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Leonie Maatz

Leonie Maatz

address:
Campus Golm
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Haus 14

Leonie Maatz

Academic Career

  • Since 2026 Research associate, University of Potsdam in the field of social psychology
  • 2023 - 2025 Research associate, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • 2020 - 2021 M.Sc. Forensic & Legal Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • 2017 - 2020 B.Sc. Psychology, Maastricht University

 

Research interests

  •  Credibility of witness statements
  • Conscious and unconscious false testimony
  • Reactions to sexual violence

 

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Publications

Maatz, L., Boskovic, I., & de Roos, M. (2025). The Impact of Victim and Perpetrator Race on Likelihood of Bystander Advice Post-sexual Assault: A Vignette Study. Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice, 8(2), 125-142.

Boskovic, I., Maatz, L., Konstantinou, N., Van Der Laan, M., & Rassin, E. (2025). Statement validity assessment of students' sexual assault accounts: Comparison of honest reports, false denials and false allegations using the criteria‐based content analyses and the verifiability approach. Legal and Criminological Psychology.

Bošković, I., de Roos, M., Maatz, L., & Orthey, R. (2025). The Impact of Individual and Context-Related Factors on Students’ Reactions After Sexual Assault: A Vignette Study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 08862605251319008.