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Research

Current projects and my publications

Like many children, I dreamed of becoming a police officer. But instead of joining the police, I pursued a career in science. Through an educational journey across the German-speaking world (high school in Münster, university studies in Vienna, and PhD in Linz), I discovered and embraced my passion for scientific work. Now, I make science come to life.

Biography

From 2008 to 2016, I studied psychology (Diploma) in Vienna, focusing on differential psychology and psychological assessment, with a particular emphasis on statistics. After beginning my PhD in early 2018, I successfully completed it in March 2023 at Johannes Kepler University in Linz with a distinction (‘Sehr gut’) under the scientific supervision of Peter Jonason . My research interests span personality psychology and media psychology, with a strong emphasis on research methodology. My work covers a range of topics including biological foundations, relationship and sexual psychology, self-esteem, cancel culture, and research methods.

Editor

Early Career Editor in Studio Psychologia - Theorie et Praxis

Reviewer

  • Current Psychology

  • Current Research in Behavioral Sciences

  • Frontiers in Psychology

  • Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships

  • Journal of Sexual Health

  • Journal of Individual Differences

  • Personality and Individual Differences

  • PLOS One

  • Psychology of Popular Media

Live Dates

2024
13th November, Linz. Frauen und Männer im Netz der Medien.

2025
10th April, Berlin. Workshop: Die Dunkle Triade, Pathologie oder Pseudopathologie. Deutscher Psychotherapeuten Kongress
17th September, Vienna. Symposium: Dark Triad and Politics. ISSID.

Publications (peer-reviewed)

Freyth, L., Sigurdardóttir, I., & Jonason, P.K. (2024). Dark personalities, social motives, apps used: A life history approach. Personality and Individual Differences, 112940. In press.

Freyth, L. & Skocic, M. (2024). Individual differences: Number of sexual partners. In Shackelford, T. (Editor) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_1808-1

Freyth, L. (2024). Infidelity: Individual differences. In Shackelford, T. (Editor) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_1202-1

Freyth, L., Batinic, B., & Jonason, P.K. (2023). Social media use and personality: Beyond self-reports and trait-level assessments. Personality and Individual Differences, 202, 111960. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111960

Freyth, L., & Jonason, P. K. (2023). Overcoming agreeableness: Sociosexuality and the Dark Triad expanded and revisited. Personality and Individual Differences, 203, 112009. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.112009

Replikation: http://datepsychology.com/the-dark-triad-and-sociosexual-behavior-is-the-dark-triad-really-just-low-agreeableness/

Freyth, L. (2023). Personality/ Individual differences: Strategically relevant traits. In Shackelford, T. (Editor) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_1814-1.

Freyth, L. (2023). Social Media, modern vs. ancestral environments. In Shackelford, T. (Editor) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_2328-1.

Freyth, L. (2023). The Dark Triad/Tetrad and dating apps. In Shackelford, T. (Editor) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_2485-1.

Freyth, L. (2023). It wasn’t me! Single and taken individuals having sex through dating apps. In press (ID: 1229733).

Freyth, L. & Jonason, P.K. (2023). Interpersonal, sexual, and search styles: Mating success on a modern human lek, Tinder. In Resubmission.

Freyth, L., March, E., Bonfá-Araujo, B., Aitken Schermer, J., & Jonason, P.K. (2024). The Dark Triad Traits in the light of life history theory. In APA Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. In Resubmission.

Freyth, L., Szymczak, P., Czerwiński, S.K., & Jonason, P.K. (2023). Self-presentations on dating applications (SODA): Photos, text, personality, and sex differences. In review.

Freyth, L., (2022). Dating app users after two years: An amplification of the Dark Triad traits. Studia Psychologia - Theoria et Praxis. https://doi.org/10.21697/sp.2022.22.1.02

Freyth, L., & Batinic, B. (2021). How bright and dark personality traits predict dating behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 110316. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110316

Freyth, L., & Gittler, G. (2015). Validation of the endless loop test under power and work-limit condition. An empirical analysis. University of Vienna. [German: Der Endlosschleifentest unter Power und Work-Limit Bedingung. Eine empirische Analyse.]

Articles (non-peer reviewed)

Batinic, B., Freyth, L., & Grossi, N.R. (2020). Experiment, Other: Natural, Field. The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology. Wiley. doi.org/10.1002/9781119011071.iemp0016

Forthcoming Articles*

Freyth, L., & Jonason, P.K. (2025). The triumvirate around freedom of speech, freedom of science, and cancel culture.

Freyth, L. & Hinterberger, J. (2025). Active and passive social media use among homosexual and heterosexual users. In review.

Freyth, L., & Skocic, M. (2025). Short term mating and sex differences. In Shackelford, T. (Editor) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer.

Szymczak, P. & Freyth, L. (2024). The role of the Dark Tetrad on Social media addiction from Instagram to LinkedIn.

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