Dr. Klaus G. Melchers

Research interests

since 09/2003	Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), Work and Organizational Psychology Group (head: Prof. Martin Kleinmann)
07/2003	Completion of my dissertation thesis entitled "Can prior experience influence whether stimuli are processed elementally or configurally?" supervised by Prof. Harald Lachnit and Prof. David Shanks.
2000-2003	Research asisstant with Prof. H. Lachnit, in a research project sponsored by the DFG (German Science Foundation) entitled "Do processing strategies and memory effect associative learning?"
1994-2000	University studies (Psychology) at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany) and at the University College London (UK)

2008	Format-based biases of psychometric scales (joint project together with U.-D. Reips; Biäsch Foundation for the Promotion of Applied Psychology)
2008	The importance of cognitive demands for the rating process in assessment centers and their effect on rating accuracy and construct validity (Swiss National Science Foundation
2006	Cognitive load and rating accuracy in assessment center exercises (Grant by the Biäsch Foundation for the Promotion of Applied Psychology)
2004	To what extend can rating quality be improved through rater training? (University of Zurich Resource Found)
1998	Plotkin Prize of the Department of Psychology, University College London, for the best Final Year Research Project
1997-1998	Exchange grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)