Professor Oliver Wilhelm from University of Ulm Presented in the Academic Forum Event in UESTC
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Professor Wilhelm introduced the relationship between interpersonal abilities and psychopathy during the academic forum.
    Professor Wilhelm introduced the relationship between interpersonal abilities and psychopathy during the academic forum. He stated that individuals who suffer from psychopathy have different levels of inabilities such as failure in emotion processing, lack of motivation, impulsivity, flat affect and anti-social behavior. At present, 28% of the world populations have symptoms of psychopathy. Professor Wilhelm studied subjects with 70% of them were incarcerated in forensic institutions and asked them to complete the several tasks, such as taking general intelligence measures, some emotion related measures and some self-report measures. Based on the data, Professor Wilhelm concluded that most psychopathy patients are low in intelligence; whereas, the results didn’t show difference between patients and normal people in emotion perception and imitation. Overall, his study suggested that, emotion processing was proved not to be the key factor of psychopathy. Nevertheless, integrating multiple variables during scientific assessment and analysis is crucial for scientific researches.


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    Professor Oliver Wilhelm is from Department of Psychology and Education, University of Ulm (German). His primary interest is in differential psychology and psychological assessment. His current main research work is focused on: (1) Construction and evaluation of competence, achievement, ability, and aptitude tests; (2) Innovative measures for student achievement – specifically technology based measures; (3) Structure and validity of individual differences in working memory, mental speed and fluid intelligence; (4) Multivariate methods in general, and measurement & scaling in particular; (5) Ability related personality constructs. Professor Wilhelm has published over 100 high-quality papers and received numerous grants from German.
    The Academic Forum events were held in the development center of HR department and invited researchers with various expertise to give presentations of their latest work. This event is aimed to establish a platform for academic communication and broaden the dimensions of studies conducted in our institution.