Books
- Rentfrow, P. J. & Levitin, D. J. (Eds.) (2019). Foundations of music psychology: Theory and research. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Rentfrow, P. J. (Ed.) (2013). Geographical psychology: Exploring the interaction of environment and behavior. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Scientific Articles & Book Chapters Since 2020
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Greenberg, D. M., Warrier, V., Allison, C., Gajos, K., Reinecke, K., Abu-Akel, A. M., Rentfrow, P. J., & Baron-Cohen, S. (in press). Gender differences in ‘theory of mind’: A study of 300,000 people and replication in 32 countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Peters, H., Götz, F. M., Ebert, T., Müller, S., Rentfrow, J., Gosling, S. D., Obschonka, M., & Matz, S. (in press). Regional personality predicts the early spread of COVID-19 and social distancing behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Talaifar, S., Stuetzer, M., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J. & Gosling, S. D. (in press). Fear and Deprivation in Trump’s America: A Regional Analysis of Voting Behavior in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections. Personality Science.
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Du, H., Götz, F. M., King, R. B., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2022). The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life. Journal of Personality, 1– 21. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12758
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Ebert, T., Götz, F. M., Mewes, L., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2022). Spatial analysis for psychologists: How to use individual-level data for research at the geographically aggregated level. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000493
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Greenberg, D. M., Wride, S. J., Snowden, D. A., Spathis, D., Potter, J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2022). Universals and variations in musical preferences: A study of preferential reactions to Western music in 53 countries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 286-309.
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Mewes, L., Ebert, T., Obschonka, M., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2022). Psychological Openness and the Emergence of Breakthrough vs. Incremental Innovations: A Regional Perspective. Economic Geography, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2022.2049228
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Stieger, S., Götz, F. M., Wilson, C., Volsa, S., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2022). A Tale of Peaks and Valleys: Sinusoid Relationship Patterns Between Mountainousness and Basic Human Values. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 390-402.
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Baranski, E., Gardiner, G., Lee, D., Members of the International Situations Project, & Funder, D. (2021). Who in the world is trying to change their personality traits? Volitional personality change among college students in 56 countries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121, 1140-1156. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000389
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Baranski, E., Sweeny, K., Gardiner, G., Funder, D.C., & Members of the International Situations Project (2021). International optimism: Correlates and consequences of dispositional optimism across 61 countries. Journal of Personality, 89, 288– 304. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12582
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Berkessel, J. B., Gebauer, J., Joshanloo, M. Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2021). National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (39) e2103913118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103913118
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Du, H., Götz, F. M., Chen, A. & Rentfrow, P. J. (2021). Revisiting Values and Self-Esteem: A Large-Scale Study in the United States. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070211038805
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Ebert, T. Gebauer, J., Brenner, T., Bleidorn, W., Gosling, S. D., Potter, J. Rentfrow, P. J. (2021). Are regional differences in personality and their correlates robust? Applying spatial analysis techniques to examine regional variation in personality. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691621998326
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Fricke, K. R., Greenberg, D. M., Rentfrow, P. J. & Herzberg, P.Y. (2021). Measuring musical preferences from listening behavior: Data from one million people and 200,000 songs. Psychology of Music, 49, 371-381. doi:10.1177/0305735619868280
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Götz, F. M., Ebert, T., Gosling, S. D., Obschonka, M., Potter, J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2021). Local housing market dynamics predict rapid shifts in cultural Openness: A nine- year-study across 199 cities. American Psychologist, 76, 947-961. doi: 10.1037/amp0000812.
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Götz, F. M., Gosling, S. D., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2021). Small effects: The indispensable foundation for a cumulative psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620984483
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Junkins, E. J., Potter, J. E., Rentfrow, P. J., Gosling, S. D., Potter, J., Harden, K. P., Tucker-Drob, E. M., Derringer, J., & Briley, D. A. (2021). Geographic Variation in Personality is Associated With Fertility Across the United States. Personality Science, 2, 1-26.
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Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2021). Putting personality in its place: A geographical perspective on personality traits. In O. P. John & R. W. Robins (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (p. 824–836). The Guilford Press.
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Schwaba, T., Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. H., Gebauer, J., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2021). The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality: Evidence from the US, Europe, and a large-scale natural experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (29) e2020104118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2020104118
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Van de Vliert, E. & Rentfrow, P. J. (2021). Who is more prone to depression at higher latitudes? Islanders or mainlanders? Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2, 100012, ISSN 2666-6227, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2021.100012.
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Zickfeld, J., van de Ven, N., Pich, O., Schubert, T. W., Malik, S., Stanke, F., … Vingerhoets, A. (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, 104137, ISSN 0022-1031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137.
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Zmigrod, L., Ebert, T., Götz, F. M., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2021). The psychological and socio-political consequences of infectious diseases. Journal for Social and Political Psychology, 9, https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.7297
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Ebert, T., Gebauer, J. E., Talman, J. R., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2020). Religious people only live longer in religious cultural contexts: A gravestone analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000187
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Entringer, T. M., Gebauer, J. E., Eck, J., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2020). Big Five facets and religiosity: Three large-scale, cross-cultural, theory-driven, and process-attentive tests. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000364
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Gebauer J. E., Eck J., Entringer T. M., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2020). The well-being benefits of person-culture match are contingent on basic personality traits. Psychological Science, 31, 1283-1293. doi:10.1177/0956797620951115
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Gardiner, G., Lee, D., Baranski, E., Funder, D., & International Situations Project. (2020). Happiness around the world: A combined etic-emic approach across 63 countries. PLOS ONE, 15(12), e0242718.
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Garretsen, H., Stoker, J., Soudis, D., Martin, R., & Rentfrow, J. (2020). Urban psychology and British cities: Do personality traits matter for resilience to recessions? Journal of Urban Regeneration & Renewal, 13, 290-307.
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Götz, F. M., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., (2020). Age differences in Machiavellianism across the life span: Evidence from a large-scale cross-sectional study. Journal of Personality, 88, 978–992. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12545
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Götz, F. M., Stieger, S., Ebert, T., Rentfrow, P. J., & Lewetz, D. (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.
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Götz, F. M., Stieger, S., Gosling, S. D., Potter, J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2020). Physical topography is associated with human personality. Nature Human Behavior, 4, 1135–1144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0930-x
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Kerckhove, V. C., Martin, S., Gend, P., Rentfrow, P. J., Hendrickx, J. M., & Blondel, V. D. (2020). Modelling Influence and Opinion Evolution in Online Collective Behaviour (vol 11, e0157685, 2016). PLOS ONE, 15(3).
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Lee, D.I., Gardiner, G., Baranski, E., Members of the International Situations Project, & Funder, D.C. (2020). Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries. Journal of Personality, 88, 1091– 1110. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12558
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Rentfrow, P. J. (2020). Geographical Psychology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 165-170.
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Rentfrow, P. J. (2020). Personality and geography. In B. J. Carducci (Editor-in-Chief) & J. S. Mio & R. E. Riggio (Vol. Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences: Vol. IV. Clinical, applied, and cross-cultural research (pp. 299-303). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119547181.ch314
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Wood, D., Penmetsa, P., Adanu, E. K., Rentfrow, P. J., Harms, P. D., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2020). Associations between self-rated personality traits and automobile fatality rates across small geographic areas. Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives, 6, 100175.