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Morten Moshagen

Morten Moshagen

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Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
7470
World Ranking
7550
National Ranking
361

Overview

Morten Moshagen is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

They have contributed extensively to the field with 103 publications in psychology. Their work spans several main topics, including personality traits and psychology, personality disorders and psychopathology, social and intergroup psychology, psychometric methodologies and testing, mental health research topics, digital mental health interventions, and advanced statistical modeling techniques.

The scientist has authored several recent papers, notably:

  • "The Nomological Net of the HEXACO Model of Personality: A Large-Scale Meta-Analytic Investigation," 2020, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "A tutorial on assessing statistical power and determining sample size for structural equation models," 2021, published in Psychological Methods
  • "semPower: General power analysis for structural equation models," 2023, published in Behavior Research Methods
  • "The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria," 2021, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "On the Comparability of Basic Personality Models: Meta-Analytic Correspondence, Scope, and Orthogonality of the Big Five and HEXACO Dimensions," 2021, published in European Journal of Personality

Morten Moshagen's frequent collaborators include:

  • Ingo Zettler
  • Benjamin E. Hilbig
  • Martina Bader
  • Isabel Thielmann
  • Luisa K. Horsten

Their work is regularly published in leading psychology journals. The most common publication venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal
  • BMJ Open

Best Publications

  • Facets of visual aesthetics

    Morten Moshagen;Meinald T. Thielsch

  • The dark core of personality.

    Morten Moshagen;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • multiTree: A computer program for the analysis of multinomial processing tree models.

    Morten Moshagen

  • Multinomial processing tree models: A review of the literature.

    Edgar Erdfelder;Tina-Sarah Auer;Benjamin E. Hilbig;André Aßfalg

  • How to determine the number of factors to retain in exploratory factor analysis: A comparison of extraction methods under realistic conditions.

    Max Auerswald;Morten Moshagen

  • A New Strategy for Testing Structural Equation Models

    Morten Moshagen;Edgar Erdfelder

  • The Nomological Net of the HEXACO Model of Personality: A Large-Scale Meta-Analytic Investigation.

    Ingo Zettler;Isabel Thielmann;Benjamin E Hilbig;Morten Moshagen

  • A blessing, not a curse: Experimental evidence for beneficial effects of visual aesthetics on performance.

    Morten Moshagen;Jochen Musch;Anja S. Göritz

  • semPower: General power analysis for structural equation models

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  • Faktorenstruktur, psychometrische Eigenschaften und Messinvarianz der deutschsprachigen Version des 60- Item HEXACO Persönlichkeitsinventars

    Morten Moshagen;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • A tutorial on assessing statistical power and determining sample size for structural equation models.

    Lisa J. Jobst;Martina Bader;Morten Moshagen

  • A short version of the visual aesthetics of websites inventory

    Morten Moshagen;Meinald Thielsch

  • Sample Size Requirements of the Robust Weighted Least Squares Estimator

    Morten Moshagen;Morten Moshagen;Jochen Musch

  • Measuring the Dark Core of Personality

    Morten Moshagen;Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Who Lies? A Large-Scale Reanalysis Linking Basic Personality Traits to Unethical Decision Making

    Daniel W. Heck;Isabel Thielmann;Morten Moshagen;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria

    Ingo Zettler;Christoph Schild;Christoph Schild;Lau Lilleholt;Lara Kroencke

  • A randomized-response investigation of the education effect in attitudes towards foreigners

    Martin Ostapczuk;Jochen Musch;Morten Moshagen

  • Tracing the path from personality – via cooperativeness – to conservation

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler;Morten Moshagen;Timo Heydasch

  • Dishonest responding or true virtue? A behavioral test of impression management

    Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Morten Moshagen;Reinout E. de Vries

  • Reducing socially desirable responses in epidemiologic surveys: an extension of the randomized-response technique.

    Morten Moshagen;Jochen Musch;Martin Ostapczuk;Zengmei Zhao

  • On the Comparability of Basic Personality Models: Meta-Analytic Correspondence, Scope, and Orthogonality of the Big Five and HEXACO Dimensions:

    Isabel Thielmann;Morten Moshagen;BenjaminE. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • Meta-analytic investigations of the HEXACO Personality Inventory(-Revised): Reliability generalization, self-observer agreement, intercorrelations, and relations to demographic variables

    Morten Moshagen;Isabel Thielmann;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • Patterns of alcohol expectancies and alcohol use across age and gender

    Jennifer Nicolai;Morten Moshagen;Ralf Demmel

  • The comprehensive alcohol expectancy questionnaire: confirmatory factor analysis, scale refinement, and further validation.

    Jennifer Nicolai;Ralf Demmel;Morten Moshagen

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin E. Hilbig
Benjamin E. Hilbig University of Koblenz and Landau
Ingo Zettler
Ingo Zettler University of Copenhagen
Jochen Musch
Jochen Musch Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Edgar Erdfelder
Edgar Erdfelder University of Mannheim
Oliver Wilhelm
Oliver Wilhelm University of Ulm
Harald Baumeister
Harald Baumeister University of Ulm
David Daniel Ebert
David Daniel Ebert Technical University of Munich
Jon D. Elhai
Jon D. Elhai University of Toledo
Cornelia Sindermann
Cornelia Sindermann University of Ulm
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau

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