Wiebke Bleidorn
Personality Psychologist.
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornNew 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...
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornPreprint Radar 📡: Ever wondered how loneliness and personality interact with each other over time? Together with @wiebkeb.bsky.social and @peterhaehner.bsky.social ner.bsky.social, I examined this question using data from three nationally representative panels (N = 63,555). osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornNew paper examining #personality predictors of #daily #meat consumption among #RomanticCouples who eat differing levels of meat. #Openness #Agreeableness #Compassion #JournalofPersonality @wiebkeb.bsky.social @chopwood.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1111/jopy...
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornWe are conducting a meta-analysis on personal and contextual predictors of solitude. We're looking for unpublished research such as theses, unpublished manuscripts, conference submissions etc. Full call for data: tinyurl.com/4hur45cw Please reskeet, or message me if you know unpublished research!
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornExtremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornMeta analysis in press at JPSP: personality traits are related to volunteering and charitable giving. Which have the biggest effects? See below (hint: they start with vowels) @wiebkeb.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornTogether with @wiebkeb.bsky.social I investigated how personality relates to who takes on informal caregiving, and how informal care responsibilities in turn affect personality: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... On the level of nuances (items), we found some evidence for the corresponsive
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornTraveling might be fun at the time but it won’t make your life better (on average and maybe only if you’re Dutch) with Adam Nissen Madeline Lenhausen @wiebkeb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2700...
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornThe Association for Research in Personality is soliciting abstracts for the 2025 Biennial Meeting scheduled to take place June 26-28, 2025 in Evanston (suburb of Chicago), IL, USA!
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornA study by @wiebkeb.bsky.social & @mdkraemer.bsky.social shows caregiving lowers life satisfaction and raises anxiety, depression, and loneliness. #SupportCaregivers
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornStill 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)
- Reposted by Wiebke Bleidorn+++ New Preprint Alert +++ Together with @ajwright.bsky.social, @mdkraemer.bsky.social, and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, I worked on two coordinated data analyses to examine event-related personality changes. CDA1: osf.io/preprints/ps... CDA2: osf.io/preprints/ps... ⬇️Details below⬇️
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornCan 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...
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- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornLooking 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)
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornSome quantitative psychology (longitudinal emphasis) positions available with me at Uni Zurich from September on, rebleets appreciated! Postdoc: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... PhD: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornDo 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/
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornPhD position in history & philosophy of science at UniMelb with Fiona Fidler and me and the rest of the MetaMelb crowd! Pass it on to any prospective PhD students you know who might be interested (and stay tuned for another similar position in psych at UniMelb soon!)
- Come join us in #hps at UniMelb! PhD scholarship in our #Metascience Research Lab with the amazing @fidlerfm.bsky.social & @simine.com Possible topics include open science, peer review, self-correction, trust in science - put your EOI in now! #philsci #sts
- Reposted by Wiebke BleidornFirst #skeet, with high hopes for this new place! 🥳😄 Stay tuned for updates of our research on differential psychology, personality, cognitive ability, and assessment at the University of Zurich (UZH). Also perhaps the occasional job posting 🧑🔬
