Berkessel, J. B., Ebert, T., Gebauer, J. E., Rentfrow, P. J. (in press). On the unequal burden of obesity: Obesity's adverse consequences are contingent on regional obesity prevalence. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241265037 [pdf]

Boileau, L. L.-A., Gebauer, J. E., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (in press). Socioeconomic-status differences in agentic and communal self-concepts: Insights from 6 million people across 133 nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [pdf]

Eck, J., Schoel, C., Sedikides, C., Gebauer, J. E., Stahlberg, S. (in press). Which leadership style do more narcissistic subordinates prefer in supervisors? Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12950 [pdf]

Bleidorn, W., Lenhausen, M. R., Schwaba, T., Gebauer, J. E., & Hopwood, C. J. (2023). Secularization trends obscure developmental changes in religiosity. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, 249-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221076684 [pdf]

Entringer, T. M., Gebauer, J. E., & Kroeger, H. (2023). Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross-lagged effects and their moderation by culture. Journal of Personality, 91, 736-752. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12770 [pdf]

Lenhausen, M. R., Schwaba, T., Gebauer, J. E., Entringer, T. M., & Bleidorn, W. (2023). Transactional effects between personality and religiosity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 421-436. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000466 [pdf]

Asendorpf, J. B., & Gebauer, J. E. (2022). Good intentions – unfortunate side effects: Commentaries to Leising et al. (2022). Personality Science, 3, e9227. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.9227 [pdf]

Boileau, L. L.-A., Bless, H., & Gebauer, J. E. (2022). The “mixed bag” of segregation – On positive and negative associations with migrants' acculturation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52, 457-471. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2830 [pdf]

Ebert, T., Gebauer, J. E., Brenner, T., Bleidorn, W., Gosling, S. D., Potter, J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2022). Are regional differences in psychological characteristics and their correlates robust? Applying spatial analysis techniques to examine regional variation in personality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17, 407-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691621998326 [pdf]

Eck, J., & Gebauer, J. E. (2022). A sociocultural norm perspective on Big Five prediction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 554-575. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000387 [pdf]

Entringer, T. M., Gebauer, J. E., & Paulhus, D. L. (2022). Extracting agency and communion from the Big Five: A four-way competition. Assessment, 29, 1216-1235. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911211003978 [pdf]

Berkessel, J. B., Ebert, T., Gebauer, J. E., Jonsson, T., & Oishi, S. (2021). Pandemics initially spread among people of higher (not lower) social status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 722-733. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211039990 [pdf]

Berkessel, J. B., Gebauer, J. E., Joshanloo, M., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2021). National religiosity eases the psycholgical burden of poverty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, e2103913118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103913118 [pdf]

Entringer, T. M., Gebauer, J. E., Eck, J., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2021). Big Five facets and religiosity: Three large-scale, cross-cultural, theory-driven, and process-attentive tests. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 1662-1695. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000364 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., & Sedikides, C. (2021). Cultural religiosity: A neglected but powerful dimension of culture. Current Opinion in Psychology, 40, 73-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.08.027 [pdf]

Rau, R., Carlson, E. N., Back, M. D., Barranti, M., Gebauer, J. E., Human, L. J., Leising, D., & Nestler, S. (2021). What is the structure of perceiver effects? On the importance of global positivity and trait-specificity across personality domains and judgment contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 745-764. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000278 [pdf]

Rogoza, R., Zemojtel-Piotrowska, M., Jonason, P. K., Piotrowski, J., Campbell, K. W., Gebauer, J. E., ... & Wlodarczyk, A. (2021). Structure of dark triad dirty dozen across eight world regions. Assessment, 28, 1125-1135. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120922611 [pdf]

Schwaba, T., Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., Gebauer, J. E., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2021). The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality: Evidence from the United States, Europe, and a large-scale natural experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, e2020104118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020104118 [pdf]

Sedikides, C., & Gebauer, J. E. (2021). Do religious people self-enhance?. Current Opinion in Psychology, 40, 29-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.08.002 [pdf]

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 [pdf]

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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620951115 [pdf]

Joshanloo, M., & Gebauer, J. E. (2020). Religiosity's nomological network and temporal change: Introducing an extensive country-level religiosity index based on Gallup World Poll Data. European Psychologist, 25, 24-40. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000382 [pdf]

Jonason, P. K., ¯emojtel-Piotrowska, M., Piotrowski, J., Sedikides, C., Campbell, K. W., Gebauer, J. E., […], & Yahiiaev, I. (2020). Country-level correlates of the Dark Triad traits in 49 countries. Journal of Personality, 88, 1252-1267. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12569 [pdf]

Dufner, M., Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2019). Self-enhancement and psycholgical adjustment: A meta-analytic review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 23, 48-72. doi: 10.1177/1088868318756467 [pdf]

Nehrlich, A. D., Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., & Abele, A. E. (2019). Individual self > relational self > collective self¯but why? Processes driving the self-hierarchy in self- and person-perception. Journal of Personality, 87, 212-230. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12384 [pdf]

Nehrlich, A. D., Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., & Schoel, C. (2019). Agentic narcissism, communal narcissism, and prosociality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 142-165. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000190 [pdf]

Rentzsch, K., & Gebauer, J. E. (2019). On the popularity of agentic and communal narcissists: The tit-for-tat hypothesis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1365-1377. doi: 10.1177/0146167218824359 [pdf]

Vogel, T., Hütter, M., & Gebauer, J. E. (2019). Is evaluative conditioning moderated by Big Five personality traits? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 94-102. doi: 10.1177/1948550617740193 [pdf]

Blaison, C., Gebauer, J. E., Gollwitzer, M., Schott, F., Kastendieck, T. M., & Hess, U. (2018). On the combined influence of attractive and unattractive locations on the surroundings. Environment and Behavior, 50, 947-974. doi: 10.1177/0013916517722178 [pdf]

Dentale, F., Vecchione, M., Gebauer, J. E., & Barbaranelli, C. (2018). Measuring automatic value orientations: The Achievement-Benevolence Implicit Association Test. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57, 210-229. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12229 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Nehrlich, A. D., Stahlberg, D., Sedikides, C., Hackenschmidt, A., Schick, D., Stegmaier, C. A., Windfelder, C. C., Bruk, A., & Mander, J. (2018). Mind-body practices and the self: Yoga and meditation do not quiet the ego, but instead boost self-enhancement. Psychological Science, 29, 1299-1308. doi: 10.1177/09567976187646 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Agency and communion in grandiose narcissism. In A. E. Abele & B. Wojciszke (Eds.), Agency and communion in social psychology (pp. 90-102). London, UK: Routledge.

Gebauer, J. E., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Communal narcissism: On the theoretical and empirical support for a new form of grandiose narcissism (pp. 69-78). In A. D. Hermann, A. Brunell, & J. Foster (Eds.), The handbook of trait narcissism: Key advances, research methods, and controversies. New York, NY: Springer.

Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., & Schrade, A. (2017). Christian self-enhancement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, 786-809. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000140 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., Schönbrodt, F. D., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2017). The religiosity as social value hypothesis: A multi-method replication and extension across 65 countries and three levels of spatial aggregation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, . e18-e39. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000104 [pdf]

Bleidorn, W., Arslan, R., 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, 396-410. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000078 [pdf]

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, 419-427 . doi: 10.1177/0956797615627133 [pdf]

Dufner, M., Leising, D., & Gebauer, J. E. (2016). Which basic rules underlie social judgment? Agency follows a zero-sum principle and communion follows a non-zero-sum principle. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 677-687. doi: 10.1177/0146167216640902 [pdf]

von Glischinski, M., Teismann, T., Prinz, S., Gebauer, J. E., & Hirschfeld, G. (2016). Depressive Symptom Inventory Suicidality subscale: Optimal cut points for clinical and non-clinical samples. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 23, 543-549. doi: 10.1002/cpp.2007 [pdf]

Frimer, J. A., Aquino, K., Gebauer, J. E., Zhu, L., & Oakes, H. (2015). A decline in prosocial language helps explain public disapproval of the U.S. congress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, 6591-6594. doi:10.1073/pnas.1500355112[pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., Leary, M. R., & Asendorpf, J. B. (2015). Lay beliefs in true altruism versus universal egoism. In C. B. Miller, R. M. Furr, A. Knobel, & W. Fleeson (Eds.), Character: New directions from philosophy, psychology, and theology (pp. 75-99). Oxford, UK: Oxford Press.

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, 526-548. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000052 [pdf]

Hart, C. M., Ritchie, T. D., Hepper, E. G., & Gebauer, J. E. (2015). The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding Short Form (BIDR-16). SAGE Open, 1-9. doi: 10.1177/2158244015621113 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Baumeister, R. F., Sedikides, C., & Neberich, W. (2014). Satisfaction-adaptation principles in sexual desire: Exploring gender differences across the lifespan. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 176-184. doi:10.1177/1948550613490970 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Bleidorn, W., Gosling, S. D., Rentfrow, P. J., Lamb, M. E., & 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. doi: 10.1037/a0037683 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., Lüdtke, O., & Neberich, W. (2014). Agency-communion and interest in prosocial behavior: Social motives for assimilation and contrast explain sociocultural inconsistencies. Journal of Personality, 82, 452-466. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12076 [pdf]

Schoel, C., Eck, J., & Greifeneder, R. (2014). A matter of vertical position: Consequences of ostracism differ for those above versus below its perpetrators. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 149-157. doi: 10.1177/1948550613488953 [pdf]

Hepper, E. G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Ritchie, T. D., Yung, Y.-F., Hansen, N., Abakoumkin, G., Arikan, G., Cisek, S. Z., Demassosso, D. B., Gebauer, J. E., Gerber, J. P., González, R., Kusumi, T., Misra, G., Rusu, M., Ryan, O., Stephan, E., Vingerhoets, A. J. J., & Zhou, X. (2014). Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical conceptions across cultures. Emotion, 14, 733-747. doi: 10.1037/a0036790 [pdf]

Sedikides, C., & Gebauer, J. E. (2014). Religion and the self. In V. Saroglou (Ed.), Religion, personality, and social behavior (pp. 46-70). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Eck, J. (2013). Alles Lug und Trug? Sozialpsychologie Mannheim (Hrsg.), Ich, du, wir und die anderen - Spannendes aus der Sozialpsychologie (S. 123-134). Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.

Gebauer, J. E., Haddock, G., Broemer, P., & von Hecker, U. (2013). The role of semantic self-perceptions in temporal distance perceptions toward autobiographical events: The semantic congruence model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 852-872. doi: 10.1037/a0033482 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Maio, G. R., & Pakizeh, A. (2013). Feeling torn when everything seems right: Semantic incongruence causes felt ambivalence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 777-791. doi:10.1177/0146167213481679 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Nehrlich, A. D., Sedikides, C., & Neberich, W. (2013). The psychological benefits of income are contingent on individual-level and culture-level religiosity. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 569-578. doi:10.1177/1948550612469819 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Paulhus, D. L., & Neberich, W. (2013). Big Two personality and religiosity across cultures: Communals as religious conformists and agentics as religious contrarians. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 21-30. doi:10.1177/1948550612442553 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Wagner, J., Sedikides, C., & Neberich, W. (2013). Agency-communion and self-esteem relations are moderated by culture, religiosity, age, and sex: Evidence for the "Self-Centrality Breeds Self-Enhancement" principle. Journal of Personality, 81, 261-275. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00807.x [pdf]

Sedikides, C., Gaertner, L., Luke, M. A., O'Mara, E. M., & Gebauer, J. E. (2013). A three-tier hierarchy of self-potency: Individual self, relational self, collective self. In J. M. Olson & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 42, pp. 319-373). Burlington, VT: Academic Press. ISBN: 978-0-12-407188-9 [pdf]

Schoel, C., Roessel, J., Eck, J., Janssen, J., Petrovic, B., Rothe, A., Rudert, S. C., & Stahlberg, D. (2013). Attitudes towards Languages (AtoL) scale: A global instrument. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 32, 21-45. doi: 10.1177/0261927X12457922 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Göritz, A. S., Hofmann, W., & Sedikides, C. (2012). Self-love or other-love? Explicit other-preference but implicit self-preference. PLos One, 7, e41789. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041789 [pdf] [link]

Gebauer, J. E., Leary, M. R., & Neberich, W. (2012). Big Two personality and Big Three mate preferences: Similarity attracts, but country-level mate preferences crucially matter. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1579-1593. doi:10.1177/0146167212456300 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Leary, M. R., & Neberich, W. (2012). Unfortunate first names: Effects of name- based relational devaluation and interpersonal neglect. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 590-596. doi:10.1177/1948550611431644 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., & Maio, G. R. (2012). The need to belong can motivate belief in God. Journal of Personality, 80, 465-501. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00730.x [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., & Neberich, W. (2012). Religiosity, social self-esteem, and psychological adjustment: On the cross-cultural specificity of the psychological benefits of religiosity. Psychological Science, 23, 158-160. doi:10.1177/0956797611427045 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., Verplanken, B., & Maio, G. R. (2012). Communal narcissism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 854-878. doi:10.1037/a0029629 [pdf]

Schoel, C., Eck, J., Roessel, J., & Stahlberg, D. (2012). Spracheinstellungen aus sozialpsychologischer Perspektive I: Deutsch und Fremdsprachen. In L. Eichinger, A. Plewnia, C. Schoel & D. Stahlberg (Hrsg.), Sprache und Einstellungen. Spracheinstellungen aus sprachwissenschaftlicher und sozialpsychologischer Perspektive (S. 163-203). Tübingen: Narr.

Haddock, G., & Gebauer, J. E. (2011). Defensive self-esteem impacts attention, attitude strength, and self-affirmation processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1276-1284. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2011.05.020 [pdf]

Gregg, A. P., Sedikides, C., & Gebauer, J. E. (2011). Dynamics of identity: Between self- enhancement and self-assessment. In S. J. Schwartz, K. Luyckx & V. L. Vignoles (Eds.), Handbook of identity theory and research (Vol. 1, pp. 305-327). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4419-7987-2 [pdf]

Sedikides, C., & Gebauer, J. E. (2010). Religiosity as self-enhancement: A meta-analysis of the relation between socially desirable responding and religiosity. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 17-36. doi:10.1177/1088868309351002 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Broemer, P., Haddock, G., & von Hecker, U. (2008). Inclusion-exclusion of positive and negative past selves: Mood congruence as information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 470-487. doi:10.1037/a0012543 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Riketta, M., Broemer, P., & Maio, G. R. (2008). "How much do you like your name?" An implicit measure of global self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1346-1354. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2008.03.016 [pdf]

Gebauer, J. E., Riketta, M., Broemer, P., & Maio, G. R. (2008). Pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation: Divergent relationships to subjective well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 399-420. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2007.07.002 [pdf]

Broemer, P., Grabowski, A., Gebauer, J. E., Ermel, O., & Diehl, M. (2008). How temporal distance from past selves influences self-perception. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 697- 714. doi:10.1002/ejsp.469 [pdf]

Pakizeh, A., Gebauer, J. E., & Maio, G. R. (2007). Basic human values: Inter-value structure in memory. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 458-465. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2006.04.007 [pdf]

Bernard, M., Gebauer, J. E., & Maio, G. R. (2006). Cultural estrangement: The role of personal and societal value discrepancies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 78-92. doi:10.1177/0146167205279908 [pdf]