UZH diff-psy
Account of the Individual Differences and Assessment lab of the University of Zurich
We are a group of researchers with broad interests in personality psychology and assessment. You can find us at: psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/sob/diffps…
- Exciting new research from the Bleidorn & Hopwood labs:
- Very excited to share our preprint (in press at Psychological Science) titled "Associations between meat consumption and depression are small and unlikely to be causal". Have a read: lnkd.in/eM8Cd6Ss @mdkraemer.bsky.social @peterhaehner.bsky.social @wiebkeb.bsky.social @chopwood.bsky.social
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyExcited to see this paper now in print at JPSP! doi.org/10.1037/pspp... You can find the postprint version here: osf.io/8c6sz_v2 Thanks again to @berndschaefer.bsky.social (shared 1st author 🙏), Cornelia Wrzus, Yannick Roos and @drichter77.bsky.social for the great collaboration!
- 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).
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyNew preprint! Many claim that first sex is a huge risk for teens. We tested that claim in a large, nationally representative German sample. Core question: Do first sexual experiences harm adolescents, or do they reflect prior well-being? osf.io/preprints/ps...
- New EJP article on self-esteem recovery after negative life events from our PhD student @schellenberglukas.bsky.social and postdoc @peterhaehner.bsky.social 👨💻📈
- New paper out! 🎢 We found that following negative life events most people's self-esteem tends to increase again–though some don't seem to recover. Personality traits and perceived event characteristics predicted who recovered vs. who did not. @peterhaehner.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0890...
- New paper out on personality functioning by lab members @ajwright.bsky.social and @peterhaehner.bsky.social ⬇️🤩
- Wie verändert sich unsere Persönlichkeit über ein Jahr? Dazu starten wir heute eine neue Studie und suchen nach Teilnehmenden zwischen 18-40 Jahren, die Interesse haben, Einblicke in ihre Persönlichkeit, Wohlbefinden und Verhalten über ein Jahr zu erhalten und bis zu 173 CHF (~185€) zu verdienen.
- Teilnahme und weitere Informationen unter: formr.psych.uzh.ch/pers-wrapped
- Study team includes @peterhaehner.bsky.social , @ajwright.bsky.social , Nicholas Tan, @mdkraemer.bsky.social , @chopwood.bsky.social , and @wiebkeb.bsky.social
- New paper on self-esteem changes after life events lead by our research interns @schellenberglukas.bsky.social and Marco and supervised by @peterhaehner.bsky.social 🎉
- New Preprint Alert! Why do people differ in their self-esteem development after a negative life event? With M. Altorfer, and @peterhaehner.bsky.social, I addressed this question by studying self-esteem changes over six months after a negative life event. Full preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Recent preprint from UZH doctoral student @rosalieandrae.bsky.social on personality and first sexual intercourse using the pairfam data of adolescents 👇
- Ever wondered whether our personality influences our first sexual milestone? 🍒 We explored how the Big Five traits affect the timing of first sexual experiences — and how these, in turn, shape personality traits over time. Check out our preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #PersonalityPsych
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyCan 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...
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyMore 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 🧵:
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyHow does providing informal care affect people's well-being? @wiebkeb.bsky.social and I used longitudinal data to examine this question across different well-being aspects, 3 countries (🇳🇱, 🇩🇪, 🇦🇺), and several moderators. See below for a thread or @psychscience.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/0956...
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyThe best moments as a PhD supervisor: celebrating first first-author publications! Check out this great paper by @berndschaefer.bsky.social published in JPSP 🤩 on network dynamics in subjective well-being! And follow Bernd for more research on this topic. Congrats, Bernd! #perpsy #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyIndividual Differences in Event-Related Personality Changes: A Systematic Review and Coordinated Data Analysis: osf.io/epx5m/
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyStill friends with people you randomly met in a university study group? 👯🧑🎓 In this preprint with André Kretzschmar, @chopwood.bsky.social, and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, we looked at social influences on personality change in a design that randomized first-semester students to peer groups (1/4)
- Check out this new research on personality interventions from lab members, @mdkraemer.bsky.social and @wiebkeb.bsky.social as well as Travis Miller and @chopwood.bsky.social! 🚀📝
- Excited to share this preprint on personality interventions that I've been working on the last year together with Travis Miller, @chopwood.bsky.social , and @wiebkeb.bsky.social : osf.io/eb6p7 🥳🥳 We compared two intervention programs: self-improvement and self-acceptance in (1/7)
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyExcited to share that you can now read the preprint to our investigation of response aggregation methods in divergent thinking assessments: osf.io/preprints/os.... Big thanks to @srtzki.bsky.social , Boris Forthmann, and Mathias Benedek!
- Looking back at 20 years of research, this new article by @wiebkeb.bsky.social reviews the personality development literature against three criteria for strong psychological theories: osf.io/preprints/os... Overall, the field has come a long way in refining our understanding of lifespan (1/2)
- personality development, putting the field in the position to make transformative advances towards stronger and more precise theories. However, there are still several obstacles and open questions... (2/2)
- Congratulations!! 🥳
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyPersons in Contexts: The Role of Social Networks and Social Density for the Dynamic Regulation of Face-to-face Interactions in Daily Life: osf.io/3w9bt/
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyA Systematic Review of Volitional Personality Change Research: osf.io/h5db2/
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyVery happy to see this out now in JPSP! We used 5 datasets (N = 128K) to do a deep dive into within-person variability for long-term personality development, a metric common in short-term dynamics work but (sadly!) pretty disregarded longitudinally (1/8) psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
- Reposted by UZH diff-psyDo people become more alike across the lifespan? Is the variability of personality traits changing across time and age? In our meta-analyis on changes in personality variability, we integrated data from more than 300 longitudinal studies to answer these questions. Preprint: osf.io/yk3eh/
