Dr. Tobias Ebert

Tobias Ebert
External Fellow and former project staff
Tobias.Ebert [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Marburg
35037  Marburg
Germany
Visiting Address
University Marburg
Deutschhausstraße 12
35037  Marburg

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

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Journal Articles

Bücker, Susanne, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich Götz, Theresa Entringer and Maike Luhmann (In Press): In a Lonely Place: Investigating Regional Differences in Loneliness. Social Psychological and Personality Science, (publ. online before print). more
Ebert, Tobias, Friedrich Götz, Joe Gladstone, Sandrine Müller and Sandra Matz (In Press): Spending reflects not only who we are but also who we are around: The joint effects of individual and geographic personality on consumption. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, (publ. online before print). 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
Götz, Friedrich, Stefan Stieger, Tobias Ebert, Peter Jason Rentfrow and David Lewetz (2020): What Drives Our Emotions When We Watch Sporting Events? An ESM Study on the Affective Experience of German Spectators During the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Collabra: Psychology, 6, issue 1, (article no. 15). more
Obschonka, Martin, Neil Lee, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Johannes C. Eichstaedt and Tobias Ebert (2020): Big data methods, social media, and the psychology of entrepreneurial regions: Capturing cross-county personality traits and their impact on entrepreneurship in the US. Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, 55, issue 3, pp. 567–588. more
Ebert, Tobias, Thomas Brenner and Udo Brixy (2019): New Firm Survival: The Interdependence between Regional Externalities and Innovativeness. Small Business Economics, 53, issue 1, pp. 287–309. more
Ebert, Tobias, Friedrich Götz, Martin Obschonka, Leor Zmigrod and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2019): Regional Variation in Courage and Entrepreneurship: The Contrasting Role of Courage for the Emergence and Survival of Start‐Ups in the US. Journal of Personality, 87, issue 5, pp. 1039-1055. more
Götz, Friedrich M., Tobias Ebert and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2018): Regional cultures and the psychological geography of Switzerland: Person–environment–fit in personality predicts subjective wellbeing. Frontiers in Psychology. more

Thesis

Ebert, Tobias (2019): The Geography of Personality. On the Consequences of Geographical Personality Differences for Regions and Individuals. Mannheim: University of Mannheim. (Dissertation) 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
Brenner, Thomas, and Tobias Ebert (2018): Fachkräfte für den Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf - Wahrnehmung, Attraktivität und Potentiale. Marburg more
Obschonka, Martin, Neil Lee, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Johannes C. Eichstaedt and Tobias Ebert (2018): Big Data, artificial intelligence and the geography of entrepreneurship in the United States. London [Discussion Paper Series; 12949] more

Conference Presentations

Ebert, Tobias (2020): The Legacy of the Dead: Gravestones and Biographies Reveal Cross-Cultural Variation in the Link between Religiosity and Longevity. [2020 SPSP Convention, New Orleans, LA, February 27th to February 29th, 2020] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert and Andreas Nehrlich (2019): Are obese people more likely to be single everywhere? Examining context-specificity in the association between obesity and relationship-status. [International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, March 07th to March 09th, 2019] more