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Department of Social and Legal Psychology
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55122 Mainz
verena.oberlader@uni-mainz.de
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Since 10/2022Junior Professor (W1) of legal psychology at the Psychological Institute of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
06/2020 – 09/2022Academic advisor in the Department of Social and Legal Psychology at the Psychological Institute of the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn
06/2013 – 06/2020Research associate in the Department of Social and Legal Psychology at the Psychological Institute of the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn
  • Quality assurance and method development in forensic psychological assessment
    (e.g., psychological credibility assessment of statements, criminal prognosis)
  • Bias in forensic psychological assessment
  • Psychological mechanisms of the desistance from crime process
    (e.g., identity, self-efficacy expectation)
  • Implicit measures and indirect survey methods
  • Oberlader, V. , Quinten, L., Schmidt, A. F., & Banse, R. (in press). How can I reduce bias in my work? Discussing debiasing strategies for forensic psychological assessments. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.
  • Oberlader, V. & Verschuere, B. (in press). Bias is persistent – Sequencing case information does not protect against contextual bias in criminal risk assessment. Legal and Criminological Psychology.
  • Oeberst, A., & Oberlader, V. (2024). Degrees of freedom as a breeding ground for biases—A threat to forensic practice. Law and Human Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000579
  • Mokros, A., Schemmel, J., Körner, A., Oeberst, A., Imhoff, R., Suchotzki, K., Oberlader, V., Banse, R., Kannegießer, A., Gubi-Kelm, S., Lehmann, R. & Volbert, R. (2024). Ritual sexual violence: A critical appraisal of dubious empirical evidence for a doubtful phenomenon. Psychologische Rundschau [Advance online publication].
  • Mokros, A., Schemmel, J., Oeberst, A., Körner, A., Imhoff, R., Suchotzki, K., Oberlader, V., Banse, R., Kannegießer, A., Gubi-Kelm, S., Lehmann, R. & Volbert, R. (2024). Reply: Different convictions, but only one truth.Psychologische Rundschau [Advance online publication].
  • Oberlader, V. A., Banse, R., Beier, S., & Schmidt, A. F. (2023). Law-abiding versus criminal identity and self-efficacy: A quantitative approach to unravel psychological factors supporting desistance from crime. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1-24.
  • Oberlader, V. A., Quinten, L., Banse, R., Volbert, R., Schmidt, A. F., & Schönbrodt, F. (2021). Validity of content-based techniques for credibility assessment – How telling is an extended meta-analysis taking research bias into account? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(2), 393-410.
  • Oberlader, V. A., Naefgen, C., Koppehele-Gossel, J., Quinten, L., Banse, R., & Schmidt, A. F. (2019). Validity of content-based techniques to distinguish true and fabricated statements: A meta-analysis. Correction to Oberlader et al. (2016). Law and Human Behavior, 43(2), 165.
  • Oberlader, V. A., Ettinger, U., Banse, R., & Schmidt, A. F. (2017). Development of a cued pro- and antisaccade paradigm: An indirect measure to explore automatic components of sexual interest. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46(8), 2377-2388.
  • Oberlader, V. A., Naefgen, C., Koppehele-Gossel, J., Quinten, L., Banse, R., & Schmidt, A. F. (2016). Validity of content-based techniques to distinguish true and fabricated statements: A meta-analysis. Law and Human Behavior, 40(4), 440-457.
  • Banse, R., Koppehele-Gossel, J., Kistemaker, L. M., Werner, V. A., & Schmidt, A. F. (2013). Pro-criminal attitudes, intervention, and recidivism. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 18(6), 673-685.
  • Oberlader, V., & Schmidt, A. F. (2024). Bias in forensic psychological assessment. In R. Dohrenbusch (Ed.), Psychological Assessment – (Guiding) Principles and Recommendations for Practice. Springer.
  • Breiling, L., Dahle, K.-P., Oberlader, V. A., & Rettenberger, M. (2022). The German Version of the Offender Group Reconviction Scale, Version 3 (OGRS 3). KrimZ.
  • Oberlader, V. A., Banse, R., & Schmidt, A. F. (2018). Methodological Challenges in the Evaluation of Offender Treatment Programs. In M. Walsh, B. Pniewski, M. Kober, & A. Armborst (Eds.). Evidence-Based Crime Prevention in Germany (pp. 313-332). Springer.
  • Oberlader, V. A. (2019). Meta-Analyses on the Validity of Verbal Tools for Credibility Assessment. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/8161.