Dr. Luisa Horsten

Dr. Luisa Horsten

SMiP Cohort 2018

Primary Advisor:   Prof. Benjamin Hilbig, Ph.D. (University of Koblenz-Landau)

Additional Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Lischetzke, Prof. Dr. Edgar Erdfelder

Dissertation Thesis: Manoeuvering through the jangle jungle. What is the common core of aversive personality traits (not)?

Degree: Dr. phil., received from the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau in May 2023

First Placement: Postdoctoral researcher at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (more)

  • Research Areas

    • Personality and Individual Differences
    • Models of Personality Structure
    • Dark Factor of Personality
  • Publications

    Horsten, L. K., Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I., Zettler, I., & Moshagen, M. (in press). Fast, but not so furious. On the distinctiveness of a fast life history strategy and the common core of aversive traits. Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5335

    Bader, M.*, Horsten, L. K.*, Hilbig, B. E., & Zettler, I., & Moshagen, M. (2022). Measuring the dark core of personality in German: Psychometric properties, measurement invariance, predictive validity, and self-other agreement. Journal of Personality Assessment, 104, 660–637. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2021.1984931 [*shared first-authorship]

    Hilbig, B. E., Moshagen, M., Horsten, L. K., & Zettler, I. (2021). Agreeableness is dead. Long live Agreeableness? Reply to Vize and Lynam. Journal of Research in Personality, 91, 104074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104074

    Horsten, L. K., Moshagen, M., Zettler, I., & Hilbig, B. E., (2021). Theoretical and empirical dissociations between the Dark Factor of Personality and low Honesty-Humility. Journal of Research in Personality, 95, 104154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104154

    Moshagen, M., Zettler, I., Horsten, L. K., & Hilbig, B. E. (2020). Agreeableness and the common core of dark traits are functionally different constructs. Journal of Research in Personality, 87, 103986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103986

  • Talks

    Horsten, L., Klein, S. A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2022, July). The effect of minimum contribution levels on voluntary pro-environmental behavior. 19th International Conference on Social Dilemmas. Copenhagen, Denmark.

    Horsten, L., Klein, S. A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2022, January). The effect of environmental versus social framing on pro-environmental behavior. RKTS Workshop: An EASP community of Environmental Social Psychologists. Online.

    Horsten, L., Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I., Zettler, I., & Moshagen, M. (2021, September). On the distinction between D and a fast life history strategy. Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society – Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section. Ulm, Germany.

    Horsten, L. (2020). Further dissociations of D from other purported common cores of aversive traits. Small Group Meeting “The Dark Core of Personality“. Landau, Germany.

    Horsten, L., Henninger, F., & Hilbig, B. (2018, March). Beyond mean comparisons: a model based process-level comparison of online and laboratory based experimental data. 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. Marburg, Germany. Data and material

    Bacherle, P., Grosswardt, C., Horsten, L., Kraft, V., & Tiede, K. (2013, September). Watching television as an Emotional Episode? Application of the Peak-End-Rule to the Reception of TV-Shows. 8th Conference of the Media Psychology Division. Würzburg, Germany.

  • Posters

    Horsten, L. (2019, June). The Dark Core of Personality: Dissociating D from Honesty-Humility. Poster presented at the 34th IOPS/SMiP Summer Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

    Horsten, L., & Rasch, T. (2018). ‚I am proud of you.‘ Or should we say ‚I am proud for you‘? Poster presented at the 7th CERE Conference 4 April–5 th 2018 in Glasgow, UK. Data and material

    Horsten, L., Henninger, F., Anton, S.-M., Drummer, M. Kraus, L. & Lischitzki, J. (2016). Open Sampling: The effect of arrangement of gamble outcomes on risky choices. Poster presented at the 58th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, 21 March to 23rd , 2016 in Heidelberg, Germany. Data and poster

    Horsten, L. (2019, June). The dark core of personality: Dissociating D from Honesty-Humility. Poster at the 34th IOPS/SMiP Summer Conference, 13–14 June 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands.