Consultation Hours

Meetings can currently only be requested by email and held via zoom.

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Further information

Education

since

05/2022

Research Scientist, Psychological Assessment, University of Kassel

01/2022 - 

04/2022

Interdisciplinary Studies, Capilano University, North Vancouver, Canada
03/2022Master in Psychology (M.Sc.), University of Kassel
09/2019Bachelor in Psychology (B.Sc.), University of Kassel

Professional Experience

04/2020 - 

12/2021

Student Research Assistant, Psychological Assessment, University of Kassel

03/2021 - 

05/2021

Internship Management Consulting with Focus on Psychometric Assessment, Saville & Holdsworth Limited (Germany), Frankfurt

06/2019 - 

03/2020

Student Research Assistant, Chair of Public Management, University of Kassel

 

  • Assessment of receptive language ability
  • Use of machine learning in personality and performance assessment
  • Developmental trajectories of cognitive performance 

Preprints

  • Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Trautwein, T., Lenhard, W., & Schroeders, U. (2024, July). Balancing between categorical and dimensional assessment in short-scale construction using Ant Colony Optimization. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c54pg 
  • Schroeders, U., Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Hörnig, F., & Olaru, G. (2023, May 22). Development and validation of a corpus-based vocabulary measure for the German language. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xy4bp

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Steger, D., Wilhelm, O., & Schroeders, U. (2023). Public events knowledge in an age-heterogeneous sample: Reminiscence bump or bummer? Psychology and Aging, 39(1), 72–87. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000786 
  • Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Kushnereva, E., Miksch, H., Stumme., J., Heim, S., & Ebersbach, M. (2023). Multilingualism is associated with small task-specific advantages in cognitive performance of older adults. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 16912. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43961-7  
  • Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Olaru, G., & Schroeders, U. (2021). Coffee or tea? Examining cross-cultural differences in personality nuances across former colonies of the British Empire. European Journal of Personality, 35(3), 383–397. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890207020962327