Early Life and Educational Background
Wiebke Bleidorn was born on May 12, 1982, in Minden, Germany. She completed her Masters of Science degree in psychology under the supervision of Alois Angleitner, PhD and Fritz Ostendorf, PhD at Bielefeld University. She completed her PhD under Rainer Riemann, PhD at Bielefeld University where she studied individual differences, behavioral genetics, and personality assessment with an emphasis on the lifespan development of personality characteristics. Her dissertation focused on the patterns and sources of stability and change in personality traits and goals.
Professional Career
Wiebke Bleidorn is an Associate Professor in the social/personality program at the University of California, Davis. She spent her first few years of professorship at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She was then hired as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis where she was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. She has authored...
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Selected Bibliography
Bleidorn, W. (2012). Hitting the road to adulthood: Short-term personality development during a major life transition. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1594–1608.
Bleidorn, W. (2015). What accounts for personality maturation in early adulthood? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 245–252.
Bleidorn, W., & Hopwood, C. J. (2018). Using machine learning to advance personality assessment and theory. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1088868318772990.
Bleidorn, W., & Schwaba, T. (2018). Retirement is associated with change in self-esteem. Psychology and Aging, 33, 586–594.
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, 42–155.
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., 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, 2530–2540.
Bleidorn, W., Arslan, R., Denissen, J. J. A., Rentfrow, P. E., Gebauer, J. E., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2016a). Age and gender differences in self-esteem – A cross-cultural window. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, 396–410.
Bleidorn, W., Buyukcan-Tetik, A., Schwaba, T., van Scheppingen, M. A., Denissen, J. J. A., & Finkenauer, C. (2016b). Stability and change in self-esteem during the transition to parenthood. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 560–569.
Bleidorn, W., Schönbrodt, F., Gebauer, J. E., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2016c). To live among like-minded others: Exploring the links between person-city personality fit and self-esteem. Psychological Science, 27, 419–427.
Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., & Lucas, R. E. (2018). Life events and personality trait change. Journal of Personality, 86, 83–96.
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, 725–730.
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, 633–645.
Schwaba, T., Luhmann, M., Denissen, J. J. A., & Bleidorn, W. (2018). Openness to experience and culture-openness transactions across the lifespan. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology., 15, 118–136.
van Scheppingen, M., Denissen, J. J. A., Chung, J. M., Tambs, K., & Bleidorn, W. (2018). Self-esteem and relationship satisfaction during the transition to motherhood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114, 973–991.
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Bleidorn, W. (2019). Bleidorn, Wiebke. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_113-1
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