Arbeitsbereich Psychologische Diagnostik und Differentielle und Persönlichkeitspsychologie

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Curriculum Vitae

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

Seit 2010

Forschungsgruppe "Vergleichende Differentielle und Persönlichkeitspsychologie" und Dozentin am Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie, Freie Universität Berlin

Lehrveranstaltungen

Vorlesung "Theoretische Perspektiven in der Differentiellen und Persönlichkeitspsychologie" WS 2011/12

2009-2010

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie, Freie Universität Berlin

2009 Promotion (Dr. phil.), Freie Universität Berlin (Summa cum laude)

2006-2007

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Dozentin, Institut für Psychologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Lehrveranstaltungen

Seminar "Persönlichkeit und Personalauswahl ", SoSe 2007

Seminar "Persönlichkeit und Kriminalität ", SoSe 2006

Seminar "Persönlichkeit und Sexualität", SoSe 2006

2005

Diplom in Psychologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

2003-2005 Forschungsstudentin und studentische Mitarbeiterin, Max Planck Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Abt. für Vergleichende und Entwicklungspsychologie and Wolfgang Köhler Primatenforschungszentrum, Leipzig

Förderung

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; UH249/1-1) 2010-2013

Freie Universität Berlin, 2009-2010

Humboldt Universität Berlin, 2007-2008

Auszeichnungen und Preise

Erster Preis für "Outstanding Oral Student Presentations" der Internationalen Primatologischen Gesellschaft (IPS) auf dem XXII. Kongress 2008 in Edinburgh, Großbritannien

Preis für die Beste Diplomarbeit über Persönlichkeit in den Jahren 2005-2006 auf dem Gebiet der Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und psychologische Diagnostik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)

Preis für die Beste Diplomarbeit des Jahrgangs 2006 am Institut für Psychologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Gutachtertätigkeit

Animal Behaviour

American Journal of Primatology

Biology Letters

Diagnostica

European Journal of Personality

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature

OIKOS - Synthesising Ecology

Personality and Individual Differences

Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences

Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung

The Leakey Foundation

Christian-Vogel-Fund

Mitgliedschaft in Organisationen

American Psychological Association (APA)

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP)

German Psychological Society (DGPs)

International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)

Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA)

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Animal Behavior Society (ABS) (2008-2010)

International Primatological Society (IPS)

Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Primatologie e.V. (GfP)

Curriculum Vitae English

Research interests

Comparative differential and personality psychology

Personality and social relationships

Developmental psychology

Philosophy of science, methodology

Group dynamics and social psychology

Behavioural research

Evolutionary psychology

Humans and nonhuman primates

Captive management and re-socialisation of confiscated primates

Professional experiences

since 2010

Research Group Leader "Comparative Differential and Ppersonality Psychology" and Lecturer, Faculty of Educational Science and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin

Courses taught

Lecture "Theoretical perspectives in differential and personality psychology, winter term 2011/2012

2009-2010

Research fellow, Faculty of Educational Science and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin

2006-2007

Research associate and lecturer, Institute for Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin

Courses taught

Seminar "Personality and Personnel Selection", summer term 2007

Seminar "Personality and Criminality", summer term 2006

Seminar"Personality and Sexuality", summer term 2006

2003-2005

Research student and student assistant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, and Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center, Leipzig

Education

2009

Ph.D. (Dr. phil.), Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin (Summa cum laude/ with highest distinction)

2005

MSc+BSc equivalent (Dipl.-Psych.), Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin

Grants and Scholarships

Research grant (2010-2013), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, UH249/1-1)

Research grant (2009-2010), Freie Universität Berlin

PhD grant (2007-2008), Humboldt University Berlin

Awards and Prizes

First Prize for outstanding oral presentations in the IPS student competition (for the talk on "Primate personality: Theory, approaches and assessment methods") at the XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society (IPS) 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Award for the Best Diploma Thesis on Personality of the Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics Section of the German Psychological Association (DGPs) in 2005-2006

Award for the Best Diploma (M.A.) Thesis of the year 2006 at the Psychological Institute, Humboldt University Berlin

Ad-hoc Reviewer

Animal Behaviour

American Journal of Primatology

Biology Letters

Diagnostica

European Journal of Personality

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature

OIKOS - Synthesising Ecology

Personality and Individual Differences

Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences

Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung

The Leakesy Foundation

Christian-Vogel-Fund

Memberships

American Psychological Association (APA)

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP)

German Psychological Society (DGPs)

International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)

Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA)

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Animal Behavior Society (ABS)

International Primatological Society (IPS)

Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Primatologie e.V. (GfP)

Lehrveranstaltungen im WS 2011/2012:

• 12603 Theoretische Perspektiven in der Differentiellen und Persönlichkeitspsychologie

Research projects

• Personality differences and social relationships in Capuchin Monkeys (with Dr Elisabetta Visalberghi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Laboratory of Cognitive Primatology, Rome, Italy)
• Personality differences and social relationships in gorillas (with Apenheul Primate Park, The Netherlands)
• Personality differences in Rhesus Macaques (with Prof Dr Anja Widdig, Leipzig University and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
• Inter-individual and species differences in monkeys (with MSc Rishi Kumar, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, India and Zoo Berlin)
• Personality differences in Java macaques (with MSc Karlijn Gosselt-Gielen, University Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Re-socialisation of confiscated nonhuman primates (with Tierschutzverein für Berlin und Umgebung Corporation e.V. and Deutscher Tierschutzbund e.V.)

Research interests

Comparative differential and personality psychology

Personality and social relationships

Developmental psychology

Philosophy of science, methodology

Group dynamics and social psychology

Behavioural research

Evolutionary psychology

Humans and nonhuman primates

Captive management and re-socialisation of confiscated primates

Publications

(for paper requests please email me)

Peer reviewed journal articles

Uher, J. (2011a). Individual behavioral phenotypes: An integrative meta-theoretical framework. Why 'behavioral syndromes' are not analogues of 'personality'. Developmental Psychobiology, 53, 521–548. DOI: 10.1002/dev.20544

Uher, J. (2008a). Comparative personality research: Methodological approaches (Target article). European Journal of Personality, 22, 427-455.

Uher, J. (2008b). Three methodological core issues of comparative personality research. European Journal of Personality, 22, 475-496.

Uher, J. & Asendorpf, J.B. (2008). Personality assessment in the Great Apes: Comparing ecologically valid behavior measures, behavior ratings, and adjective ratings. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 821-838.

Uher, J. & Call, J. (2008). How the Great Apes (Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, and Gorilla gorilla) perform on the reversed reward contingency task II: Transfer to new quantities, long-term retention, and the impact of quantity ratios. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122, 204-212.

Uher, J., Asendorpf, J.B., & Call, J. (2008). Personality in the behaviour of great apes: Temporal stability, cross-situational consistency and coherence in response. Animal Behaviour, 75, 99-112.

Vlamings, P.H.J.M., Uher, J., & Call, J. (2006). How the Great Apes (Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, and Gorilla gorilla) perform on the reversed contingency task: The effects of food quantity and food visibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 60-70.

Chapters

Uher, J. (2011b). Personality in nonhuman primates: What can we learn from human personality psychology? In A. Weiss, J. King, & L. Murray (Eds.). Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates (pp. 41-76). New York, NY: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0176-6_3

Uher, J. & Beyer, M.L. (2004). Denken in Implikationen: Der Einfluss inhaltlicher und struktureller Variation auf die korrekte Beurteilung der Gültigkeit konditionaler Schlussschemata [Thinking in implications: The impact of structural and content variation on the correct recognition of conditional conclusions]. In: B. Krause & P. Metzler (Eds.). ZeE-Publikationen. Reihe empirische Evaluationsmethoden. Bd. 8. (pp. 39-55). Berlin: ZeE Verlag. 

Presentations

Invited talks

"Measuring individual behavioural phenotypes. Why behavioural syndromes are not analogues of personality." Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Section of Behavioral Neuroscience, Rome, Italy, 11 July 2011. 

"Conceptualising personality as individual behavioural phenotypes". Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Rome, Italy, 5 July 2011.

"Severe auto-aggressive behaviour disorders in Rhesus macaques - A case study". Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Rome, Italy, 24 May 2011.

"Individual-specific patterns in behaviour and mind in humans and other animals" Colloquium Animal Behaviour, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 19 January, 2010.

"Behavioural Ecology and Comparative Differential and Personality Research: Exploring Differences and Commonalities" Lecture Series in Behavioral Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology. Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland, 20 May, 2009.

"Comparative Personality Research - Relevance to Cognitive Primatology" Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center, Rome, Italy, 25 November, 2008.

"Comparative Personality Research and its Relevance for Animal Welfare" Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Section of Behavioral Neuroscience, Rome, Italy, 24 November, 2008.

"Methods and approaches in comparative personality research exemplified in nonhuman primates" Colloquium of the Psychological Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany, 03 July, 2008.

"Methods and approaches of personality assessment in nonhuman primates" Colloquium of the Psychological Institute, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany, 22 January, 2008.

"Personality in the Great Apes - Methods and approaches" Colloquium of the Department of Personality Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, 31 January, 2006.

Conference talks

 Uher, J. (2011). Positionsreferat "Die Rolle des Verhaltens in der „Persönlichkeit" [The role of behaviour in "personality"]. 11th Biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Differential Pychology, Personality Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics, University Saarbrücken, Germany. 26-28 September 2011.

Uher, J. (2011). "Research on individual behavioural phenotypes requires suitable methods. Why behavioural syndromes are not analogues of personality". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Uher, J. (2011). "A nonlexical taxonomic approach to individual differences in humans and nonhuman animals". Symposium "The study of individual differences in animals - recent developments". Convenors: Jana Uher & Björn Forkman. Conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), London, United Kingdom. 25-28 July, 2011.

Uher, J. (2011). "Research on personality differences in primates requires clear concepts and suitable methods". 12th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatology (GfP). Utrecht, The Netherlands. 30 March-1 April 2011. 

Uher, J. (2010). "David Greybeard, Fifi, and Gilka - New behaviour based research approaches confirm Jane Goodall’s early observations that each chimpanzee has a unique personality". Gombe 50 - In celebration of 50 years of primatological research at Gombe Stream, Tanzania, and looking to the future. Winter Meeting 2010 of the Primatological Society of Great Britain (PSGB), Zoological Society of London. London, United Kingdom. 08-09 December 2010. 

Uher, J. (2010). Positionsreferat "Potentiale artvergleichender Forschungsperspektiven für die Psychologie" [Species-comparative research perspectives - Potentials for psychology]. 47th Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs). Bremen, Germany. 26-30 September 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "Vergleichende Psychologie - Neue Implikationen für die Humanforschung [Comparative psychology - new implications for research in humans]". Symposium "Comparative Psychology - New Implications for research in humans". Convenors: Jana Uher & Katja Liebal. 47th Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs). Bremen, Germany. 26-30 September 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "Meta-theoretical and methodological foundations of primate personality research – An overview". Symposium "How to Study Personality Differences in Primates". Convenors: Jana Uher & Alex Weiss. XXIII. Congress of the International Primatological Society. Kyoto, Japan, 12-18 September 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). Methodological approaches in differential and personality research: New insights from a cross-species comparative perspective". Invited Symposium "Cross-species Perspectives on Differential and Personality Research". Convenors: Jana Uher & Mark James Adams. 15th European Conference on Personality (ECP15), in Brno, Czech Republic, 20-24 July, 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "The advocatus diaboli on animal personalities and behavioural syndromes as analogues of human personality". Invited participant. Symposium "The emergence of personality in animals". Organisers: Fritz Trillmich & Robyn Hudson. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF). Bielefeld University, 17-19 May 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "What is personality and how can we study it in primates?". Spring Meeting 2010 of the Primatological Society of Great Britain (PSGB), University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. 07-08 April 2010.

Uher, J. (2010). "Sophisticated evolutionary psychology requires comparative approaches". 11th Annual meeting of the MVE-Liste (Menschliches Verhalten aus evolutionärer Perspektive - Human behavior from evolutionary perspective). Berlin - Schloss Charlottenburg, 22-24 March, 2010.

Uher, J. (2009). "Methodische Zugänge in der Differentiellen und Persönlichkeitspsychologie: Neue Erkenntnisse aus artvergleichender Perspektive" [Methodological Approaches in Differential and Personality Psychology: New Insights from a Cross-species Perspective]. 10th Biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Differential Pychology, Personality Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics, University Koblenz-Landau, 28-30 September, 2009.

Uher, J. (2009). "Individual-/person-oriented approaches in primate personality research". 9th biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Methods and Evaluation, University Bielefeld, 10-12 September, 2009.

Uher, J. (2009). "Personality research: Theoretical and methodological foundations for studying the behaviour and mind of the individual". 3rd Congress of the European Federation for Primatology, Zürich, Switzerland, 12-15 August, 2009. Folia Primatologia, 80:147.

Uher, J. (2008). "Primate personality: Theory, approaches and assessment methods". Symposium "How do we know that primate personality is real and useful?". Invited contribution. Convenors: Alex Weiss & Martina Konecna. XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society IPS 2008, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 03-08 August, 2008.

Uher, J. (2008). "Comparative personality research". Invited Symposium "Multidisciplinary advances in animal personality research".  Convenors: Kees van Oers & Jana Uher. 14th European Conference on Personality (ECP14), in Tartu, Estonia, 16-20 July, 2008.

Uher, J. (2006). "Methods of measuring personality differences in the behaviour of Great Apes" III. Interdisciplinary Symposium "Methods of Behavioural Research", Munich, Germany, 10 November, 2006. 

Invited Lectures

"Individual behavioural phenotypes - Conceptualization and measurement". Master course Animal Behaviour, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. 24 June 2011.

"Haben Tiere eine Persönlichkeit? - Differentielle und Persönlichkeitspsychologie aus artvergleichender Perspektive". Lecture series in Evolutionary Psychology "What makes humans human". Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Excellence Cluster Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. 22 June 2011.

"Measuring individual behavioural phenotypes in humans and animals". Master course for Experimental Behavioural and Evolutionary Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany. 20 June 2011.

"Individual-specific patterns in behaviour". Master course Behavioural Biology, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 10 May, 2010.

"Do animals have personality differences?" Lecture series in Evolutionary Psychology "What makes humans being human". Department of Psychology, Cluster Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, 05 May, 2010.

"Are personality differences uniquely human?" Lecture series in evolutionary psychology "What makes humans being human". Department of Psychology, Cluster Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, 01 July, 2009.

Conference abstracts and posters

Uher, J. & Gosselt, K. (2011). "Social relationships from an evolutionary and comparative perspective: The role of personality and kinship in dyadic relationships in nonhuman primates". pairfam Interdisciplinary International Conference Partnerhips Relations in Context, Munic, Germany. 21-23 September 2011.

Werner, C. S., Uher, J., & Gosselt, K. (2011). "Persönlichkeitsunterschiede bei Javaneraffen (Macaca fascicularis): Faktorstruktur, Typologie und 1-Jahres-Stabilitäten " [Personality differences in java monkeys (Macaca fascicularis): Factor structure, typology, and 1-year-stabilities"]. 11th Biannual meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Differential Pychology, Personality Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics, University Saarbrücken, Germany. 26-28 September 2011.

Uher, J.; Werner, C. S., & Gosselt, K. (2011). "Personality Differences in Crab-eating Macaques (Macaca fascicularis): Relations to Age, Sex, and Rank-Order". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Büchner, M., Pfadenhauer, A., & Uher, J. (2011). "Effects of environmental and food enrichment on activity patterns and social structures in captive toque macaques (Macaca sinica)". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Pfadenhauer, A., Büchner, M., & Uher, J. (2011). "Effects of environmental, mobile, and food enrichment on the behaviour of a group of Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at Tierheim Berlin". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Stärk, J. & Uher, J. (2011). "Social network analysis of groups of captive Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) - The silverback as a mediator". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Dahle, F. & Uher, J. (2011). "The Influence of personality differences on dyadic relationships in captive Common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) and Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Bickenbach, A. & Uher, J. (2011). "The impact of male dominant behavior on female hierarchy during the introduction of a new silverback to a captive group of female Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Just, C. & Uher, J. (2011). "Social stress during the introduction of a new silverback leader into an established group of females and youngsters". 8th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). Berlin. 14-17 September 2011.

Chaired symposia

Symposium "The study of individual differences in animals – recent developments" ISSID 2011, the biannual conference of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, in London, UK, 25-28 July, 2011.

Symposium "Vergleichende Psychologie- Neue Implikationen für die Humanpsychologie", 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bremen, 26.-30.09.2010. Convenors: Jana Uher, Freie Universität Berlin & Katja Liebal, Freie Universität Berlin.

Symposium ”How to Study Personality Differences in Primates”, XXIII. Kongress der International Primatological Society (IPS2010), Kyoto, Japan, 12.-18.09.2010. Convenors: Jana Uher, Freie Universität Berlin & Alexander Weiss, The University of Edinburgh

Invited Symposium "Cross-species Perspectives on Differential and Personality Research" auf der 15th European Conference Personality (ECP15), Brno, Czech Republic, 20-24.07.2010. Convenors: Jana Uher, Freie Universität Berlin & Mark Adams, The University of Edinburgh

Invited Symposium "Multidisciplinary advances in animal personality research", 14th European Conference on Personality (ECP14), Tartu, Estonia, 16.-20.07.2008. Convenors: Kees van Oers, Netherlands Institute of Ecology & Jana Uher, Humboldt University Berli