Leon Wendt
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Fachgebiet Differentielle Psychologie
- l.wendt[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
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- Holländische Straße 36-38
34127 Kassel
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- Holländische 36-38, Raum 3111
Akademischer und beruflicher Werdegang
Seit 2024 | Postdoc (Universität Kassel, Differentielle und Persönlichkeitspsychologie) |
2024 | Promotion (Universität Kassel, Differentielle und Persönlichkeitspsychologie) |
2018 - 2024 | Doktorand (Universität Kassel, Differentielle und Persönlichkeitspsychologie) |
2017 - 2018 | Wiss. Mitarbeiter (Psychologische Hochschule Berlin, Methodenlehre und Psychologische Diagnostik) |
Lehrtätigkeiten
2018 - 2024 | Computergestützte Datenanalyse II |
2019 - 2021 | Angewandte Forschungsmethoden in R - Latente Variablenmodelle |
2018 - 2021 | Angewandte Forschungsmethoden in R - Einführung und multivariate Verfahren |
2018 | Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Psychologischen Methodenlehre |
2015 - 2018 | Multivariate Statistik und Datenanalyse |
Professionelle Mitgliedschaften
Association for Research in Personality (ARP)
Society for Interpersonal Research and Theory (SITAR)
European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)
Auszeichnungen
Jerry S. Wiggins Student Award for Outstanding Interpersonal Research (Society for Interpersonal Research and Theory)
Nachwuchsförderpreis Masterprojekt (Förderverein der Psychologischen Hochschule Berlin)
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Australian Psychologist
British Journal of Clinical Psychology
Cognition and Emotion
Communications Psychology
European Journal of Personality
European Journal of Psychological Assessment
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Journal of Personality Assessment
Personality and Mental Health
Psychological Test Adaptation and Development
Psychopathology
Psychotherapie - Psychosomatik - Medizinische Psychologie
Artikel in Fachzeitschriften & Preprints
Preprints & In press | Wendt, L. P., Kerber, A., Müller, S., & Zimmermann, J. (2024). Maladaptive personality trait change during the first eight months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the German general population. PsyArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n8yek
Wendt, L. P., Klein, E. M, Benecke, C., Singer, S., Dotzauer, L., Engesser, D., van Haaren, Y., & Zimmermann, J. (2024). Clinical utility of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale: A survey of German mental health professionals. PsyArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/u9ycr
Zimmermann, J., Wendt, L. P., Edelhoff, H., Wierzba, E., Fleck, L., Cicero, D. C., & Reininghaus, U. (2024). Development and initial evaluation of the German version of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Self-Report (HiTOP-SR). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dc8u6
Leistner, M., Hommel, B. E., Wendt, L. P., & Leising, D. (2024). Properties of Person Descriptors in the Natural German Language: A Preregistered Replication and Extension. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/s8h7u |
2024 | Kerber, A., Ehrenthal, J., Zimmermann, J., Remmers, C., Nolte, T., Wendt, L. P., Heim, P., Müller, S., Beintner, I., & Knaevelsrud, C. (2024). Examining the role of personality functioning in a hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology using two years of ambulatory assessed data. Translational Psychiatry, 14, 340. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-03046-z
Wendt, L. P. (2024). Exploring and validating construct interpretations of psychological measurements [Doctoral dissertation, University of Kassel]. KOBRA [Kasseler Online Bibliothek, Repository und Archiv]. https://doi.org/10.17170/kobra-2024070110450
Wendt, L. P., Zimmermann, J., Spitzer, C., Müller, S. (2024). Mindreading measures misread? A multimethod investigation into the validity of self-report and task-based approaches. Psychological Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001310 [Postprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/maq5p]
Krasniqi, C.*, Müller, S.*, Wendt, L. P., Fischer, F., Spitzer, C., & Zimmermann, J. (2024). Measuring maladaptive personality traits with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Screening Questionnaire using a common metrics approach. Personality and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1607 [* shared first authorship]
Müller, S., Wendt, L. P., Schicktanz, P., Hopwood, C. J., & Zimmermann, J. (2024). 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, 40(2), 146–157 . https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000737 |
2023 | Wendt, L. P., Jankowsky, K., Schroeders, London Personality and Mood Disorder Research Consortium, U., Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., Zimmermann, J., & Olaru, G. (2023). Mapping established psychopathology scales onto HiTOP. Personality and Mental Health, 17, 117–134. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1566
Zimmermann, J., Falk, C. F., Wendt, L. P., Spitzer, C., Fischer, F., Bach, B., Sellbom, M., & Müller, S. (2023). Validating the German version of the Personality Disorder Severity-ICD-11 Scale using nominal response models. Psychological Assessment, 35(3), 257–268. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001199
Müller, S.*, Wendt, L. P.*, & Zimmermann, J. (2023). Development and validation of the Certainty About Mental States Questionnaire (CAMSQ): A self-report measure of mentalizing oneself and others. Assessment, 30(3), 651–674. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911211061280[*shared first authorship] |
2022 | 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, 103(5), 613–627. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2021.1981346 [*shared first authorship]
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, 69(6), 845–852. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000631 |
2021 | Spitzer, C., Zimmermann, J., Brähler, E., Euler, S., Wendt, L. P.*, & Müller, S.* (2021). Die deutsche Version des Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ): Eine teststatistische Überprüfung in der Allgemeinbevölkerung. PPmP-Psychotherapie-Psychosomatik-Medizinische Psychologie, 71(03/04), 124–131. [The German version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ): A psychometric evaluation in the general population]. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1234-6317[*shared last authorship] |
2020 | 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 |
2019 | 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 |
Eingeladene Vorträge
2023 | Wendt, L. P. (2023, July 31) How valid are self-reports and tasks in measuring mindreading ability? [Invited presentation]. RJM Lab Meeting, Evanston, Illinois. [Online] |
Kongressbeiträge
2024 | Wendt, L. P., Müller, S., Kolle, C., Scharf, F. & Zimmermann, J. (2024, August 6–9). A Method for Adjudicating Among Competing Factor Interpretations Using Substantive Validity Ratings by Laypersons and Artificial Intelligence [Paper presentation]. 21st European Conference on Personality (ECP21), Berlin, Germany. |
2023 | Wendt, L. P., Müller, S., Kolle, C., Scharf, F. & Zimmermann, J. (2023, September 24–27). A method for adjudicating among competing factor interpretations using substantive validity ratings [Paper presentation]. 17th Conference on Personality and Psychological Assessment (DPPD), Salzburg, Austria.
Wendt, L. P., Klein, E. M., Benecke, C., Singer, S., Maier, L., Engesser, D., van Haaren, Y., & Zimmermann, J. (2023, Mai 9–13). How useful is a dimensional perspective on differences in personality functioning for clinical practice? Results from a survey of psychotherapists [Paper presentation]. In E. Jauk & C. Remmers (Chair), Dimensional models of personality and psychopathology: Current developments and empirical findings from basic research and psychotherapy research. 3. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, Berlin, Deutschland. |
2022 | 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.
Wendt, L. P.*, & Müller, S.* (2022, July 12–15). Jingle fallacies in the conceptualization and assessment of mentalizing. In E. Altgassen (Chair), Jingle-jangle fallacies in clinical hot topic constructs and how to overcome them [Symposium]. 20th European Conference on Personality (ECP), Madrid, Spain. [Online]
Wendt, L. P., Jankowsky, K., Schroeders, U., London Personality and Mood Disorder Research Consortium, Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Zimmermann, J., & Olaru, G. (2022, May 4–5). Mapping established psychopathology scales onto HiTOP [Paper presentation]. 2022 HiTOP (Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Consortium) Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. [Online] |
2021 | Wendt, L. P.*, & Müller, S.* (2021, September 12–15). Individual and group differences in political attitudes and polarization: A cross-cultural comparison between the US and Germany [Paper presentation]. 16th Conference on Personality and Psychological Assessment (DPPD), Ulm, Germany.
Müller, S.*, Wendt, L. P.*, & Zimmermann, J. (2021, June 18–19). Being sure about oneself – but not too sure about others – is a feature of healthy personality functioning [Paper presentation]. Society for Interpersonal Research and Theory (SITAR) 24th Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, United States. [Online] |
2019 | Wendt, L. P.,Wright, A. G. C., Pilkonis, P. A., Woods, W. W., Denissen, J., Kühnel, A., & Zimmermann, J. (2019, June 27–29). The structure of emotional daily dynamics [Paper presentation]. Association for Research in Personality Conference 2019, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.
Wendt, L. P., Wright, A. G. C., Pilkonis, P. A., Woods, W. W., Denissen, J., Kühnel, A., & Zimmermann, J. (2019, September 16–18). The structure of emotional daily dynamics [Paper presentation]. 15th Conference on Personality and Psychological Assessment (DPPD), Dresden, Germany. |
2018 | Wendt, L. P., Wright, A. G. C., Pilkonis, P. A., Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., Benecke, C., Krieger, T., & Zimmermann, J. (2018, June 22–23). The latent structure of interpersonal problems: Comparing structural and concurrent validity of dimensional and categorical models [Paper presentation]. Society for Interpersonal Research and Theory (SITAR) 21st Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada. |