UZH diff-psy

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 🎉

Recent preprint from UZH doctoral student @rosalieandrae.bsky.social on personality and first sexual intercourse using the pairfam data of adolescents 👇

A systematic review of volitional personality change research - Communications Psychology Meta-analytic evidence finds interventions aimed at altering personality traits were successful in promoting change. A review of nonintervention studies, finds having the goal to change personality is...

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...

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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/...)!
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How 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...

The 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

Individual Differences in Event-Related Personality Changes: A Systematic Review and Coordinated Data Analysis: http://osf.io/epx5m/

Still 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 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!

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)

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)

Congratulations!! 🥳

Persons in Contexts: The Role of Social Networks and Social Density for the Dynamic Regulation of Face-to-face Interactions in Daily Life: http://osf.io/3w9bt/

A Systematic Review of Volitional Personality Change Research: http://osf.io/h5db2/

Very 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-...

Do 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/

First #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 🧑‍🔬