Leon Wendt

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Fachgebiet Differentielle Psychologie

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Holländische Straße 36-38
34127 Kassel
Raum
Holländische 36-38, Raum 3111

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Julie Frodyma
Tel.: +49 561 804-2951
Mail: julie.frodyma@uni-kassel.de

Aktuelles

Neueste Veröffentlichung; erschienen in Psychological Assessment:

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.

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. PsyArxivhttps://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). PsyArXivhttps://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 Psychiatry14, 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 Assessmenthttps://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

2021Spitzer, 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]
2020Wendt, 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.

2018Wendt, 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.