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Laura Botzet

Research Interests

  • Psychological effects of hormonal contraception
  • Personality and social relationships, especially romantic relationships and partner choice
  • Birth order effects on intelligence and personality
  • Online research, longitudinal surveys, and diary surveys using the open source software formr.org
  • Open science (especially transparent and complete presentation of analyses)

Current Projects

  • Effect of hormonal contraception on relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and sexual functioning
  • Methods to estimate causal effects based on correlative data considering observed and unobserved confounders
  • Relationship between partner preferences and age as well as parenting intention

Short CV

  • since 10/2020 PhD student, University of Goettingen,
    Department for Biological Personality Psychology (Prof. Dr. Penke)
  • 10/2017 - 08/2020 MSc Psychologie, University of Goettingen
    MSc thesis: "Effects of hormonal contraception on relationship quality and sexual satisfaction – Disentangling selection and causality"
  • 10/2013 - 04/2017 BSc Psychologie, University of Goettingen
    BSc thesis: "Effects of birth order on intelligence, personality and risk preference in an Indonesian sample"

Award

  • DPPD Award for an Outstanding Masterthesis in Differential Psychology and Personality Psychology 2021, 175€

Publications

  • Botzet, L. J., Gerlach, T. M., Driebe, J. C., Penke, L. & Arslan, R. C. (2021). Hormonal contraception and sexuality: Causal effects, unobserved selection, or reverse causality? Collabra: Psychology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.29039
  • Botzet, L. J., Kordsmeyer, T. L., Ostermann, S., Ruß, J. & Penke, L. (2024). Behavioural endocrinology in the social sciences. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11577-024-00945-3
  • Botzet, L. J., Rohrer, J. M., & Arslan, R. C. (2021). Analysing effects of birth order on intelligence, educational attainment, big five, and risk aversion in an Indonesian sample. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2285
  • Botzet, L. J., Rohrer, J. M., Penke, L. & Arslan, R. C. (2023). Hormonal contraceptive use and women’s sexuality and well-being: Estimating treatment effects and their heterogeneity based on longitudinal data [Stage 1 Registered Report]. Peer Community In Registered Reports. https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KJ3H2
  • Botzet, L. J., Shea, A., Vitzthum, V. J., Druet, A., Sheesley, M., & Gerlach, T. M. (2023). The link between age and partner preferences in a large, international sample of single women. Human Nature. 1-13. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09460-4

 

  • Arslan, R. C., Blake, K., Botzet, L. J., Bürkner, P. C., DeBruine, L., Fiers, T., Grebe, N., Hahn, A., Jones, B. C., Marcinkowska, U. M., Mumford, S. L., Penke, L., Roney, J. R., Schisterman, E. F., & Stern, J. (2023). Not within spitting distance: Salivary immunoassays of estradiol have subpar validity for predicting cycle phase. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 149, 105994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105994
  • Schild, C., Botzet, L. J., Planert, L., Ścigała, K. A., Zettler, I., & Lang, J. W. (2020). Linking personality traits to objective foul records in (semi-) professional youth basketball. Journal of Research in Personality, 87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103987  

Professional Presentations

  • Botzet, L. J., Rohrer, J. M., Penke, L., & Arslan, R. C. (2023). Kausale Inferenz auf Basis von Längsschnittdaten: Effekte hormoneller Kontrazeptiva auf Sexualität von Frauen. Talk at the 17th Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik. Austria, September 2023. https://osf.io/qvr5u/
  • Botzet, L. J. (2023). Too sensitive to share? A practical workshop on creating synthetic datasets with R. Open science workshop at the School of Psychology - Queen's University of Belfast. United Kingdom, March 2023. https://osf.io/er2a8/ 
  • Botzet, L. J. (2023). Causal inference based on correlational data: Approximating causal effects of starting and discontinuing hormonal contraceptives on sexuality and well-being. School seminar talk at the School of Psychology - Queen's University of Belfast. United Kingdom, March 2023. https://osf.io/e24cx/
  • Botzet, L. J., Penke, L., & Arslan, R. C. (2022). Approximating causal effects of starting and discontinuing hormonal contraceptive use on sexuality and satisfaction. Talk at the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society 2022. Germany, September 2022. https://osf.io/9pavw
  • Botzet, L. J., Penke, L., & Arslan, R. C. (2022). Approximating causal effects of starting and discontinuing hormonal contraceptive use on sexuality and satisfaction. Talk at the European Conference of Personality 2022. Spain, July 2022. https://osf.io/emwbs/
  • Botzet, L. J., Gerlach, T. M., Driebe, J. C., Penke, L., & Arslan, R. C. (2022). Analyzing psychological effects of hormonal contraception: Causal effects, selection effects, attrition effects, or reverse causality? Talk at the European Human Behavior & Evolution Association 2022. Online Conference, April 2022. https://osf.io/tckdr/
  • Botzet, L. J., Shea, A., Vitzthum, V. J., Druet, A., Sheesley, M., & Gerlach, T. M. (2021). The link between age and ideal partner preferences in a large, international sample of single women. Talk at the International Association for Relationship Research Conference 2021. Online Conference, July 2021. https://osf.io/ktw9n/
  • Botzet, L. J., Gerlach, T. M., Driebe, J. C., Penke, L., & Arslan, R. C. (2021). Hormonal contraception and sexuality: Causal effects, unobserved selection, or reverse causality? Talk at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society 2021. Online Conference, June 2021. https://osf.io/sqe59/
  • Botzet, L. J., Gerlach, T. M., Driebe, J. C., Penke, L., & Arslan, R. C. (2021). Hormonal contraception and sexuality: Causal effects, unobserved selection, or reverse causality? Talk at the SPSP Pre-Conference on Sexuality. Online Conference, February 2021. https://osf.io/sqe59/
  • Arslan, R. C., & Botzet, L. J. (2019). Document your data. Workshop as part of the 4th Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Meeting. Netherlands, July 2019. https://osf.io/qz67a/
  • Botzet, L. J., & Arslan, R. C. (2018). Effects of birth order on intelligence, educational attainment, personality and risk aversion in an Indonesian sample. Talk at the 19th European Conference of Personality. Croatia, July 2018. https://osf.io/6zqcr/?view_only=7f3793056a824f31a4bb9d9d9c4af3c3
  • Botzet, L. J., & Arslan, R. C. (2017). Effekte der Geburtenposition auf Intelligenz, Persönlichkeit und Risikopräferenz in einer indonesischen Stichprobe. Poster presentation at the 14th Konferenz für differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und psychologische Diagnostik. Germany, September 2017. https://osf.io/av2pw/?view_only=0da0785c4dc346708a6327b55f362201

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