Publications

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Key Publications

Thielmann, I. (2023). (Re)considering personality in criminological research. Crime and Justice, 52(1), 395–445. https://doi.org/10.1086/726781 

Thielmann, I., Back, M. D., Bleidorn, W., Bukowski, H., Carlson, E. N., Dufner, M., Hofer, G., Hofmann, W., Hopwood, C. J., Human, L. J., Jordan, C. H., Krueger, J. I., Langdon, J., Rau, R., Smillie, L. D., Strohminger, N., Sun, J., Vazire, S., Burghart, M., Casali, N., & Seidl, A. (2026). A consensus statement on self-knowledge conceptualization, measurement, outcomes, and changeability. Nature Reviews Psychology, 5,  338–351. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-026-00554-1

Thielmann, I., Böhm, R., Ott, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2021). Economic games: An introduction and guide for research. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1), 19004. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.19004 

Thielmann, I., & De Vries, R. E. (2021). Who wants to change and how? On the trait-specificity of personality change goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 121(5), 1112–1139. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000304 

Thielmann, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (2015). Trust: An integrative review from a person-situation perspective. Review of General Psychology, 19(3), 249-277. https://doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000046 

Thielmann, I., Hilbig, B. E., Schild, C., & Heck, D. W. (2025). Cheat, cheat, repeat: On the consistency of dishonest behavior in structurally comparable situations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(5), 1209–1225. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000540

Thielmann, I., Hilbig, B. E., & Zettler, I. (2020). Seeing me, seeing you: Testing competing accounts of assumed similarity in personality judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(1), 172–198. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000222

Thielmann, I., Rau, R., & Locke, K. D. (2023). Trait-specificity versus global positivity: A critical test of alternative sources of assumed similarity in personality judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(4), 828–847. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000420 
(selected as APA Editor's Choice paper)

Thielmann, I., Spadaro, G., & Balliet, D. (2020). Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 146(1), 30–90. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000217 

Yelbuz, B. E., & Thielmann, I. (2026). The dispositional basis of selective prosociality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 131(1), 160–182.  

https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000583

Zettler, I.*, Thielmann, I.*, Hilbig, B. E., & Moshagen, M. (2020). The nomological net of the HEXACO model of personality: A large-scale meta-analytic investigation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(3), 723-760. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619895036. [*shared first authorship]