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Fritz Ostendorf

Fritz Ostendorf

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Psychology

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15041
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Overview

Fritz Ostendorf is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and specializes in psychology, with a particular focus on personality traits and psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and gender studies.

The main topics addressed in Ostendorf's research include:

  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies

Ostendorf has published extensively in academic journals, particularly in:

  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Journal of Personality

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ostendorf include:

  • "Dark Triad Traits, Social Position, and Personality: A Cross-Cultural Study" (2022), Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • "Exploring the stability of HEXACO-60 structure and the association of gender, age, and social position with personality traits across 18 countries" (2021), Journal of Personality
  • "Age differences in the personality hierarchy: A multi-sample replication study across the life span" (2021), Journal of Research in Personality
  • "There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations" (2025), Journal of Research in Personality

Frequent co-authors in Ostendorf's research include:

  • Antón Aluja
  • Luis F. García
  • Jérôme Rossier
  • Joseph Glicksohn
  • Oumar Barry

Best Publications

  • Nature over nurture: temperament, personality, and life span development.

    RR McCrae;PT Costa;Fritz Ostendorf;Alois Angleitner

  • NEO-Fünf-Faktoren-Inventar (NEO-FFI) nach Costa und McCrae : Handanweisung

    Peter Borkenau;Fritz Ostendorf

  • Nature over nurture: temperament personality and lifespan

    Robert R McCrae;Paul T Costa Jr;Fritz Ostendorf;Alois Angleitner

  • Age differences in personality across the adult life span: Parallels in five cultures.

    R. R. McCrae;P. T. Costa;M. Pedroso de Lima;A. Simões

  • The lexical approach to personality: A historical review of trait taxonomic research

    Oliver P. John;Alois Angleitner;Fritz Ostendorf

  • Carving personality description at its joints: Confirmation of three replicable personality prototypes for both children and adults

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Peter Borkenau;Fritz Ostendorf;Marcel A.G. Van Aken

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

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

  • Is the genetic structure of human personality universal? A cross-cultural twin study from North America, Europe, and Asia.

    Shinji Yamagata;Atsunobu Suzuki;Atsunobu Suzuki;Juko Ando;Yutaka Ono

  • Sprache und Persönlichkeitsstruktur: zur Validität des Fünf-Faktoren-Modells der Persönlichkeit

    Fritz Ostendorf

  • Hierarchical subcomponents of the Big Five personality factors: a cross-language replication.

    Gerard Saucier;Fritz Ostendorf

  • Comparing exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis: A study on the 5-factor model of personality

    Peter Borkenau;Fritz Ostendorf

  • Towards a taxonomy of personality descriptors in German: A psycho‐lexical study

    Alois Angleitner;Fritz Ostendorf;Oliver P. John

  • Only three factors of personality description are fully replicable across languages: a comparison of 14 trait taxonomies.

    Boele De Raad;Dick P. H. Barelds;Eveline Levert;Fritz Ostendorf

  • Clarification of the Five-Factor Model With the Abridged Big Five Dimensional Circumplex

    John A. Johnson;Fritz Ostendorf

  • The Big Five as States: How Useful Is the Five-Factor Model to Describe Intraindividual Variations over Time?

    Peter Borkenau;Fritz Ostendorf

  • NEO-FFI : NEO-Fünf-Faktoren-Inventar nach Costa und McCrae, Manual

    Peter Borkenau;Fritz Ostendorf

  • Is self-enhancement healthy? Conceptual, psychometric, and empirical analysis.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Fritz Ostendorf

  • Temperament and the Big Five factors of personality.

    Alois Angleitner;Fritz Ostendorf

  • A comparison of big-five structures of personality traits in Dutch, English, and German

    Willem K. B. Hofstee;Henk A. L. Kiers;Boele De Raad;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Nature over nurture: Temperament, personality, and lifespan development

    R. R. McCrae;P. T. Costa;Fritz Ostendorf;Alois Angleitner

Frequent Co-Authors

Alois Angleitner
Alois Angleitner Bielefeld University
Peter Borkenau
Peter Borkenau Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Boele De Raad
Boele De Raad University of Groningen
Rainer Riemann
Rainer Riemann Bielefeld University
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Peter B. Smith
Peter B. Smith University of Sussex
Jérôme Rossier
Jérôme Rossier University of Lausanne
Paul T. Costa
Paul T. Costa Duke University
Gerard Saucier
Gerard Saucier University of Oregon
Willibald Ruch
Willibald Ruch University of Zurich

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