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Prof. Dr. Oliver Wilhelm

Sitz:
Luisenstr. 56, 10117 Berlin, Raum 126
Postadresse:
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Telefon:
(030) 2093.4873, Fax: (030) 2093.5336
EMail:
oliver.wilhelm@rz.hu-berlin.de

Education

  • 2000: Dr. Phil (PhD). University Mannheim; Thesis advisor Prof. Werner W. Wittmann. PhD thesis: Psychology of Reasoning: Testing Structural Theories.
  • 1995: Dipl.-Psych. (MA in Psychology). University Mannheim; Thesis advisor Dr. Wolfgang Conrad. MA thesis: Development and Evaluation of deductive reasoning tests.
  • 1990-1995: University Mannheim, Germany (Psychology)

Work experience

  • Since 09/2006: Associate Professor, Endowed chair “Educational Assessment”, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
  • 07/2005-09/2006: Assistant Professor / Juniorprofessor, after successful interim evaluation (reviewers Robert Sternberg, Christopher Hertzog) Psychological Assessment, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
  • 07/2002-07/2005: Assistant Professor / Juniorprofessor Psychological Assessment, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
  • 07/2001-07/2002: Post doctoral research, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • 10/2000-07/2001: Visiting Professor, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA
  • 10/1998-09/2000: Untenured Assistant Professor, University Mannheim, Germany
  • 11/1995-09/1998: Research Scientist, Project “Working Memory Capacity and Intelligence” University Mannheim, Germany
  • 05/1995-12/1996: Research Scientist “Explaining Complex Problem Solving via Intelligence, Knowledge, and Personality” University Mannheim, Germany

Teaching

  • Since Fall 2006: Associate Professor: Classes on Educational Assessment, Test Construction, Individual Differences, Psychometric Methods
  • Fall 2006 - Fall 2002: Assistant Professor: Lectures Psychological Assessment, Various Seminars on Test Construction, Individual Differences, Cognition, Methods, & Assessment
  • Spring 2001: Visiting Professor: Lecture Human Abilities, Lecture Multiple Regression
  • Spring 2000: Untenured Assistant Professor: Cognitive Training, Personality Traits
  • Fall 1999: Untenured Assistant Professor: Experimental Research: Paradigms of Working Memory Functioning
  • Spring 1999: Untenured Assistant Professor: Cognitive Training, Personality Traits
  • Fall 1998: Untenured Assistant Professor: Human Abilities, Motivation
  • Fall 1993 to Fall 1995: Teaching Assistant: Test Construction, Test Theory, Personality Assessment, Ability Assessment, Colloquium on Research Methods

Research Interests

  • Construction and evaluation of achievement, ability and aptitude tests
  • Structure and validity of individual differences in working memory, mental speed and fluid intelligence
  • Multivariate methods in general, and measurement & scaling in particular
  • University admission and the role of cognition in higher education
  • Ability, achievement, knowledge, preferences and their relations
  • Face memory
  • Ability related personality constructs

Publications

  • Schmiedek, F., Oberauer, K., Wilhelm, O., Süß, H.-M., & Wittmann, W. W. (in press). Individual Differences in Components of Reaction Time Distributions and Their Relations to Working Memory and Intelligence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  • Herzmann, G., Danthiir, V., Wilhelm, O., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (in press). Face memory: a cognitive and psychophysiological approach to the assessment of antecedents of emotional intelligence. In G. Matthews, M. Zeidner, & R. D. Roberts (Eds.), Emotional intelligence: Knowns and unknowns, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Oberauer, K., Süß, H.-M., Wilhelm, O. & Sander, R. (in press). Individual differences in working memory capacity and reasoning ability. In A. Conway, C. Jarrold, M. Kane, A. Miyake, & J. Towse (Eds.), Variation in working memory, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Schulze, R., Wilhelm, O., & Kyllonen, P. C. (in press). New approaches to assessing emotional intelligence. In G. Matthews, M. Zeidner, & R. D. Roberts (Eds.), Emotional intelligence: Knowns and unknowns, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Formazin, M., Wilhelm, O. & Köller, O. (2006), Willkür vermeiden! Sachlich gebotene Methoden der Beurteilung von Studienbewerbern. Forschung und Lehre, 13.
  • Wilhelm, O., Formazin, M., Böhme, K., Kunina, O., Jonkmann, K., & Köller, O. (2006). Auswahltests für Psychologiestudierende: Befundlage und neue Ergebnisse. Report Psychologie, 31, 338-349.
  • Wilhelm, O., & Oberauer, K. (2006). Why are reasoning ability and working memory capacity related to mental speed? An investigation of stimulus-response compatibility in choice reaction time tasks. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18, 18-50.
  • Conway, A. R. A., Kane, M. J., Bunting, M. F., Hambrick, D. Z., Wilhelm, O., & Engle, R. W. (2006). Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user’s guide. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 769-786.
  • Danthiir, V., Wilhelm, O., & Schacht, A. (2005). Decision speed in intelligence tasks: Correctly an ability?. Psychology Science, 47, 200-229.
  • Danthiir, V., Wilhelm, O., Schulze, R., & Roberts, R. D. (2005). Factor structure and validity of paper-and-pencil measures of mental speed: Evidence for a higher-order model?. Intelligence, 33, 491-514.
  • Wilhelm, O. (2005). Measures of emotional intelligence: practice and standards. In R. Schulze, & R. D. Roberts (Eds.), International handbook of emotional intelligence (pp. 131-154). Seattle, WA: Hogrefe & Huber.
  • Oberauer, K., Wilhelm, O., & Schmiedek, F. (2005). Experimental strategies in multivariate research. In A. Beauducel, B. Biehl, M. Bosniak, W. Conrad, G. Schönberger, & D. Wagener (Eds.), Festschrift on multivariate research strategies (pp. 123-152). Maastricht, NL: Shaker Publishing.
  • Oberauer, K., Schulze, R., Wilhelm, O. & Süß, H.-M. (2005). Working memory and intelligence – their correlation and their relation: A comment on Ackerman, Beier, and Boyle (2005). Psychological Bulletin, 131, 61-65.
  • Wilhelm, O., & Engle. R. (Eds.) (2005). Understanding and Measuring Intelligence. London: Sage.
  • Oberauer, K., Hörnig, R., Weidenfeld, A., & Wilhelm, O. (2005). Effects of directionality in deductive reasoning, II: Premise integration and conclusion evaluation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 1225-1247.
  • Wilhelm, O., Engle, R. W. (2005). Intelligence: A diva and a work horse. In O. Wilhelm, & R. W. Engle (Eds.), Understanding and measuring intelligence (pp. 1-10). London: Sage.
  • Danthiir, V., Roberts, R. D., Schulze, R., & Wilhelm, O. (2005). Approaches to mental speed. In O. Wilhelm, & R. W. Engle (Eds.), Understanding and measuring intelligence (pp. 27-46). London: Sage.
  • Wilhelm, O. (2005). Measuring reasoning ability. In O. Wilhelm, & R. W. Engle (Eds.), Understanding and measuring intelligence (pp. 373-392). London: Sage.
  • Kane, M. J., Hambrick, D. Z., Tuholski, S. W., Wilhelm, O., Payne, T. W., & Engle, R. W. (2004). The generality of working-memory capacity: A latent-variable approach to verbal and visuo-spatial memory span and reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 189-217.
  • Oberauer, K., & Wilhelm, O. (2003). The meaning(s) of “If”: conditional probabilities and mental models. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Oberauer, K., & Wilhelm, O. (2003). The meaning of conditionals – conditional probabilities, mental models, and personal utilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 680-693.
  • Oberauer, K., Süß, H.-M., Wilhelm, O., & Wittmann, W. W. (2003). The multiple faces of working memory: Storage, processing, supervision, and coordination. Intelligence, 31, 167-193.
  • Wilhelm, O., Schulze, R., Schmiedek, F., & Süß, H.-M. (2003). Interindividuelle Unterschiede im typischen intellektuellen Engagement [Individual differences in typical intellectual engagement]. Diagnostica, 49, 49-60.
  • Wilhelm, O., & Schulze, R. (2002). The relation of speeded and unspeeded reasoning with mental speed. Intelligence, 30, 537-554.
  • Wilhelm, O., & McKnight, P. E. (2002). Ability and achievement testing on the world wide web. In B. Batinic, U.-D. Reips, & M. Bosnjak (Eds.), Online social sciences (pp. 151-181). Toronto: Hogrefe.
  • Süß, H.-M., Oberauer, K., Wittmann, W. W., Wilhelm, O., & Schulze, R. (2002). Working memory capacity explains reasoning ability – and a little bit more. Intelligence, 30, 261-288.
  • Größler, A., Wilhelm, O., Wittmann, W. W. Milling, P. M. (2002). Measuring Business Knowledge for Personnel Selection in Small and Medium Sized Companies. Veröffentlichungen des ifm (Grüne Reihe) Nr. 44.
  • Hambrick, D. Z., Wilhelm, O., & Engle, R. W. (2002). What is the role of working memory in learning disabilities? Commentary on focus article by H. L. Swanson & L. Siegel in Issues in Education: Contributions from Educational Psychology, 7, 87-92.
  • Wilhelm, O. (2000). Psychologie des schlussfolgernden Denkens: Differentialpsychologische Prüfung von Strukturüberlegungen [Psychology of reasoning: Testing of structural theories]. Dr Kovac: Hamburg.
  • Oberauer, K., & Wilhelm, O. (2000). Effects of directionality in deductive reasoning: A study in experimental semantics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1702-1712.
  • Oberauer, K., Süß, H-M., Schulze, R., Wilhelm, O., & Wittmann, W. W. (2000). Working memory capacity - facets of a cognitive ability construct. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 1017-1045.
  • Wilhelm, O., Witthöft, M., McKnight, P., & Größler, A. (1999). On the Psychometric Quality of New Ability Tests Administered Using the WWW. In U.-D. Reips (Ed.), Current Internet Science - Trends, Techniques, Results. Aktuelle Online-Forschung - Trends, Techniken, Ergebnisse. Zürich: Online Press. [WWW document]. Available: URL http://dgof.de/tband99/
  • Oberauer, K., Wilhelm, O., & Rosas, R. D. (1999). Bayesian rationality for the selection task? A test of optimal data selection theory. Thinking and Reasoning, 5, 115-144.
  • Wilhelm, O., Witthöft, M., & Größler, A. (1999). Comparisons of paper-and-pencil and internet administrated ability and achievement tests, in P. Marquet, S. Mathey, A. Jaillet, & E. Nissen (Eds.) Proceedings of IN-TELE 98 (pp.439-449), Berlin: Peter Lang.
  • Conrad, W., Müller, F. G., Wagener, D., & Wilhelm, O. (1998). Psychologische Beiträge zur Analyse unternehmerischer Potentiale bei angehenden Existenzgründern. Veröffentlichungen des ifm (Grüne Reihe) Nr. 36
  • Wilhelm, O., & Conrad, W. (1998). Entwicklung und Erprobung von Tests zur Erfassung des logischen Denkens [Development and evaluation of deductive reasoning tests]. Diagnostica, 44, 71-83.
  
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