | Wendt, L. P.*, & Müller, S.* (2022, July 14-17). Jingle fallacies in the conceptualization and assessment of mentalizing [conference talk]. 20th European Conference on Personality (ECP), Madrid, Spain. [* shared first authorship] |
| May 2022, Online, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. | HiTOP 2022 Meeting (Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Consortium). Wendt, L. P., Jankowsky, K., Schroeders, U., London Personality and Mood Disorder Research Consortium, Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., ... Olaru, G. (2022). Mapping established psychopathology scales onto HiTOP. |
September 2021, Online, Ulm, Germany. | 16th Conference on Personality and Psychological Assessment (DPPD). Wendt, L. P.*, Müller, S.* Individual and group differences in political attitudes and polarization: A cross-cultural comparison between the US and Germany. [*shared first authorship] |
June 2021, Online, Seattle, Washington, USA | 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Research and Theory (SITAR). Müller, S.*, Wendt, L. P.*, Zimmermann, J. Being sure about oneself - but not too sure about others - is a feature of healthy personality functioning. [*shared first authorship] |
September 2019, Dresden, Germany | 15th Conference on Personality and Psychological Assessment (DPPD). Wendt, L. P., Wright, A. G. C., Pilkonis, P. A., Woods, W. W., Denissen, J., Kühnel, A., & Zimmermann, J. The structure of emotional dynamics in daily life. |
June 2019 Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. | Association for Research in Personality Conference 2019 Wendt, L. P.,Wright, A. G. C., Pilkonis, P. A., Woods, W. W., Denissen, J., Kühnel, A., & Zimmermann, J. The structure of emotional daily dynamics. |
June 2018 Montréal, Québec, Canada. | 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Research and Theory (SITAR). Wendt, L. P., Wright, A. G. C., Pilkonis, P. A., Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., Benecke, C., Krieger, T., & Zimmermann, J. The latent structure of interpersonal problems: Comparing structural and concurrent validity of dimensional and categorical models. |