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Overview

Wiebke Bleidorn is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and focuses primarily on psychology, contributing substantially to the field through research and publications.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology

Within psychology, their work spans several subfields, notably:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

The core topics addressed in their research involve:

  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing

Bleidorn has contributed to multiple papers over recent years. Notable publications include:

  • Personality stability and change: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies, 2022, Psychological Bulletin
  • Health, environmental, and animal rights motives for vegetarian eating, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Personality trait stability and change, 2021, Personality Science
  • Connecting Theory to Methods in Longitudinal Research, 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2023, European Journal of Personality

Frequent publication venues where Bleidorn's work appears include:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Journal of Personality
  • Personality Science

Key collaborators within their research network are:

  • Christopher J. Hopwood
  • Ted Schwaba
  • Madeline R. Lenhausen
  • Jaap J. A. Denissen
  • Jochen E. Gebauer

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

  • Life Events and Personality Trait Change.

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Christopher J. Hopwood;Richard E. Lucas

  • Personality Maturation Around the World A Cross-Cultural Examination of Social-Investment Theory

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Theo A. Klimstra;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • Personality traits below facets: The consensual validity, longitudinal stability, heritability, and utility of personality nuances.

    René Mõttus;Christian Kandler;Wiebke Bleidorn;Rainer Riemann

  • What Drives Adult Personality Development? A Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence:

    Jule Specht;Wiebke Bleidorn;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Marie Hennecke

  • Personality stability and change: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

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  • Patterns and sources of adult personality development: growth curve analyses of the NEO PI-R scales in a longitudinal twin study.

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Christian Kandler;Rainer Riemann;Alois Angleitner

  • Left or right? Sources of political orientation: the roles of genetic factors, cultural transmission, assortative mating, and personality

    Christian Kandler;Wiebke Bleidorn;Rainer Riemann

  • Geographically varying associations between personality and life satisfaction in the London metropolitan area

    Markus Jokela;Markus Jokela;Wiebke Bleidorn;Wiebke Bleidorn;Michael E. Lamb;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Etiological features of borderline personality related characteristics in a birth cohort of 12-year-old children

    Daniel W. Belsky;Avshalom Caspi;Louise Arseneault;Wiebke Bleidorn

  • Big Five personality stability, change, and codevelopment across adolescence and early adulthood.

    Jeroen Borghuis;Jaap J A Denissen;Daniel Oberski;Klaas Sijtsma

  • Transactions between life events and personality traits across the adult lifespan

    Jaap J. A. Denissen;Maike Luhmann;Joanne M. Chung;Wiebke Bleidorn

  • Using Machine Learning to Advance Personality Assessment and Theory

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Christopher James Hopwood

  • The policy relevance of personality traits

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Patrick L. Hill;Mitja D. Back;Jaap J. A. Denissen

  • A Three–Part Framework for Self–Regulated Personality Development across Adulthood:

    Marie Hennecke;Wiebke Bleidorn;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Dustin Wood

  • Hitting the Road to Adulthood Short-Term Personality Development During a Major Life Transition

    Wiebke Bleidorn

  • Sources of cumulative continuity in personality: a longitudinal multiple-rater twin study.

    Christian Kandler;Wiebke Bleidorn;Rainer Riemann;Frank M. Spinath

  • Health, environmental, and animal rights motives for vegetarian eating.

    Christopher J Hopwood;Wiebke Bleidorn;Ted Schwaba;Sophia Chen

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

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

  • Nature and nurture of the interplay between personality traits and major life goals.

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Christian Kandler;Ute R. Hülsheger;Rainer Riemann

  • Life events as environmental states and genetic traits and the role of personality : A longitudinal twin study

    Christian Kandler;Wiebke Bleidorn;Rainer Riemann;Alois Angleitner

  • Stability and change in personality and personality disorders.

    Christopher J Hopwood;Wiebke Bleidorn

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Hopwood
Christopher J. Hopwood University of Zurich
Jaap J. A. Denissen
Jaap J. A. Denissen Utrecht University
Rainer Riemann
Rainer Riemann Bielefeld University
Samuel D. Gosling
Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin
Jochen E. Gebauer
Jochen E. Gebauer University of Mannheim
Maike Luhmann
Maike Luhmann Ruhr University Bochum
Jeff Potter
Jeff Potter Brown University
Peter J. Rentfrow
Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge
Frank M. Spinath
Frank M. Spinath Saarland University
Ulrich Orth
Ulrich Orth University of Bern

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