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Jochen E. Gebauer

Jochen E. Gebauer

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Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
6620
World Ranking
8555
National Ranking
396

Overview

Jochen E. Gebauer is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Health, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their work extensively covers main topics including Cultural Differences and Values, Personality Traits and Psychology, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Religion and Society Interactions, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, and Personality Disorders and Psychopathology.

Gebauer's frequent coauthors include Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter J. Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling, Jeff Potter, and Theresa M. Entringer, reflecting ongoing collaborative research efforts in their areas of study.

Publication venues where Gebauer's research appears most frequently include:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Journal of Personality
  • Assessment
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Notable recent papers by Gebauer include:

  • Country-level correlates of the Dark Triad traits in 49 countries, 2020, Journal of Personality
  • Religious people only live longer in religious cultural contexts: A gravestone analysis., 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Structure of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Across Eight World Regions, 2020, Assessment
  • Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and Their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial-Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality, 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality: Evidence from the United States, Europe, and a large-scale natural experiment, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Age and Gender Differences in Self-Esteem—A Cross-Cultural Window

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Ruben C. Arslan;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding Short Form (BIDR-16):

    Claire M. Hart;Timothy D. Ritchie;Erica G. Hepper;Jochen E. Gebauer

  • Religiosity as Self-Enhancement: A Meta-Analysis of the Relation Between Socially Desirable Responding and Religiosity:

    Constantine Sedikides;Jochen E. Gebauer

  • Communal narcissism.

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  • Pancultural Nostalgia: Prototypical Conceptions Across Cultures

    Erica G. Hepper;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Timothy D. Ritchie

  • Religiosity, Social Self-Esteem, and Psychological Adjustment On the Cross-Cultural Specificity of the Psychological Benefits of Religiosity

    Jochen E. Gebauer;Constantine Sedikides;Wiebke Neberich

  • Self-Enhancement and Psychological Adjustment: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Michael Dufner;Jochen E. Gebauer;Constantine Sedikides;Jaap J. A. Denissen

  • Pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation: Divergent relations to subjective well-being.

    Jochen E. Gebauer;Michael Riketta;Philip Broemer;Gregory R. Maio

  • Agency‐Communion and Self‐Esteem Relations Are Moderated by Culture, Religiosity, Age, and Sex: Evidence for the “Self‐Centrality Breeds Self‐Enhancement” Principle

    Jochen E. Gebauer;Jenny Wagner;Constantine Sedikides;Wiebke Neberich

  • A Three-Tier Hierarchy of Self-Potency: Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self

    Constantine Sedikides;Lowell Gaertner;Michelle A. Luke;Erin M. O’Mara

  • Cross-cultural variations in Big Five relationships with religiosity : A sociocultural motives perspective

    Jochen E. Gebauer;Wiebke Bleidorn;Samuel D. Gosling;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • “How much do you like your name?” An implicit measure of global self-esteem

    Jochen E. Gebauer;Michael Riketta;Philip Broemer;Gregory R. Maio

  • Dynamics of Identity: Between Self-Enhancement and Self-Assessment

    Aiden P. Gregg;Constantine Sedikides;Jochen E. Gebauer

  • To Live Among Like-Minded Others: Exploring the Links Between Person-City Personality Fit and Self-Esteem

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Wiebke Bleidorn;Felix D. Schönbrodt;Jochen E. Gebauer;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • Basic human values: inter-value structure in memory

    Ali Pakizeh;Jochen E. Gebauer;Gregory Richard Maio

  • The religiosity as social value hypothesis: A multi-method replication and extension across 65 countries and three levels of spatial aggregation.

    Jochen E Gebauer;Constantine Sedikides;Felix D Schönbrodt;Wiebke Bleidorn

  • Big Two Personality and Religiosity Across Cultures: Communals as Religious Conformists and Agentics as Religious Contrarians

    Jochen E. Gebauer;Delroy L. Paulhus;Wiebke Neberich

  • Cultural Estrangement: The Role of Personal and Societal Value Discrepancies

    Mark M. Bernard;Jochen E. Gebauer;Gregory Richard Maio

  • Country-level correlates of the Dark Triad traits in 49 countries.

    Peter K. Jonason;Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska;Jarosław Piotrowski;Constantine Sedikides

  • Cultural norm fulfillment, interpersonal belonging, or getting ahead? A large-scale cross-cultural test of three perspectives on the function of self-esteem.

    Jochen E. Gebauer;Constantine Sedikides;Jenny Wagner;Wiebke Bleidorn

  • The need to belong can motivate belief in God.

    Jochen E. Gebauer;Gregory Richard Maio

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Samuel D. Gosling
Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin
Wiebke Bleidorn
Wiebke Bleidorn University of Zurich
Jeff Potter
Jeff Potter Brown University
Gregory R. Maio
Gregory R. Maio University of Bath
Peter J. Rentfrow
Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge
Geoffrey Haddock
Geoffrey Haddock Cardiff University
Peter K. Jonason
Peter K. Jonason VIZJA University
Jaap J. A. Denissen
Jaap J. A. Denissen Utrecht University
Mark R. Leary
Mark R. Leary Duke University

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