Daniel Leising
Contact
Institut für Psychologie
room 209
Brandbergweg 23c
06120 Halle (Saale)
phone: +49 345 55 24377
fax: +49 345 27217
daniel.leising@psych.uni-halle.de
postal address:
Institut für Psychologie
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
06099 Halle (Saale)
Functions
Consulting Editor for the Journal of Research in Personality
Member of the executive committee of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research
Erasmus-Coordinator for the Department of Psychology
Research Interests
My research addresses the question of how people judge each other, and themselves. I am particularly interested in the conditions under which different judgments of the same persons agree better with each other, and the conditions under which person judgments become more accurate. Both have to do with the amount and the quality of information that is available to the judges, and with the judges' motivation to draw an accurate, a positive, or a negative image of the target person. Different constellations of these factors may lead to very different judgments of the same person, or to highly similar judgments of different persons. These research questions are directly relevant for various fields of applied psychology (e.g., performance assessment, clinical diagnostics, psychotherapy evaluation, personnel selection, personnel development).
Recent Publications
Leising, D., & Zimmermann, J. (2011). An integrative conceptual framework for assessing personality and personality pathology. Review of General Psychology, 15, 317-330.
Leising, D. (2011, November). Assumed similarity in judgments of one's own and others' interpersonal behavior. Newsletter of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, 12(1), 9-12.
Leising, D., Krause, S., Köhler, D., Hinsen, K., & Clifton, A. (2011). Assessing interpersonal functioning: Views from within and without. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 631-641.
Leising, D., & Bleidorn, W. (2011). Which are the basic meaning dimensions of observable interpersonal behavior? Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 986-990.
Leising, D. (2011). The consistency bias in judgments of one's own interpersonal behavior. Two possible sources. Journal of Individual Differences, 32, 137-143.
Leising, D., & Borkenau, P. (2011). Person perception, dispositional inferences and social judgment. In L. M. Horowitz & S. Strack (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal psychology: Theory, research, assessment, and therapeutic interventions (pp. 157-170). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Leising, D., Grande, T., & Faber, R. (2010). A longitudinal study of emotional experience, expressivity, and psychopathology in psychotherapy inpatients and psychologically healthy persons. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 66, 1027-1043.
Leising, D., Erbs, J., & Fritz, U. (2010). The letter of recommendation effect in informant ratings of personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 668-682.
Leising, D., Rogers, K., & Ostner, J. (2009). The undisordered personality: Normative assumptions underlying personality disorder diagnoses. Review of General Psychology, 13, 230-241.
Leising, D., Grande, T., & Faber, R. (2009). The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20): A measure of general psychological distress. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 707-710.
Borkenau, P., Zaltauskas, K., & Leising, D. (2009). More may be better, but there may be too much. Optimal trait level and self-enhancement bias. Journal of Personality, 77, 825-858.
Leising, D., & Müller-Plath, G. (2009). Person-situation integration in research on personality problems. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 218-227.
Current Grants
Socially (un-)desirable personality judgments - a new approach to disentangling "substance" and "style" (DFG, LE 2151 / 3-1)