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Overview

Matthias Ziegler is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany and specializes primarily in the field of Psychology. Their research spans several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Applied Psychology.

Their body of work covers a number of main topics, including:

  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

Matthias Ziegler has contributed to several recent papers published in notable journals. These include:

  • "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)
  • "Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures" (2020, European Journal of Personality)
  • "Confirmatory Factor Analyses in Psychological Test Adaptation and Development" (2023, Psychological Test Adaptation and Development)
  • "Unveiling an exclusive link: Predicting behavior with personality, situation perception, and affect in a preregistered experience sampling study." (2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • "Bottom Up Construction of a Personality Taxonomy" (2020, European Journal of Psychological Assessment)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Kai T. Horstmann
  • Samuel Greiff
  • Dragoș Iliescu
  • Lena Lämmle
  • Mitja D. Back

Matthias Ziegler often publishes in the following venues:

  • European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Psychological Test Adaptation and Development
  • Personality and Individual Differences

Best Publications

  • Is It Really Robust

    Emanuel Schmider;Matthias Ziegler;Erik Danay;Luzi Beyer

  • Statistik für Psychologen und Sozialwissenschaftler

    Markus Bühner;Matthias Ziegler

  • The Situational Eight DIAMONDS: a taxonomy of major dimensions of situation characteristics.

    John F. Rauthmann;David Gallardo-Pujol;Esther M. Guillaume;Elysia Todd

  • Masking misfit in confirmatory factor analysis by increasing unique variances: a cautionary note on the usefulness of cutoff values of fit indices.

    Moritz Heene;Sven Hilbert;Clemens Draxler;Matthias Ziegler

  • Short Scales – Five Misunderstandings and Ways to Overcome Them

    Matthias Ziegler;Christoph J. Kemper;Peter Kruyen

  • Openness, fluid intelligence, and crystallized intelligence: Toward an integrative model

    Matthias Ziegler;Erik Danay;Moritz Heene;Jens Asendorpf

  • New perspectives on faking in personality assessment.

    Matthias Ziegler;Carolyn MacCann;Richard D. Roberts

  • Modeling Socially Desirable Responding and Its Effects.

    Matthias Ziegler;Markus Buehner

  • 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

  • Psychiatrists' use of shared decision making in the treatment of schizophrenia: patient characteristics and decision topics.

    Johannes Hamann;Rosmarie Mendel;Rudolf Cohen;Stephan Heres

  • Testing the Unidimensionality of Items

    Matthias Ziegler;Dirk Hagemann

  • Cognitive abilities and their interplay: Reasoning, crystallized intelligence, working memory components, and sustained attention.

    Markus Buehner;Stefan Krumm;Matthias Ziegler;Tonja Pluecken

  • Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures

    Kai Tobias Horstmann;Matthias Ziegler

  • Working memory, visual–spatial-intelligence and their relationship to problem-solving

    Markus Bühner;Stephan Kröner;Matthias Ziegler

  • Predicting academic success with the Big 5 rated from different points of view: Self‐rated, other rated and faked:

    Matthias Ziegler;Erik Danay;Franziska Schölmerich;Markus Bühner

  • Confirmatory Factor Analyses in Psychological Test Adaptation and Development

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  • Fakability of different measurement methods for achievement motivation: Questionnaire, semi-projective, and objective.

    Matthias Ziegler;Lothar Schmidt-Atzert;Markus Bühner;Stefan Krumm

  • Stop and State Your Intentions! Let's Not Forget the ABC of Test Construction

    Matthias Ziegler

  • Short Versus Long Scales in Clinical Assessment: Exploring the Trade-Off Between Resources Saved and Psychometric Quality Lost Using Two Measures of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms.

    Christoph J Kemper;Stefanie Trapp;Norbert Kathmann;Douglas B Samuel

  • Openness as a buffer against cognitive decline: The Openness-Fluid-Crystallized-Intelligence (OFCI) model applied to late adulthood.

    Matthias Ziegler;Anja Cengia;Patrick Mussel;Denis Gerstorf

  • Reasoning and Working Memory as Predictors of School Grades.

    Stefan Krumm;Matthias Ziegler;Markus Buehner

  • The Relation of Personality and Intelligence-What Can the Brunswik Symmetry Principle Tell Us?

    André Kretzschmar;Marion Spengler;Anna-Lena Schubert;Ricarda Steinmayr

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Bühner
Markus Bühner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
John F. Rauthmann
John F. Rauthmann Bielefeld University
David C. Funder
David C. Funder University of California, Riverside
Mitja D. Back
Mitja D. Back University of Münster
René Mõttus
René Mõttus University of Edinburgh
Delroy L. Paulhus
Delroy L. Paulhus University of British Columbia
Ryne A. Sherman
Ryne A. Sherman Florida Atlantic University
Carolyn MacCann
Carolyn MacCann University of Sydney
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau

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