Selected Publications
Bleidorn, W. (2015). What accounts for personality maturation in early adulthood? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(3): 245-252.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., & Caspi, A. (2014). The behavioral genetics of personality development in adulthood - Classic, contemporary, and future trends. European Journal of Personality, 28(3): 244-255.
Bleidorn, W., Klimstra, T.A., Denissen, J.J.A., Rentfrow, P.J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S.D. (2013). Personality maturation around the world: A cross-cultural examination of Social Investment Theory. Psychological Science, 24(12): 2530-2540.
Bleidorn, W. Hitting the road to adulthood: Short-term personality development during a major life transition (2012). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(12): 1594-1608.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Hülsheger, U.R., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F.M. (2010). Nature and Nurture of the interplay between personality traits and major life goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99: 366-379.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., & Caspi, A. (2014). The behavioral genetics of personality development in adulthood - Classic, contemporary, and future trends. European Journal of Personality, 28(3): 244-255.
Bleidorn, W., Klimstra, T.A., Denissen, J.J.A., Rentfrow, P.J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S.D. (2013). Personality maturation around the world: A cross-cultural examination of Social Investment Theory. Psychological Science, 24(12): 2530-2540.
Bleidorn, W. Hitting the road to adulthood: Short-term personality development during a major life transition (2012). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(12): 1594-1608.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Hülsheger, U.R., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F.M. (2010). Nature and Nurture of the interplay between personality traits and major life goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99: 366-379.
Chronological List Of Lab Publications
van Scheppingen, M. A., Denissen, J. J. A., Chung, J. M., Tambs, K., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Self Esteem and Relationship Satisfaction During the Transition to Motherhood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. ** IN PRESS ** Preprint available at https://osf.io/xv4np/
Schwaba, T., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Individual Differences in Personality Change Across the Adult Lifespan. Journal of Personality. ** IN PRESS** Preprint available at https://osf.io/u7tb2/
Schwaba, T., Luhmann, M., Denissen, J. J. A., Chung, J. M., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Openness to Experience and Culture-Openness Transactions Across the Lifespan. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. ** IN PRESS ** Preprint available at https://osf.io/t3yjn/
Borghuis, J., Denissen, J. J. A., Oberski, D., Sijtsma, K., Meeus, W. H. J., Branje, S., Koot, H. M., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Big Five Personality Stability, Change, and Co-Development across Adolescence and Early Adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. **IN PRESS**
Hahn, E., Gottschling, J., Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Spengler, M., Kornadt, A. E., ... & Lang, V. (2016). What Drives the Development of Social Inequality Over the Life Course? The German TwinLife Study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19(6), 659-672.
Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., & Lucas, R. E. (2016). Life events and personality trait change. Journal of Personality, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12286
Spinath, F. M., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). The New Look of Behavioral Genetics in Social Inequality: Gene‐Environment Interplay and Life Chances. Journal of personality, 85(1), 5-9.
Wilt, J. A., Bleidorn, W., & Revelle, W. (2016). Velocity Explains the Links between Personality States and Affect. Journal of Research in Personality.
Gebauer, J., Sedikides, C., Schonbrodt, F. D., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2016). Religiosity as social value: Replication and extension. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1-74.
Bleidorn, W., Buyukcan-Tetik, A., Schwaba, T., van Scheppingen, M. A., Denissen, J. J. A., & Finkenauer, C. (2016). Stability and change in self-esteem during the transition to parenthood. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(6), 560-569.
Bleidorn, W., Schönbrodt, F., Gebauer, J. E., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2016). To live among like-minded others: Exploring the links between person-city personality fit and self-esteem. Psychological science, 27(3), 419-427.
Wilt, J., Bleidorn, W., & Revelle, W. (2016). Finding a Life Worth Living: Meaning in Life and Graduation from College. European Journal of Personality, 2(30), 158-167.
van Scheppingen, M. A., Jackson, J. J., Specht, J., Hutteman, R., Denissen, J. J. A., & Bleidorn, W. (2016). Personality trait development during the transition to parenthood: A test of social investment theory. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(5), 452-462.
Bleidorn, W., Arslan, R. C., Denissen, J. J. A., Rentfrow, P. J., Gebauer, J. E., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2016). Age and gender differences in self-esteem—A cross-cultural window. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(3), 396-410.
Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., Wagner, J., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (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.
Bleidorn, W., & Denissen, J. J. (2015). Virtues in action–the new look of character traits. British Journal of Psychology, 106(4), 700-723.
Vazire, S., & Bleidorn, W. (2015). Where Is personality most visible?.European Journal of Personality, 29(3), 414-415.
Bleidorn, W. (2015). What accounts for personality maturation in early adulthood? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(3): 245-252.
Jokela, M., Bleidorn, W., Lamb, M.E., Gosling, S.D., Rentfrow, P.J. (2015). Geographically varying associations between personality and life satisfaction in the London metropolitan area. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 112(3): 725-30.
Specht, J., Bleidorn, W., Denissen, J.J.A., Hennecke, M., Hutteman, R., Kandler, C., Luhmann, M., Orth, U., Reitz, A., Zimmermann, J. (2014). What drives adult personality development? A comparison of theories and empirical evidence. European Journal of Personality, 28(3): 216-230.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., & Caspi, A. (2014). The behavioral genetics of personality development in adulthood - Classic, contemporary, and future trends. European Journal of Personality, 28(3): 244-255.
Hennecke, M., Bleidorn, W., Denissen, J.J.A., & Wood, D. (2014). A Three-Part Framework for Self-Regulated Personality Development across Adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 28(3): 289-299.
Gebauer, J.E., Bleidorn, W., Gosling, S.D., Rentfrow, P.J., & Potter, J. (2014). Cross-cultural variations in Big Five relationships with religiosity: A sociocultural motives perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107: 1064-1091.
Hutteman, R., Bleidorn, W., Kerestes, G., Brkovic, I., Butkovic, A., & Denissen, J.J.A. (2014). Reciprocal associations between parenting challenges and parents' personality development in young and middle adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 28(2): 168-179.
Bleidorn, W., Klimstra, T.A., Denissen, J.J.A., Rentfrow, P.J., Potter, J., Gosling, S.D. (2014). Let the data speak: a response to Terracciano (2014). Psychological Science, 25(4): 1051-3.
Bleidorn, W., Klimstra, T.A., Denissen, J.J.A., Rentfrow, P.J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S.D. (2013). Personality maturation around the world: A cross-cultural examination of Social Investment Theory. Psychological Science, 24(12): 2530-2540.
Hutteman, R., Bleidorn, W., Penke, L., Denissen, J.J.A. (2013). It takes two: A longitudinal dyadic study on predictors of fertility outcomes. Journal of Personality, 81(5): 487-498.
Klimstra, T.A., Bleidorn, W., van Aken, M.A.G., Asendorpf, J.B., & Denissen, J.J.A. (2013). Correlated change of Big Five personality traits across the lifespan: A search for determinants. Journal of Research in Personality, 47(6): 768-777.
Bleidorn, W. & Ködding, C. (2013). The divided self and psychological (mal) adjustment - A meta-analytic review. Journal of Research in Personality, 47: 547-552.
Kandler, C., Riemann, R., Spinath, F., Bleidorn, W., Thiel, W., & Angleitner, A. (2013). The Bielefeld Longitdinal Study of Adult Twins (BiLSAT). Twin Research and Human Genetics, 16(1): 167-172.
Belsky, D., Caspi, A., Arseneault, L., Bleidorn, W., Fonagy, P., Goodman, M., Houts, R., Moffitt, T. (2012). Etiological features of borderline personality related characteristics in a birth cohort of 12 year old children. Development and Psychopathology, 24: 251-265.
Bleidorn, W. Hitting the road to adulthood: Short-term personality development during a major life transition (2012). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(12): 1594-1608.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F. (2012). Genetic and environmental influences on personality profile stability: Unraveling the normativeness problem. Journal of Personality, 80: 1029-1060.
Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F. (2012). Life events as environmental states and genetic traits and the role of personality: A longitudinal twin study. Behavior Genetics, 42(1): 57-72.
Renner, W., Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R., & Menschik-Bendele, J. (2012). Human values: Genetic and environmental effects on five lexically derived domains and their facets. Personality and Individual Differences, 52(1): 89-93.
Riemann, R., Kandler, C., & Bleidorn, W. (2012) Behavioural genetic analyses of parent twin relationship quality. Personality and Individual Differences, 53(4): 398-404.
Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R. (2011). Left or right? Sources of political orientation: The roles of genetic factors, cultural transmission, assortative mating, and personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(3): 633-645.
Bleidorn, W., & Peters, A.-L. (2011). A multilevel multitrait-multimethod analysis of self- and peer-reported daily affective experiences. European Journal of Personality, 25(5): 398-408.
Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R., Spinath, F.M., & Angleitner, A. (2011) The genetic links between the Big Five personality traits and general interest domains. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37: 1633-1643.
Leising, D. & Bleidorn, W. (2011). Which are the basic meaning dimensions of observable interpersonal behavior? Personality and Individual Differences, 51: 986-990.
Riemann, R., Kandler, C., & Bleidorn, W. (2011). Size matters! Heritability is not dichotomous. European Journal of Personality, 25: 282-283.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Hülsheger, U.R., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F.M. (2010). Nature and Nurture of the interplay between personality traits and major life goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99: 366-379.
Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R., Spinath, F.M., Thiel, W., & Angleitner, A. (2010). Sources of cumulative continuity in personality: A longitudinal multiple-rater twin study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98: 995-1008.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F.M. (2009). Patterns and sources of adult personality development: Growth curve analyses of the NEO-PI-R scales in a longitudinal twin study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97: 142-155.
Bleidorn, W. (2009). Linking personality states, current social roles and major life goals. European Journal of Personality, 23: 509-530.
Bleidorn, W. & Ostendorf, F. (2009). Ein Big Five-Inventar für Kinder und Jugendliche: Die deutsche Version des Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children (HiPIC). Diagnostica, 55: 160-173.
Schwaba, T., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Individual Differences in Personality Change Across the Adult Lifespan. Journal of Personality.
and
Schwaba, T., Luhmann, M., Denissen, J. J. A., Chung, J. M., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Openness to Experience and Culture-Openness Transactions Across the Lifespan. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Schwaba, T., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Individual Differences in Personality Change Across the Adult Lifespan. Journal of Personality. ** IN PRESS** Preprint available at https://osf.io/u7tb2/
Schwaba, T., Luhmann, M., Denissen, J. J. A., Chung, J. M., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Openness to Experience and Culture-Openness Transactions Across the Lifespan. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. ** IN PRESS ** Preprint available at https://osf.io/t3yjn/
Borghuis, J., Denissen, J. J. A., Oberski, D., Sijtsma, K., Meeus, W. H. J., Branje, S., Koot, H. M., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Big Five Personality Stability, Change, and Co-Development across Adolescence and Early Adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. **IN PRESS**
Hahn, E., Gottschling, J., Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Spengler, M., Kornadt, A. E., ... & Lang, V. (2016). What Drives the Development of Social Inequality Over the Life Course? The German TwinLife Study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19(6), 659-672.
Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., & Lucas, R. E. (2016). Life events and personality trait change. Journal of Personality, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12286
Spinath, F. M., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). The New Look of Behavioral Genetics in Social Inequality: Gene‐Environment Interplay and Life Chances. Journal of personality, 85(1), 5-9.
Wilt, J. A., Bleidorn, W., & Revelle, W. (2016). Velocity Explains the Links between Personality States and Affect. Journal of Research in Personality.
Gebauer, J., Sedikides, C., Schonbrodt, F. D., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2016). Religiosity as social value: Replication and extension. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1-74.
Bleidorn, W., Buyukcan-Tetik, A., Schwaba, T., van Scheppingen, M. A., Denissen, J. J. A., & Finkenauer, C. (2016). Stability and change in self-esteem during the transition to parenthood. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(6), 560-569.
Bleidorn, W., Schönbrodt, F., Gebauer, J. E., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2016). To live among like-minded others: Exploring the links between person-city personality fit and self-esteem. Psychological science, 27(3), 419-427.
Wilt, J., Bleidorn, W., & Revelle, W. (2016). Finding a Life Worth Living: Meaning in Life and Graduation from College. European Journal of Personality, 2(30), 158-167.
van Scheppingen, M. A., Jackson, J. J., Specht, J., Hutteman, R., Denissen, J. J. A., & Bleidorn, W. (2016). Personality trait development during the transition to parenthood: A test of social investment theory. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(5), 452-462.
Bleidorn, W., Arslan, R. C., Denissen, J. J. A., Rentfrow, P. J., Gebauer, J. E., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2016). Age and gender differences in self-esteem—A cross-cultural window. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(3), 396-410.
Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., Wagner, J., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (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.
Bleidorn, W., & Denissen, J. J. (2015). Virtues in action–the new look of character traits. British Journal of Psychology, 106(4), 700-723.
Vazire, S., & Bleidorn, W. (2015). Where Is personality most visible?.European Journal of Personality, 29(3), 414-415.
Bleidorn, W. (2015). What accounts for personality maturation in early adulthood? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(3): 245-252.
Jokela, M., Bleidorn, W., Lamb, M.E., Gosling, S.D., Rentfrow, P.J. (2015). Geographically varying associations between personality and life satisfaction in the London metropolitan area. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 112(3): 725-30.
Specht, J., Bleidorn, W., Denissen, J.J.A., Hennecke, M., Hutteman, R., Kandler, C., Luhmann, M., Orth, U., Reitz, A., Zimmermann, J. (2014). What drives adult personality development? A comparison of theories and empirical evidence. European Journal of Personality, 28(3): 216-230.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., & Caspi, A. (2014). The behavioral genetics of personality development in adulthood - Classic, contemporary, and future trends. European Journal of Personality, 28(3): 244-255.
Hennecke, M., Bleidorn, W., Denissen, J.J.A., & Wood, D. (2014). A Three-Part Framework for Self-Regulated Personality Development across Adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 28(3): 289-299.
Gebauer, J.E., Bleidorn, W., Gosling, S.D., Rentfrow, P.J., & Potter, J. (2014). Cross-cultural variations in Big Five relationships with religiosity: A sociocultural motives perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107: 1064-1091.
Hutteman, R., Bleidorn, W., Kerestes, G., Brkovic, I., Butkovic, A., & Denissen, J.J.A. (2014). Reciprocal associations between parenting challenges and parents' personality development in young and middle adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 28(2): 168-179.
Bleidorn, W., Klimstra, T.A., Denissen, J.J.A., Rentfrow, P.J., Potter, J., Gosling, S.D. (2014). Let the data speak: a response to Terracciano (2014). Psychological Science, 25(4): 1051-3.
Bleidorn, W., Klimstra, T.A., Denissen, J.J.A., Rentfrow, P.J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S.D. (2013). Personality maturation around the world: A cross-cultural examination of Social Investment Theory. Psychological Science, 24(12): 2530-2540.
Hutteman, R., Bleidorn, W., Penke, L., Denissen, J.J.A. (2013). It takes two: A longitudinal dyadic study on predictors of fertility outcomes. Journal of Personality, 81(5): 487-498.
Klimstra, T.A., Bleidorn, W., van Aken, M.A.G., Asendorpf, J.B., & Denissen, J.J.A. (2013). Correlated change of Big Five personality traits across the lifespan: A search for determinants. Journal of Research in Personality, 47(6): 768-777.
Bleidorn, W. & Ködding, C. (2013). The divided self and psychological (mal) adjustment - A meta-analytic review. Journal of Research in Personality, 47: 547-552.
Kandler, C., Riemann, R., Spinath, F., Bleidorn, W., Thiel, W., & Angleitner, A. (2013). The Bielefeld Longitdinal Study of Adult Twins (BiLSAT). Twin Research and Human Genetics, 16(1): 167-172.
Belsky, D., Caspi, A., Arseneault, L., Bleidorn, W., Fonagy, P., Goodman, M., Houts, R., Moffitt, T. (2012). Etiological features of borderline personality related characteristics in a birth cohort of 12 year old children. Development and Psychopathology, 24: 251-265.
Bleidorn, W. Hitting the road to adulthood: Short-term personality development during a major life transition (2012). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(12): 1594-1608.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F. (2012). Genetic and environmental influences on personality profile stability: Unraveling the normativeness problem. Journal of Personality, 80: 1029-1060.
Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F. (2012). Life events as environmental states and genetic traits and the role of personality: A longitudinal twin study. Behavior Genetics, 42(1): 57-72.
Renner, W., Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R., & Menschik-Bendele, J. (2012). Human values: Genetic and environmental effects on five lexically derived domains and their facets. Personality and Individual Differences, 52(1): 89-93.
Riemann, R., Kandler, C., & Bleidorn, W. (2012) Behavioural genetic analyses of parent twin relationship quality. Personality and Individual Differences, 53(4): 398-404.
Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R. (2011). Left or right? Sources of political orientation: The roles of genetic factors, cultural transmission, assortative mating, and personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(3): 633-645.
Bleidorn, W., & Peters, A.-L. (2011). A multilevel multitrait-multimethod analysis of self- and peer-reported daily affective experiences. European Journal of Personality, 25(5): 398-408.
Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R., Spinath, F.M., & Angleitner, A. (2011) The genetic links between the Big Five personality traits and general interest domains. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37: 1633-1643.
Leising, D. & Bleidorn, W. (2011). Which are the basic meaning dimensions of observable interpersonal behavior? Personality and Individual Differences, 51: 986-990.
Riemann, R., Kandler, C., & Bleidorn, W. (2011). Size matters! Heritability is not dichotomous. European Journal of Personality, 25: 282-283.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Hülsheger, U.R., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F.M. (2010). Nature and Nurture of the interplay between personality traits and major life goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99: 366-379.
Kandler, C., Bleidorn, W., Riemann, R., Spinath, F.M., Thiel, W., & Angleitner, A. (2010). Sources of cumulative continuity in personality: A longitudinal multiple-rater twin study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98: 995-1008.
Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F.M. (2009). Patterns and sources of adult personality development: Growth curve analyses of the NEO-PI-R scales in a longitudinal twin study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97: 142-155.
Bleidorn, W. (2009). Linking personality states, current social roles and major life goals. European Journal of Personality, 23: 509-530.
Bleidorn, W. & Ostendorf, F. (2009). Ein Big Five-Inventar für Kinder und Jugendliche: Die deutsche Version des Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children (HiPIC). Diagnostica, 55: 160-173.
Schwaba, T., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Individual Differences in Personality Change Across the Adult Lifespan. Journal of Personality.
and
Schwaba, T., Luhmann, M., Denissen, J. J. A., Chung, J. M., & Bleidorn, W. (2017). Openness to Experience and Culture-Openness Transactions Across the Lifespan. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
