Educational Background
Dr. Leising studied Psychology at the University of Marburg, obtaining his degree in 1998. Afterward, he entered a graduate program on “clinical emotions research” in Heidelberg that was funded by the German research foundation. Working with Prof. Gerd Rudolf, Prof. Rainer Krause, and Dr. Tilman Grande, he completed his Ph.D. in 2003. In his Ph.D. research, he investigated “changes of interpersonal-affective schemas in the course of long-term psychoanalytic treatment,” using interview material and data from the Heidelberg-Berlin study.
Professional Career
After finishing his Ph.D., Dr. Leising went on to work as a postdoc at the University of Würzburg until early 2006. He then accepted an invitation by Prof. Len M. Horowitz to go to Stanford University for 1 year as a visiting scholar. Afterward, Dr. Leising accepted an offer of a postdoc position at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, working with Prof. Peter Borkenau. He was appointed as a full professor at TU...
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Borkenau, P., & Leising, D. (2016). A more complete picture of personality: What analyses of trait profiles have told us about personality judgment – so far. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25, 228–232.
Leising, D., & Zimmermann, J. (2011). An integrative conceptual framework for assessing personality and personality pathology. Review of General Psychology, 15, 317–330.
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., Ostrovski, O., & Borkenau, P. (2012). Vocabulary for describing disliked persons is more differentiated than vocabulary for describing liked persons. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 393–396.
Leising, D., Ostrovski, O., & Zimmermann, J. (2013). Are we talking about the same person here? Inter-rater agreement in judgments of personality varies dramatically with how much the perceivers like the targets. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 468–474.
Leising, D., Scharloth, J., Lohse, O., & Wood, D. (2014a). What types of terms do people use when describing an individual’s personality? Psychological Science, 25, 1787–1794.
Leising, D., Gallrein, A. M. B., & Dufner, M. (2014b). Judging the behavior of people we know: Objective assessment, confirmation of pre-existing views, or both? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 153–163.
Leising, D., Scherbaum, S., Locke, K., & Zimmermann, J. (2015). A model of “substance” and “evaluation” in person judgments. Journal of Research in Personality, 57, 61–71.
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Leising, D. (2016). Leising, Daniel. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_232-1
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