Selina Zajdler (she/her)
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 526
68161 Mannheim
Primary Advisor: Thorsten Meiser (University of Mannheim)
Additional Supervisors: Beatrice Kuhlmann, Benjamin Hilbig
Dissertation Proposal: Individual Differences in the Truth Effect
Publications
Zajdler, S. & Schnuerch, M. (in press). A psychometrics of individual differences in the truth effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Talks
Zajdler, S., Rouder, J. N., & Schnuerch, M. (2026, March 15–18). The truth effect depends on Need for Cognition: New insights from Bayesian hierarchical latent-mixture models [Talk]. 68th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, TeaP), Tübingen, Germany.
Zajdler, S., Rouder, J. N., & Schnuerch, M. (2025, September 29–October 01). Covariate-informed classification of qualitative individual differences with Bayesian hierarchical latent-mixture models [Talk]. 17th Conference of the Methods and Evaluation Section of the German Psychological Society (FGME), Berlin, Germany.
Posters
Zajdler, S., Rouder, J. N., & Schnuerch, M. (2026, July 22–25). Modeling Qualitative Heterogeneity and Covariates with Bayesian Hierarchical Latent-Mixtures [Poster]. CogSci 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Zajdler, S. & Leipold, F. M. (2025, August 31–September 04). Disentangling Familiarity and Recollection in the Truth Effect: A Bayesian Hierarchical Process Dissociation Approach [Poster]. SPUDM 2025 Subjective Probability, Utility & Decision Making, Lucca, Italy.
Zajdler, S. & Schnuerch, M. (2025, March 09–12). A psychometrics of individual differences in the truth effect [Poster]. 67th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, TeaP), Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
Zajdler, S., Schnuerch, M., & Schumacher, L. (2024, July). Disentangling memory interference and motivational processes: A non-stationary diffusion/
fast-guess mixture model for output interference in recognition memory [Poster]. 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Tilburg, Netherlands. Zajdler, S., Schnuerch, M., & Schumacher, L. (2024, November 21–24). Guessing and memory processes in output interference in recognition memory – Analyses with a non-stationary diffusion/
fast guess mixture model [Poster]. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York City, USA.