Dr. Tobias Ebert

Tobias Ebert
Project Staff
Tobias.Ebert [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2036
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2803
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University of Mannheim
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim
A5, 6
Building A
Room:439
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

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

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
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
Ebert, Tobias, Lars Mewes, Friedrich M. Götz and Thomas Brenner (2022): Effective maps, easily done: visualizing geo-psychological differences using distance weights. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 5, issue 3, pp. 1-12. more
Mewes, Lars, Tobias Ebert, Martin Obschonka, Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2022): Psychological openness and the emergence of breakthrough vs. incremental innovations: A regional perspective. Economic Geography, 98, issue 4, pp. 379-410. more
Bücker, Susanne, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich Götz, Theresa Entringer and Maike Luhmann (2021): In a Lonely Place: Investigating Regional Differences in Loneliness. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, issue 2, pp. 147–155. more
Ebert, Tobias, Friedrich M. Götz, Joe J. Gladstone, Sandrine R. Müller and Sandra C. Matz (2021): 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, 121, issue 2, pp. 378–393. more
Götz, Friedrich M., Tobias Ebert, Samuel D. Gosling, Martin Obschonka, Jeff Potter and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2021): Local housing market dynamics predict rapid shifts in cultural openness: A 9-year study across 199 cities.. American Psychologist, 76, issue 6, pp. 947-961. more
Mewes, Lars, and Tobias Ebert (2021): Where do people want to become entrepreneurs? Mapping fine-grained geographical differences in entrepreneurial potential across Great Britain. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 8, issue 1, pp. 332-335. more
Zickfeld, Janis, Nils van der Ven, Olivia Pich, Thomas Schubert, Jana Berkessel, Tobias Ebert and et al. (2021): Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, issue July 2021, (article no. 104137). more
Zmigrod, Leor, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich M. Götz and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2021): The psychological and socio-political consequences of infectious diseases: authoritarianism, governance, and nonzoonotic (human-to-human) infection transmission. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 9, issue 2, pp. 456-474. 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 (2021): Causes and consequences of regional variation in personality. [Talk at 2021 DPPD Postdoc Workshop, (virtual), March 17th to March 19th, 2021] more
Ebert, Tobias (2021): Geography of Personality: The Consequences of Regional Personality Differences for Regions and Individuals. [The Virtual 2021 EAPP Day, (virtual conference), October 27th, 2021] more
Ebert, Tobias (2021): Populism thrives where people lead less successful lives: Predicting Trump votes from large-scale biography data. [SPSP 2021 Virtual Convention, (virtual conference), February 09th to February 14th, 2021] more
Ebert, Tobias (2021): The Legacy of the Dead: Gravestones and Biographies Reveal Cross-Cultural Variation in the Link between Religiosity and Longevity. [Psychology of Places - 2021: Virtual symposium funded by the European Association of Social Psychology, (virtual conference), November 04th to November 05th, 2021] more
Ebert, Tobias (2021): The legacy of the dead: Gravestones and obituaries reveal that religious people only live longer in religious cultural contexts. [16th Conference on Personality and Psychological Assessment, (virtual conference), September 12th to September 15th, 2021] more
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