Credit: Nida Karuserci

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Meiser

Professorship for Research Methods and Psychological Assessment

University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 520
68161 Mannheim

Phone: +49 621 181-2773
E-mail: t.meiseruni-mannheim.de
Web: https://www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/meiser/team/head/
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6004-9787

Consultation hour(s):
by appointment

Thorsten Meiser is the spokesperson of the Research Training Group.

Research Areas
Psychometrics
Experimental Methods
Statistical Modeling
Memory
Teaching (SMIP)
Foundations I (together with D. Heck)
Foundations II: „Current Advances in Linear and Probabilistic Test Models“ (together with T. Lischetzke)
Workshop „IRT Modeling – Theory and Applications in R“
Possible thesis topics
Ph.D. students are very welcome to devise their own thesis topic. However, some possible thesis topics are listed here:
Analysis of dynamic attentional processes in decision making and memory with generalized hierarchical models (Advisors: Meiser, Hilbig, Voss).
IRT models for unravelling trait assessment from response styles and method effects (Advisors: Meiser, Lischetzke, Hilbig).
The structure of cognitive speed (Advisors: Voss, Meiser).
Memory-task response biases as cognitive traits and states (Advisors: Kuhlmann, Hütter, Meiser).
Exhaustion and perceptions of job stressors: A latent state-trait approach (Advisors: Sonnentag, Lischetzke, Meiser).