Timo Seitz, M.Sc.
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 515
68161 Mannheim
Primary Advisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Meiser (University of Mannheim)
Additional Supervisors: Eunike Wetzel, Benjamin Hilbig
Dissertation Proposal: Disentangeling Substantive Traits and Faking in High-Stakes Assessments Using IRT Modeling
Publications
Seitz, T., Alagöz, Ö. E. C., & Meiser, T. (in press). Disentangling qualitatively different faking strategies in high-stakes personality assessments: A mixture extension of the multidimensional nominal response model. Educational and Psychological Measurement.
Seitz, T., Spengler, M., & Meiser, T. (2025). “What if applicants fake their responses?”: Modeling faking and response styles in high-stakes assessments using the multidimensional nominal response model. Educational and Psychological Measurement. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644241307560
Seitz, T., Wetzel, E., Hilbig, B. E., & Meiser, T. (2024). Using the multidimensional nominal response model to model faking in questionnaire data: The importance of item desirability characteristics. Behavior Research Methods, 56(8), 8869–8896. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02509-x
Talks
Seitz, T. (2024, September 16–19). Modeling faking in high-stakes personality assessments: Accounting for different faking tendencies [Talk]. 53rd Conference of the German Psychological Society (Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs), Vienna, Austria.
Seitz, T., Wetzel, E., Hilbig, B. E., & Meiser, T. (2024, July 16–19). Using the multidimensional nominal response model to model faking: The importance of item desirability characteristics [Talk]. 89th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Prague, Czech Republic.
Posters
Seitz, T. (2023, September). Modeling High-Stakes Personality Assessment Data by Means of Multidimensional IRT. 16. Fachgruppentagung der Fachgruppe Methoden und Evaluation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (FGME), Konstanz, Germany.
Seitz, T. (2023, July). “What If Applicants Fake Their Responses?”: Modeling Socially Desirable Responding in an IRT Framework. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), College Park, U.S.A..