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On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence.
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Prof. Dr. Jochen E. Gebauer
Heisenberg-Professor, Project director
University Mannheim, MZES
Building A
A5, 6 435
68159 Mannheim
Phone: +49-621-181-2040Building A
A5, 6 435
68159 Mannheim
E-Mail: Jochen.Gebauer@mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Projects — current
- A Sociocultural Motives Perspective on Self-Concept and Personality
- Geographical Personality Differences and Economic Success
- Social Status and Pandemic Spread
- ACT: Why are the Big Two of Agency and Communion so Fundamental to Human Psychology?
- Does (National) Religiosity Ease the Psychological Burden of Lower SES?
Publication — recent
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(2023): Secularization trends obscure developmental changes in religiosity. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, 2, 249-258. More
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(2023): Big Five Personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross-lagged effects and their moderation by culture. Journal of Personality, 91, 3, 736-752. More
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(2023): Transnational effects between personality and religiosity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 2, 421-436. More
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(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, 3, 722–733. More
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(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, 2, 407–441. More
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(2022): A sociocultural norm perspective on Big Five prediction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 3, 554–575. More
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(2022): Extracting agency and communion from the Big Five: A four-way competition. Assessment, 29, 6, 1216-1235. More
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(2022): Good intensions - unfortunate side effects: commentaries to Leising et al.. Personality Science, 3, (article no. e9227), p. 5-7. More
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(2022): The “mixed bag” of segregation – On positive and negative associations with migrants’ acculturation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52, 3, 457-471. More
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(2021): Big Five facets and religiosity: Three large-scale, cross-cultural, theory-driven, and process-attentive tests. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 6, 1662–1695. More
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(2021): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, 39, (article no. e2103913118 ). More
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(2020): Religiosity's nomological network and temporal change: Introducing an extensive country-level religiosity index based on Gallup World Poll Data. European Psychologist, 25, 1, 26-40. More
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(2020): The well-being benefits of person-culture match are contingent on basic personality traits. Psychological Science, 31, 10, 1283-1293. More
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(2020): Religious people only live longer in religious cultural contexts: A gravestone analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 1, 1-6. More
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(2019): Individual self > relational self > collective self—But why? Processes driving the self‐hierarchy in self‐ and person perception. Journal of Personality, 87, 2, 212-230. More
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(2019): Agentic narcissism, communal narcissism, and prosociality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 1, 142-165. More
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(2019): On the popularity of agentic and communal narcissists: The tit-for-tat hypothesis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 9, 1365-1377. More
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(2019): Is evaluative conditioning moderated by Big Five personality traits?. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 1, 94-102. More
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(2019): Self-enhancement and psychological adjustment: A meta-analytic review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 23, 1, 48-72. More
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(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, 3, e18-e39. More
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(2016): Age and gender differences in self-esteem – A cross-cultural window. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, 3, 396-410. More
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(2016): To live among like-minded others: Exploring the links between person-city personality fit and self-esteem. Psychological Science, 27, 3, 419-427. More
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(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, 5, 677-687. More
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(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, 3, 526-548. More
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(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, 21, 6591-6594. More
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(2014): Satisfaction-adaptation principles in sexual desire: Exploring gender differences across the lifespan. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 2, 176-184. More
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(2014): Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical conceptions across cultures. Emotion, 14, 4, 733-747. More
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(2014): Cross-cultural variations in Big Five relationships with religiosity: A sociocultural motives perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 6, 1064-1091. More
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(2014): Agency-communion and interest in prosocial behavior: Social motives for assimilation and contrast explain sociocultural inconsistencies. Journal of Personality, 82, 5, 452–466. More
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(2025): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences Are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence.. [18th Conference of the Swiss Psychological Society, Crans-Montana, 07/09/2025 - 09/09/2025]. More
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(2025): A Phase-Sensitive Model of Regional Pandemic Spread. [2nd Regional Cultural Differences Conference (RCDC), Vancouver, 08/07/2025 - 11/07/2025]. More
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(2024): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences Are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence. [53rd DGPs Congress/15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, 16/09/2024 - 19/09/2024]. More
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(2024): Gender Differences in Agency and Communion across 137 Nations: A Competitive Test of Five Hypotheses. [21st European Conference on Personality, Berlin, 06/08/2024 - 09/08/2024]. More
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(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, 24/09/2023 - 27/09/2023]. More
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(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, 11/09/2023 - 13/09/2023]. More
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(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, 24/02/2023 - 27/02/2023]. More
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(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, 10/09/2022 - 15/09/2022]. More
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(2022): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [Regional Cultural Differences Conference, Barcelona, 18/07/2022 - 21/07/2022]. More
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(2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [ European Conference on Personality, Madrid, 12/07/2022 - 15/07/2022]. More
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(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), 17/02/2022 - 17/02/2022]. More
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(2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online), 16/02/2022 - 19/02/2022]. More
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(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), 12/09/2021 - 15/09/2021]. More
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(2021): National religiosity lightens the psychological burden of lower socioeconomic status. [Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, (virtual conference), 26/05/2021 - 27/05/2021]. More
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(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), 11/02/2021 - 12/02/2021]. More
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(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), 10/02/2021 - 10/02/2021]. More
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(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, 27/02/2020 - 29/02/2020]. More
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(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, 26/02/2020 - 26/02/2020]. More
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(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, 02/08/2019 - 04/08/2019]. More
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(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, 16/09/2019 - 18/09/2019]. More
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(2019): Warum sagen Agency und Communion Denken und Verhalten vorher?. [2. Postdoc-Workshop der Fachgruppe für Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD), Mannheim, 04/03/2019 - 06/03/2019]. More
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(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, 07/02/2019 - 07/02/2019]. More
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(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, 16/09/2019 - 18/09/2019]. More
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(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, 16/09/2019 - 18/09/2019]. More
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(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, 07/02/2019 - 09/02/2019]. More
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(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, 16/09/2019 - 19/09/2019]. More
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(2018): Warum das Selbstkonzept Denken und Verhalten vorhersagt. [51. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Frankfurt am Main, 15/09/2018 - 20/09/2018]. More
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(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, 05/07/2017 - 08/07/2017]. More
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(2017): The role of sociocultural norms in agency and communion effects. [18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, 05/07/2017 - 08/07/2017]. More
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(2017): Why self-concept content predicts behavior: The crucial role of sociocultural norms. [16. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP), Ulm, 04/09/2017 - 06/09/2017]. More
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(2015): Lay beliefs in true altruism versus universal egoism. 75-99. Oxford, Oxford University Press. More
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(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. 73. Marburg, Philipps University. More