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Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Ruben Lennartz

Professor

Faculty of Health (School of Psychology and Psychotherapy)  |  Professorship for Psychological Research Methods


Professorship for Psychological Research Methods


Research focus

  • Metawissenschaft
  • Messung
  • Synthetische Daten
  • Biologische Ursachen individueller Unterschiede

     


Resume

04/2025 – present
Professorship for Psychological Research Methods
Witten/Herdecke University

04/2021 – 03/2025
Research assistant
Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics
University of Leipzig

10/2017 – 03/2021
Research Assistant
Centre for Adaptive Rationality
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

10/2013 – 10/2017
Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.)
Topic: Secular changes in sexual and natural selection against harmful genetic mutations in humans
Georg August University of Göttingen

10/2013 – 09/2017
Research assistant
Biological Personality Psychology
University of Göttingen

03/2016
Research stay at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld.
Group: Genetic and social causes of life chances

10/2008 – 09/2013
Diploma in Psychology 
Thesis title: The effect of paternal age on the intelligence of offspring and other characteristics when controlling for paternal trait levels.
Humboldt University of Berlin

09/2011 – 10/2011
Internship at the University of Edinburgh

06/2010 – 09/2013
Student assistant in the DFG project Self-Insight & Laboratory for Personality Development
Humboldt University of Berlin

 


Teaching

  • Bachelor: Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
  • Master: Multivariate Forschungsmethoden, Psychologische Grundlagenvertiefung (Chancen, Gleichheit und Genetik)

Press expert for

Hormonal fluctuations throughout the cycle, psychological side effects of hormonal contraception, paternal effects, meta-science, error culture, methodological assessments, genetic effects on intelligence and personality


Further information

Co-blog: The 100% CI: the100.ci

Personal blog: rubenarslan.github.io

 

Member of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), sections:

  • Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology
  • Differential and Personality Psychology and Diagnostics
  • Methods and Evaluation

 

Connect
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