I'm hiring! I am currently establishing my new Research Group for Personality Psychology at Ulm University and am looking for a motivated researcher to join the team starting October 1, 2026 (or by arrangement). 🧵👇 (1/4) 🔗 Full description and details: stellenangebote.uni-ulm.de/jobposting/a...

One week left to apply for this PhD position in my project on citizens’ role in democracy ⬇️⬇️

📎New Research in European Journal of Personality "How unusual are you?" Read the full article: doi.org/10.1177/0890... @aebackunims.bsky.social #PersonalityPsychology #EJP #EAPP

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke. uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social Submit your proposal before November 30! More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt

Very excited that our proposed interdisciplinary approach to individuality in social behaviour is now published at Nature Human Behaviour!

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

✨ We’re pleased to announce that the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) is now on BlueSky! Here, we’ll share news on: - Research highlights - Calls and opportunities - Events, including #ECP22 Follow us to stay connected with the international personality psychology community.

I’m deeply honored to receive the 2025 SAGE Emerging Scholar Award from SPSP. Congratulations to all co-recipients!

Very excited to share our new manuscript accepted at JPSP: "Cultural Differences in the Personality Triad: The Interplay of Personality Traits, Situation Characteristics, and Behavioral States Around the World"

Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics? Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study! Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Excited to share this new preprint with Simon Breil, Katharina Utesch & Mitja Back: "Predicting More Behavior More of the Time: On the Behavioral Nature of Different Personality Trait Measures" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Muslims’ Psychological Responses to Subtle Versus Blatant Expressions of Anti-Muslim Prejudice, from Franziska Stanke, @niclaskuper.bsky.social, Karolina Fetz, and Gerald Echterhoff doi.org/10.1525/coll...

🎉 New paper in Social and Personality Psychology Compass 🎉 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀: 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 🔗 https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.111

How do people differ in pursuing their social lives? In a new paper at JPSP, lead by Cornelia Wrzus, we examined the affiliation motive (and other social traits) as moderators of how people dynamically regulate their social interactions. Across two studies with experience sampling and

Wrapping-up the 3 day Replication Research Symposium with the R2 launch date: replicationresearch.org will be open for reproductions, replications, and meta papers from 10-10-2025!

Time for shameless self-promotion again: If you're interested in the connection between right-wing authoritarianism & threat perceptions, our recent BJSP piece on moderation effects of individual & context level factors (religiosity & marginalization) is def worth reading: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

New publication! Very happy to finally to see this opus magnum by my former PhD student Sarah Kritzler in print: Link: doi.org/10.1037/pspp... Open access preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #perpsy #personalityPsychology

I signed my new employment contract today --> I am officially TENURED now! Big thanks to everyone who supported me during tenure track, this wouldn't have been possible without all the people around me. Happy to continue working in academia, stay tuned for the next projects!

More than happy to share that our manuscript investigating „Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction“ across 27 countries is now available online at Psychological Science (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)! A 🧵:

Created an Ambulatory Assessment starter pack! The add people function was being a bit funky so definitely missing many of you! Reach out if you’d like to be added go.bsky.app/NMJ1yCV

Our lab is now on bluesky! 🎓We study topics such as personality assessment, personality & social relationships, narcissism, personality judgements, personality computing, personality dynamics & development, social skills, societal conflict & cohesion, and much more!

go.bsky.app/TwHBMQi I started a personality psychology starter pack. If I missed you or put you here by mistake, please reach out.

Excited to share our (John Rauthmann & I) new paper, accepted at JPSP: "The Landscape of Personality Psychology in The New Millennium: A Systematic Keyword Analysis of Journal Articles From 2000 to 2021" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Distinctions without Differences? Effects of Instruction Sets for Situation Characteristic Ratings: http://osf.io/8vzkm/

Very excited to share our new paper “From Persons to General Principles: Methodological Decisions for Idiographic and Nomothetic Research” at EJP with Pia Andresen, Emorie Beck, Giulio Costantini, Ellen Hamaker, Aidan Wright, & Johannes Zimmermann. 1/2

Excited to share that our paper "Distinguishing four types of Person × Situation interactions: An integrative framework and empirical examination" is now published at JPSP! doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

🔍 Machine learning is ubiquitous, everyone is talking about it, but what does it really do for social science research? Join our discussion! 💬 Share your insights on its pros and cons. We are interested in your opinion! Participate in our survey: tinyurl.com/3sr94t7u

New post on estimating the reliability of parameters in multilevel models. There's an easy solution using the standard errors of your shrunk parameters. It feels kind of obvious, but maybe it isn't sufficiently obvious yet. rubenarslan.github.io/posts/2024-0...

New paper by John Rauthmann highlighting something that's too often forgotten: - Personality is more than basic tendencies - Basic tendencies are more than Big Five traits - Self-report ist just one approach to trait measurement journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/2024-editorial-board We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!

In a new paper in PSPB, we show that extraverts are perceived as more passionate than introverts because they express their passion more frequently and diversely to others. Joint w/ @kkrttr.bsky.social & @anabelbuechner.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper with Julie Driebe, @larspenke.bsky.social & Tanja Gerlach @EuropeanJournalofPersonality Do our ideal partner preferences predict traits of our future partners? Does the match between ideal preferences and partner traits predict relationship outcomes? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New preprint! What makes for a satisfying life? The obvious answer is “it depends” and so there has been a lot of interest in heterogeneous effects on well-being. In our study, we tackled the question using diary data on both domain satisfaction and general life satisfaction: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are hiring 3 assistant profs (GER Jun-Prof) with tenure track and reduced teaching load in: ✅ Science Acceptance ✅Psychological Metascience ✅Big Data in Psychology 👉 l.ead.me/zpid_w1_prof 👈   #psychology #science #research #metascience #bigdata #trieruni

We (@zpid.bsky.social) are hiring 3 assistant profs (GER Jun-Prof) with tenure track and reduced teaching load in -Science Acceptance, -Psychological Metascience, and -Big Data in Psychology An attractive startup package is available. Questions? Feel free to contact me! l.ead.me/zpid_w1_prof

Guess who’s back? A big shout out and thanks due to @malte.the100.ci and team for getting this up and running! #PsychSciSky #openScience #OpenResearch #OpenAccess

JOB ALERT! I am looking for a postdoc (100%) or PhD student (75%) for a new research project on work and #loneliness. The deadline for applications is Oct 31. More details: www.stellenwerk.de/bochum/jobbo... #PsychSciSky #SocialPsych #PerPsych