Vita
Sinke 10/2022
Junior Professor of Legal Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
06/2020 – 09/2022
Post-doc, Social- and Legal Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn
06/2013 – 06/2020
PhD student, Social- and Legal Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn
Research interests
- Quality assurance and method development in forensic psychological assessment
(e.g. credibility assessment, criminal risk assessment) - Bias and debiasing in forensic psychological assessment
- Psychological mechanisms of the desistance process
(e.g. identity, self-efficacy) - Implicit measures
Publications
Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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). Rituelle sexuelle Gewalt: Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit fragwürdigen empirischen Belegen für ein fragliches Phänomen [Ritual sexual violence: A critical appraisal of dubious empirical evidence for a doubtful phenomenon]. Psychologische Rundschau [Vorab-Onlinepublikation].
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). Entgegnung: Unterschiedliche Überzeugungen, aber nur eine Wahrheit [Reply: Different convictions, but only one truth]. Psychologische Rundschau [Vorab-Onlinepublikation].
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.
Book chapters
Oberlader, V., & Schmidt, A. F. (2024). Bias in der forensisch-psychologischen Begutachtung. In R. Dohrenbusch (Hrsg.), Psychologische Begutachtung - Leitlinien und Empfehlungen für die Praxis. Springer.
Breiling, L., Dahle, K.-P., Oberlader, V. A., & Rettenberger, M. (2022). Die deutsche Version der Offender Group Reconviction Scale, Version 3 (OGRS 3). KrimZ.
Oberlader, V. A., Banse, R., & Schmidt, A. F. (2018). Methodische Herausforderungen in der Evaluation von Straftäterbehandlungsprogrammen. In M. Walsh, B. Pniewski, M. Kober, & A. Armborst (Hrsg.). Evidenzorientierte Kriminalprävention in Deutschland (S. 313-332). Springer.
Monographies
Oberlader, V. A. (2019). Meta-Analyses on the Validity of Verbal Tools for Credibility Assessment. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/8161.