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Overview

Ingo Zettler is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including clinical psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The primary areas of focus in Zettler's body of work involve personality traits and psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, personality disorders and psychopathology, social and intergroup psychology, experimental behavioral economics studies, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and behavioral health and interventions.

Zettler has published frequently in several key academic journals. The venues with the highest numbers of their publications include:

  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Personality Assessment

Some recent papers authored by Zettler illustrate the range and focus of their research contributions:

  • The Nomological Net of the HEXACO Model of Personality: A Large-Scale Meta-Analytic Investigation, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria, 2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science

Zettler's collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Lau Lilleholt, Morten Moshagen, Benjamin E. Hilbig, Robert Böhm, and Christoph Schild.

Best Publications

  • The dark core of personality.

    Morten Moshagen;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • Pillars of cooperation: Honesty-Humility, social value orientations, and economic behavior

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Lotte Pummerer;Robert Böhm;Lau Lilleholt;Kevin Winter

  • Personality, political skill, and job performance

    Gerhard Blickle;James A. Meurs;Ingo Zettler;Jutta Solga

  • Personality and prosocial behavior: linking basic traits and social value orientations.

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Andreas Glöckner;Ingo Zettler

  • Political skill construct and criterion‐related validation: a two‐study investigation

    Gerald R. Ferris;Gerhard Blickle;Paula B. Schneider;Jochen Kramer

  • It takes two : Honesty-humility and agreeableness differentially predict active versus reactive cooperation

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler;Ingo Zettler;Ingo Zettler;Felix Leist;Felix Leist;Felix Leist;Timo Heydasch;Timo Heydasch;Timo Heydasch

  • The Nomological Net of the HEXACO Model of Personality: A Large-Scale Meta-Analytic Investigation.

    Ingo Zettler;Isabel Thielmann;Benjamin E Hilbig;Morten Moshagen

  • To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Jessica K. Flake;Marco Tullio Liuzza

  • Honesty-Humility and a person-situation-interaction at work

    Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Faktorenstruktur, psychometrische Eigenschaften und Messinvarianz der deutschsprachigen Version des 60- Item HEXACO Persönlichkeitsinventars

    Morten Moshagen;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • When the cat’s away, some mice will play: A basic trait account of dishonest behavior

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • Personality, punishment, and public-goods: Strategic shifts towards cooperation as a matter of dispositional Honesty-Humility

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler;Timo Heydasch

  • Measuring the 7Cs of Vaccination Readiness

    Mattis Geiger;Franziska Rees;Lau Lilleholt;Ana P. Santana

  • Rethinking Trait Conceptions of Social Desirability Scales Impression Management as an Expression of Honesty-Humility

    Reinout E. de Vries;Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Dissecting work commitment: the role of Machiavellianism

    Ingo Zettler;Niklas Friedrich;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Not Enough of a ‘Dark’ Trait? Linking Machiavellianism to Job Performance

    Ingo Zettler;Marc Solga

  • Measuring the Dark Core of Personality

    Morten Moshagen;Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • The Stability of Extreme Response Style and Acquiescence Over 8 Years

    Eunike Wetzel;Eunike Wetzel;Oliver Lüdtke;Ingo Zettler;Jan R. Böhnke

  • The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria

    Ingo Zettler;Christoph Schild;Christoph Schild;Lau Lilleholt;Lara Kroencke

  • Two sides of one coin: Honesty–Humility and situational factors mutually shape social dilemma decision making

    Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Timo Heydasch

  • Implicit motives, explicit traits, and task and contextual performance at work

    Jonas W. B. Lang;Ingo Zettler;Christian Ewen;Ute R. Hülsheger

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin E. Hilbig
Benjamin E. Hilbig University of Koblenz and Landau
Morten Moshagen
Morten Moshagen University of Ulm
Ulrich Trautwein
Ulrich Trautwein University of Tübingen
Reinout E. de Vries
Reinout E. de Vries Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gerald R. Ferris
Gerald R. Ferris Florida State University
Oliver Wilhelm
Oliver Wilhelm University of Ulm
Marc Marschark
Marc Marschark Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael C. Ashton
Michael C. Ashton Brock University
Peter Gerjets
Peter Gerjets University of Tübingen
Kibeom Lee
Kibeom Lee University of Calgary

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