Verena Oberlader

Verena Oberlader
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | JGU · Abteilung für Sozialpsychologie

Doctor of Psychology

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Previous studies suggest that the process of becoming desistant from crime is accompanied by a shift from criminal to law-abiding identity and by the development of self-efficacy for law-abiding behavior. Utilizing direct (self-report) and indirect (Implicit Association Test; IAT) measures of both variables we predicted that a) a stronger law-abidi...
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Purpose A large body of research indicates that bias is an inherent part of human information processing. This way, bias affects all disciplines that rely on human judgements, such as forensic psychological assessment, including criminal risk evaluation. Although there is a lack of empirical studies, scholars recommend considering case information...
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Objective: Researcher-based degrees of freedom have been shown to contribute to low replication rates in science. That is, researchers’ options within the process of designing and conducting empirical tests may increase the probability of false positive findings. The aim of this study was to transfer the concept of degrees of freedom to the practic...
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Bias is an inherent phenomenon of human information processing that can occur whenever the human brain is involved. In forensic psychological assessments, bias threatens the reliability and validity of the conclusions about, for example, the credibility of witness’ statements, the risk of reoffending, or child custody. Given the far-reaching conseq...
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Zusammenfassung: Unter ritueller sexueller Gewalt werden Formen organisierten sexuellen Missbrauchs verstanden, die ideologisch geprägt sind und von mehreren Täter_innen über längere Zeiträume ausgeübt werden. Üblicherweise wird in Verbindung mit dem Phänomen von Prozessen absichtlicher Persönlichkeitsspaltung, induzierten Amnesien und Instruierbar...
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Biases (Urteilsverzerrungen) sind ein inhärentes Phänomen der menschlichen Informationsverarbeitung und treten folglich auch im Rahmen forensisch-psychologischer Begutachtungen bei Sachverständigen auf. Angesichts der weitreichenden Konsequenzen, die forensisch-psychologische Begutachtungen für Individuen und die Gesellschaft haben, sollten Beurtei...
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A large body of research indicates that bias is an inherent phenomenon of human information processing, also present in the psychological forensic assessment, for example, in credibility or criminal risk assessment. However, research on effective debiasing strategies is still in its infancy. Linear Sequential Unmasking-Expanded (LUS-E, Dror & Kukuc...
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Die Offender Group Reconviction Scale, Version 3 (OGRS 3) ist ein aktuarisches Kriminalprognoseinstrument zur Einschätzung des allgemeinen Rückfallrisikos während eines einjährigen bzw. zweijährigen Nachbeobachtungszeitraums. Die englischsprachige Originalversion der OGRS 3 (Francis et al. 2007; Howard et al. 2009; National Offender Management Serv...
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Previous studies suggest that the process of becoming desistant from crime is accompanied by a shift from criminal to law-abiding identity and self-efficacy. We developed direct and indirect measures of both variables and predicted that a stronger law-abiding relative to criminal identity and a stronger/weaker self-efficacy for law-abiding/criminal...
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Content‐based techniques for credibility assessment (Criteria‐Based Content Analysis [CBCA], Reality Monitoring [RM]) have been shown to distinguish between experience‐based and fabricated statements in previous meta‐analyses. New simulations raised the question whether these results are reliable revealing that biased data sets lead to false‐positi...
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Reports an error in "Validity of content-based techniques to distinguish true and fabricated statements: A meta-analysis" by Verena A. Oberlader, Christoph Naefgen, Judith Koppehele-Gossel, Laura Quinten, Rainer Banse and Alexander F. Schmidt (Law and Human Behavior, 2016[Aug], Vol 40[4], 440-457). During an update of this meta-analysis it became a...
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Das zentrale Ziel des Strafvollzuges in Deutschland ist es, Strafgefangene zu befähigen, ein Leben ohne Straftaten zu führen. Zu diesem Zweck sieht das Strafvollzugsgesetz die Behandlung von Gefangenen im Vollzug bzw. in einer sozialtherapeutischen Anstalt vor. Aus ethischen und sicherheitspolitischen Gründen sowie aufgrund von Kosten-Nutzen Erwägu...
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We developed a cued pro- and antisaccade paradigm (CPAP) to explore automatic components of sexual interest. Heterosexual participants (n = 32 women, n = 25 men) had to perform fast eye movements towards and away from sexually relevant or irrelevant stimuli across a congruent (i.e. prosaccade towards sexually relevant stimuli, antisaccade away from...
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Within the scope of judicial decisions, approaches to distinguish between true and fabricated statements have been of particular importance since ancient times. Although methods focusing on “prototypical” deceptive behavior (e.g., psychophysiological phenomena, nonverbal cues) have largely been rejected with regard to validity, content-based techni...
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We review the recent research literature on pro-criminal attitudes (PCAs) as a causal factor of recidivism with a focus on studies on the effectiveness of offender treatment programs targeting PCAs to prevent recidivism. The main conclusions that can be derived from the literature are that (1) the evidence supports the hypothesis that PCAs are rela...

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