Chiara Förster, M.Sc. Psychology

Research Assistant

Research Interests

  • Perceptions of Anomie
  • Beliefs and Attitudes
  • Digital Media and Technology
  • Person-Situation Dynamics
  • Longitudinal Data Analysis

Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment

Franz-Mehring-Str. 47, 
17487 Greifswald


chiara.foersteruni-greifswaldde

Academic education

since 04/2025 PhD in Psychology, Humboldt-University of Berlin
10/2021 - 06/2024 M.Sc. in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin; Master thesis: Examining Person-Situation Dynamics in Everyday Social Behavior
10/2018 – 09/2021 B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Lübeck; Bachelor thesis: A Taxonomy of Visually Perceived Situation Cues in Personality-Relevant Situation Pictures

Professional background

since 04/2026 Research Assistant, Department of Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment (Prof. Dr. Anne Reitz), Institute of Psychology, University of Greifswald
since 04/2025 Research Associate, Psychologische Hochschule Berlin
06/2024 - 03/2025 Research Associate, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz
since 03/2024 Affiliated Researcher, Stanford University
03/2022 - 02/2024 Research Assistant, Humboldt-University of Berlin

Publications

Journal Articles

Golec de Zavala, A., Förster, C., Ziegler, M., Nalberczak-Skóra, M., Ciesielski, P., & Mazurkiewicz, M. (2024). The shape of the change: Cumulative and incremental changes in daily mood during mobile-app-supported mindfulness training. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12518

Lee, Tony C., Förster, Chiara A., Ziegler, Matthias (2025). Does Artificial Intelligence Genuinely Predict Personality Traits? A Meta-Analytic Review of Machine-Predicted Big Five Scores: Convergence and Bias. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5238288

Conferences

Förster, C. A., Horstmann, K. T., & Harari, G. M. (2025, September). Attachment Styles, Interaction Partners, and Social Company: Person-Situation Dynamics of Daily In-Person and Digital Social Behavior. Presentation at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section. Kassel, Germany.

Horstmann, K. T., Förster, C. A., & Buecker, S. (2022, February). Prosocial Behavior During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany. Poster at the 2022 SPSP Virtual Convention.

Förster, C. A., Phan, L. V., Kuper, N., Modersitzki, N. (2021, September). A Taxonomy of Visually Perceived Situation Cues in Personality-Relevant Situations. Poster at the 2022 DPPD Conference.