Prof. Dr. Jochen E. Gebauer

Heisenberg-Professor, Project director
Jochen.Gebauer [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2040
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2803
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:435
68159  Mannheim

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.1806
A Sociocultural Motives Perspective on Self-Concept and Personality
A2.1903
Geographical Personality Differences and Economic Success
A2.2103
Social Status and Pandemic Spread
A2.2205
ACT: Why are the Big Two of Agency and Communion so Fundamental to Human Psychology? An Agency-Communion Theory (ACT) and its Novel Account of Social Influence
A2.2207
Does (National) Religiosity Ease the Psychological Burden of Lower SES?

Publications

Journal Articles

Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Jochen E. Gebauer and Peter Rentfrow (2024): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence. Psychological Science. more
Bleidorn, Wiebke, Madeline R. Lenhausen, Ted Schwaba, Jochen E. Gebauer and Christopher J. Hopwood (2023): Secularization trends obscure developmental changes in religiosity. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, issue 2, pp. 249-258. more
Entringer, Theresa M., Jochen E. Gebauer and Hannes Kroeger (2023): Big Five Personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross-lagged effects and their moderation by culture. Journal of Personality, 91, issue 3, pp. 736-752. more
Lenhausen, Madeline R., Ted Schwaba, Jochen E. Gebauer, Theresa M. Entringer and Wiebke Bleidorn (2023): Transnational effects between personality and religiosity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, issue 2, pp. 421-436. more
Asendorpf, Jens B., and Jochen E. Gebauer (2022): Good intensions - unfortunate side effects: commentaries to Leising et al.. Personality Science, 3, (article no. e9227), p. 5-7. more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Jochen E. Gebauer, Thorsteinn Jonsson and Shigehiro Oishi (2022): Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of Higher (Not Lower) Social Status: Evidence From COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, issue 3, pp. 722–733. more
Boileau, Lucia L.-A., Herbert Bless and Jochen E. Gebauer (2022): The “mixed bag” of segregation – On positive and negative associations with migrants’ acculturation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52, issue 3, pp. 457-471. more
Ebert, Tobias, Jochen E. Gebauer, Thomas Brenner, Wiebke Bleidorn, Samuel D. Gosling, Jeff Potter and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2022): Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17, issue 2, pp. 407–441. more
Eck, Jennifer, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2022): A sociocultural norm perspective on Big Five prediction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, issue 3, pp. 554–575. more
Entringer, Theresa M., Jochen E. Gebauer and Delroy L. Paulhus (2022): Extracting agency and communion from the Big Five: A four-way competition. Assessment, 29, issue 6, pp. 1216-1235. more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2021): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, issue 39, (article no. e2103913118 ). more
Entringer, Theresa M., Jochen E. Gebauer, Jennifer Eck, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2021): Big Five facets and religiosity: Three large-scale, cross-cultural, theory-driven, and process-attentive tests. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, issue 6, pp. 1662–1695. more
Ebert, Tobias, Jochen E. Gebauer, Jildou Talman and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2020): Religious people only live longer in religious cultural contexts: A gravestone analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, issue 1, pp. 1-6. more
Gebauer, Jochen E., Jennifer Eck, Theresa M. Entringer, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2020): The well-being benefits of person-culture match are contingent on basic personality traits. Psychological Science, 31, issue 10, pp. 1283-1293. more
Joshanloo, Mohsen, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2020): Religiosity's nomological network and temporal change: Introducing an extensive country-level religiosity index based on Gallup World Poll Data. European Psychologist, 25, issue 1, pp. 26-40. more
Dufner, Michael, Jochen E. Gebauer, Constantine Sedikides and Jaap Denissen (2019): Self-enhancement and psychological adjustment: A meta-analytic review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 23, issue 1, pp. 48-72. more
Nehrlich, Andreas, Jochen E. Gebauer, Constantine Sedikides and Christiane Schoel (2019): Agentic narcissism, communal narcissism, and prosociality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, issue 1, pp. 142-165. more
Nehrlich, Andreas, Jochen E. Gebauer, Constantine Sedikides and Andrea Abele (2019): Individual self > relational self > collective self—But why? Processes driving the self‐hierarchy in self‐ and person perception. Journal of Personality, 87, issue 2, pp. 212-230. more
Rentzsch, Katrin, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2019): On the popularity of agentic and communal narcissists: The tit-for-tat hypothesis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, issue 9, pp. 1365-1377. more
Vogel, Tobias, Mandy Hütter and Jochen E. Gebauer (2019): Is evaluative conditioning moderated by Big Five personality traits?. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, issue 1, pp. 94-102. more
Gebauer, Jochen E., Constantine Sedikides, Felix Schönbrodt, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2017): The religiosity as social value hypothesis: A multi-method replication and extension across 65 countries and three levels of spatial aggregation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, issue 3, pp. e18-e39. more
Bleidorn, Wiebke, Ruben Arslan, Jaap Denissen, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jochen E. Gebauer, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2016): Age and gender differences in self-esteem – A cross-cultural window. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, issue 3, pp. 396-410. more
Bleidorn, Wiebke, Felix Schönbrodt, Jochen E. Gebauer, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2016): To live among like-minded others: Exploring the links between person-city personality fit and self-esteem. Psychological Science, 27, issue 3, pp. 419-427. more
Dufner, Michael, Daniel Leising and Jochen E. Gebauer (2016): Which basic rules underlie social judgment? Agency follows a zero-sum principle and communion follows a non-zero-sum principle. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, issue 5, pp. 677-687. more
Frimer, Jeremy, Karl Aquino, Jochen E. Gebauer, Luke Zhu and Harrison Oakes (2015): A decline in prosocial language helps explain public disapproval of the U.S. Congress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, issue 21, pp. 6591-6594. more
Gebauer, Jochen E., Constantine Sedikides, Jenny Wagner, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2015): Cultural norm fulfillment, interpersonal belonging, or getting ahead? A large-scale cross-cultural test of three perspectives on the function of self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, issue 3, pp. 526-548. more
Gebauer, Jochen E., Constantine Sedikides, Oliver Lüdtke and Wiebke Neberich (2014): Agency-communion and interest in prosocial behavior: Social motives for assimilation and contrast explain sociocultural inconsistencies. Journal of Personality, 82, issue 5, pp. 452–466. more
Gebauer, Jochen E., Wiebke Bleidorn, Samuel D. Gosling, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Michael E. Lamb and Jeff Potter (2014): Cross-cultural variations in Big Five relationships with religiosity: A sociocultural motives perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, issue 6, pp. 1064-1091. more
Gebauer, Jochen E., Roy F. Baumeister, Constantine Sedikides and Wiebke Neberich (2014): Satisfaction-adaptation principles in sexual desire: Exploring gender differences across the lifespan. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, issue 2, pp. 176-184. more
Hepper, Erica G., Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Timothy D. Ritchie, Yiu-Fai Yung, Nina Hansen, Georgios Abakoumkin, Gizem Arikan, Sylwia Z. Cisek, Didier B. Demassosso, Jochen E. Gebauer, Jonathan P. Gerber, Roberto González, Takashi Kusumi, Girishwar Misra, Mihaela Rusu, Oisín Ryan, Elena Stephan, Ad J. J. Vingerhoets and Xinyue Zhou (2014): Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical conceptions across cultures. Emotion, 14, issue 4, pp. 733-747. more

Book Chapters

Gebauer, Jochen E., Constantine Sedikides, Mark Leary and Jens B. Asendorpf (2015): Lay beliefs in true altruism versus universal egoism. Pp. 75-99 in: Christian B. Miller, R. Michael Furr, Angela Knobel, William Fleeson (Eds.) Character: New directions from philosophy, psychology, and theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Sedikides, Constantine, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2014): Religion and the self. Pp. 46-70 in: Vassilis Saroglou (Ed.) Religion, personality, and social behavior. New York: Psychology Press. more

Papers / Reports

Ebert, Tobias, Jochen E. Gebauer, Thomas Brenner, Wiebke Bleidorn, Samuel D. Gosling, Jeff Potter and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2019): Are Regional Differences in Personality and their Correlates robust? Applying Spatial Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality across the US and Germany. Marburg [Working Papers on Innovation and Space] more

Conference Presentations

Berkessel, Jana, Mona Salwender, Jochen E. Gebauer, Dagmar Stahlberg, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2024): Gender Differences in Agency and Communion across 137 Nations: A Competitive Test of Five Hypotheses. [21st European Conference on Personality, Berlin, August 06th to August 09th, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Jochen E. Gebauer and Peter Rentfrow (2024): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences Are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence. [53rd DGPs Congress/15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, September 16th to September 19th, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana, Mona Salwender, Jochen E. Gebauer, Dagmar Stahlberg, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2023): Gender Differences in Agency and Communion across 137 Nations: A Competitive Test of Five Hypotheses. [Meeting of the Personality and Diagnostics Sub-Division of the German Psychological Society (DPPD), Salzburg, September 24th to September 27th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana, Mona Salwender, Jochen E. Gebauer, Dagmar Stahlberg, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2023): Gender Differences in The Big Two Self-Concept across 137 Nations: A Competitive Test of Five Hypotheses. [18. Tagung der Fachgruppe für Sozialpsychologie (FGSP) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Graz, September 11th to September 13th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Jochen E. Gebauer, Thorsteinn Jonsson and Shigehiro Oishi (2023): Pandemics initially spread among people of higher (not lower) social status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Poster), Atlanta, February 24th to February 27th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2022): Can money buy happiness (anywhere)? How cultural religiosity affects the well-being benefits of social class. [Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online talk), February 17th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [ European Conference on Personality, Madrid, July 12th to July 15th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online), February 16th to February 19th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Jochen E. Gebauer, Thorsteinn Jonsson and Shigehiro Oishi (2022): Pandemics initially spread among people of higher (not lower) social status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. [ 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Hildesheim, September 10th to September 15th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Andreas Nehrlich, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2022): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [Regional Cultural Differences Conference, Barcelona, July 18th to July 21st, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2021): Blessed be ye poor? National religiosity lightens the well-being detriments of lower SES. [“Religiosity & Spirituality” Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online talk), February 10th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2021): National religiosity lightens the psychological burden of lower socioeconomic status. [Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, (virtual conference), May 26th to May 27th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Andreas Nehrlich, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2021): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [16th Meeting of the Personality and Diagnostics Sub-Division of the German Psychological Society, (virtual conference), September 12th to September 15th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Andreas Nehrlich, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2021): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (virtual conference), February 11th to February 12th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2020): Well-being benefits of higher social class vary across countries—But why? Comparing the roles of country-Level religiosity and prosperity. [Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, February 27th to February 29th, 2020] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2020): Whether social class affects self-esteem depends on the country: Testing the roles of societal religiosity and wealth. [“Self & Identity” Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, February 26th, 2020] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2019): Can money buy you happiness? Using big data to test country-level moderators of the link between social class and well-being.. [Summer Forum Psychology: Big Data in Personality and Social Psychology, St. Louis, MO, August 02nd to August 04th, 2019] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2019): Does high social class necessarily predict high self-esteem? Comparing country-level moderators of the social class-self-esteem link. [Pre-Conference “Self & Identity” of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR, February 07th, 2019] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2019): Why does the strength of the relation between social class and psychological health vary between countries? Testing two competitive explanations. [17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Society for Psychology, Cologne, September 16th to September 18th, 2019] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2019): Why does the strength of the relation between social class and psychological health vary between countries? Testing two competitive explanations. [17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society, Köln, September 16th to September 19th, 2019] more
Boileau, Lucia L.-A., Jochen E. Gebauer and Herbert Bless (2019): Immigrants' well-being: The role of context-related immigrant proportion. [17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Society for Psychology, Köln, September 16th to September 18th, 2019] more
Eck, Jennifer, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2019): Novel insights into the relation between agency-communion and behavior. [17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Society for Psychology, Cologne, September 16th to September 18th, 2019] more
Eck, Jennifer, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2019): Warum sagen Agency und Communion Denken und Verhalten vorher?. [2. Postdoc-Workshop der Fach­gruppe für Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeits­psychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD), Mannheim, March 04th to March 06th, 2019] more
Eck, Jennifer, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2019): Why do the Big Five predict preferences, decisions, and behaviors? A sociocultural motives perspective. [20th Annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Portland, February 07th to February 09th, 2019] more
Eck, Jennifer, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2018): Warum das Selbstkonzept Denken und Verhalten vorhersagt. [51. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Frankfurt am Main, September 15th to September 20th, 2018] more
Eck, Jennifer, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2017): Symposium: Advances in theory and research on agency/competence and communion/warmth. [18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, July 05th to July 08th, 2017] more
Eck, Jennifer, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2017): The role of sociocultural norms in agency and communion effects. [18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, July 05th to July 08th, 2017] more
Eck, Jennifer, and Jochen E. Gebauer (2017): Why self-concept content predicts behavior: The crucial role of sociocultural norms. [16. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP), Ulm, September 04th to September 06th, 2017] more