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Johannes Zimmermann

Johannes Zimmermann

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Psychology

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52
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10370
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231

Overview

Johannes Zimmermann is affiliated with the University of Kassel in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with an emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, philosophy, applied psychology, and social psychology.

Their work covers a variety of topics related to personality and mental health. Key topics include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Zimmermann has contributed to a number of publications, appearing in several prominent academic journals and datasets. Frequent publication venues include:

  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Journal of Personality Assessment
  • Psychological Assessment

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits" (2020), European Journal of Personality
  • "International Assessment of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Personality Disorder Traits: Toward a Common Nosology in DSM-5.1" (2020), Psychopathology
  • "Personality trait stability and change" (2021), Personality Science
  • "Development of a Short and ICD-11 Compatible Measure for DSM-5 Maladaptive Personality Traits Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms" (2020), Assessment
  • "Longitudinal Experience-Wide Association Studies-A Framework for Studying Personality Change" (2020), European Journal of Personality

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Zimmermann include:

  • Christopher J. Hopwood
  • Leon Patrick Wendt
  • Aidan G.C. Wright
  • André Kerber
  • Carsten Spitzer

Zimmermann has also published a book titled Gemeinde, Mission und Transformation (2020) through Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Best Publications

  • Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology

    Robert F. Krueger;Roman Kotov;David Watson;Miriam K. Forbes

  • A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research

    Christopher C. Conway;Miriam K. Forbes;Kelsie T. Forbush;Eiko I. Fried

  • The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson

  • Integrating the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) into clinical practice

    Camilo J. Ruggero;Roman Kotov;Christopher J. Hopwood;Michael First

  • A Brief but Comprehensive Review of Research on the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders.

    Johannes Zimmermann;André Kerber;Katharina Rek;Christopher J. Hopwood

  • Measuring depression with a well-being index: Further evidence for the validity of the WHO Well-Being Index (WHO-5) as a measure of the severity of depression

    Tobias Krieger;Johannes Zimmermann;Silke Huffziger;Bettina Ubl

  • The policy relevance of personality traits

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Patrick L. Hill;Mitja D. Back;Jaap J. A. Denissen

  • Baseline predictors for progression 4 years after Parkinson's disease diagnosis in the De Novo Parkinson Cohort (DeNoPa)

    Brit Mollenhauer;Johannes Zimmermann;Friederike Sixel-Döring;Niels K Focke

  • Assessing the level of structural integration using operationalized psychodynamic diagnosis (OPD): implications for DSM-5.

    Johannes Zimmermann;Johannes C. Ehrenthal;Manfred Cierpka;Henning Schauenburg

  • The structure and correlates of self-reported DSM-5 maladaptive personality traits: findings from two German-speaking samples.

    Johannes Zimmermann;David Altenstein;Tobias Krieger;Martin Grosse Holtforth

  • Applied ambulatory assessment: Integrating idiographic and nomothetic principles of measurement.

    Aidan G C Wright;Johannes Zimmermann

  • Attachment-related mentalization moderates the relationship between psychopathic traits and proactive aggression in adolescence

    Svenja Taubner;Lars O. White;Johannes Zimmermann;Peter Fonagy

  • Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits:

    Rene Mottus;Rene Mottus;Dustin Wood;David Condon;Mitja D. Back

  • Transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: change in reflective function

    Melitta Fischer-Kern;Stephan Doering;Svenja Taubner;Susanne Hörz

  • Internal structure of the Reflective Functioning Scale.

    Svenja Taubner;Susanne Hörz;Melitta Fischer-Kern;Stephan Doering

  • Criterion A of the AMPD in HiTOP

    Thomas A. Widiger;Bo Bach;Michael Chmielewski;Lee Anna Clark

  • Me, myself, and I: self-referent word use as an indicator of self-focused attention in relation to depression and anxiety

    Timo Brockmeyer;Johannes Zimmermann;Dominika Kulessa;Martin Hautzinger

  • International Assessment of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Personality Disorder Traits: Toward a Common Nosology in DSM-5.1

    Bo Bach;André Kerber;Anton Aluja;Tim Bastiaens

  • Infrahepatic inferior vena cava clamping for reduction of central venous pressure and blood loss during hepatic resection: a randomized controlled trial.

    Nuh N. Rahbari;Moritz Koch;Johannes B. Zimmermann;Heike Elbers

  • Assessing DSM–5 Level of Personality Functioning From Videotaped Clinical Interviews: A Pilot Study With Untrained and Clinically Inexperienced Students

    Johannes Zimmermann;Cord Benecke;Donna S. Bender;Andrew E. Skodol

  • Monitoring of 30 marker candidates in early Parkinson disease as progression markers.

    Brit Mollenhauer;Johannes Zimmermann;Friederike Sixel-Döring;Niels K. Focke

  • The latent structure of personality functioning: Investigating criterion a from the alternative model for personality disorders in DSM-5.

    Johannes Zimmermann;Jan R Böhnke;Rhea Eschstruth;Alessa Mathews

Frequent Co-Authors

Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Christopher J. Hopwood
Christopher J. Hopwood University of Zurich
Martin Grosse Holtforth
Martin Grosse Holtforth University of Bern
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
Bo Bach
Bo Bach University of Copenhagen
Carsten Spitzer
Carsten Spitzer University of Rostock
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt Oklahoma State University
David C. Cicero
David C. Cicero University of North Texas
David Watson
David Watson University of Notre Dame
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University

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