Merle Madita Wachendörfer

Academic career

• Since 04/2024 Research associate and PhD Candidate, University Potsdam
• 2019 – 04/2024 Research associate and PhD Candidate, FernUniversität in Hagen (University of Hagen)
• 2016 – 2019 Master of Science, Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
• 2016 – 2019 Research assistant, German Resilience Center (DRZ)
• 2015 semester abroad, University of Glasgow (GBR)
• 2012 – 2015 Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Radboud University Nimwegen (NL)

Research interests

• Identification and reversibility of social influences on memory
• Biases in legal decision making
• Credibility assessment and eyewitness testimony

Courses

• SoSe 2024: Seminar on the development, identification and reversibility of false memories (BA: Nutzeninspirierte Grundlagenforschung)
• SoSe 2024: Seminar on the development, identification and reversibility of false memories (MA: Grundlagenvertiefung)

Links

• ResearchGate
• ORCiD

Publications

• Wachendörfer, M. M., & Oeberst, A. (in press). Differences between true and false memories using the Criteria-Based Content Analysis. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38, e4246. doi.org/10.1002/acp.4246
• Oeberst, A., Wachendörfer, M. M., & Suchotzki, K. (2024). Falsche Erinnerungen in der Forschung und Glaubhaftigkeitsbegutachtung: Replik zum Beitrag von Jäckel & Orth (2021) [False memories in research and credibility assessment: Reply to the article by Jäckel & Orth (2021)]. Rechtspsychologie, 2, 205-226. doi.org/10.5771/2365-1083-2024-2-205
• Wachendörfer, M. M., & Oeberst, A. (2023). Differences Between True and False Autobiographical Memories. European Psychologist, 28(4), 247–264. doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000513
• Jacobs, S., Schnepf, J., Wachendörfer, M.M., & Oeberst, A. (2023). Auswirkungen impliziter Plausibilitätserwartungen über das Nachtatverhalten von Vergewaltigungsopfern auf die Glaubwürdigkeits- und Glaubhaftigkeitsbeurteilung durch Laien [Effects of implicit plausibility expectations about the post-offense behavior of rape victims on the credibility and credibility assessment by laypersons]. Rechtspsychologie, 9(4), 468–489. doi.org/10.5771/2365-1083-2023-4-468
• Oeberst, A., Wachendörfer, M. M., Imhoff, R., & Blank, H. (2021). Rich false memories of autobiographical events can be reversed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(13). doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026447118

Talks and presentations

• Wachendörfer, M. M. (2019, 28. September). Die Reversibilität falscher Erinnerungen. 18. Tagung Fachgruppe Rechtspsychologie, Hildesheim (Germany).
• Wachendörfer, M. M. (2021, 22. September). Review zur Unterscheidung erlebnisbasierter und suggerierter Erinnerungen. 19. Tagung Fachgruppe Rechtspsychologie, Berlin (online).
• Wachendörfer, M. M. (2023, 02. Juli). Laypeople’s beliefs on victim behavior determine their credibility judgments. 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychologie, Krakau.
• Wachendörfer, M. M. (2023, 28. September). Laypeople’s beliefs on victim behavior determine their credibility judgments. 20. Tagung Fachgruppe Rechtspsychologie, Mainz (Germany).