Dr. Jana Instinske

Research assistant

Address: Grazer Strasse 2c, Room 1210, 28359 Bremen

PO box: 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany

ORCID-ID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0545-3554

Phone: +49 (0)421 218-68772

Jana Instinske completed her Bachelor's degree in 2020 and her Master's degree in 2022 in Psychology at the University of Bremen. Since her graduation, she is working as a research assistant in the Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment Lab of the Department of Psychology at the University of Bremen. Specifically, she pursues teaching activities and is also involved in the DFG-funded research project TwinLife.

In May 2025, Jana Instinske passed her PhD with distinction based on her thesis entitled How to (not) disentangle personality constructs: Scrutinizing longitudinal, multi-rater, and behavioral genetic approaches.

One focus of Jana Instinske's research is to investigate how personality constructs could be best organized to capture individual differences appropriately.

This involves the differentiation between broader dispositions and more specific, environmentally sensitive characteristics. Against this background, Jana Instinske places an emphasis on the exploration of suitable methods, especially structural equation modeling of longitudinal, genetically informative, and multi-rater data.

For her master's thesis entitled Are There Common Genetic Sources of Core Self-Evaluations? A Multivariate Analysis of Twin Data, Jana Instinske received the Award for an Outstanding Thesis, awarded by the Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Psychological Assessment (DPPD) Section of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) in September 2023.

Publications: Publications_Jana_Instinske

Updated by: Judith Kruse

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