Publications

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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

Rentfrow, P. J. (2020). Geographical Psychology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 165-170.

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

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.