Dr. Christian Blötner

Christian Blötner Foto: Hardy Welsch

E-Mail: christian.bloetner

Telefon: +49 2331 987-4361

Raum: A 1007

Akademische Laufbahn

  • Seit 04/2024: Akademischer Rat auf Zeit, Lehrgebiet Persönlichkeits-, Rechtspsychologie & Diagnostik (Prof. Dr. Mokros), FernUniversität in Hagen

  • 05/2022 - 03/2024: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrgebiet Persönlichkeits-, Rechtspsychologie & Diagnostik (Prof. Dr. Mokros), FernUniversität in Hagen

  • 05/2022 – 05/2023: Lehrbeauftragter für die Lehrveranstaltungen Differentielle Psychologie II und Methoden des Psychologieunterrichts (BK), Technische Universität Dortmund

  • 08/2020 – 04/2022: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrstuhl für Pädagogische und Differentielle Psychologie (Prof. Dr. Steinmayr), Technische Universität Dortmund

  • 10/2019 – 07/2020: Tutor für die Lehrveranstaltungen Statistik für Fortgeschrittene I und II, Arbeitseinheit Statistik und Methoden (Prof. Dr. Nestler), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

  • 02/2020 – 06/2020: Forschungspraktikum, Arbeitseinheit Psychologische Diagnostik und Persönlichkeitspsychologie (Prof. Dr. Back), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

  • 07/2019 – 02/2020: Forschungspraktikum, Arbeitseinheit Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie (Prof. Dr. Hertel), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Universitäre Ausbildung

  • 08/2020 – 06/2023: Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat. in Psychologie, Technische Universität Dortmund und FernUniversität in Hagen

  • 10/2018 – 07/2020: Master of Science in Psychologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

  • 10/2014 – 04/2018: Bachelor of Science in Psychologie, FernUniversität in Hagen

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Inter- und intrapersonelle Korrelate antagonistischer Persönlichkeitsmerkmale (z.B. Dunkle Triade/Tetrade), mit Schwerpunkt Machiavellismus
  • Skalenentwicklung und -Evaluation
  • Entwicklung von Paketen in der Programmiersprache R

Publikationen

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2025

Blötner, C. (2025). Extending Lawson and Robins’ (2021) guideline for the evaluation of jingle and jangle fallacies. Behavior Research Methods, 57, Article 177. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02691-6

Blötner, C. (2025). The empirical distinction between Honesty-Humility and Big Five-Agreeableness: Initial evidence from German samples. Personality Science, 6, Article 27000710251323583. https://doi.org/10.1177/27000710251323583

Blötner, C., Dinić, B. M., Dagnall, N., Plouffe, R., Papageorgiou, K. A., Krstić, P., & Denovan, A. (2025). The Machiavellian Approach and Avoidance Questionnaire: Further validation and evidence of cross-national validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 107(4), 463–475. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2431123

Blötner, C., & Grosz, M. P. (2025). iccde: Computation of the Double-Entry Intraclass Correlation [R package version 0.3.8]. CRAN. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.iccde

Blötner, C., & Kaminski, A. (2025). Challenging the “Empathic Deficits Hypothesis” of Machiavellianism: Lack of motivation rather than lack of ability. Journal of Individual Differences, 46(2), 97–108. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000440

Blötner, C., & Spormann, S. S. (2025). Gendered sadism — Examining measurement invariance of everyday sadism scales across genders. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000900

Segbert, L.-M., & Blötner, C. (2025). AOboot: Bootstrapping for one-way and two-way ANOVAs [R package version 0.1.2]. CRAN. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.AOboot

2024

Blötner, C. (2024). diffcor: Fisher's z-Tests concerning difference of correlations [R package version 0.8.4]. CRAN. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.diffcor

Blötner, C. (2024). Interactions between Machiavellianism and verbal reasoning in “bullshit” production. Personality and Individual Differences, 223, Article112635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112635

Blötner, C. (2024). latcontrol: Evaluation of the role of control variables in structural equation models [R package version 0.1.1]. CRAN. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.latcontrol

Blötner, C. (2024). visualMC. Visualization of the coverage of simulated correlations. ShinyApps. https://cbloetner.shinyapps.io/visualMC/

Blötner, C., Spormann, S. S., Hofmann, M. J., & Mokros, A. (2024). Measures of subclinical psychopathy and everyday sadism are still redundant: A conceptual replication and extension of Blötner and Mokros (2023). Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12996

2023

Blötner, C. (2023). Machiavellismus: Bedeutung für Rezeption und Produktion von Fehlinformationen sowie für Bullying und Cyberbullying [Dissertation, FernUniversität in Hagen]. https://doi.org/10.18445/20230622-080259-0

Blötner, C. (2023). latcontrol: Evaluation of the role of control variables in structural equation models. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dy79z

Blötner, C. (2023). latcontrol: Evaluation of the role of control variables in structural equation models (R package version 0.1.0). CRAN. https://cran.r-project.org/package=latcontrol

Blötner, C., & Bergold, S. (2023). It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: Machiavellianism is associated with producing but not necessarily with falling for bullshit. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(1), 467–485. https://doi.org/10.1111/BJSO.12559

Blötner, C., & Bergold, S. (2023). The Machiavellian bully revisited: A closer look at differences and processes of Machiavellian bullying and cyberbullying perpetration. Aggressive Behavior, 49(6), 568–579. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.22095

Blötner, C., & Grosz, M. P. (2023). iccde: Computation of the Double-Entry Intraclass Correlation (R package version 0.3.5). CRAN. https://cran.r-project.org/package=iccde

Blötner, C., & Grüning, D. J. (2023). An examination of the role of inverted Dark Tetrad items for structural properties and construct validity. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000805

Blötner, C. & Mokros, A. (2023). The next distinction without a difference: Do psychopathy and sadism scales assess the same construct? Personality and Individual Differences, 205, Article 112102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112102

Blötner, C., Webster, G. D., & Wongsomboon, V. (2023). Measurement invariance of the Short Dark Tetrad across cultures and genders. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 39(5),331–336. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000715

2022

Blötner, C., & Bergold, S. (2022). To be fooled or not to be fooled: Avoiding and approaching facets of Machiavellianism. Psychological Assessment, 34(2), 147–158. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001069

Blötner, C. & Beisemann, M. (2022). The Dark Triad is dead, long live the Dark Triad: An item-response theoretical examination of the Short Dark Tetrad. Personality and Individual Differences, 199, Article111858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111858

Blötner, C., Ziegler, M., Wehner, C., Back, M. D., & Grosz, M. P. (2022). The nomological network of the Short Dark Tetrad Scale (SD4). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 38(3), 187–197. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000655

2021

Blötner, C., Steinmayr, R., & Bergold, S. (2021a). Malicious mind readers? A meta-analysis on Machiavellianism and cognitive and affective empathy. Personality and Individual Differences, 181, Article 111023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111023

Kongressbeiträge

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2024

Blötner, C. (2024, August 6–9). Two forms of being altruistic: On the empirical distinction of Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness. 21st European Conference on Personality, Berlin, Germany.

Blötner, C., Spormann, S. S., Hofmann, M., & Mokros, A. (2024, September 16–19). Measures of subclinical psychopathy and everyday sadism are still redundant: An extended replication of Blötner and Mokros (2023). 53rd DGPs Congress / 15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, Austria.

2023

Blötner, C. (2023, September 24–27). Böse Genies legen dich rein, aber du sie nicht: Interaktionen zwischen Machiavellismus und Intelligenz bei der Bullshit-Produktion und -Erkennung. Conference of the German Psychological Society — Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, Salzburg, Austria.

Blötner, C., & Grüning, D. J. (2023, September 24–27). What do we know about low levels of darkness? Examining inverted items in a Dark Tetrad measure concerning structural properties and construct validity. Conference of the German Psychological Society — Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, Salzburg, Austria.

Blötner, C., & Mokros, A. (2023, March 9–11). Another distinction without a difference in the Dark Tetrad: Psychopathy and sadism measures are essentially redundant. International Convention of Psychological Science, Brussels, Belgium.

Grüning, D., & Blötner, C. (2023, June 9). Fallstricke bei Selbstberichten und Lösungsansätze [Conference object]. Practical Tools for Open Science 2023, online. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12920

Grüning, D. J., & Blötner, C. (2023, September 24–27). Development and Investigation of the Dark Social Desirability Inventory (DSDI). Conference of the German Psychological Society — Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, Salzburg, Austria.

Segbert, L.-M. & Blötner, C. (2023, September 24–27). Who Does Social Distancing? Interactions between the Behavioral Immune System, Dark Triad, and HEXACO Traits. Conference of the German Psychological Society — Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, Salzburg, Austria.

2022

Blötner, C., & Bergold, S. (2022, September 12–15). To be fooled or not to be fooled: Avoiding and approaching facets of Machiavellianism. Conference of the German Psychological Society, Hildesheim, Germany.

2021

Blötner, C., Steinmayr, R., & Bergold, S. (2021, September 12–15). Malicious mind readers? A meta-analysis on Machiavellianism and cognitive and affective empathy – An extension of the same-named article in PAID. Conference of the German Psychological Society —Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, Ulm, Germany.

Blötner, C. (2021, November 11). Ein Stratege und ein Neurotiker gehen zur Schule: Wie Personen mit hohen Ausprägungen in Machiavellismus lernen. digiGEBF Next Generation.

Sandra Fischer | 03.07.2025