Research Focus

• Legal, cognitive and social psychology, legal decision making
• Law obedience and disobedience
• Intercultural comparisons
• Formal modeling, Multinomial Processing Tree modeling
• Rape, rape myth acceptance, and sexism
• Sex offender research, sex offender research

Academic Career

• 2005 High school diploma
• 2007-2008, 2009-2010 Research Assistant, Chair for Cognition and Individual Differences (Prof Edgar Erdfelder), University of Mannheim
• 2008 Study abroad and research internship in Forensic Psychology (Prof Jane Goodman-Delahunty), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• 2010 Internship (2 months) at the German Developmental Service/ Centre Afrika Obota, Cotonou, Benin
• October 2010 Diploma in Psychology, University of Mannheim
• Since 2010 Studies of Law, University of Bonn and University of Hagen
• Since 2010 Ph.D. student, Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn

Scholarships

• 2008: Combined study and research scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• 2010: Ph.D. scholarship, the Max-Planck-Society

Awards

• 2011: AP-LS Travel Award for paper presentation 4th International Conference of Psychology and Law, Miami, FL, USA
• 2011: AP-LS Outstanding student poster award (with Caroline Titcomb & Jane Goodman-Delahunty) 4th International Conference of Psychology and Law, Miami, FL, USA
• 2011: Nachwuchsförderpreis der Fachgruppe Rechtspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie [Young Researcher Award of the psychology and law group of the German Society for Psychology] for the best diploma thesis: "Beyond testimony: A formal modeling approach to eyewitness memory" (supervisors: André Aßfalg, Prof Edgar Erdfelder, & Prof Rüdiger Pohl)

Memberships

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) [German Society of Psychology]
• American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS), student member
• Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law (ANZAPPL), student member
• European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), student member
• Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), student member

Publications

Titcomb C. R., Goodman-Delahunty J., Waubert de Puiseau B., Pre-trial diversion for intrafamilial child sexual offending: Does biological paternity matter?, Criminal Justice and Behavior, In Press.

Waubert de Puiseau B., Le harcèlement sexuel des filles comme forme de corruption en milieu scolaire. Rapport final.: CAO-Bénin / Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst Bénin, 2010.

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