Forschung

Wie viele Kinder träumte ich davon, Polizist zu werden. Doch anstelle zur Polizei zu gehen bin ich in die Wissenschaft gegangen. Mit einer Bildungsreise durch den deutschen Sprachraum (Gymnasium in Münster, Studium in Wien, Promotion in Linz) habe ich meine Passion für wissenschaftliches Arbeiten entdeckt und ausgelebt. Jetzt mache ich Wissenschaft erlebbar.

Biographie

Von 2008 bis 2016 habe ich in Wien Psychologie (Diplom) studiert und abgeschlossen. Meine Abschlussfächer waren Differentielle Psychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik. Mein Schwerpunk war Statistik. Nach Beginn meiner Promotion Anfang 2018 habe ich diese im März 2023 mit "sehr gut" an der Johannes Kepler Universität in Linz abgeschlossen. Meine Forschungsinhalte liegen in den Bereichen Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Medienpsychologie. Ich lege einen großen Fokus Forschungsmethodik und bearbeite inhaltlich u.a. biologische Grundlagen, Beziehungs-/Sexualpsychologie, Selbstwert, Cancel Culture und Forschungsmethoden.

Herausgeber

Early Career Editor in Studio Psychologia - Theorie et Praxis

Gutachter

• 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 Termine

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

2025
10 April, Berlin. Workshop: Die Dunkle Triade, Pathologie oder Pseudopathologie. Deutscher Psychotherapeuten Kongress
17. September, Wien. 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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