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Overview

Jens B. Asendorpf is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences. Within these domains, their work focuses on subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, education, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their research topics cover several areas such as personality traits and psychology, cognitive abilities and testing, personality disorders and psychopathology, parental involvement in education, early childhood education and development, mental health research topics, and bullying, victimization, and aggression.

They have published in various academic venues, including:

  • International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • Personality Science
  • European Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Adolescence

Some of the recent publications by Jens B. Asendorpf include:

  • Longitudinal interplay between peer likeability and youth's adaptation and psychological well-being: A study of immigrant and nonimmigrant adolescents in the school context (2020), published in International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • Open peer commentaries to Leising et al., Ten steps toward a better personality science: How quality may be rewarded more in research evaluation (2022), published in Personality Science
  • Cascades linking school achievement and engagement to the acculturation of immigrant-origin youth (2023), published in European Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Resilience during a great economic recession: Social and personal resources for youth's positive adaptation in the school context (2022), published in Journal of Adolescence

Jens B. Asendorpf has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including Philip J. Corr, Frosso Motti-Stefanidi, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Marco Perugini, and Stefanos Mastrotheodoros.

They have contributed to scholarly books as well, including a publication with Cambridge University Press. One notable book is "The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology" released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Psychologie der Persönlichkeit

    Jens B. Asendorpf

  • Beyond global sociosexual orientations: A more differentiated look at sociosexuality and its effects on courtship and romantic relationships.

    Lars Penke;Jens B. Asendorpf

  • Personality effects on social relationships.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Susanne Wilpers

  • Double dissociation between implicit and explicit personality self-concept: The case of shy behavior.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Rainer Banse;Daniel Mücke

  • Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Mark Conner;Filip de Fruyt;Jan De Houwer

  • A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Analysis: Applications to Developmental Research

    Rens van de Schoot;Rens van de Schoot;David Kaplan;Jaap J.A. Denissen;Jens B. Asendorpf

  • Beyond Social Withdrawal: Shyness, Unsociability, and Peer Avoidance

    Jens B. Asendorpf

  • 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

  • Personality-Relationship transaction in young adulthood.

    Franz J. Neyer;Jens B. Asendorpf

  • Social Withdrawal, inhibition, and Shyness in Childhood

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Jens B. Asendorpf

  • The Transaction between Parents' Perceptions of their Children's Shyness and their Parenting Styles

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Larry J. Nelson;Paul Hastings;Jens Asendorpf

  • The discrepant repressor: differentiation between low anxiety, high anxiety, and repression of anxiety by autonomic-facial-verbal patterns of behavior.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Personality–Relationship Transaction in Adolescence: Core Versus Surface Personality Characteristics

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Marcel A. G. Van Aken

  • Development of inhibition during childhood: Evidence for situational specificity and a two-factor model

    Jens B. Asendorpf

  • Resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled personality prototypes in childhood: replicability, predictive power, and the trait-type issue.

    J.B. Asendorpf;M.A.G. van Aken

  • Development of Inhibited Children's Coping with Unfamiliarity

    Jens B. Asendorpf

  • Testgüte und psychometrische Äquivalenz der deutschen Version des Big Five Inventory (BFI) bei jungen, mittelalten und alten Erwachsenen

    Frieder R. Lang;Oliver Lüdtke;Jens B. Asendorpf

  • Psychologie der Beziehung

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Rainer Banse;Franz J. Neyer

  • Self-Awareness and Other-Awareness II: Mirror Self-Recognition, Social Contingency Awareness, and Synchronic Imitation

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Veronique Warkentin;Pierre-Marie Baudonnière

  • Inhibited and Aggressive Preschool Children at 23 Years of Age: Personality and Social Transitions into Adulthood

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Marcel A. G. van Aken

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel A. G. van Aken
Marcel A. G. van Aken Utrecht University
Lars Penke
Lars Penke University of Göttingen
Jaap J. A. Denissen
Jaap J. A. Denissen Utrecht University
Rainer Banse
Rainer Banse University of Bonn
Peter M. Todd
Peter M. Todd Indiana University
Kenneth H. Rubin
Kenneth H. Rubin University of Maryland, College Park
Rens van de Schoot
Rens van de Schoot Utrecht University
Marco Perugini
Marco Perugini University of Milano-Bicocca
Mark Conner
Mark Conner University of Leeds
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau

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