Sie sind da! Die ersten Exemplare meines Buchs "Einsamkeit - Warum sie uns alle betrifft" sind angekommen und werden jetzt an alle verteilt, die mich beim Schreiben unterstützt haben. Im Handel ist das Buch ab dem 25. März, aber vorbestellen kann man es jetzt schon. 😉 #Einsamkeit

New paper alert! 🥳 psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Mit dem Grant von @erc.europa.eu erforscht @hansalves.bsky.social die verzerrte Wahrnehmung statistischer Zusammenhänge. Jan Baedke von @roto-rub.bsky.social rekonstruiert die Geschichte und Philosophie von Pflanzensammlungen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur Förderung! 🎉

Why do some people feel lonelier than others? Drawing on 441 effects, our meta-analysis shows a clear link between insecure attachment orientations (anxious or avoidant) and loneliness (r= .38). Read the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Together with Natalie Kazianis & @bueckersusanne.bsky.social

Auf Englisch sagt man, "I have a book inside me." Das hatte ich bis vor kurzem auch, aber jetzt nicht mehr - denn ich habe es tatsächlich (fast) geschrieben, und am 24.3.2026 wird es so erscheinen: #Einsamkeit

A year ago, 20 German personality psychologists came together under the leadership of John Rauthmann to assess the status of the field (not only from a German perspective). An English-language version of this paper (in press at Psychologische Rundschau) is now available:

New paper in PsychScience: Partial election results fuel fraud beliefs via cumulative redundancy bias. Early leaders are favored; late flips spark suspicion. 7 studies, including 2020 GA data, show this persists despite explanations. @moritzingendahl.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New preprint: osf.io/8c6sz_v1 @mdkraemer.bsky.social and I, with our fantastic co-authors Cornelia Wrzus, Yannick Roos and @drichter77.bsky.social examined how social contact, desire, and affect dynamically interact across different modalities (in-person, digital) and time scales (hourly, daily).

Preprint ALERT! We used data from the GLUECK study to explore network dynamics in the subjective well-being of adolescents. Our findings highlight the central role of school satisfaction and strong links between domain satisfaction and affective well-being. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/os...

Be sure to check out Debbi's first first author paper on who stays lonely and who doesn't following social loss events!

#Loneliness is still widespread among young people in Europe. In a new study for @bertelsmannst.bsky.social, we found that in 2024, 57% of youth in Europe are at least moderately lonely. With @berndschaefer.bsky.social and Ricarda Steinmayr Links to full reports (German / English) in next posts.

The question I've got asked most frequently at conferences when I was presenting something on the perception of life events was whether there are any age differences. Using data from the SOEP-IS, we addressed this simple but interessting question. Open-access link: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

I'm very humbled and extremely happy to announce that my research will be supported by an #ERC Consolidator Grant in the next 5 years. More soon!

Can people intentionally change their personality? Happy to share that our review on volitional personality change research has now been published at Nature Communications. Open-Access-Link: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Check out this recently published paper lead-authored by my PhD colleague Yannick Roos (who's not on Bluesky): doi.org/10.1037/pspp... We examined in 2 studies how contextual social factors (e.g., neighborhood, household composition) relate to differential regulation of social interactions in daily

I am very excited to announce that my first first-author publication was accepted at JPSP: doi.org/10.1037/pspp... Thank you, @peterhaehner.bsky.social and @maikeluhmann.bsky.social, for your incredible support! Here is what we found: (1/7)

I am very happy to share my debut research article on PsyArXiv! You can find our findings on network dynamics of subjective well-being here: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Many thanks to my amazing co-authors @peterhaehner.bsky.social and @maikeluhmann.bsky.social for their invaluable support.