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Differentielle Psychologie & Persönlichkeitspsychologie
- Differenzierung zwischen stabilen Kerncharakteristiken und formbaren Oberflächencharakteristiken zur Beschreibung individueller Besonderheiten
- Beschreibung und Erklärung der Persönlichkeitsentwicklung über die Lebensspanne
- Anlage-Umwelt-Kovariation und Anlage-Umwelt-Interaktion als Determinanten interindividueller Unterschiede und sozialer Ungleichheit
- Struktur und Quellen von Motiven, Wertorientierungen, moralischen Grundhaltungen und soziopolitischen Einstellungen
Psychologische Diagnostik & Methoden
- Strukturgleichungsmodellierung komplexer Zwillingsfamiliendaten
- Diagnostik von Freizeitinteressen und Freizeitaktivität
- Diagnostik von Lebensereignissen
- (Genetisch informative) Multitrait-Multimethod Modellierung
- (Genetisch informative) Längsschnittmodellierung
DFG-Projekt SPeADy – Study of Personality Architecture and Dynamics
DFG-Langfristvorhaben TWINLIFE – Genetic and Social Causes of Life Chances
Personality Change Consortium
CODATwins – Collaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins
BiLSAT – Bielefeld Longitudinal Study of Adult Twins
JeTSSA – Jena Twin Study of Social Attitudes
Publikationen
In press
Kandler, C. (in press). A meta-analytic review of nature and nurture in religiousness across the lifespan. Current Opinion in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.09.011
Kandler, C., Bratko, D., Butković, A., Vukasovic-Hlupić, T., Tybur, J. M., Wesseldijk, L., de Vries, R. E., Jern, P., & Lewis, G. J. (in press). How genetic and environmental variance in personality traits shift across the lifespan: Evidence from a cross-national twin study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000366
Richter, J., Zimmermann, J., Neyer, F. J., & Kandler, C. (in press). Do sojourn effects on personality trait changes last? A five-year longitudinal study. European Journal of Personality, https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2291
Wagner, J., Orth, U., Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., & Kandler, C. (in press). Towards an integrative model of sources of personality stability and change. Current Directions in Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420924751
2020
Back, M. D., & Kandler, C. (2020). Special Issue: Objections to the HEXACO model of personality structure—and why those objections fail – Editorial: Some thoughts on the relevance, future prospects, and politics of structural personality research. European Journal of Personality, 34, 489-491. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2298
Bleidorn, W., Hill, P. L., Back, M. D., Denissen, J. J. A., Hennecke, M., Hopwood, C. J., Jokela, M., Kandler, C., Lucas, R. E., Luhmann, M., Orth, U., Wagner, J., Wrzus, C., Zimmermann, J., & Roberts, B. W. (2020). Why stop at two opinions? – A reply to McCrae. American Psychologist, 75, 731–732. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000676
Silventoinen, K., Jelenkovic, A., Sund, R., Latvala, A., Honda, C., …, Kandler, C., …, Kaprio, J. (2020). Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: An individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts. Scientific Reports, 10, 12681. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69526-6
Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., Back, M. D., Denissen, J. J. A., Hennecke, M., Jokela, M., Kandler, C., Lucas, R. E., Luhmann, M., Orth, U., Roberts, B. W., Wagner, J., Wrzus, C., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). Longitudinal Experience-Wide Association Studies (LEWAS) – A framework for studying personality change. European Journal of Personality, 34, 285-300.https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2247
- Bell, E., Dawes, C., Weinschenk, A., Riemann, R., & Kandler, C. (2020). Patterns and sources of the association between intelligence, party identification, and political orientations. Intelligence, 81, 101457.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2020.101457
- Kandler, C., & Piepenburg, A. (2020). Leisure interests and engagement: Distinct dispositions or only expressions of personality traits? Journal of Individual Differences, 41, 101-109.https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000308
- Hufer, A., Kornadt, A. E., Kandler, C., & Riemann, R. (2020). Genetic and environmental variation in political orientation in adolescence and early adulthood: a nuclear twin family analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118, 762-776.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000258
- Nikstat, A., Weitkämper, A. & Kandler, C. (2020). Kurzversion des Fragebogeninventars für Freizeitinteressen (FIFI-K). Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen (ZIS). https://doi.org/10.6102/zis276
- Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., Ackerman, R. A., Witt, E. A., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., Samuel, D. B., Donnellan, B. M. (2020). The healthy personality from a basic trait perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118, 1207-1225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000231
2019
- Kandler, C., Penner, A., Richter, J., & Zapko-Willmes, A. (2019). The Study of Personality Architecture and Dynamics (SPeADy): A longitudinal and extended twin family study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 22, 548-553.https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2019.62
- Silventoinen, K., Jelenkovic, A., Yokohama, Y., Sund, R., Sugawara, M., …, Kandler, C., …, Kaprio, J. (2019). The CODATwins Project: the current status and recent findings of COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 22, 800-808. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2019.35
- Bleidorn, W., Hill, P. L., Back, M. D., Denissen, J. J. A., Hennecke, M., Hopwood, C. J., Jokela, M., Kandler, C., Lucas, R. E., Luhmann, M., Orth, U., Wagner, J., Wrzus, C., Zimmermann, J., & Roberts, B. (2019). The policy relevance of personality traits. American Psychologist, 74, 1056-1067. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000503
- Mõttus, R., Sinick, J., Terracciano, A., Hřebíčková, M., Kandler, C., Ando, J., Mortensen, E. L., Colodro-Conde, L., & Jang, K. L. (2019). Personality characteristics below facets: A replication and meta-analysis of cross-rater agreement, rank-order stability, heritability and utility of personality nuances. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, e35-e50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000202
- Kandler, C., Richter, J., & Zapko-Willmes, A. (2019). The nature and nurture of HEXACO personality trait differences: An extended twin family study. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 227, 195-206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000378
- Vainik, U., Dagher, A., Realo, A., Colodro-Conde, L., Mortensen, E. L., Jang, K. L., Ando, J., Kandler, C., Sørensen, T. I. A., & Mõttus, R. (2019). Personality-obesity associations are driven by narrow traits: A meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews, 20, 1121-1131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12856
- Kandler, C., Waaktaar, T., Mõttus, R., Riemann, R., & Torgersen, S. (2019). Unravelling the interplay between genetic and environmental contributions in the unfolding of personality differences from early adolescence to young adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 33, 221-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.2189
- Weinschenk, A., Dawes, C., Kandler, C., Bell, E., & Riemann, R. (2019). New evidence on the link between genes, psychological traits, and political engagement. Politics and the Life Sciences, 38, 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pls.2019.3
2018
- Bell, E., Kandler, C., & Riemann, R. (2018). Genetic and environmental influences on socio-political attitudes: Addressing some gaps in the new paradigm. Politics and the Life Sciences, 37, 236-249. https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2018.17
- Zapko-Willmes, A., Riemann, R., & Kandler, C. (2018). Unravelling quasi-causal environmental effects via phenotypic and genetically informed multi-rater models: The case of differential parenting and authoritarianism. European Journal of Personality, 32, 233-253.http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.2144