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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 [*shared first authorship]
  • 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
  • Draxler, C. N., Arslan, R. C., Penke, L. & Botzet, L. J. (2024). Contraceptive satisfaction but not sexual satisfaction or sexual frequency predicts contraceptive switches. PsyArXiv. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/aczdm
  • 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. (2024). How is women' sexuality affected by hormonal contraceptive use? Evidence for positive average treatment effects and high heterogeneity based on longitudinal data. Talk at the 35th Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference. Denmark, May 2024. https://osf.io/8zj59/
  • 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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