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Overview

Anu Realo is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is psychology, with a particular focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, and genetics.

Their research covers several main topics including personality traits and psychology, cultural differences and values, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, sleep and related disorders, behavioral health and interventions, genetic associations and epidemiology, as well as mental health research topics.

Among recent papers contributed to by Anu Realo are:

  • Perceptions of Aging Across 26 Cultures and Their Culture-Level Associates (2021), Faculty of Philosophy (University of Belgrade)
  • Bedtime social media use, sleep, and affective wellbeing in young adults: an experience sampling study (2020), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Global Perspective on Marital Satisfaction (2020), Sustainability
  • On the relationship between valence and arousal in samples across the globe (2022), Emotion
  • Factors Predicting the Scientific Wealth of Nations (2020), Cross-Cultural Research

Anu Realo frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Jüri Allïk, Liisi Ausmees, Uku Vainik, Sakari Lemola, and Nicole K. Y. Tang.

The most frequent publication venues where Anu Realo's work appears include:

  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Emotion
  • Current Psychology
  • Journal of Personality

Best Publications

  • Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study

    Michele J . Gelfand;Jana L. Raver;Lisa Nishii;Lisa Art. Leslie

  • Why can't a man be more like a woman? Sex differences in Big Five personality traits across 55 cultures.

    David P. Schmitt;Anu Realo;Martin Voracek;Jüri Allik

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment

    Cornelius A. Rietveld;Sarah E. Medland;Jaime Lane Derringer;Jian Yang

  • The Role of Positive and Negative Emotions in Life Satisfaction Judgment Across Nations

    Peter Kuppens;Anu Realo;Ed Diener

  • Individualism-Collectivism and Social Capital

    Jüri Allik;Anu Realo

  • National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures

    A. Terracciano;A. M. Abdel-Khalek;N. Ádám;L. Adamovová

  • Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates.

    Corinna E. Löckenhoff;Filip de Fruyt;Antonio Terracciano;Robert R. Mccrae

  • Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison

    Agnieszka Sorokowska;Piotr Sorokowski;Peter Hilpert;Katarzyna Cantarero

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for personality

    M H M de Moor;P T Costa;A Terracciano;R F Krueger

  • Individualism-collectivism and accountability in intergroup negotiations.

    Michele J. Gelfand;Anu Realo

  • Meta-analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies for Neuroticism, and the Polygenic Association With Major Depressive Disorder

    Marleen H.M. De Moor;Stéphanie M. Van Den Berg;Karin J.H. Verweij;Karin J.H. Verweij;Robert F. Krueger

  • Age-related differences in emotion recognition ability: a cross-sectional study.

    Aire Mill;Jüri Allik;Anu Realo;Raivo Valk

  • Personality development from 12 to 18 years of age: changes in mean levels and structure of traits:

    Jüri Allik;Kaia Laidra;Anu Realo;Helle Pullmann

  • The Hierarchical Structure of Collectivism

    Anu Realo;Jüri Allik;Maaja Vadi

  • Radius of Trust Social Capital in Relation to Familism and Institutional Collectivism

    Anu Realo;Jüri Allik;Brenna Greenfield

  • The emergence of sex differences in personality traits in early adolescence: A cross-sectional, cross-cultural study.

    Marleen De Bolle;Filip De Fruyt;Robert R McCrae;Corinna E Löckenhoff

  • Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies for Extraversion: Findings from the Genetics of Personality Consortium

    Stephanie M. van den Berg;Marleen H. M. de Moor;Karin J. H. Verweij;Karin J. H. Verweij;Robert F. Krueger

  • Economic Inequality Is Linked to Biased Self-Perception

    Steve Loughnan;Steve Loughnan;Steve Loughnan;Peter Kuppens;Peter Kuppens;Jüri Allik;Katalin Balazs

  • Mind-reading ability: Beliefs and performance☆

    Anu Realo;Jüri Allik;Aire Nõlvak;Raivo Valk

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates

    Corinna Lockenhoff;Filip De Fruyt;Antonio Terracciano;Robert R. McCrae

Frequent Co-Authors

Jüri Allik
Jüri Allik University of Tartu
René Mõttus
René Mõttus University of Edinburgh
Andres Metspalu
Andres Metspalu University of Tartu
Antonio Terracciano
Antonio Terracciano Florida State University
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Dorret I. Boomsma
Dorret I. Boomsma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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